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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 186687" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Pretty much all the drugs except the stims have some capacity to cause cognitive dulling -- antidepressants, anticonvulsants, antihypertensives, antipsychotics -- some more than others.</p><p></p><p>I stopped taking both an antidepressant and an anticonvulsant because of cognitive dulling. Cognitive dulling was the only reason I stopped the antidepressant and part of the reason I stopped the anticonvulsant. </p><p></p><p>I had epilepsy, not bipolar. I took anticonvulsants for 15 years and the antidepressant for two of those years. After discontinuning them (years apart) -- the anticonvulsant was stopped over a period of months, the antidepressant I just stopped taking, IIRC -- I never again experienced the symptoms for which the drugs were prescribed. </p><p></p><p>I simply couldn't stand how slow my brain worked. Didn't matter that no one else noticed it, I did and I hated it. I was willing to risk recurrence of my symptoms in order to think the way I use to. For me, it worked out. Had the convulsions come back I would have started taking medication again. Had only the partial seizures restarted, I may have just lived with them. Depression would have to be so severe that I couldn't get out of bed for an extended period of time before I'd ever take another antidepressant. </p><p></p><p>For some of us, cognitive dulling is a deal killer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 186687, member: 1498"] Pretty much all the drugs except the stims have some capacity to cause cognitive dulling -- antidepressants, anticonvulsants, antihypertensives, antipsychotics -- some more than others. I stopped taking both an antidepressant and an anticonvulsant because of cognitive dulling. Cognitive dulling was the only reason I stopped the antidepressant and part of the reason I stopped the anticonvulsant. I had epilepsy, not bipolar. I took anticonvulsants for 15 years and the antidepressant for two of those years. After discontinuning them (years apart) -- the anticonvulsant was stopped over a period of months, the antidepressant I just stopped taking, IIRC -- I never again experienced the symptoms for which the drugs were prescribed. I simply couldn't stand how slow my brain worked. Didn't matter that no one else noticed it, I did and I hated it. I was willing to risk recurrence of my symptoms in order to think the way I use to. For me, it worked out. Had the convulsions come back I would have started taking medication again. Had only the partial seizures restarted, I may have just lived with them. Depression would have to be so severe that I couldn't get out of bed for an extended period of time before I'd ever take another antidepressant. For some of us, cognitive dulling is a deal killer. [/QUOTE]
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