Unable to enjoy music on Risperdal?

Let me start with a bit of background. Started taking Risperdal in the hospital due to a psychosis I had, probably from some bad weed. I haven't been having any more delusional thoughts so it did it's job. I'm still currently on 2mg daily taken before bed.

Before the psychosis I was a metalhead, heavy metal music was my life. I would be happy to spend all day doing nothing more than listening to my favorite records. I have long hair and wear band shirts every day to show my love for the music. I even spent hours and hours sewing patches of my favorite band's logos on my jacket.

Ever since I started taking Risperdal I've found myself unable to enjoy my music like I used to be able to. You know the feeling you get when you listen to music you really love? It's like something is blocking me from feeling this. Is this possible this is due to the Risperdal? Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Sorry I just needed to vent a little. Metal music is my passion in life and I'd like to be able to start enjoying it again.

Zyprexa caused in me "anhedonia".

Anhedonia is defined as the inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, e.g. MUSIC , exercise, hobbies, sexual activities or social interactions. While earlier definitions of anhedonia emphasized the pleasurable experience, more recent models have highlighted the need to consider different aspects of enjoyable behavior, such as motivation or desire to engage in an activity ("motivational anhedonia"), as compared to the level of enjoyment of the activity itself ("consummatory anhedonia") .

http://www.google.com/search?q=anhedonia

Music I had loved sounded flat and had no feel good effect at all, the same thing with driving the car, a fun hilly curvy road had no "fun" effect at all, no "yee ha" on that neuroleptic "antipsychotic" brain poison called Zyprexa.

The motivational anhedonia was the worst, nothing feels good so why do anything ? was the feeling of that.


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In humans, drugs like Risperdal , Zyprexa..that reduce dopamine activity (neuroleptics, e.g. antipsychotics) have been shown to reduce motivation, cause anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure), and long-term use has been associated with irreversible tardive dyskinesia (movement disorder).Selective D2/D3 agonists pramipexole and ropinirole, used to treat Restless legs syndrome, have limited anti-anhedonic properties as measured by the Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS)

http://www.news-medical.net/health/Dopamine-Functions.aspx

My source link to that info was DUMBED DOWN !! glad I checked.

Look at it on the web archive ! http://web.archive.org/web/20120511191829/http://www.news-medical.net/health/Dopamine-Functions.aspx

"They" really do want to keep the population stupid, no doubt.

ITs worse when you used to be able to play music, not enjoyable and simply tiring to even give a $#%^ about what sounds you make, can't make any good sounds...I like metal too mainly black metal dimmu borgir and cradle of filth, kinda or mastodon I don't have very good base to metal not really know many bands just what I like like chick singers and dark symphonic $#%^ I like rap too and know what you mean, I just need to refuse treatment like I did in the past which lately got me into a celbrity song darkhorse coz It was about me and bought her album, makes me sick now I guess I could call that a psychosis over her its finished now damn...but anyway music sounds good again when you get off the drugs. same with love too can't feel love or anything, smane thing goes on with pleasure centres and dopamine what it does.

what was what they told you is psychosis all about, mine is belleif in magic which is affirmed in society in subgroups who practice magic but anyway thats just my $#%^...what was it about coz you mi9ght uncover taht they are full of $#%^ and you woulda natureally resolved the problem to still love your music and have better appreciation to life from it...for me it was inspirational and about obtaining purity for my teenage crimes or what, about transition and evolution,, when I was desperate I started this thing with the celbrity, trips about it turned nasty I guess and I was suposed to be teleporting, long story but I am still tripping over it or was even on antipsychotics, I thought that was treatemtn resistant but when I think about what I am doing which is jack $#%^ nothing but smoking weed to feel good I not treatment resistant not an ounce of love or that spark that I am my passions and stuff I should really be getting back into on antipsych instead of worrying about my state of being with celbrities. I guess it turned out for the worst coz this magic connection remained for a while and they thought it was psychotic to think dark horse was about me, playibng with magic to be with her and knowing what I am falling for and sounds like forever, untilll I ###$ up and my teenage crimes surfaced in my life thatnks to antipsychotic not letting me transform beyond feelings of guilt and recreating them bilaterally in life and ruining me by coming clean about it, so I can't even mention why the celbrity turned off her attacks on wanting to be a lover but I can't on antipsychotics on me, maybe I am better off with higher goddess's...all beings I can meet if not on anitpsychotics, its ###$ on the drugs I wanna explore the universe...sorry I talk so much, not many people responding to familiar topic..your acceptance of being metnally ill needs to be checked but no good comes of being more intelligent then a quack when dealing with artificial forms associated to the reality set of lower reality of psychiatry, there is a reality beyond them that emcompases all symptoms and things you can work on to get better at dealing with what bothers you or newfound perceptions and getting all confused over what it all means and drawing wrong delusions is about being able to affirm that nothing is permanent in the mind, and nothing is delusions or what ever..my celbrity thing sounds more real after not having it anymore ###$ up by not teleporting is one thing she thought I was a waste of time and banashmetn my extradimentional being sdid plus what I did with visions of her residing in heaven, they aerer automatically corrupt now my life changed with opening up about teenage crimes which led to being robbed by my auntee in coming clean the first time she set me up as a shciophrenic when just suffering some guilt over bad choices I had made...

