Posted by Solstice on October 13, 2011, at 19:25:04
In reply to Re: Antidepressant to Geodon... » Sheilac, posted by floatingbridge on October 13, 2011, at 13:13:23
> I was feeling flat on risperdone a little while back but was encouraged by people here and my pdoc to preserve, and I am glad I did because I have gotten used to feeling less intensely and have also 'recovered', somehow, from the overbearing feeling of flatness. Our situations are very different, of course.
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> I really like feeling more stable.Fb.. my daughter had the same experience when she started Geodon. 'Normal' ranges of emotion felt very flat to her, compared to her hypomania. She grieved the loss of hypomania, and complained and pitched fits about hating the geodon because she felt like she was not near as lively and fun to be with (important to a teen :-). But after about six months, her new 'norm' started to feel good. About a year and a half after she started Geodon, she told me that she was so glad I made her stick with it, because she would not want to go back to being hypomanic for anything in the world now. As she's grown, her Geodon has had to be adjusted, and we recognize it because she starts having trouble slipping into hypomania. Now she *hates* feeling hypomanic, and is the first one to start begging me to get her in to see her psychiatrist for a med adjustment. She tells me that in retrospect, she realizes that the hypomania held hands with impulsivity, and she fears doing something she'll regret. She also does Not like feeling like she doesn't have conscious control of herself. I'm hoping that these are signs that she will be med-compliant as an adult, which tends to be a a real problem for those with bipolar.
So I think the experience of going from a norm of hypomania to a 'normal' norm of emotions is not so much a matter of going from having emotions to being flat, as it is a matter of it taking some time to adjust to a normal range of emotions. At first, it feels like going from 10 to 0, but after a while you realize you only went from 10 to 5 - which is the 'norm'.. and it feels good.
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