Hi, I have been taking 10 mg stelazine for 11 years. I recently reduced this to 9 mg with my doctors supervision. I am hoping to gradually withdraw from it over the next few years. I am diagnosed with bipolar, but I think I have psychotic symptoms (I hear voices occasionally). I had a very bad nervous breakdown nearly 30 years ago and I've had recurring episodes, although in the last 14 years, nothing bad enough for me to need hospitalisation. I work full-time and care for myself and my 14 year old daughter. My husband left me 2 years ago and he was my main support - it has been a very painful process getting over that. My question is, if I am not able to withdraw from the stelazine, what are my chances of getting tardive dyskenesia? So far I seem to have had no signs of it in 11 plus years on it and I have never been on a high dose of it. But I understand that the older you get, the greater the chance of getting TD. I am 53.