Latuda (as you know...) is a newer antipsychotic/neuroleptic/tranquilizer. --All-- of these drugs carry serious risks, the big and most obvious one being tardive dyskinesia, a movement disorder. TD rates are lower with the newer drugs, but it still happens. Sometimes TD shows up when an antipsychotic/neuroleptic/tranquilizer is tapered and discontinued. That's called "withdrawal-emergent tardive dyskinesia." This happens because drugs that cause TD can also mask the signs of TD, at least for a while.

I dunno. Antipsychotics/neuroleptic/tranquilizers tend to flatten people out. They're used by vets to make some animals more managable, they're used on out of control kids+teenagers ("conduct disorder," "Oppositional defiant disorder," etc.), and they're used in injection form for agitation. So..

If you're feeling kinda flattened out, that's not really a "side effect;" that's what tranquilizers do. Lexapro is an ssri that can also flatten people out. SSRI and SNRI drugs, more so than some other options for depression, are kind of like...emotional novacaine. They tend to cause varying degrees of numbing and apathy.

I'm not trying to question your prescriber (too much...), but neuroleptics are very serious drugs. Latuda is also very expensive, and there's not very much data on it, especially long term data. In addition to tardive dyskinesia, there's also: akathisia, tardive akathisia, and sometimes tardive dementia from these drugs. Tardive dementia is the one that scares me (I take abilify)...it results in measurable loss of IQ and other cognitive problems, and it often occurs with tardive dyskinesia and/or tardive akathisia.

Now that I've scared you...are you sure you need a neuroleptic? I take a big dose of Abilify because I've had psychotic mania and I'm prone mostly to psychotic depression. A long term tranquilizer is a good idea, and Abilify is "cleaner" than a lot of other options, so...yeah. Plus, Abilify is now generic.

I take an antidepressant (Wellbutrin), but I've been avoiding SSRI drugs. SSRI+neuroleptic (for me)=no emotions. Either one alone is bad enough...add them together, things can get rough (for me).

Sorry this is happening. I'm not trying to scare you or anything, just saying...I think you may have other options (drug and non-drug) that you might want to talk a doctor about.