If anyone has a medication suggestion for the lack of. Motivation and Anhedonia that I could discuss with my pdoc that would be great. I also have ADHD and I don’t take anything for it right now. I take a low dose of zoloft and a low dose of lithium with my schizophrenia meds which are Rexulti and SEROQUEL
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Wellbutrin
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That makes sense to try again
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maybe abilify
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I was going to suggest low dose Abilify but @Batik21 is already on Rexulti.
Too similar
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Yeah and it’s weird bc I can’t take Abilify bc of akathisia. I felt like crawling off my skin and I couldn’t hold still. It was awful, but for some reason I haven’t had a bad reaction to rexulti
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Maybe Wellbutrin if you can handle the activation @Batik21
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Do any of you all have ADHD also? Maybe I need to take something for it and maybe that’s the answer
. But I know everyone in my life does not want me severely psychotic again if it can be helped.
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You have to be very careful with ADHD medications.
Too many of them can trigger psychosis
no but abilify compared to haldol helped me so much with motivation
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It’s so hard. I can’t take Abilify, Latuda and Olanzapine don’t work for me anymore, I can’t take Invega or anything related to it bc it gave me severe TD. I just feel really limited.
I’ve heard a low dose of amisulpride (50mg) is effective for negative symptoms but if I take that low a dose, my psychosis comes back. So I take a moderately higher dose (400mg at least).
Ziprasidone and Invega have both helped my negative symptoms. I’m on Invega currently.
I took Geodon and it helped. At least I noticed that it did. But having to have 500 cal meals with every pill mace it hard for me to use. I think I could consider going back on that one actually
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Yeah it was a great med until it quit working for me. Was on it for years.
@Mars yeah, ZYPREXA is one I took for probably 15 years until it quit working
Caffeine is the only thing that seems to help me with motivation + diet & excersise. I’m on zyprexa.
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I’d go with partial agonist drugs, some supplements, such as sarcosine, caffeine and possibly stimulants and nootropics; although they are risky business in on itself. 
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It has been my experience that Wellbutrin can indeed help, but I was also taking wellbutrin when I had my last break, so…you know…half dozen here , 6 over there. Don’t know if its worth the risk in some cases.
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