Posted by utopizen on November 9, 2005, at 19:05:01
In reply to Re: Arciept for ADD: Roll Call!, posted by Tom Twilight on November 9, 2005, at 16:27:17
> What affect does it have on you, does it help with motivation and mood?
I think stopping my depression helped with my mood more than anything else. My Aricept... hmm... I believe it helped somewhat(?) with mood/energy, but insignifigant compared to simply getting rid of depression.
However, I did note one time at my session, a year into seeing the same doc, that I felt my "poetic faculties were enhanced."
He remarked, "That's the first qualitative statement I've ever heard you make."
I guess the first few months, I was too depressed to care about anything but getting un-depressed, and after that, just glad I was un-depressed...
Now, I write poetry like nothing. My prose seems enhanced, greatly. And I have like, a savant awakened inside of me since having given it a fair shot of several weeks (6-8 weeks) in June.
It's incredible how vivid my dreaming recall became initially, how energetic I became in response to positive experiences, and... how effortless my verbal faculties are as I articulate matters. It's like, I can express myself in very intricate, effortless ways far more greatly than ever before-- it startles people.
I mean, my analytical skills and verbal were always pretty good, and all-- but it's like, automatic, nothing to it-- I feel like I was at least back to three years ago, naive to the cloud of depression, yet better even, now so self-assured.
I do tend to walk with my head raised more than is typical, lol-- my friends that I've known for just a few months in the area now recently mentioned I act like a Professor (I'm an undergrad).
Thanks for asking, I feel like I explored it more now that you have inquired more specifically... =)
I would keep in mind-- it can really increase agitation, especially with a psychostimulant, so going low and slow and lowering the dose of the psychostimulant if you must remain on one while probably keeping yourself down to like 5mg rather than the 10mg Altheizmer's people get is important.
If you notice any GI side effects, which are extremely common, and I believe I have 'em all, lol-- thankfully, they largely subside in time, and acid reflux/stomach acid of course is controlled by Prilosec... ask the doc for some Prilosec. It's generic, and cheap.
Um, don't think it's an antidepressant though. I wouldn't ever stop my Lexapro, 30mg a day. I mean, not unless for some reason I needed something stronger (heh, I kinda want to try the patch now that EmSam is getting its final decision late this November from the FDA to market it for real this time at 20mg doses)...
but honestly, I take so many pills, once you take one or two, you don't really care about different wants of taking 'em.
If anything, maybe it's let me not care about obsessing over my pills, and if it's done that, thank god! I hope a lot of you find relief, and keep in mind, there's other boards here, and, especially-- being alone, not having a mate, or good friends, and meeting new people and getting new activities and exercising-- there's no pill that will free anyone from living an empty life.
That said, life is full because it is not yet fulfilled! Make haste, and make life anew! 'Lest you intend to await some new cocktail some pharmaceutical might brew, you must do all you can with what potential is already hiding within!
Oh, I'm a psych major. It kinds sux, 'cause the one semester I feel like I could so easily read books of poems and literature, I must read dry sleepy science texts, and do wrote memorization for scantrons.
Oh well! It's good stuff to know, and I have an awesome psychopharmacology professor.
> I suppose its a bit hard to tell because your combining it with other meds.
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> It deffinetly sounds like you find it activating
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> I'm thinking of adding Viloxazine to Marplan to help with my motivation.
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