[kecanoe]

I went to the wikipedia link about Schizoid Personality Disorder mentioned in another thread, and saw that there are some meds that are thought to help. I currently take a cocktail; Abilify, Welbutrin, Buspar, Nortriptylene, cyclobenzadrine. I have Xanax and Nuvigil which I take as needed. I see that Provigil (which is similar to nuvigil) can be helpful for schiziods. Same for Welbutrin. I am curious about what meds (if any) have seemed helpful to the rest of you. I'm also thinking that pdoc is right and I should take Nuvigil daily.

[_Alana_]

I don't have any very positive experiences with medication related to schizoid personality, only two very bad ones. Citalopram made me turn inwards completely, I shared nothing anymore, I felt nothing, nothing outside of me mattered anymore and I felt empty and locked in. Haldol made me unstable, I had energetic moments where I had to keep moving, panic moments, confusion, though I in general didn't feel too bad. But I'd rather be schizoid than unstable.
Abilify seems fine, hasn't done much about the schizoid traits but I'm on a very low dose. The tinnitus (constant multiple ringing tones in both ears) is getting worse though, that worries me.

What exactly are such medications as you're taking supposed to change for schizoids? The anhedonia? Make you interested in things again, emotional, happy? Don't you have bad side effects from all that?

[Atypical_Disaster]

Medications can and do help with related symptoms of the personality disorder, but they won't fix the root causes. Generally psychotherapy is the recommended treatment when dysfunctional personality traits are at hand.

[kecanoe]

I am off Abilify now, I was taking a small dose to boost the antidepressants. The meds that I take per my pdoc are to help with anxiety and depression. The depression was so bad that we just kept throwing different meds at it to see if anything would help. Nothing did, really. Time and a lot of therapy have helped. I also had tinnitus as well as weight gain/metabolic syndrome from the Abilify.
I agree that therapy is needed for personality disorders, although there seems to be a fair amount of pessimism that even therapy will help. The article that was linked on this forum was the first I have seen that talked about meds being helpful for SPD. I haven't seen anything about meds for my other PDs.