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Mental Health Coming off Invega (Paliperidone, Xeplion) injections v. 7.0

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Invegatorture said:
Just seen my social worker and my personality is completely dead. I’m flat, emotionless and slow. I feel thick in the head. Anyone else experiencing this?
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Yes , I feel like my brain is made out of wood , any interactions I have I speak in a blank monotone voice nothing like how I used to speak , I used to be very positive , outgoing and upbeat … I am the complete opposite of that now I am dead inside.
 
Mucky said:
Yes , I feel like my brain is made out of wood , any interactions I have I speak in a blank monotone voice nothing like how I used to speak , I used to be very positive , outgoing and upbeat … I am the complete opposite of that now I am dead inside.
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I can relate so much to this. Especially the blank monotone voice its so fucked
 
Invegatorture said:
Just seen my social worker and my personality is completely dead. I’m flat, emotionless and slow. I feel thick in the head. Anyone else experiencing this?
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I experienced this at the beginning I think. It’s gotten better each month.it’s important to bring in positivity because it has a direct effect on mind and body
 
RecoveryInProgress said:
5 month update! I lost 3lbs this month (lost 14 lbs in total). I have been noticing muscle definition more from going on several walks throughout the day as well as going on the treadmill (had to switch to that because of the heat for now),as well as the other various things I do like tai chi and yoga and stretching
I genuinely think my ptsd trauma from before is getting better , could be due to the EMDR I started,
I can laugh more and not feel so weighed down and I’m starting to wake up a little more refreshed
Still experiencing doubts and insecurities per the norm with this kind of process but I am slowly improving
These are all subtle changes and putting in effort each day to stay active for both a healthy brain and body has been helpful!
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So nice! Keep it up! Just a few months ahead. :)
 
When I was really depressed after getting off Risperdal I had my therapy appointments changed to once a week instead of every 2 weeks once a month kind of thing, which I think really helped a lot and it allowed my therapist to track my progress as well to give an outside perspective so maybe meeting with your social worker more frequently might help during the tough times
 
RecoveryInProgress said:
When I was really depressed after getting off Risperdal I had my therapy appointments changed to once a week instead of every 2 weeks once a month kind of thing, which I think really helped a lot and it allowed my therapist to track my progress as well to give an outside perspective so maybe meeting with your social worker more frequently might help during the tough times
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Risperdal oral version?
 
After 4 months in antipsychotics I lost 11 pounds. It funny because everyone gains weights. I got so depressed that started to eat way less than before. Also maybe lost some of muscle due to very low testosterone, I think.
 
naoaguento said:
The withdrawal gave you depression?
After I stopped abilify I got severely depressed too. Started lithium carbonate 2 weeks ago to help me though this period.
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Yes it did. It was very bad and started a whole cycle with worrying and anxiety made it all worse probably. It takes a lot of preserving and dedication to keep doing the things you have to do even if you don’t feel like
 
RecoveryInProgress said:
Yes it did. It was very bad and started a whole cycle with worrying and anxiety made it all worse probably. It takes a lot of preserving and dedication to keep doing the things you have to do even if you don’t feel like
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Do you remember how long it lasted? Or you got into another med before it finished?
 
RecoveryInProgress said:
When I was really depressed after getting off Risperdal I had my therapy appointments changed to once a week instead of every 2 weeks once a month kind of thing, which I think really helped a lot and it allowed my therapist to track my progress as well to give an outside perspective so maybe meeting with your social worker more frequently might help during the tough times
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What is your therapist approach, do you know?
Mine isn't helping much, I have appointments every week but I feels like he only listens to me and give me no feedback or tools to deal with my troubles. He's a psychanalyst.
Last appointment I said to him that I thought I was facing derealization, cuz life didn't feels real and I felt disconnected. He said "what is derealization?", lol. This had put me in a very sad mood, because if even who is supposed to help me have no idea what I am going though. If he don't know my symptom how could he help me?
 
I really think the trazodone is helping me a lot. It is in the serotonin-antagonist-and-reuptake-inhibitor class of medications. I wake up feeling almost completely normal and can already feel my cup of coffee in the morning and I am only 47 days away from the two loading doses of the shot. Akathisia is completely gone. I am even already getting my drive for sex back but do still have ED which I think will improve once the hyperprolactin traits treat itself. My psych is planning on putting me onto zoloft in a few weeks to even give me a greater bump which works as not only an anti-depressant but also causes major nuerogenisis in the hippocampal and is proven to create new brain cells.

Takeaways..
I think that the sexual dysfunction can be improved at a much faster rate by working out and getting your prolactin rates back to normal.
I think things like zoloft and trazadone actually heal the brain and are some of the main reasons people dissapear from this blog so often and there aren't so many people only struggling with this.

I urge you guys to try both zoloft and trazdone, even if its just for a short period of time. To help with sleep, depression, and healing of the brain.

To also look into BDNF which is miracle grow for the brain. Running and eating a clean diet are one of the major ways you can allow your brain to heal. It doesn't just happen, you have to be proactive with this stuff.

The brain does heal if you can somehow find the will to put the effort.

Love you guys.

Stay strong and I hope some of you got some hope out of this post.
 
I've been reading all the old versions threads, looking through every profile to read updates. Feels like a time machine. It's been my obsession, lol. When I read some recovery post talking about anhedonia recovery it give me hope.
 
naoaguento said:
I've been reading all the old versions threads, looking through every profile to read updates. Feels like a time machine. It's been my obsession, lol. When I read some recovery post talking about anhedonia recovery it give me hope.
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Do you have any usernames for the people recovering from anhesonia ?
 
Mucky said:
Do you have any usernames for the people recovering from anhesonia ?
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I can't remember from the top off my head but you can check my profile, I've been reacting recovery's posts with ❤️. I was kinda surprised tbh, because there's lots of them. Almost everyone that posted in the past (and came back to update) shared a positive one. This is very nice, I think.
In some time will be some of you guys postings your recovery stories, I feel like this. ^^
Time and patience the most important part. It plays a huge role. Also, thanks our brain (and God, who developed it - if you believe) to it's incredible neuroplasticity!
 
naoaguento said:
Just like me. Don't matter if I go to bed midnight or 2am, I ALWAYS stop sleeping 6am and cannot sleep again - then I lay in bed until 8:30am and wake up to go to job. My mind just wake up and my thoughts start running. It's like this to you? Tried Klonopin but this keeps happening.
Before APs used to sleep 8/9 easily.
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The sleep disturbances were the worst part for me. They went away, but came back when I started wellbutrin. I have to take the sleep dose of seroquel to fix it.
 
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