Tawaki wrote:
I took Zoloft, and I feel your pain about the brain fog.
Any chance to switch it up with something like Wellbutrin?
My depression is bad right now. SSRI's suck for all their side effects, and I can't go back to a MAOI. Wellbutrin was my last ditch choice. For whatever reason, I'm moving my ass to get stuff done.
My husband has horrible EF skills, and when his depression and anxiety are in full force, he's a door stop.
My ADHD friend has bad EF, but his is more "everything is boring", where my husband literally can't get over that energy hump to move.
My husband could do one thing well, then everything was a struggle. He worked for 28 years, and when he worked everything related to work got done. The rest of his life was a struggle. When he went to school, he did that one aspect well, and everything else slid.
My husband said having people "breathing down his ass with a whip" made him move. I can't parent him like a toddler, and I refuse to ride his ass to do stuff. So the home life stuff is suffering right now.
Is there one aspect of your life you can white knuckle through, until it becomes a routine? At least if one little part starts going well, you feel like you did something.
Also look at things made for ADHD executive function. There might be something useful you can tweeking for yourself.
If the depression and anxiety aren't under control, it is REALLY hard to motivate for anything.
I've only been back on Zoloft for about a week now, and truth be told I keep forgetting to take it (no surprises there). I feel it having an effect though. But anyway, before I try different medications, I'm going to ramp back up to my previous dose, the one I was taking before I went off it for a month, just to be sure.
I have considered Wellbutrin in the past however. Isn't it commonly given alongside an SSRI, or is it effective on its own?
Your husband sounds an awful lot like me when it comes to EF, and admittedly, it's kinda painful to read the way you've described it. But it's true, the only time I ever seem to get s**t done is when I have a slavedriver, but even then that ultimately causes me undue amounts of stress and causes me to burn out worse than before. I literally can't understand how someone can just keep working and working and working...
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24 Jan 2016, 5:18 pm
