May have reduced medication too much

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I've told my psychiatrist I would like to try to go without antipsychotic medication. He said we should proceed very carefully then. So after having my medication reduced to an injection of 50 mg once every 4 weeks, here's some things I've noticed : A few days before my next injection I felt really hyper. Very animated. Like I just couldn't slow down. When I was back home in the rooming house (after visiting my parents) I was doing things very, very fast when cooking. I usually take my time. This could be though, because I'm tired of living in a rooming house, because the boys that live there are messy and loud and have been coming into the kitchen a lot more, and it makes me nervous and uncomfortable. So I just wanted to get things over with and get back to my room. So I don't know if rushing around at warp speed is because my medication has been reduced too much or what. Right before my injection I felt irritable with the nurses and felt like I could lash out at them, if they judged me or something. This could be because one of the nurses said before the injection, that I was contemplating things a lot but other than that I was fine. I didn't think that sounded right, because all I told her was I was thinking a lot about getting a job, moving out of the rooming house, and worried a bit about my health because I'm on antipsychotic medication. I've also been leaving a lot of YouTube comments, but then deleting them shortly after, because I'm worried people will think what I've said is weird or I'm being rude or something.

Anyway, what do you guys think. Am I having withdrawal because my medication has been reduced a lot, or am I going crazy or am I just worrying about nothing....I'm scared to talk to my psychiatrist about this, because I don't want my medication to go back up or anything. This is very scary for me. I don't want to be on antipsychotic medication at all.

What was your previous dose? Maybe the reduction was too rapid.

The previous dose was 50 mg every three weeks. Now I get it every four. Maybe going down to 40 mg every three weeks is a better way to reduce it. I hope so because I don't want to be on this stuff anyway. Been having lots of thoughts about running away too, and becoming wild and free. In other words homeless. I know how that would go down though, because I've been homeless before. I just ended up staying with some guy that was abusive so I didn't have to sleep outside. The same thing would happen again, probably. But I just feel so trapped. I don't want to deal with reality anymore. Hopefully therapy would work. I want my psychiatrist to be so cool that, even if I started going crazy again, he would say, "It's okay. We can just try cognitive therapy because it is proven to be very effective. You don't have to be on medication if you don't like it." But I don't think he would want to do that.

Seems like I did have it at three weeks for quite a long time before reducing it again. I'll give it a try thanks.