Risperidone Emotional Flatness

Hi all.

I am diagnosed with depression with psychotic features. it started off with emotional flatness, and then the psychosis started. the psychosis has been over since 10 months but im still emotionally flat.

Can any of you tell me whether you have recovered your emotions since switchting medications, or just over time?

I was taking Risperidone during my psychosis but now am on Abilify. No effect.

I have had episodes of schitzophrenia twice, the first time was about 5 years ago, I was on risperidone and after 18 months came off it, during the time on it and following I was emotionally flat for some time, I felt almost nothing and even in extremely upsetting situations I would find myself having to force the emotions out. This continued for quite some time until I went to see a hypnotherapist about it, after 3 sessions I started noticing gradual improvement in the weeks following until I became back to my normal self, motivated and happy, doctors had tried anti depressants during this time but they did not seem to help lift my mood at all, the hypnotherapy definitely made a steady improvement somehow for me.

I have however recently had a relapse of schitzophrenia due to some fairly extreme situations experienced last year, I am back on risperidone and the emotional numbness / flatness is back. I don't feel unhappy but I don't feel happy or motivated again either. Doctors have told me to wait 1 year before stopping the medication, my hypnotherapist has advised I wait atleast 6 months before trying hypnotherapy again to overcome it as my brain needs time to stabilise before any hypnotic state is induced as it could lead to problems. Can't wait to get it done again though, I really dislike the numbness / lack of emotion but there is definitely hope of normal emotions coming back.

I am emotionally flat 90% of the time and I like it that way. I am not happy not sad, just... flat. Except when my life becomes a train wreck and I can't sleep. I am taking .25 mg risperidone and 50mg elavil and was diagnosed as having a schizophreniform disorder 25 years ago but have been in relatively good health since then. I have been more or less normal most of the time since then, and am normally not a very emotional person most of the time. Except when under stress, then I become irritable, sad and cannot sleep. After 2 weeks of this I am now sleeping normally again and am now very relaxed and calm. That was just last September and I was close... very close.

i was taking 5 mil of risperadal i stoped taking it 3 months ago im still feeling emotionaly flat ,if somthing bad were to happen i would not feel it can you tell me how long its been since you were off it and are you still feeling flat i just want to get my emotions back

I have been on risperdal for 12 years....2 mg daily for schizophrenia. I feel flat like everyone in this post describes and off in my own world. I can't get interested in things and haven't been for years and am often bored and just stare off into space. Most of the time I don't even feel like talking. The worst part has been the weight gain I have had after first having been on Zyprexa and then Risperdal ( a total of 80 pounds). It has killed my self-esteem and I'm depressed all the time about it but I can't stop taking this anti-psychotic medication otherwise I'll go off the deep end.

I have had depression most of my life. I am considered to be Bi Polar. I have been taking risparidone with wellbutrin for about two weeks and feel pretty good. When I saw the doc two weeks ago, I was suicidal. I had been off meds for about five months and that was a mistake. I feel embarrassed that I am this way. I took wellbutrin in my late teens and it worked very well for me. I don't know why my doctor insists that I take the risparidone for a month and see how I feel. Before I was off meds I was taking a generic Prozak with risperadone (about 6 months, I stopped the risperadone after a couple weeks because I was lactating), it didn't seem to make a difference and that is why I decided to quit. I do not suffer from flat emotions, actually I have been quite emotional and able to laugh, cry, I am however developing acne (I have never had acne in my life). I wonder if I just took the Wellbutrin if I would be Ok? My doc also had me try seriquill? I took it once before bed and the next day was hell. I had sever anxiety, OCD, confusion, panic, hallucinations. Any feedback?

Hi,

I took an antipsychotic drug called perphenazine 30 years ago that immediately made me feel emotionally flat and unable to experience deep, passionate feelings. I took it for only 4 months but unfortunately I still experience the same symptoms. I don't know your situation, but I want you to be aware of this potential affect so you can intelligently decide what to do. Best of luck

No one told me that risperdone 4mg would destroy Everything about me I've flushed the lot been nearly a week can't eat sleep concentrate scared now I don't no me anymore will I ever again seeing doctor tommorrow I can't live

Does your feeling ever come back when you get off of risperdal? I am so sick of not feeling! Is this a permanent side effect for the rest of my life?

 

Thanks

 

I have been on Risperdal for over 6 years, i try to get off but i cant. Each time I get pain in frontal lobe (migraines). I have Bipolar One and need to have some medicine but all this medicine  has left me with three broken marriages. My kids dont trust me I do stupid things and I am so slow in thought, find it hard to work. The only time I get a kick is with strong coffee (machine). I have been dealing with madness all my adult life, I wanted to be a doctor went to uni but failed tests. I dont know what else to do with my life Im too young to retire, the blunt effect is boring. I hate my life. I cant get off medicine. It is all c**p. Psychiatric medicine caused my life to be hell.

My doctors put me on Risperidal and Venlafaxine. I noticed that in Risperidal I had Diarrhea, restlessness, sometimes a lack of emotions and sometimes more of them. I remember asking him for a medication of no side-effects and he did not answer me yet.

When I saw my doctor he said I had Autism and Learning Disabilities (these things are in the brain and are lifelong). I at one time looked for a medication that would possibly help cure mental retardation, but I found results saying that there exists no such medication. There were just medicatiosn for mental illness, which is different from mental retardation and Autism.

If you gusy have ever come upon a medication/drug that cna help cure mental retardation and/or Autism, can you tell me? Thank you very very much.

I was wanting my doctor to prescribe a medication to me that had no side-effects, and he has not answered me yet.

I have sometimes felt that something was going on inside of me internally that was somehow deadening me and I am wondering if it was side-effects of my medications. I had expected my Risperidone would have made me feel more focused and alert, but you can imagine my shame when the exact opposite happened, that it somehow made me feel dead on the inside, and I was wanting my doctor to know these things so I told him. We e-mailed him and told him about what the side-effects of the medication are doing to me.

I was wanting to stop taking my Venlafaxine and Risperdial because I was thinking that these were unwanted side-effects, but my mother told me that if I stopped taking medications without the advcie of my doctor I could regress back into my hallucinations (Seeing and hearing things that are not there). But I told her about the side-effects and she asked me if I wanted to hallucinate or be cured and I told her that that was just the thing, that when I took my medications it sort of felt like I was being changed on the inside, and I wanted it to stop, whcih is where I got on the subject of side-effects to my doctor. I think he is very busy. His name is Doctor Laveaux. I e-mail him all the time but he sometimes does not get back to me until the next day I e-mail him. Perhaps he has other people to see besides me.

hello deanereata,for how long have you been on risdone and have you left it coz iam also on it and i would like to know if some side effects would go

Just takes time.