Posted by tinabarn on August 25, 2001, at 9:37:39
In reply to Re: Zoloft and Creativity » tinabarn, posted by Zo on August 24, 2001, at 16:21:00
Thank you all for your thoughtful feedback. I did check out the posts on Art and Depression--thanks Mickey. The drug suggestions were most what I was after--I'll see my doctor Monday and ask him about Klonopin, Dexedrine, etc. I did try Zyprexa but the side effects were so bad I stopped after a day--extreme dizziness and nausea. What Zo said about the standard of wellness being whether or not we can write was true. I've been "happy" on Prozac and Zoloft but underneath the pleasure there's a sense of pointlessness. And eventually leads to noncompliance anyway. Not being on some kind of medication isn't a possibility anymore, so I'll try them all until I find something that works better. Thanks again.
> In that mix, the Paxil jumps out . ..as taking the edge of *too* much. I'm dealing with this all the time: how to be stable and still excited and weird enough to write. I have TLE, and when it's popping, I am like so in the Flow! So far, in 20 years at this, Zyprexa (added to myusual meds, Neurontin, Effexor, benzo at bed, Dexedrine) was THE drug for writing -- For the first time in my life, I was both creative AND could assemble the work as a whole. Then I noticed (!) I'd gained 50 lbs of dangerous abdominal fat. . .Pdoc and I still struggling to find a substitute. Geodon didn't do it.
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> Anyway, it's tough. I also got too pleasantly zoned out to work on Zoloft. Of course, I am ADD too, and it aggravated that terribly, was bumping into walls.
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> Given the choice, I'd rather use any benzo than Zoloft, or I would mediate with with Dex or Adderall. . .but I don't know your dx. I understand, though, that for us, wellness is whether or not we can WRITE. Period. And that's what we must insist on, as a yardstick.
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> Zo
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