Anyone have luck with this medication?
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I did have a lot of luck on it until I went manic. It’s a good one.
I was in need of a dopamine enhancer, due to my neural activity being below normal. The dopamine enhancer they gave me is what triggered the schizophrenia symptoms. All this happened about 24 years ago. So there was no way that I could take a dopamine suppressing schizophrenia drug, since that turned me into no more than a zombie.
But when I went on the Zoloft med, holy cow, it doubled my intellect, enhanced my color vision and the sense of taste, among dramatically improving other things as well. Sadly, over time, its effectiveness faded.
So the doc would take me off the drug for a while and then try again. But each time, the effectiveness was less and less, until it had no effect at all. It was similar to the effects you see of L-dopa in the movie called Awakenings, starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
When I think back about the movie, I keep recalling seeing Robert De Niro as the Leonard character, standing in front of a fan and smiling as he could for the first time in decades feel the air touch his face once again. Take everything away for a while and then, when it comes back, it seems 100 times better than before.
What everyone else takes for granted day after day, you now see as 100% of its true value.
In the movie you also see one guy who is extremely interested in one of the tires on a buss, and the nurse clearly does not understand what is going on. She can not comprehend what it is that he is now seeing. To her, it’s just a tire. To him, it is so much more. You would have to have been there in that kind of a situation to understand what I mean.
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