Posted by Questionmark on March 21, 2006, at 23:15:00
In reply to Re: Medications for excessive chronic Perfectionis » Questionmark, posted by psychopharmacon on March 13, 2006, at 3:42:07
> I'm not on any other meds, but amisulpride helps me to a certain degree. I makes me care less about stupid details. It doesn't remove all the perfectionism though, but I think that's impossible when it's a part of your personality.
That is EXcellent! Wow. That description makes it sound perfect for this problem. That is EXACTLY what i need-- to care less about the "STUPID details"!!
i mean, to care less about the stupid details but not lose too much perfectionism-- so as to (1)not feel like i'm losing myself too much (at least in ways i wouldn't want) and (2)to not be so numbed and dumbed down or what have you so much that you hardly care about anything (but only because you hardly CAN care about anything or feel any pleasure or motivation & focus at all)-- that is exactly what i want. i really wonder if low-dose amisulpride could do that for me. That would be amazing.
Bytheway, i agree with the last thing you said. It does seem like it'd be impossible for any med to make an extreme perfectionist something of a non-perfectionist-- short of taking something that would give extreme side effects and almost completely changes who the person is.Anyhow, thank you so much for the input.
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