Or do they just blunt your emotions, take away your ability to feel and enjoy things like music, etc. and kill motivation and desire to do anything? Because that’s been mostly my experience with Risperdal, and I’m wondering if that is the case with all antipsychotics, and whether I should try other ones or give up on them altogether.
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i think they are all the same .
I don’t think all meds are the same.
You should try another ap.
I take 3 aps, and I have no sedation or other side effects
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what 3 aps? interesting
Zyprexa, abilify, haldol.
Plus 2 meds for anxiety and 1 antidepressant
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i have taken abilify at 2.5mgs and i found it sedating still. maby the antidepressant gives you energy / motivation
I take 30 abilify and I was taking 60mg before.
Even without antidepressant, I have no sedation.
I had sedation with my first ap, amisulpride, 1 year and a half ago
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I take Invega. My emotions feel a little blunted, but they did so before I started meds as well.
I feel more normal now that I did before meds. I’m able to socialize and concentrate and be happy just existing.
Before meds I was a mess. I wasn’t sleeping right, I was eating wrong, I did a lot of effed up things and my emotions were all over the place.
I feel more calm now.
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Abilify 10 mg helps bring back emotions along with celexa an antidepressant. But it really depends on the individual, and how they react to the meds
I have been on 6 different ones and it has taken that much hassle to get on one that doesn’t do what you describe.
The med I’m on doesn’t make me feel blunted. It does make my emotions feel more manageable. They used to be overwhelming and upsetting. Now, I still feel things, but I don’t lose myself in those feelings. It’s better, to me. I feel more like a person, and less like an anthropomorphized disease.
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Are you on geodon?
I wanted to try that one but they don’t do it in the UK.
I’m afraid to try out another ap in case it messes me up worse in the long run.
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I have the same experience as you with all the medications I have taken. I think that is how they work - they make it impossible to think, feel or act. I think that is their mechanism of action: if you don’t feel anything, you dont feel anxiety either. If you cant think, you cant think psychotic stuff either. If you just sleep and dont act, you dont do weird stuff either.
That is my experience though, I know some people feel happy on them. Someone I know loves zyprexa, he is happy to take it because it makes him feel calm and relaxed.
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I’m starting to think the same thing, and that’s been mostly my experience. And I’ve tried many meds.
I do have a friend who takes Abilify for Bipolar, and says it makes him feel normal and from becoming manic. But he also smokes a lot of weed and exercises, and I think said something like he doesn’t know what he’d do without weed.
Hey @Om_Sadasiva, I thought I was the only one!! That’s great that you take 3 AP’s like I do. I take Risperdal Consta, Geodon and Seroquel plus an anti depressant: Celexa and an anxiolytic: Klonipin.
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Im sorry you have the same experience.
Someone I know uses weed with his AP too to feel a little more normal and less blunted. I think that is a horrible idea though…without the weed he would be less disturbed and might need less AP.
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I like what you said at first, @anon73478309.
The thing in my first post? Or the thing I took away (I didn’t really find the right words… )?
What you took away.151515151515
And yes you did. You found the perfect words.
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