Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?

[tellingstories]

So I'm on both, specifically quetiapine and carbamazepine but that doesn't matter.

I'm wondering if anyone else on mood stabilisers/AP's gets that thing where they can't think of the word they want. I've always been quite erudite, but recently I'm forgetting all my words. It's freaking me out a bit to be honest. I like words too. I'm an obsessive reader. No intelligence overall whatsoever but good linguistically. I had a good vocabulary.

I no longer have a mood, particularly, to attribute this thing to. I think they've medicated much of that away. Well, if ten is manic and zero as depressed as is personally possible then I'm about a three and a half. But that's neither here nor there, it's the words.

[greenday]

dont worry u can do it your stong

[tellingstories]

Um, thanks.

Anyone?

[Bea]

I found that Quetiapine really zoned me out - there were times I couldn't string a sentence together - so I can identify with what you are saying. 

I felt like I was living in a fog most of the time, and didn't realise how out of it I felt, until I came off it. 

[greenday]

hi how r u

[Terri]

I'm on an AP and a mood stabiliser (olanzapine and valproate).


I don't find that I lose words, as such, but I do lose where I am mid-sentence and forget what I've been talking about. That has (by those who call themselves professionals) been attributed more to my diagnosis than the meds they're using to treat it. Freaks me out a bit and leaves me looking stupid sometimes.


Do you have anyone you can ask about what's going on?

[unknown_member]

Hi .. i'm not on the same as you... i'm on risperidone and AD, sleeping tablets and lorazepam , but i find my memory is awful... i forget words, peoples names, things i've said/done everything... it's so frustrating i can't describe it! i sympathies with you ! xx

[tellingstories]

Thankyou for the replies.

I think I am being ever-so-slightly melodramatic, in that obviously I can type coherently, so it's not like all my words are gone, else I wouldn't be posting here.

Terri, that's really odd, someone I know with no mental health problems (as far as I'm aware and we're pretty close) does that all the time, so much so that if there's a long pause I know to finish her sentences.

I suppose , Bea it's part and parcel of that general thing. I don't feel sluggish, but my brain is having large amounts of c******ls chucked at it, and maybe my brain is a bit sluggish for a while. I'm hoping it's temporary.

Blue... yeah, mine's never been great. I don't know many households where, if they lose the remote control, they automatically look in the fridge 

[tellingstories]

Actually it just occurred to me that I'm taking a magnificent amount of opiate (prescription) painkillers. Well, that could be a factor *thick*

[greenday]

hi i just was wondering how u r today