Psychosis 2023 emptiness

Hello! Since my psychosis in October 2023, I have felt empty in my head, my emotions flattened, joyless, and listless. I isolate myself very much and can no longer have conversations. My creativity is also completely gone. does anyone know these symptoms?

I'm sorry you're experiencing this. I often feel the same way. The meds that help with the extreme highs and lows often leave me feeling flat. Did you feel this way before the psychosis? Did your pdoc change your meds any to help with the psychosis? I often find that meds can cause or worsen flat empy feelings.

The med thing is a valid point, but also after a major manic/psychotic episode the brain does need some time to recuperate and things may seem dull and foggy for a bit.

Thank you for reminding me about this. I was still manic when I got home from my inpatient monthly long trip. then did a 5 week IOP Intensive out patient then I woke up feeling that I needed to get back to work. That was during covid so that was my excuse for being gone for so long. It was 9 weeks gone and I could open back my business. I needed the hypomania to get my business back up and running.
now I am just doing my business and being on line with forums and friends.
bizi

I had major anhedonia after my biggest psychosis event in 2015. It turned out that anhedonia was caused by Risperdal which was given to me during my inpatient stay to treat psychosis. When in 2016 an outpatient psychiatrist switched me from Risperdal to Geodon, anhedonia was gone and creativity returned full force within literally a couple of days and I wrote some of my best pieces, prose and poetry, that month.

I noticed on your signature line that you were readmitted in 2018
What did they do with your meds?.
When I was on geodon it quit working after many years of being on it.

Thanks for asking. 2018 was my last inpatient stay. I had more between 2015 and 2018. In 2017 I wrongly concluded that Geodon caused dyskinesia that quickly resolved and went off of it. Many things were tried. During my past readmission in 2018 that you asked about, I was put on Clozapine as the last resort medication. I was discharged. Clozapine caused deep depression to the point of my being immobilized even at the lowest dose. That is why I begudgingly started using Zyprexa as monotherapy maintenance, begrusgibgly because it caused weight gain.

Several years later, to curb weight gain, I switched to Latuda.

However, Latuda erased my libido and flattened me. After more than a year on it, I switched back to Geodon but added Seroquel for sleep. I had to use Seroquel with Latuda as well.

Geodon works now and miraculously, at only 40 mg, much less than I had taken before.

But sometimes medications stop working after several years. It happened to me, too, with Trazodone for sleep. After 2.5 years, it stopped working. Raising the dose did not help.

So I am very sorry that Geodon stopped working for you.