I took Wellbutrin for negative symptoms and it made me worse. I was able to work at my mother’s accounting office but after taking Wellbutrin I coudn’t focus on work and I quit. It made me sleep all day.
Its been over 2 months I quit Wellbutrin and I still get scared of work. I am thinking about switching from Latuda to Risperdal+Sarcosine(supplement).
Did my psy fk up my brain?
I told him and he said its very weird that it did this. He doesn’t know what to do.
There aren’t really a lot of great medications for negative symptoms,
They’re kind of something you have to work through yourself.
Don’t rely on a med combo to make your life normal again.
Accept the new normal and make adjustments.
Take baby steps, add one new thing to do every day.
Try affirmations in the mirror to raise your self esteem.
These are all things you can do to combat negative symptoms.
I think I found why it did this.
Wellbutrin side effects, I had suicide ideation delusions on it:
Lack of concentration, agitation, anxiety, nervousness. It made me easily irritated with ppl and I am still like this after stopping it.
Bupropion-induced psychosis may develop in select populations, or worsen a pre-existing psychotic syndrome.
I got super agitated on wellbutrin
Also it made me slightly more psychotic, I was scared of ppl at work. It increases dopamine which are blocked by antipsychotics.
The thing is that I am never happy with my situation even when I was working because I left all my friends. I have a hard time accepting that I am sick, psy said its because of SZ that I refused treatment before and why now I am not accepting and being happy with my condition.
I always want to get better by messing with different meds. I should have accepted myself the way I was when working and not mess with my brain. I don’t know now when this fear of work and ppl at work will wear off. I also have a fear of work because I failed at more than 15 jobs. Its like a phobia now.
All I want is having friends and be able to work.
I guess I have to give up.
That defeatist attitude is what’s going to keep you unhappy.
Why don’t you try something that you determine your own hours? Mow people’s lawns, walk dogs, stuff like that. That way, your income is directly related to the amount of work you do and you’re not responsible to other people just yet.
You seem to have a talent with writing stuff. I worked from home for over ten years as a freelance writer and blog writer. You could start an informational blog on Sz. Write at your own pace and put Adsense on it. Perfect, slow paced work
Wellburin is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor meaning more dopamine available in brain just like dopamine boosting drugs like L dopa.
Ikr That’s why it can worsen psychosis and paranoia as a side effect. It decreases antipsychotics’s efficacy because APs block and lower dopamine.
Yes people who on anti psychotics should not take anything which boosts dopamine.
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