I've started seeing a new therapist (who is wonderful, btw). Toward the end of our last session, she asked me to ask my pdoc if the combination of meds I'm taking can make me flat.

I told her I feel really good. She said she knows I feel good, but would I just ask that one question.

Now I'm wondering if she's seeing something I'm not, and if there's a concern that the meds are interfering with therapy.

Has anyone had this experience, and if so, did you have your meds adjusted?

I trust both my therapist and pdoc, who give me the reigns to make these decisions, so it's not about worrying that one or the other is going to do something wrong.

[Victoria'smom]

This current meds makes me "flat", and apathetic. Honestly I can't say if it's the meds or the depression. flat affect is the absence or near absence of emotional response. Blunt affect is a "lighter" version. I feel that it would interfere with therapy but it flat or blunt affect can be due to meds (AP), depressive episode, or SZA. I plan to ask for a med change.

[LastQuestion]

Yes, they can interfere. Based upon my personal experience I became convinced medication was preventing me from experiencing any meaningful awareness of my own emotions. I went off them and found out I was right. However, after not having to deal with emotion, let alone any which are intense, I didn't know how to process any of it. The best I could do was suppress them, distraction, meditation, spending time dreaming up hypothetical situations where I had power, control, hope...

If my living situation were better I would not have had to go back on lamotrigine. But I did and so I went back to barely experiencing emotion, having difficulty forming memories...sigh. For years I believed that the constant apathy and difficulty with memory was just who I was, had become, and would forever be. Now, it seems, it has been medications which so greatly altered my ability to function, not depression, nor ADHD, or even bipolar, but psychotropic medications.

Thank you both. I was afraid of this. I'll have to think how to talk to my pdoc about it next week when I bring it up. I'll also ask my therapist if she thinks it's getting in the way.