sorry nobody cares, dunno why I share all this on some random post

Hope you find some rest and recovery from the $#%^ the drugs do and kkeep proud coz you know deep down or once you get off antipsychotics they say you need to prevent psychosis and get back into what you love again.

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I guess what I am saying is that I am unable to enjoy anything on antipscyhotics and I still hav e trips if this celbrity would still come at me like a dark horse but she's not so noting interesting happening over hear. trips mainly taken advantage of by being high on weed.

Oh there was no question I was mentally ill, I don't recall my psychosis that well but my parents have been filling me in on all kinds of crazy stuff I was doing, like taking multiple showers a day, trying to have a conversation with Steven Colbert, etc.

I'm extremely relived to hear that this inability to enjoy music will go away once i get off the medication and I'm not the only one who's experienced it. Now I just need to get off the medication. Next week it will hopefully be getting reduced from 2mg to 1mg daily, maybe that will help. I have no idea how long I'll be on that though. Man I really hate the way Risperdal makes me feel, I need to get off this stuff ASAP.

undertheguillotine wrote:Oh there was no question I was mentally ill, I don't recall my psychosis that well but my parents have been filling me in on all kinds of crazy stuff I was doing, like taking multiple showers a day, trying to have a conversation with Steven Colbert, etc.

I'm extremely relived to hear that this inability to enjoy music will go away once i get off the medication and I'm not the only one who's experienced it. Now I just need to get off the medication. Next week it will hopefully be getting reduced from 2mg to 1mg daily, maybe that will help. I have no idea how long I'll be on that though. Man I really hate the way Risperdal makes me feel, I need to get off this stuff ASAP.

Taking multiple showers a day does not mean your mentally ill.....

As for the Steven Colbert part, uhh sure you weren't high on something??

P0ci wrote:

undertheguillotine wrote:Oh there was no question I was mentally ill, I don't recall my psychosis that well but my parents have been filling me in on all kinds of crazy stuff I was doing, like taking multiple showers a day, trying to have a conversation with Steven Colbert, etc.

I'm extremely relived to hear that this inability to enjoy music will go away once i get off the medication and I'm not the only one who's experienced it. Now I just need to get off the medication. Next week it will hopefully be getting reduced from 2mg to 1mg daily, maybe that will help. I have no idea how long I'll be on that though. Man I really hate the way Risperdal makes me feel, I need to get off this stuff ASAP.

Taking multiple showers a day does not mean your mentally ill.....

As for the Steven Colbert part, uhh sure you weren't high on something??

I didn't even realize I was taking multiple showers in one day though. And no I wasn't high, I was sober and honestly thought I was having a conversation with him.

undertheguillotine wrote:. Now I just need to get off the medication. Next week it will hopefully be getting reduced from 2mg to 1mg daily, maybe that will help.

I hope that you are able to talk to your doctor about this and I hope that reducing the medication will help with the inability to enjoy your music. I know for me, I have been on medications in the past that made it difficult to enjoy life and it really is a crap feeling. I know my doctor was receptive to the feedback that I gave them about my anhedonia and I hope that yours is as well.

Tomorrow will be two weeks since I've been off the medication. I still can't really feel emotions including when I listen to music. How long after getting off the medication does it take for them to return?

risperidone, risperdal, worthless drugs as far as treating anything, cause more harm than help from my experience.