Posted by violette on June 12, 2010, at 21:41:50
In reply to Best med for anhedonia, lack of motivation, SCT?, posted by former poster on June 12, 2010, at 4:15:35
I feel for you.
I am so damn confused right now. I don't feel a need for any meds for depression or mood, just for anxiety on occasion and to sleep...but the lack of motivation is torture. I'm starting to think any dysthmia/depression symptoms I have are a direct result from one symptom-lack of motivation. I don't know what to do anymore. Amphetamines helped somewhat and I mean just enough to get me out of bed and going, but they don't work anymore. I doubled and tripled my dose to see if I had a tolerance built, but taking more just made me sleepy. It makes little difference if I do not take any-I don't even get withdrawal symptoms. Sometimes I wasn't even motivated enough to take the amphetamine-it was like indifference-total apathy-nothing mattered.
So after giving up on meds for the most part and trying to approach this from the psychological end-but can't figure it out with my therapist. The result from medications leads me to prefer the the therapeutic approach over drugs-anything I've taken makes me worse-I either sit and stare or feel agitated. I don't normally get symptoms of agitation except when I take medications. Six psychiatrists told me I was not bipolar and I read a ton about it and agree. But what is this from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboulia
There's a link to read..if anyone could figure out what's going on with the group of us who have this problem-you sure would be a hero. !
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