What meds have worked for you?

I keep getting put on risperidone because I rage and my mind does not wind down. I still need a lot of cbt to do, I have also started yoga this week from youtube.
I recomend the book "mindfulness for borderline personality disorder".

I am also taking fish oil, NAC and a multi vitamin as well as theanine.

Depends on what "working" is.

Lexapro.

But it kills all of my other feelings. I'm no longer sad or scared but I become a robot and don't give a $#%^ about anyone.

One of the problems that I've been told by my doctors (GP as well as psychs), is that our problems are response-based. With purely internally-based emotions, such as those with Bipolar experience, it can be more easily (not easily, just more easily) be controlled with medications.

Our issues, on the other hand, are responsive, meaning that though we may overreact by most standards, our changes are generally based on some external stimulus. Medications can help us minimize the impact, but (according to the docs, anyway) won't be able to exert any significant control over things. Therapy's pretty much mandatory for that one.

Like Amorous, I've found that the stuff I'm on tends to numb me to a degree, almost cast a "haze" over everything. I may not get as sad, but I also don't get nearly as happy, so it's certainly a trade-off.

Casper wrote:Therapy's pretty much mandatory for that one.

Yep thats why I am focusing hard on mindfulness and vipasanna rather than jumping in to DBT.
rewiring your brain takes longer than a year, I dont know why they introduce mindfulness along with dbt, they should teach you mindfulness for the 1st few months and drill it in to you like a military bootcamp before commencing dbt.

Anyway my meds are risperidone and I hate it I got discharged on 2mg, bombed me out so reduced it to 1mg now its bombing me out again and I am stopping it, I find it fun to withdraw from because my dopamine goes up and life isnt so boring.