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what were you diagnosed with, in the end? I always thought you'd need medications for life, for conditions like this - are you 100% off them?

I really don't know. I wasn't told.

But from Googling about the medication (Risperidone).

It looks like I had bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Yes. I am 100% off meds. It has been about 1½ years now.

I don't hear a single "voice in my head".

Those voices are very different from "thinking" or "talking to yourself".

I am glad I haven't heard them in a long time.

I was also on Risperidone, for what was thought at the time to be schizophrenia

Even had the same experience of checking into the mental ward thinking I was going to be killed, and then just wasn't.

Same age as you, too, born in 93