it would kill your emotions if you would take it for few weeks. risperdal also have different mechanism of action.
if 5-htp makes you manic and you don't want to be manic, lower your dose or quit it completely I don't understand where's the problem here ...
Reporting back after over three weeks of risperidone 1.0mg usage.
The racing thoughts have been significantly reduced and I'm not hyper-excited all the time. I can no longer get high listening to music either. Anxiety is somewhat curbed and I'm far less irritable and less aggressive. There is mild sedation but nothing like the horrendous SSRIs.
The bad news is that it makes me somewhat depressed. I can live with that though. What I can't live with is how difficult it is to read and learn. I feel my short term memory is totally shot. This antipsychotic feels like it shuts off parts of my brain and without those parts I lose some IQ points. I feel slower, and my spatial memory is especially damped. Its hard for me to remember things and string ideas together. Were it not for this nasty side effect this would be a miracle drug for me. If anyone knows how I can deal with diminished learning capabilities or whether they are only temporary please let me know. Otherwise I have to abandon ship and move on to memantine.
Sigh