[Curiosity77]

Hi,

I'm feeling over medicated, and I miss my highs and creativity. But every time I try to reduce meds I slide quickly into depression and anxiety. Is there a way to get the energy, confidence, and creativity back? My life feels so flat now.

[x_BabyG_x]

I have no solution for you, just wanted to let you know I feel the same. I miss my wolf, when she's gone I feel like I'm mourning her. Forever chasing the high, even at the cost of potential damage to my relationship/job etc. x

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[wildflowerchild25]

Perhaps you are not on te right medication? I have been over medicated before and it sucks. But I'm on just one med now and I feel great - like a controlled hypo. So it's possible to find something.

I do get to missing the energy Of hypo though.

[blackwhitered]

Originally Posted by Curiosity77

Hi,

I'm feeling over medicated, and I miss my highs and creativity. But every time I try to reduce meds I slide quickly into depression and anxiety. Is there a way to get the energy, confidence, and creativity back? My life feels so flat now.

Doing drugs? Just kidding. Don't do that. In fact, if anyone seriously suggests that, you have my full permission to bludgeon them with a toaster.

But seriously, don't do drugs, that just makes things worse.

[Lillyleaf]

That is the story of my life! Hypo mania and mania is how I use to survive the mess I made when I was depressed...

With medication it is gone gone gone gone. If I drop down in amount I quickly lose it.

Then I ask my P=doc he just says weight your pro's and cons.

[Curiosity77]

Yeah, pros and cons. If I could stop meds and not get depressed right awasy I would do it, but I can't. It's like before the meds everyhing was intense - intensely good, intensely bad, but now it's just low grade depression all the time. I want to just stop all the meds entirely and see what happens, but I'm worried that I will end up loosing my job if I go off the rails. So I'm living this constrained life, just to keep a job and have my material needs met, but spiritually and emotionally dead. I tried to do some LSD to see if that would help, but my meds blocked it and I got almost no effect. So even that didn't work. I don't know how long I can handle living this way.

Meds - saphris, lamotrigine, wellbutrin, mirapex, seroquel

[Curiosity77]

I forgot one med, also on strattera

[hamster-bamster]

Originally Posted by wildflowerchild25

Perhaps you are not on te right medication? I have been over medicated before and it sucks. But I'm on just one med now and I feel great - like a controlled hypo. So it's possible to find something.

I do get to missing the energy Of hypo though.

I was way overmedicated, then went completely off antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, enjoyed intense creativity and intense emotional life for more than 6 months, but, since I am taking 50 mg of Elavil for sleep and Elavil is an AD, in September I became hypomanic enough to go inpatient for several days. Now I take Lithium every night and yes, most of the time it feels like a controlled hypo. Recently though I have been hypo out of control, so I am taking Zyprexa PRN for that and it helps, together with a slew of other methods of calming down.

It is not a perfect solution, but it is at least a lesser ill than being heavily overmedicated.