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After psychosis lack of pleasure and emotionless

By Dilli | 42 posts, last post
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How are you doing Dilli? Have you recovered yet after being off the meds. I hope you are doing better now.
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My bad I didn't see this. Sorry. Anyway after I posted my comments I actually went on them once again. Well I took them once or twice. So I'm off of them since late March. So that's almost 4 months? So far I've been feeling nothing too different. But I've been smoking and drinking, so maybe that's hindering my recovery. I'm just not comfortable drug free anymore. Recreational drugs I mean. But normally I hear it takes a year or too for people to feel better. I don't have any advice actually. I did not really suffer from withdraw though. Or that bad at least. I did it without notice from my doctor so all in all it went quite well. This is Dilli btw. Might not have said that.
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alright so, six monthes now, on month 7. everythings a ok. no ones really replying or talking in here. i don't know. still not much emotion but i have some scary nights sometimes. all it is is just to not take them again. i mean the worst that can happen is you die but it's not like with drawl will kill you. so its all ok if you dont harm yourself because once ur on them again, your back to stage one. so yea maybe bad advice but yea its still very creepy. have times i feel like im scared to eat because of some weird thoughts like i'm actually eating something taht was alive once and some other stuff but yea, i'll get though it good luck people. i'll be back later on. maybe in another month or 3. so yea good luck people!

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i'd say allittle of both tranz. and pyschosis. Your emotion will return. I had many of your thot at 16. Your feelings are still there,really! Mary
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hello guys. it's dilli here. just wanted to update and say i'm back on medication. no ones really listening but yea its ok. i smoke weed still and am trying to quit. been off 2 weeks now. i've lost all my drive for life which wasn't new but now its just i can't find a cheat to happines. i thought maybe it lies in your body like folding your tounge or squinting your eyes. i've been playing with my body alot but yea idk nothing helps. so ive just been thinking i'm just gonna go all out with weed untill i've had enough or just try my best to not smoke anymore. its easier to do the latter since i have no money. still smoke tobacco. i'm actually blank minded now don't even know what to type. i would quit risperdal again but i was off for 8 months and i just felt like c**p most of the time so it's like theres no point. any way i want to say something meaning full but yea nothing comes. so yea thats it guys. pce out and be safe. :)
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Hi Dilli! I am in a very similar situation. Taking Risperidal after psychosis with LSD and weed. I have ahedonia, everything seems to me the same. Music doesnt sound right anymore, no happiness, no emotions at all. Its hard to speak with people, because i dont know what to say most of the time...I think im going to post something new about this, but i think it is going to last till im on medication. Really hard to live with this condition. Never tried weed after my psychosis, because i dont want to relaps again. Stay strong!
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You don't need pleasure to live. Learn to live without it. Remember, pleasure is a want, not a need. Food, water, shelter are needs. You are fine.
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I had a psychotic break in 2015 and luckily I didnt go to the hospital but did move closer to home. I was put on 8mgs of Risperdal and 3 mgs of lorazapam which helped but later switched to invega and kolopine. When I was on respridal I had the worst time...I felt no emotion...lack of sex drive...and lack of pleasure from anything...expecially ciggaretes...I just couldnt feel them...it was like I was smoking air...so I know what your going through and Im still in recovery.
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One word of advice...in 2004 I was put on Respridal and everythings was fine and found a good job, apartment...and then in 2013 I decided to get off of respridal and hit a full blown manic psychosis that lasted 2 and a half years including being homeless and transient...so be careful
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Hey Dilli, i read your first post over a year ago and really related to it. Ive had the same thing happen to me only it was caused from a medicine called saphris. I had a horrible reaction to it and had many bad side effects like anhedonia, numbness, and lack of emotions. Like you, I also cant find the right words to respond, so I usually respond without thinking and then immediately regret my response. It never comes out the way i wanted it to and therefore could be interpreted the wrong way. I decided a long time ago that i would get off meds, so I dont really understand how you could stay on meds after you suffered like that. You don't deserve to suffer a day longer, so get off that devilish medicine man. Maybe you'll find a miracle drug, but I've tried about 10 and still haven't found one. I can reassure you that you will get your emotions back if you get off the antipsychotics.
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this is dilli. thank you for you response man and yea it just really sucks. talking is just impossible on medication but yea what can you do. i've done all there is already to try and feel pleasure but it's just not comming. focusing on my breathing helps me a bit and while a bit embarrasing, i take self vids and i noticed that i sound cooler while focusing on it. but tbh i could give a sh*t less.

tbh i just want to smoke weed. but its like even weed is fed up with my sh*t. since i believe it is a deity. it is a bit unfair to me on how it gives out different types of highs to different people. this might be weird but it just makes sense to me. you like it in the begining because your new to it but if it gets sick of you it trips you out. if you're closer to perfect, you'll have no problems with it in most cases. has nothing to do with tolerance. so i'm hoping it will warm up to me again but i freaked out for about a whole night while high just before this fiasco started. probably hates me for that.

thing is also i know this cool guy and he doesnt really smoke weed but smoke cigs. said it trips him out. really attractive guy. i'm not gay dont worry. but i smoke cigs now halfly because of him, thinking that the answers of life have nothing to do with weed. i always thought that he got high and trpped out because weed gave him all the answers and told him not to get high again. couldnt handle it. sorry about the delusional conversation of flow but i had to get it out. but now i dont give an eff nothing better to do.

i know you didnt talk about weed sorry bout talking about it while i'm responding to you. just needed to get it out.

any way thats all i have to say. i'll back, maybe haha. bye.
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Hey Narshe81 I have been following you and reading your posts for over a year now. I really think that you have the same side effect that I have. I can totally relate and sympathize with all of the things you've written. I have experienced some improvement but that was all stagnated once I took Ambien. All my anhedonia has unfortunately come back and I have wait how ever long it will take for the medication to get out of my system whether that is months or years. I want to assure you that you will eventually get your emotions back and be "normal" again. How are you doing now? Have you seen any improvement?
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I am in the same situation as you and Narshe81, except my anhedonia started when I was given Olanzapine, after I was hospotalized (in December 2013) for 4 weeks and diagnosed with schizophrenia. I was on that medication for about 2 and a half years and since then I've had terrible anhedonia and stimulants no longer affect me - namely coffee, Ritalin and Concerta. And in the last few months I was switched from olanzapine to Risperdal but have seen no improvements in my anhedonia - and I've been on antipsychotics since December 2013. The only reason I haven't went off them is because if I do, my psychiatrist says she will stop prescribing me stimulants. Anyway, I just wanted to share my experience
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dilli here. yea it really sucks but nothing can be done. i just think its so stupid because they take you off of it when you're "better" but the whole point of these pills is to mask the whole situation so no one ever knows when you're better. but yea being on them for so long, i have just learned to accept things. i mean i'm living, i'm eating and i can sleep with a roof over my head so i've gotten enough already. but yea, nothing else to say really. good luck :)

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I was on respridal for 8 or 9 years from having a major psychotic break when I was 22...I am now 34 on disability for schizophrenia. During the years of taking the medication I didn't get any type of effect in terms of not feeling ciggerettes or marijuana or alcohol just maybe that I felt much slower. But in 2013 when I was 31, I abruptly went off respridal and had problems with mania, inability to absorb or feel ciggerettes,alcohol, or marijuana. I went back to respridal and the problem still persists to this day. I dont drink anymore or smoke marijuana...but I do smoke ciggerettes which doesn't fulfill me like it used to. Things may have turned out different for you but that was my experience getting off respridal,then getting back on it.

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