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Offline tellingstories

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Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« on: May 01, 2012, 10:37:19 AM »
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.
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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2012, 05:06:56 PM »
dont worry u can do it your stong
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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2012, 06:31:43 PM »
Um, thanks.

Anyone?
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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2012, 08:39:03 PM »
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. 
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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2012, 08:53:51 PM »
hi how r u
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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2012, 10:19:55 PM »
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
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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2012, 07:14:08 AM »
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  ::)
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A woman who writes feels too much,
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As if cycles and children and islands
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and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warn the stars.

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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2012, 07:51:41 AM »
Actually it just occurred to me that I'm taking a magnificent amount of opiate (prescription) painkillers. Well, that could be a factor *thick*
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She thinks she can warn the stars.

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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2012, 08:50:53 AM »
hi i just was wondering how u r today
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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2012, 02:34:24 PM »
I am magnificent, thankyou for asking. No sarcasm intended.
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A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warn the stars.
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