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Born2fightfire

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So I have chronic post traumatic stress disorder, Major depressive disorder with recurrent severe pyhsicotic symptoms and ADD. I'm on prazason, prazason, 40mg anti depressant, and Vyvanse. To my understanding none of these are opiates but I always feel really high and out of it. Can anyone relate or explain?
 
Pretty much any mood/mind altering drug can make you feel high.

Since the purpose of these drugs is to make you feel normal? You'll probably want to work with your doc to either change which meds your taking, or at what dose.

If you're ADHD? Most antidepressants & antipsychotics & mood stabilizers will have a tendency to reeeeeally f*ck you up. Just like bipolar people taking a stimulant tends to cause mania? Baseline neurology means that ADHD taking antidepressants tend to get depressed, and on antipsychotics tend to experience psychosis, or on mood stabilizers become emotionally unbalanced. Fs not quite that clear cut / causal... But in essence, ADHD people usually respond "weird" to certain classes of medication. Our brains have a different neurochem baseline/makeup than normal people. Psychiatrists familiar with ADHD are usually willing to try one of those three, to see if you react as expected, or if they might help... But are usually really cautious about it. Like insist on 3 appointments a week for the first 3 months to closely monitor. Psychiatrists who aren't familiar with ADHD tend to be pretty baffled, then try and diagnose bipolar disorder instead of ADHD (because the meds are causing bipolar like symptoms, even though if they were bipolar, the meds would help, not cause the symptoms to begin with!), and then everything tends to just become a clusterf*ck after that (where a person ends up eventually having to be detoxed in hospital off all meds, then rediagnosed correctly, then started on new meds again :meh: ).

So that would be my personal suspicion... Since ADHD and most antidepressants/antipsychotics/mood stablizers reeeeally don't tend to get on well.
 
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There could be multiple reasons so I'd speak to a psychiatrist for sure. You could just be experiencing dissociation. But the way you are feeling is a either a symptom or a side effect that a doctor should know about
 
I am not familiar with either med. Have your dosages been changed recently, or is it a new combination?
You might need some adjustments if this is a really new symptom.
 
Have you looked up side effects of each? Possible drug interactions?

It's possible that each med alone doesn't cause side effects but once you combine them, the side effects emerge.
 
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