Posted by Conundrum on December 30, 2010, at 10:14:35
In reply to Re: Anhedonia is wearing me down. » Conundrum, posted by SLS on December 30, 2010, at 7:58:58
> Amotivation and anhedonia often occur comorbidly and may be linked. The thing you need to watch out for is the emergence of anger, hostility, irritability, and anxiety. When anger and anxiety go together with anhedonia, the risk of suicide increases significantly.
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> I do think there is hope for you. Have you ever combined Lamictal with Trileptal?
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> - ScottHi, thanks for your concern, I haven't felt to irritable or anxious, just down. Today a little better since I woke up earlier and I know I have more than 4 hours of day light left, and it is pretty bright today. I'll go for a walk in a bit. I have been having some trouble sleeping, and I know that hasn't helped. Perhaps I'll start taking my b vitamins and prozac in the morning.
Never tried trileptal, but i have tried lamictal, and it did provide a boost for a day once I got to about 400 mg but then pooped out and didn't work at 450mg. My pdoc thinks I have have some mood instability, since most drugs that raise my mood, only do so for a couple days and then stop. I'm not convinced at all though. When I told my family and girlfriend about it, no one thought that dx fit either. Anything is possible though. Another reason she believes I might BP is that after taking prozac and feeling pretty good for 4.5 years on it, I stopped and started to have some strange thoughts and feelings, such as beliefs in 9/11 conspiracy theories, and became really religious and started reading the bible, but also believe in numerology and astrology. It was a pretty intense two years after stopping prozac. During those 2 years I was taking ginkgo to help with my memory, which became awful after stopping prozac. I didn't see any improvement after two years on ginkgo so i stopped it, and then those paranoid and religious feelings stopped, and I returned to my more logical self. Its been 5 years since then and I've never had anything like that happen again. So while I could see how that could make a doctor suspicious, I tend to blame that whole period on a dopaminergic rebound from stopping prozac, since prozac suppresses dopamine, and also some interaction with ginkgo.
Maybe it is bipolar, but it seems like it would be very long cycles. Depressed as a young teen, felt good on prozac for 4.5 years, weird for 2 years after stopping, and anhedonic for 5 years after that. If those are cycles, then they are some pretty long cycles. Also two of those phases can be tied to being on and withdrawal from a psychotropic med. I tend to blame the drug not a soft BP, but maybe I am misguided.
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