Posted by linkadge on May 31, 2007, at 19:11:07
In reply to Re: Effexor and dopamine » linkadge, posted by Flame on May 31, 2007, at 12:05:01
>So .. maybe in my husband's situation, the >hobbies (and such) were not/are not a source of >anxiety .. so he is able to STILL do all of >these things without a problem .. ? (Maybe I'm >understanding this wrong. I'm just trying to >make sense of my husbands situation.)
Well, there are always things in life that we don't want to do but have to do.
It may have less to do with energy/motivation, and more to do with a healthy level of anxiety.
A helthy level of anxiety can prepare us help us adapt to our environment. The right amount of anxiety can help us to refocus us on what is important.
Sometimes psychotropic drugs can work by altering our preceptions of what is important. Its just like how mothers who do a lot of methamphetamines will often do anything do get the drug, even at the expense of friends family etc.
I am not saying effexor is methamphetamine, I am just saying that sometimes these drugs can really alter our sense of what is important in our lives.
For example, sometimes certain drugs made me indifferent to peoples emotions. Sometimes they made me care less about school performance. Sometimes I stopped bathing, or caring about the way I looked.
I would have been content to just be a bumb on the street so long as I had money for food.
Now I can't speak for everbody, obviously, but thats just how some of these meds affected me.
Linakdge
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