[BPQuestions]

Anyone ever feel that the meds just stop you from feeling anything at all? I recently came off of Geodon and all of a sudden I have thee flood of emotions that werent there before. But I know they were there under the surface. It feel like they were jut smothered. It just crazy trying to process them now.

[SorryShaped]

Yep. That's happened with other meds in me in the past. Now, meds prevent the extremes only. Sometimes I want something to completely block everything, taking the good with it too, if only to get rid of the bad.

[Aviza]

Yes that happens. I was told with latuda I would still have feelings and I do, people ask me frequently if I'm taking my meds. I mean I'm human aren't we supposed to feel?

[BastetsMuse]

I take Geodon and used to be really numb, so I was able to talk my pdoc into lessening the dose. It really helped, but I keep in mind that mood stablizers are supposed to numb our moods.

[Guiness187055]

Yes my med combination makes me really have no feelings. But it keeps me stable.

[Blueberrybook]

Yeah, that's happened to me in the past when I quit certain meds.

[*Laurie*]

Haha, uh...YEAH.

My recent thread might be of interest to you:
https://forums.psychcentral.com/bipo...t-working.html

I have experienced such a state, but I don't think Geodon caused it for me. Though I am no longer taking Geodon, I did take 160 mg for about 7 years. I remember plenty of periods when I was feeling all kinds of strong emotions during that time.

I think the period when I had the least emotions was one when I experienced a year plus long typical moderate to severe depression. At that time I was on a rather large dose of Depakote, and at least a medium dose of Invega (an antipsychotic sort of like Risperdal).

Unlike some people, my "typical" depressions are marked by major anhedonia, but without a typical kind of sadness or emotional affect. They are a bit more like what you describe, but with zero motivation, lack of self-care, and hypersomnia. My worst depressive-type episodes are ones that have mixed features. With them I am far from having few feelings. On the contrary, they are marked by severe irritability, anger, frustration, hopelessness, agony, agitation, and the like.

[Treyfrancis21]

I'm in the same boat. After a few different meds didn't work, I found latuda and became relatively stable. I felt pretty good, just didn't have the creative drive I had before. Two weeks ago my psych nurse and I decided to go lower my dose a bit to see what would happen. The result was me having more feelings than I remember having in the 4 years since I've been medicated. My wife says I'm talking more now too. It's kind of difficult to know what to do with all the feelings, but it also is great to feel like I can enjoy life instead of just living it.

[BipolaRNurse]

I've really begun to feel like I'm overmedicated, and I've been experimenting with my meds to see if not taking the APs will help bring some excitement back into my life. So far I haven't had any ill effects, although I do take them some nights so I can sleep. It's hard to sleep without them, I get maybe 5 hours of broken sleep. But I'm tired of being dependent on these things. Eventually I'd like to come off some of them.

[wiretwister]

the only experience I had when I quit geodon was I could not sleep for " years ? " .... it took forever to get back to anywhere close to normal ....

the only emotions I ever feel are intense sadness or hell bursting anger .... so it's ok if there muted somewhat ...

[Steiger]

Originally Posted by BPQuestions

Anyone ever feel that the meds just stop you from feeling anything at all? I recently came off of Geodon and all of a sudden I have thee flood of emotions that werent there before. But I know they were there under the surface. It feel like they were jut smothered. It just crazy trying to process them now.

I was on depakote for years as well as Risperidone, and it totally blocked feeling of any kind. As if there was some sort of detachment between thoughts and emotions. I always felt so stifled and repressed. Like nothing could be expressed appropriately. When I finally got off of the meds I was overrun by emotions that should have been there in the first place. It was then that I realized that I had to learn how to deal with me being me, not being artificially sedated because of immaturity. My emotions are powerful, so I had to become strong enough mentally to manage them. It's been over 15 years since I came off the meds, and I am truly thankful for not continuing. You are strong enough to come into your seat of control.

[Shazerac]

It’s kind of tricky for me. Sometimes I feel like the Meds dull my feelings. But often I’m going through a bout of depression that dulls my feelings. When I snap out of my depression the feelings come back. I have cut back a little in the dosage of my Meds (with an OK from my doc) and that seems to help a bit.