Posted by g_g_g_unit on July 1, 2010, at 0:36:24
i experience a lot of emotional blankness part-and-parcel with my atypical depression. i do find my mood lifts periodically and superficially in response to positive events, but never to the point where i'm actually happy or able to 'experience' myself.
what's weird is that i took 20mg of amitriptyline to sleep two nights ago and spent the rest of the following day feeling really fragile and kinda teary. it wasn't particularly pleasant, but it was the first time i've really felt *something* in a while.
why would amitriptyline enhance my emotion like that? i also had a very similar reaction to Seroquel when used for sleep, teariness and all.
i'm also a little confused about how conventional AD's might work in this instance. depression (in certain manifestations) supposedly robs us of emotional range and affect, yet SSRI's are renowned for doing the same? i read that the measure of a positive response is the loss of hopelessness. but is the emotional deadness i feel possibly the result of a different dysfunction?
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