Comments | psychogranny: Help...but DON'T help

psychogranny

Help...but DON'T help

Jul 24, 2007 05:00

When I first started going down on the Effexor, I started having little swings, leaning more toward down moods. But then I started having more little hypomanic episodes. The lower I got on dosage, the bigger the swings got...the highs higher, and the lows lower. I thought this was weird, since it's supposed to be an antidepressant, not a mood ( Read more... )

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justpapabear July 24 2007, 14:50:06 UTC

Don't apologize for something we all understand. Are you "sticking" with the doctors orders, or are you playing doctor again?

psychogranny July 25 2007, 08:05:59 UTC

Actually, no, believe it or not, I'm following his directions for once, because he wanted me to cut down as low as possible before I started the Wellbutrin/Celexa. But I'm feeling so good, now, I don't know if it would even be a good idea to start them, cuz I don't want to get TOO manic.

justpapabear July 25 2007, 11:54:58 UTC

But you are going to try to follow his orders right? You can always quit. I have no way to turn, I'm bipolar, but never manic. Just normal, or extremely depressed. There doesn't seem to be any in between. I spend most of my time depressed. I'm on 1,000mg of Depakote, 200mg of Lamictal, 160mg of Geodon, and 8mg of Gabitril as mood stabilizers a day. I'm on 300mg of Wellbutrin, and 100mg of Trazadone as anti-depressants. That's a load eh? And I think it's time to adjust my medications.

kyle64 July 25 2007, 05:17:11 UTC

just saying *hi*! effexor numbs emotions, i've experiences that in the past.

psychogranny July 25 2007, 08:03:06 UTC

Yeah, that's crazy! I never knew that before. I never heard anything but the stuff about w/drawal or getting too manic. Well, now I know. I've even got my creativity back. I've already got ideas for remaking a couple of broken ankle bracelets I forgot I even had.

kyle64 July 25 2007, 15:20:18 UTC

my daughter, the 'cellist, was on it, and was finding htat she was losing her *edge* with her music. she has a way of playing the 'cello that can bring an audience to tears. she had lost that on effexor. finally, the doctor took her off and she too regained her emotions in general, especially through music AND her visual art creativity.

Kewl on the bracelets, you go girl on that creativity! take a pic of the bracelets when you're done :D

elvenforever July 25 2007, 08:09:38 UTC

Something I found out my doc had been doing to me....way, way, later...and this from a friend whose partner's doc was honest about what he was doing and why...is deliberately medicating me to blahness. It's a technique used with malice aforethought by psychiatrists -- they medicate you to flatten your emotions because they don't want you jumping off a bridge or shooting someone or whatever they're scared you'll do. Of course, they don't TELL you they're doing this -- they just do it. They even have a term for it, and I can't remember what it was -- "bracketing," I think. That means they chemically set borders for your emotions, basically. Again, they DON'T tell you they're doing it.

Doesn't that just piss you off?