My mind won’t shut off. I cannot seem to relax. I will call the doc tomorrow. I think it is mania. I might have to cancel my interviews. its getting too much.
Also its’ not as though my mind is racing because the thoughts are the same… i just can’t stop obsessng.
Definitely call your pdoc. Are you on a mood stabilizer?
I am on Abilify which apparently acts as one. But it seems to not be working for this at the moment.
I take Lamictal. IMO it’s the most easily tolerated mood stabilizer. I take two APs in addition. Maybe you just need something that only does mood stabilizing?
I definatey experience psychosis so I need an antipsychotic… but I do think I need a mood stabaliser. I will ask to decrease the antipsychotic and add one.
Or maybe just add one on without decreasing. See what your pdoc has to say.
Maybe the abilify is making you more obsessive?
Sounds like you might be getting some sort of restlessness on a drug?
Not sure but worth asking.
I had that on Latuda, and it took ages to get it sorted out because i didn’t realise it was the drug
Keep it in check, because it can get worse
I don’t think it’s the med though because it comes and goes. I’m feeling it more right now.
I’m not taking anything other than abilify and I don’t think that’s what’s causing it but I don’t know for sure.
Is it because you are used to working, and you don’t have enough to do?
I really don’t know the reason… It just felt uncomfrotable…
My mind almost never shuts off.I don’t have racing or obsessive thoughts. But I’ve come to call my constant thinking “analytical thought mode”, that seems to describe it best. I am always thinking about something, and when I learn something new it causes me to rethink a bunch of stuff all over again in a different way.
Sometimes my mind is quiet so I enjoy those moments, but usually I am thinking about something.
What do you feel like you want to do? Once I switched meds I felt like I wanted a job so I got one but I don’t feel like I want to do something all the time unless you count watching TV and surfing the internet, but I can’t sit quietly in a room doing nothing, I don’t like to sit on the porch and just observe the neighbourhood, but when I have something that needs to be done I get it done as soon as possible. I no longer procrastinate, I hate having stuff on my to do list, I’d rather have nothing to do so I can relax and do the things I want to do.
Abilify can do that because it comes in waves, it’s slow release.
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