Treatment resistant depression, they’ve tried a whole mess of drugs on me over the years lol. This prompted me to message my doctor though, so thanks! Maybe I won’t just have to suck it up and deal with this
What antis have you tried? The other thing I was going to mention was what’s your sleep deal?
Do you go to sleep roughly and get up at the same time everyday and expose your eyes to bright light? Avoid bright + blue light in the evening? That was a big thing for me that I think a lot of people are doing incorrectly but obviously depression is a multi-headed beast more often than not.
Circadian rhythm and sleep are criminally underexamined areas
Off the top of my head they’ve tried me with duloxetine, mirtazapine, venlafaxine, sertraline, vilazodone, bupropion, and I’ve done TMS and ECT. I do go to bed around the same time and get up at the same time, I’m bad at avoiding blue light beforehand though, I could do better there.
activate whatever the implementation of orange light at night is. On iOS its called NightShift where it turns screen orange at certain time in evening and back to blue in morning at time you specify.
Have it set to dark mode at a certain time (try 5-6 hours before bedtime) and off when you get up. It makes everything dark or black rather than white in terms of display backgrounds. I always used Reddit and Lemmy in Black and a lot of apps can use the system setting so everythung is consistent
Keep the brightness as low as you can tolerate. Brightness is more important than anything but you really need to do all three things. I just reminded myself to turn it down now aha. No wonder I was feeling overstimulated just now :)
Message me now iust real quick and we’ll catch up in a few days
I would look into the Abillify/aripiprazole
What do you take that for? Antipsychotics (particularly atypical) are terrifyingly overprescrived and often inappropriately in my conjecture.
Treatment resistant depression, they’ve tried a whole mess of drugs on me over the years lol. This prompted me to message my doctor though, so thanks! Maybe I won’t just have to suck it up and deal with this
What antis have you tried? The other thing I was going to mention was what’s your sleep deal?
Do you go to sleep roughly and get up at the same time everyday and expose your eyes to bright light? Avoid bright + blue light in the evening? That was a big thing for me that I think a lot of people are doing incorrectly but obviously depression is a multi-headed beast more often than not.
Circadian rhythm and sleep are criminally underexamined areas
Off the top of my head they’ve tried me with duloxetine, mirtazapine, venlafaxine, sertraline, vilazodone, bupropion, and I’ve done TMS and ECT. I do go to bed around the same time and get up at the same time, I’m bad at avoiding blue light beforehand though, I could do better there.
What are you using, iPhone or Android phone?
What you should do is
activate whatever the implementation of orange light at night is. On iOS its called NightShift where it turns screen orange at certain time in evening and back to blue in morning at time you specify.
Have it set to dark mode at a certain time (try 5-6 hours before bedtime) and off when you get up. It makes everything dark or black rather than white in terms of display backgrounds. I always used Reddit and Lemmy in Black and a lot of apps can use the system setting so everythung is consistent
Keep the brightness as low as you can tolerate. Brightness is more important than anything but you really need to do all three things. I just reminded myself to turn it down now aha. No wonder I was feeling overstimulated just now :)
Message me now iust real quick and we’ll catch up in a few days