Meds for cutting?

[ak_blackcap]

I haven't cut since March, but I continue to think about it a lot and have impulses and such. When I saw my psychiatrist (I have bipolar type 2) on Thursday, I asked him if there was anything we could do so I don't think about cutting myself all the time. He suggested that the cutting was more of an OCD thing for me (in part because I didn't

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[devriatedseptum]

I haven't tried meds for cutting in particular, just for depression in general. I haven't been on meds for about a year now - I stopped taking them (without the counsel of a physician o_OANywayI was on a "coctail" of Wellbutrin, BuSpar, and Lamictal. What caught my attention was that you are taking Wellbutrin as well. I was just wondering if you have issues with loss of memory and/or attention span or just a general feeling of fogginess? I mentioned it to my counselor when I was taking the meds, but he said he had never heard of that kind of reaction.

[fibro_witch]

So are you taking all five meds? I have several other medical issues, but my doctors are careful to keep my mood altering drugs to a minimum. I don't beleive in profiles or patterns on who becomes a cutter or not. I started cutting at a very young age, and was not sexually abused.

[rosehiptea]

I wasn't sexually abused either... and I do have OCD though I'm not sure the cutting is related to that in my case. I took meds for the depression and OCD (and should probably still be on them) and while nothing was specifically for the cutting they did really help with it. (Prozac was what I took for the OCD.)

[xanguisettex]

my experience has been that no matter the drug cocktail, if you don't have other coping skills in place to resist cutting, nothing will work.

i've heard that wellbuterin is the devil, never been on it, but heard some horror stories. i've been doing very well with a similar mix (ativan, lamictal, remeron, and lexapro) at low doses titrated every once in a while.

i cut pretty infrequently now as a last resort for coping. i try to distract as much as possible--force myself to call or see friends, go out and watch (or rent) a movie, listening to music, putting on lotion, and staying away from tempting places (the bathroom, my bedroom, anywhere fairly isolated) and put away anything that might tempt me. even then, the impulse is high.

i wish you luck.

[tempusfrangit]

One doc I had mentioned he's noticed a lot of people of Native American heritage (which I am) are cutters. Because it's in-born he said from the days of when they'd use scars, etc.. to mark status within the tribe.

I like that theory way more than sexual abuse. :\