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[curiouselliot]

I have had somewhat intense writer's block for quite a while now

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[tres_faux]

If you're on a combination of both SSRIs and anti-anxiety medication (which you are?), it's likely more the anti-anxiety meds cause this deadening of alacrity. However, the SSRIs are probably responsible for the lessened sex drive. You might ask your doctor about those, they can be alleviated in some cases with Wellbutrin XL or CR.

[curiouselliot]

ANdrew,

I am on Buprenorphine, an opiate (I made an edit above to show that) and trazodone. It's a med which made me functional again (about a year ago), and it's now a matter of tapering off of it, i guess. I have started to do it recently, so I guess I'll find out if it helps.

[tres_faux]

Interesting. Trazodone is one of the uncategorized anti-depressants, right? (As in not quite SSRI, but similar...) And buprenorphine, well, that's generally used in the treatment of addiction and so tapering off it might well take awhile. How long have you been on the trazodone?

[curiouselliot]

Yea, trazodone is an atypical antidepressant....I was originally went on it for sleep. I've been on the trazodone for a year or so....I went off it twice but decided to go back on it each time. I thought I felt worse going off it, but it may very well have been placebo. I wanted to get back on it if I was gonna taper off the Suboxone (buprenorphine), just so I have that extra cushion if needed.

[tres_faux]

I would guess, really, that the opiate would generally be the one to taper off of first; given your frustration with lower creative drive I would suspect that'd be the more numbing of the two in that regard.

Then again, I'm not a doctor. ;)