Posted by Englishman006! on August 25, 2020, at 7:57:40
In reply to Re: I can't take much more! Anxiety overwhelming!, posted by undopaminergic on August 25, 2020, at 3:55:24
> >
> > What's your diagnosis? If I may ask.
>
> Officially or for real?
>
> The doctors are thinking schizophrenia is my big problem. But I don't have psychosis (hallucinations or delusions). I just have "negative" symptoms (eg. apathy) that I attribute to the depression. It is the apathy that is my main complaint, followed by cognitive impairment. I have other things like depersonalisation, dissociative identity disorder, and residual schizoid personality and social anxiety. I also have pretty serious ADHD (predominatly inattentive type). I'm a smorgasbord(*) of different disorders.
>
> * did you know this word is from Swedish (I'm Swedish) and means "sandwich table"?
>
> -undopaminergic
>Yes I did understand. That must be hard for you. We have some things in common. I have ADHD inattentive type, social anxiety (which has gotten so bad it felt like I had no personality), emotional blunting (numbness or apathy), depression and I've only suffered 'derealisation' when I was young, like I was living in a dream, watching everything on tv, distant, receded, miles away - kind of feeling.
Anyway, have you tried Lamotrigine (Lamictal)?
poster:Englishman006!
thread:1111554
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20200711/msgs/1111868.html