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Jul 15, 2020, 10:36 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Originally Posted by Scooter9
Be careful with lamictal. If you stop taking it for 2-3 days you have to start titrating all over again.
Thank you for your reply, Scooter.
Yes, that's what upsets my dpdoc. Although, I wouldn't stop taking it...I'd just like to lower it and see what happens. See how I feel.
If it helps, I used to take lamictal for depression and it worked well for me.
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Originally Posted by Scooter9
We had to add in Pristiq, an antidep. because the Lamictal wasn't lessening depression. It's supposed to treat BP depression, but it didn't for me.
Your creativity is still there, you just have to find another way of coaxing it out of yourself.
I wish I could agree. I mean, yeah...there's a drive toward creativity, but...for example, I look at a tree and see 5 colors of green. When manic that same tree has 15 shades and colors of green - maybe more!
I have been depressed for years now and I still manage to create...I just changed how I got to my creativity. I used to rely on my natural motivation but I don't have that now.
Isn't it hard work to drag creativity out of yourself, as opposed to creativity naturally happening?
I sort of convince myself to try something creative and I keep convincing myself until I finally get up and start working. I have to push myself to keep with it and to go back to it even when I don't feel like it.
For some reason, I'm not getting that. It feels like my thoughts don't connect well enough for me to maintain caring enough to do something creative.
It sort of becomes a habit and the creativity flows from that. It takes a while and some work but it is possible.
Well, thanks for the encouragement. I truly appreciate it.
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