Boy do I know exactly how you feel. I once had a coworker who laughed constantly throughout the day and it was like finger nails on a chalk board. I also am on lamotrigine 200 mg and felt more annoyed with people for the first couple weeks, then I felt completely flat and emotionless. Finally, I feel like my baseline mood, people still annoy me but not nearly as much. I still feel numb regarding my feelings towards my family members, but that is good, because they have said and done some pretty painful things to me recently, and I feel like my heart is on novacaine. I really feel very little.
I know that what you describe is fairly common when starting lamotrigine, for me it was, but I do feel better and more stable. No more falling in love at the blink of an eye
(funny because I have almost no sex drive--LOL) and no more moving across country just because it sounds really fun. I still have the same thoughts, but not the feelings underneath driving them. I do not know if this makes sense or not.
I hope you feel better and know that you are not alone in this. It just takes time to get the meds right.
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Bi Polar 2 (mixed), CPTSD, GAD, PD (with agoraphobia), ADHD.
Lamotrigine, Zoloft, Vistaril
"I hated labels. People didn’t fit into slots—prostitute, housewife, saint—like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water."
"The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of."
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