Emotional blunting and lack of motivation has anyone’s AP helped these?

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My negative symptoms are crippling me, has anyone found relief in an AP?

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Nope. They don’t treat negative symptoms :bear::bear::bear:

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My psychiatrist told me there is no meds for these symptoms. Abilify slightly improved them but I had dangerous side effects from it so now on Risperdal and severe negatives, I stay in bed all day everyday, only get up to eat and play videogames once a week.

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I took Invega and it helped a lot felt great. Went for a week without taking them. Took in Vega again and felt terrible.

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I switched from Invega to Aristada 440 just for this. I have emotions again and can make myself do more things.

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I also had part of my emotions back on Abilify but not as much as before schizophrenia. Are you now like before you had schizophrenia?

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Pretty close. I don’t get as mad as fast, but I do get angry now. On Invega I had no anger and was totally apathetic.

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Hey @Aziz, When I was on 100% Risperdal I was miserable with negative symptoms just crippling my brain. My psychiatrist changed my dosage to 50% Risperdal and 50% Abilify and I’m feeling much better. I’m going to ask him if I can go back on 100% Abilify like I was before.

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That’s good news bcz if Abilify is able to give us back some emotions this means that future meds can give us back all our emotions!

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I think it’s more that Risperdal takes emotions and motivation away for some people.

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Yes, I agree. Aristada is just like Abilify but tweaked some for sz and sza.

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No way I am touching any Abilify again, it gave me multiple addiction and hypersexuality issues. I lost over 100 000$ in 8 years bcz of it.

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All of my antipsychotics that I’ve taken has helped. I would say abilify the most out of all them.

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I lost over $500000 CAD because of Abilify but I don’t have any more money to lose. If there was a better option I’d go for it.

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I’m on Olanzapine and slowly my negative symptoms have disappeared

But I don’t think it’s the AP just the chronology of the illness

Time will heal everytging

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Abilify made me impulsive and make risky behaviors, kinda adrenaline junky.

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I had no concept of risk on Abilify. I had no fear of losing at all. All I cared about was immediate gratification.

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I am happy that it wasn’t permanent. I feared that its permanent but it stopped shortly after stopping Abilify.

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I used to be an actress. And now I have blunting of emotions. I don’t remember the emotional blunting being this severe during my psychotic episode. I can’t tell if the emotional blunting is because of my AP or because of schz.

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Its both from my experience bcz I stopped meds for a year. I was also less functional fearing ppl and paranoid without meds. I have schizophrenia since 20 y.o. but had symptoms like hearing voices since 15 y.o.