Why does lowering antipsychotic dose worsen motivation and cognition

My negative and cognitive symptoms get worse when I lower my 6mg risperidone to 3mg but no psychosis. Why does everyone says the opposite. Idk why I keep lowering or stopping my meds knowing that. On reddit they all say they feel better off meds but not me.

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Neurochemistry is complicated.

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Negatives are caused by the illness sometimes. Mine is better on meds. They respond differently than you.

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Mine are too. I get amnesia off meds and misidentify faces and see coincidences, feels like Alzheimers. I keep thinking that lowering the dose will improve me but only time did. 3 years on risperidone and everything improved.

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I guess you’re right that in some situations larger amounts of antipsychotics really can make negative and cognitive symptoms better. So in your situation you may feel better on 6 than 3 mg.

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