everyone reacts to drugs differently but.
I’m not going to include meds that were injected into me whilst in an emergency room because I can’t remember their names but if you’d like me to talk about all my ER experiences with ER drugs what they were treating and how it went I can talk about it. And excluding talking about antibiotics as well.
Adderall- made me more sociable
Anti-anxiety- I can’t remember the name of it but I got some weird anti-anxiety script from an ER one time and it made me feel so drowsy I literally fell asleep standing up in the shower. Zombie drug. Didn’t feel good, just extremely extremely tired.
Vistaril- too weak, didn’t stop panic attack just made my body feel to sedated to feel it but it was there it was just suppressed inside my body cavity. So I couldn’t like, freak out outwardly but on the inside I still felt it just less severe. It’s too weak for major panic attacks and if you love someone with panic attacks don’t give them this because it’s as awful and uncomfortable as it sounds.
Klonopin- a wonder drug for me due to the really severe psychiatric difficulties I was going through that were very confusing. It helped with dissociation and extreme anxiety issues panic attacks and extreme suicidal depression. Really perked me up and lifted me off my feet into the clear head space away from those terrible things that at times would be too much to handle or torment me at night and just making me suffer unnecessarily. I don’t recommend it though because even just taking it ‘as needed’ I still became codependent on it physiologically addicted and had to go through withdrawals. When I take this drug there is always a withdrawal of that makes sense even if it was very little and only one time. It always results in worsened depression and suicidality after stopping taking it, and in actual withdrawal in rehab I went through one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life. The physiological effects and psychological effects of the withdrawal are 500x worse whatever you were experiencing that made you take the drug in the first place. Klonopin withdrawal is an absolute nightmare from hell and I felt like I was actually dying. Like actually dying. it’s no joke.
I was bedridden for three weeks and even after the fact had difficulty keeping down food due to something called neurotoxicity.
Buspar- I tried this after quitting klonopin as a non benzo alternative to klonopin and I’m not sure if it was prolonged withdrawal effects from the klonopin withdrawal that just re-awakened by the buspar or what was going on but I felt severe pain all over my body that was very similar to the pain I felt from klonopin withdrawal and I read online this is a known side affect of the drug for some people, pain all over the body. because of that I never took it again. It was that bad yeah. My mood was significantly lifted with buspar and I had an easier time being happy in a time where I was really like far from being able to get to that level of normalcy and happiness that very one else operates in that is normal. It helped with mood and I didn’t notice any anxiety while on it. But it was not the same as klonopin where you don’t feel a high from it or a rush or sort of yeah just like too high from it. It’s more like how lexapro is or something it’s not like something you can get a high with lol
Lexapro- this has helped me a lot with my anxiety and depression and allowing me to slowly reach a more normal level like I was talking about that the buspar did but it was very very gradual and took years to get up to the better place I am in now. I first noticed it’s effects on my mood a month into taking it where I got some sort of seratonin from noticing the trees around me on a walk in the sun and the breeze and I felt happiness for the first time in a very very very long time. So it was great for depression. It really just smoothed out all the kinks so like crying a lot and suicidal ideation and bad thought patterns it helps to literally quiet all of that down to like a low rumble if not nonexistent most of the time! Which is absolutely amazing because I used to have a constant negative thought pattern going on that kept me very trapped in it. The suicidal ideation didn’t stop right away it took time. And then on the anxiety side of it really helps keep all my ptsd symptoms including panic sttacks and generalized anxiety at bay. I can still experience triggering events and then need to take a klonopon if I’m unable to cope with it. But these are events are more rare. It used to be that I was in a constant state of a panic attack without this drug. Rocking back and forth and literally losing my mind dissociating. So this really helped me get my life back from ptsd but it was gradual again so. It took time and baby steps to get used to like doing things I struggled with like going to class movie theaters or restarsunts. The major triggers are still there and I have to work with an EMDR specialist for those. This just makes sure I’m not having anxiety literally all the time. But it can’t like erase your triggers if that makes sense. It also helps with OCD behavior related to anxiety. Dampens it down and you are more relaxed about stuf that normally you’d be too intense about or up tight about.
negative side effects for me are it dampened down my personality and my spark, my mojo, my sort of like... charismatic side to myself. As well as artistic creativity was lessened. It can make you feel a little dull or bland at times but you get used to it eventually and you find a way around it. But my personality is more lively and exciting and animated when I am off the meds.
it makes me sleepy to take it so I take it at night which is nice for me due to having difficulties with sleeping anyway. Drowsy. Within thirty minutes of taking it I’m like “night night” and out.
this is an uncommon side effect my doc said only 1 in 10 get sleepy from it, most are energized by it and have motivation from it and take it in the mornings.
but the stability it created for me if this is something you struggle with is worth it and not suffering with the really negative effects of depression and anxiety.
I was really deep in a horrible place when I started it and now I feel normal three years later. I still can have bouts of depression but they never reach the lows of how I was before meds or uh... they don’t last. I was consistently depressed before but now it’s like I might just have a bad day from being too tired.
it also helps with anger regulation I’ve noticed. I used to have really bad anger problems and with the drug is ironed that out and so I don’t react like crazily to things. It like dampened it.
Less agitated and bothered and mad about shit. Perhaps that was the depression causing that but yeah. I mean you can still get anger and agitation bothered or mad but before hand I used to have it like too much and was too sensitive to like a pin drop and my mood would become Fiercely agitated and stuck in this bothered state for a long time Possibly days? I would get all negative and curmudgeonly.
but with this that is less likely to occur like, the agitated bothered mood doesn’t come to an excess like it used to or I’m less sensitive so the propensity to become that way is less. And when it does happen it’s less in a mentally ill way and affects me less severely and is shorter and occurs less frequently. So I can be a generally happy disposition most Of the time.
edit: I forgot to mention i also noticed it helped me with focus, sitting still for long periods and doing work I needed to do. I felt more relaxed and at ease so I could do these tasks without feeling too intense about it. It also helped alleviate an issue I had where I would just call it an ‘intensity’ issue where I just was a very up tight and tense person literally all the time and could not fucking relax. Like I was operating in the wrong gear. This was bad for my body and my health, and my psychological as I was burning myself out by being stuck like this. I had a difficult time just sitting down and relaxing watching a movie for two hours or having a conversation with someone, and I was a workaholic like extremely high strung Type A person that put immense amounts of pressure on myself to be perfect bud jt was never enough. This sort of helped ratchet my brain down out of that unhealthy gear and fucking relax and be able to enjoy normal things and fucking just, sit down. An inability to relax is associated with ptsd.
so it just made me over all much more calm and normal. And I used to like talk really fast and intensely and now I just am more like normal. So the medication actually changed my entire disposition.
now I can just enjoy life and feel like genuine happiness and feel calm enough to go about life in a healthy manner approaching it with balance and mental stability. No longer subject to horrible mood issues.
It also helped me to heal and find insight and growth clearity and maturity progressing forward into a mature adult life, and to dismiss issues in my thoughts that were related to dissociation depression or some other strange type of thought issue I was having that was ultimately holding me back from living a happy healthy life. Also gained sense of identity over time and emotional intelligence.