Guest guest Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 My experience of drugs blocking emotion: I started at 80 mg/day of Parnate. I reduced by 10 mg/month. By the time I got to 40 mg/day I would go into my therapists office and cry and cry and cry. He thought I was under medicated. I knew that the drug had blocked intense emotional expression as well as expressions of love, of anger, etc. I had also started counseling with peers and they encouraged this outpouring of emotional anguish. The therapist got scared. I can understand that. For 8 years I had sat in his office saying " I don't know what I feel. " And I didn't. Not until the lower anti-d dose let me start feeling again. PS now I get the Parnate compounded into small dose capsules at a compounding pharmacy since it doesn't come any smaller than 10 mg tabs and my mind is too broken to deal with shaving the tabs grain by grain. I can't remember what I take or when so now I try to refill my weekly drug box before I finish the last day. I also have a couple daily boxes that I carry with me and another weekly that sits on the kitchen counter. Diferent stuff goes in them all. My Integrative pdoc has me giving myself B12 injections on a weekly basis now. We'll see how it goes for a month and evaluate. Rambling on again. I just say that I tried to sign off but kept writing. ~~~~~sigh~~~~~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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