Posted by g_g_g_unit on June 5, 2009, at 0:58:28
hi, i've decided that my best chance for remission now might come about through the combination of a stimulant with memantine in order to vanquish the last traces of brain fog, so that i can then go about installing positive, permanent changes in my lifestyle; CBT is helping a lot, but not really w/ mental energy, which is what i really need in order to go back to working. i'm going to propose this idea to my pdoc on monday. my concern though regards people's complains that stimulants can often make them feel 'robotic'; i'm wondering if this is more to do with tolerance (which memantine prevents) or is it a characterstic of certain stims rather than others?
i know that when memantine assumed an amphetamine-like effect during the early stages of dosing, i experienced an almost manic onslaught of ideas, boundless mental energy, etc. which ultimately ended up exasperating my underlying perfectionistic behaviours (and thus making itself more of a hindrance than help in terms of mental flexibility). i'm guessing that it's not really possible to compare that effect to using a stim since Memantine only affects D2, while stims hit more Dopamine receptor sites?
anyway, for the sake of cognitive energy + flexiblity, with minimum CNS activation, what's the best route to take? would i perhaps be better off with something like deprenyl?
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