Which "me" is the real me? Loss of identity

[Prozack]

On 1/26/2021 at 9:26 AM, Janece said:

All I can say is that when I started coming off my meds my personality came back , I feel like my meds suppressed my personality and emotions .. I would be less social , very blank in my mind , no good thoughts no bad thoughts just blank all the time, now that I've started coming off my meds I regulate things better , my memory is getting better and I feel free like I'm myself again and can breathe.  

 

I know its hard to say exactly when, but...

And how long does it take, until your personality returns? And does it correlated with reducing other WD simpthoms.

[Janece]

6 hours ago, Prozack said:

 

I know its hard to say exactly when, but...

And how long does it take, until your personality returns? And does it correlated with reducing other WD simpthoms.

Well for me luckily I only took small dosages of medication , for example when the doctor begin to decrease my dosage , every single time right after I notice a different and I feel free , I laugh a lot , I regulate things better , my memory improved, more thoughts run through my mind and I'm just not a dang blank zombie if I can describe the way my mind probably looked on the inside while being on meds I would describe it as a blank white room that was empty and void.  But as far as my wd symptoms go , I can say they weren't too bad like they come and go and are very mild but I will tell you this if I make a large decrease in my dosage the wd are unbearable,  and I did that only one time and had to restabilize. But as far as your personality coming back goes , it's different for different people , but you can keep your mind busy and occupy yourself and do fun things to try and revive yourself along the way ....... how was your personality before medication ?? And when I would play games on my computer along with games off lumosity and worked out it in some kind of way helped me as far as personality goes and I know that's sounds strange but the more I kept my mind off of what I was going through concerning wd symptoms and what not , the symptoms seemed less bad and I was somewhat consumed by my problrns full of anxiety and depressed deeply about what I'm going through .

[Prozack]

On 2/9/2021 at 11:41 PM, Janece said:

Well for me luckily I only took small dosages of medication , for example when the doctor begin to decrease my dosage , every single time right after I notice a different and I feel free , I laugh a lot , I regulate things better , my memory improved, more thoughts run through my mind and I'm just not a dang blank zombie if I can describe the way my mind probably looked on the inside while being on meds I would describe it as a blank white room that was empty and void.  But as far as my wd symptoms go , I can say they weren't too bad like they come and go and are very mild but I will tell you this if I make a large decrease in my dosage the wd are unbearable,  and I did that only one time and had to restabilize. But as far as your personality coming back goes , it's different for different people , but you can keep your mind busy and occupy yourself and do fun things to try and revive yourself along the way ....... how was your personality before medication ?? And when I would play games on my computer along with games off lumosity and worked out it in some kind of way helped me as far as personality goes and I know that's sounds strange but the more I kept my mind off of what I was going through concerning wd symptoms and what not , the symptoms seemed less bad and I was somewhat consumed by my problrns full of anxiety and depressed deeply about what I'm going through .

 

If I understand correctly, a bit of your real personality came back every time, when your dosage was decreased?

 

But how long did it take? You started withdrawing and it lasted some months or years. When your personality came backe? 6 months later after you stared withdrawing? 1 year? Two years?