Anyone feel they cant get excited on antipsychotics I am on risperdone 4mg and feel no excitement
How long you been on rispirdal
I’m not sure
I get excited sometimes I’m on clozapine
Mind you I don’t have much to get excited about
Add a SSRI, it will improve your mood in general. With improved mood, comes excitement.
Thats something to think about my next psychiatrist visit is in two months and I will ask him about it.Know my medical aid covers SSRI’s so I can go on one
@ Shellys12 I have been on Risperdal for under six months
Sounds like you could be a bit depressed
Does rispirdal clear up your paranoia and stuff
I have no positive symtpoms on risperdal
Welcome to the world of antipsychotics which deplete your dopamine and thus make you cognitively duller, less able to enjoy the world, inhibit sexual function and make you fat.
The doctor would prefer you to be the above rather than suffer any positive symptoms.
You now have choice of taking an anti-depressant which boosts serotonin, but not dopamine which is said to cause positive symptoms, but all that does is make you not care about being depressed or flat. An AD doesn’t necessarily make you happy, it just makes you not care about being sad.
You could start a program of meditation which could boost dopamine naturally, or take the supplement route to alleviate flatness. These include NAC, sarcosine, taruine etc. These are a trial and error situation as with antipsychotics they each affect the individual differently.
As with APs, the ADs have their own side effects, so watch out for them.
Good luck! 
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I think I am going to ask if I can get my dose lowered since 4mg risperidone is quite high
I was flat with 4mg of risperdal. Changed to latuda after that
I’m on 4mg of risperidone but I don’t know if the med is affecting my excitement or me just feeling guilty about feeling some excitement.
I can still kind of get excited but it has been numbed down a lot.What excites me most is that I plan (if circumnstances allow it) on tapering off the antipsychotic in 1.5 years or so…I am counting down the months
Lets hope my psychiatrist lets me lower the dose
I am on 4.75 mg risperidone and I get somewhat excited, but I have this feeling of disinterest in everything. Even brushing my teeth is a chore that is uncomfortable.
I don’t want to take SSRI’s because they all increase risperidone levels. The rest of the antidepressants have bad interactions, except remeron. I plan to try sam-E, which effects both dopamine and serotonin.
I’m never excited.
Sometimes I get so excited I can’t sleep. I’m on paliperidone. But I’m also in and antidepressant