Hi everyone this is my first post here and I have a question about the effects of medication in the hope of input from others. I've likely had bipolar for a lot of my life but have always lived in denial about it and "hidden" it as best I could. However it got to the stage were I just couldn't do this any longer and was officially diagnosed by a psychiatrist and prescribed lamotrigine. As the dosage has been gradually built up and I have felt what I think is the medication working it's left me feeling "strange" in the sense that I can feel it preventing me from what I knew as "normal" i.e. Bipolar. The only way I can describe it is I feel like when I would normally swing in one direction of the other I now feel as if my mind is hitting some imaginary padded wall and is being prevented from "going there" so to speak. In addition to this I'm finding that situations that would normally make me anxious or agitated don't end up reaching that stage. The struggle I'm finding is that I know how I would normally react and so I can feel myself being prevented from being like this. I feel almost like some kind of zombie that's on a really short emotional leash and it feels very very strange and is proving difficult for me to come to terms with I'm honest. I was hoping that others here would be able to maybe share their experiences or offer any advice at all as at the moment I'm finding this so difficult and quite frightening. Thanks in advance.

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