Avolition, anhedonia, apathy, etc? I force myself to do something easy like playing video games or doing 5 min on my bike, but when I succeed to start I get avolition and anhedonia causing me stress and loss of interest in the activity then I give up fast and escape the activity.
With video games I can only play a bit with online friends as they motivate me a bit but I can’t play alone. Exercising with someone doesn’t motivate me at all sadly as video games are easier for me.
On Abilify I was able to exercise at the gym for 2h almost daily sometimes with friends sometimes alone. Alone I did less like 1h. I was also able to play up to 5h of video games alone continuously.
Pretend you aren’t unmotivated and just keep doing it for each time you try to
The treatment is ads or stimulants. Try effexor, modafinil,…
Its exrremely hard, the more I fail and retry the worse the result.
I tried Wellbutrin it didn’t work. Maybe I need a very strong stimulant? Don’t stimulants work by increasing dopamine? Can’t I just take L-Dopa supplement?
I don’t have a psychiatrist now, I need to ask my family Dr about stimulants.
yea stimulants increase dopamine… i was on ritalin for a while but it made things worse so they had to get me off the ritalin in the psych ward.
You should check with your doctor. But my pdoc suggested a stimulant or an ad for negative symptoms. I take Wellbutrin and it helps. Lucky me.
Yea increasing dopamine increases psychosis. Did Ritalin make you psychotic? What was bad about it?
it was good for a while but slowly i slipped into psychosis again and then suddenly i was full on psychotic and i didn’t notice it myself but my pdoc called the psych ward and a few days later i was committed…
How much are you taking? 150mg for a month didn’t work for me, I was still in bed most of the time. Maybe I have treatment resistant negative symptoms?
Stimulants or uppers will land you in the psych ward.
Bad idea.
Wow so Ritalin made you psychotic eventhough you were on antipsychotics?
yea it did… it’s nuts that i didn’t even notice it but i’ll never go on ritalin again though… maybe you could try low dose but i would be careful with it…
I take 150 mg Wellbutrin.
What antidepressant are you on? Was it prescribed for depression or for sz negative symptoms?
i’m on 50mg sertraline daily. to be honest i’m not sure why they prescribed it… i think to try to help with the negatives, that’s also why they prescribed the ritalin. The ADs help some but not completely so maybe i had some depression too. But to me it feels like it helps… not completely but every little bit is better than nothing huh
they prescribed the ritalin to have more motivation to do stuff… and it did help for a while but then i got psychotic again so meh =/
Thanks for the info.
you are welcome @Aziz =)
I hope you do find a solution… but i wouldn’t go the route of the stimulants… maybe wellbutrin but you already tried that