Posted by janejane on January 3, 2010, at 8:36:11
In reply to Re: New Year...New Plan, Advice needed...., posted by Buckeye Fan on January 3, 2010, at 8:00:45
> How was I different before PMeds?
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> More filled with life and vigor.
> More motivated...better able to concentrate. I was able to feel the appropriate emotion at the appropriate time ( good and bad emotions)
> And while not always pleasant...at least I knew the feelings were genuine, and not being interfered with by the tranquilizing effects of Meds.
> Mostly what I miss though....is the thrill of life, a zest for living and accomplishing. My once fast paced, high energy personality has been replaced with a withdrawn, cautious "safe" styling of living that refusue to take normal risks...interact socially with others properly..and ..well ...get EXCITED about anything? Does that make sense?
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>BF, this sounds a lot like SSRI-induced apathy. Laney recently started a thread about it here:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20091227/msgs/932193.html
Maybe some tweaking would work better than quitting. I quit last year and it's been it's been a struggle, though I'm still hoping to find a med-free answer to my depression. In hindsight, I think I should have tried just reducing my prozac dose while keeping my wellbutrin dose the same.
If you want to learn more, there should be additional threads about SSRI apathy if you search the archives.
poster:janejane
thread:931755
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20100103/msgs/932279.html