Mental Health

6287 readers

316 users here now

Welcome

This is a safe place to discuss, vent, support, and share information about mental health, illness, and wellness.

Thank you for being here. We appreciate who you are today. Please show respect and empathy when making or replying to posts.

If you need someone to talk to, @therapygary@lemmy.blahaj.zone has kindly given his signal username to talk to: TherapyGary13.12

Rules

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

No promoting paid services/products.
Be kind and civil. No bigotry/prejudice either.
No victim blaming. Nor giving incredibly simplistic solutions (i.e. You have ADHD? Just focus easier.)
No encouraging suicide, no matter what. This includes telling someone to commit homicide as "dragging them down with you".
Suicide note posts will be removed, and you will be reached out to in private.
If you would like advice, mention the country you are in. (We will not assume the US as the default.)

If BRIEF mention of these topics is an important part of your post, please flag your post as NSFW and include a (trigger warning: suicide, self-harm, death, etc.)in the title so that other readers who may feel triggered can avoid it. Please also include a trigger warning on all comments mentioning these topics in a post that was not already tagged as such.

Partner Communities

To partner with our community and be included here, you are free to message the current moderators or comment on our pinned post.

Becoming a Mod

Some moderators are mental health professionals and some are not. All are carefully selected by the moderation team and will be actively monitoring posts and comments. If you are interested in joining the team, you can send a message to @fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Flagstaff@programming.dev

fxomt@anarchist.nexus

Anyone ever taken lamotrigine for reasons NOT related to bipolar disorder or epilepsy? Did it ever make you more emotionally unstable??? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by dingus@lemmy.world to c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hi all. Been taking lamotrigine off label from my psych provider. Intended to help with emotional instability.

I have been slowly titrating up. Had some ups and downs but now I feel like I'm nearly at the worst I've ever been.

I have been on 200 for the past 3 weeks. My mood has not stabilized in that time and I am getting much worse.

A few days after the increase to 200 my coworker noticed an immediate and dramatic negative shift in mood and appearance. Prior to that, I was on 150 for 5 weeks. Initially I was doing pretty good but I had a steady decline for the entirety of the 5th week before I was upped to 200.

My bros please help. This is destroying my career and relationships. It has immediate and significant impacts on my life.

I sent my provider an urgent message in her portal but yeah I need to figure out this shit asap.

Not sure if I am having a paradoxical reaction to every psych med I am trying or what??? Also yes I am in therapy but in the process of changing to one who is a lot more strucutred in her approach and less of a talk therapist.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lol I won't accuse you of spam. Don't worry.

Do you take anything now?

I was initially on an SSRI but it didn't help with that sort of thing either for me and I was also wondering if I was making me worse. :( The psych provider switched me to lamotrigine because I was still struggling and it was failing to alleviate that, but I'm not sure if this is harming my brain. I'm probably just some science experiment where they are fucking my brain up for fun.

Lamotrigine is actually specifically for the depressive part of bipolar disorder is the thing tho. I don't have that...but if I did, it's designed to help it.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm still on the lamictal I figured I should give it a fair shot and like I said I don't feel like it does anything but it's not hurting me and the doctor keeps prescribing it. I also currently take a low dose seroquel as a sleep aid. More importantly the one chemical imbalance I definitely do have is ADHD, for which I take clonidine at bedtime and strattera when I wake up. I also take a variety of supplements, in particular magnesium for mood / sleep and NAC for dermatillomania.