Some thoughts on accupuncture, anhedonia, and the road back

Last November I got screwed over and got some bad Cannabis which sent me into a drug induced psychosis. I spent a week in inpatient psychiatric care where I was put on Risperdal. Needless to say shortly after I started to feel worse than I ever even knew was possible before.

Got off that $#%^ after 2 months and some of the side effects went away, but the anhedonia and emotional anesthesia still stuck around. Tried going on 150mg Wellbutrin, but all it really did for me was make me sleep like crap and I actually felt a little better after I got off it, so when my old quack tried to put me on an SSRI or another antipsychotic after I refused, I refuse to be another one of their victims.

What I really wanted to make this post about was accupuncture and Eastern medicine. I found an accupunturist / natural supplement specialist who hates psych meds as much as I do who thought he could help me and sure enough he has. He was able to pinpoint that my anhedonia stems from Risperdal screwing up my Liver and gave me some Chinese Liver supplements that have helped me significantly in addition to the regular accupuncture sessions which have been great for reestablishing my overall balance.

I've also been having some success using Cannabis I know is safe, I might get flamed for that but maybe not here, you guys seem like a pretty open minded bunch.

I certainly can't say I'm 100% yet but it's not like I've really been off that crap all that long so I think there's a good chance I'll get there. I know there's a lot of people feeling really really bad and searching for answers Psychiatry certainly can't give them so I hope this post helps someone.

this has given me some hope to return to chigung practicebut y anhedonia made me loose interest, lucky I got switched to orals my ast injection was over 5weeks ago and still feel no better, the usual love and joy with my identity returning is not there or I been messed up from waht cannabis allowed me to still have experience of the astral but the haloperidole ###$ me up and everything turned hostile and $#%^ I get trips and can't sleep but I feel awesome the next day it all chills out and I do myhbreathing excercise to get rid of trips so I go into near sleep state better then keep tripping it seems to have done some damage in keeping me from my true light , like a curse the psycahtirist spell.

Maybe I have no improvement because I use rauwolifa atoo make my come down off the drugs more gentle so maybe thats slowing down my relaignment, I still get the bad trips that seem to be blamed on cannabis but they are only aoccasionally when I get a certain ikind of visitation I am not ready for, the visitation is rfreaindly but it opens me up to the hostiale $#%^ that wants to ###$ with me and I get the shakes...

NOthing much to do with your post, I am glad you have found chinese medicine effective...I ike herbs and found some relief temeporatrily with shankhpushpi, a good batch at least taht worked it was really good taht was before the haloperidole did its damage its like I cant realign to my higher slef and with identity...I am getting fleeting feelings associated to my identity before first getting screwed by pscyhaitry way back to first few episodes, so good stuff from then would be good to align to just its not perminent but maybe a good sign that I am having memories more energetic memories and stuff that I think is void in the anhedonic state like feelings and stuff and having a mind taht works, I think antipsychotics majorly ###$ up our bbalance with regard to our identity so its easily moldible into something else, thats where anhedonia has been a coercion of the psychaitric system..maybe I getting way out there by metnioning that they are practicing sorvery, they have ###$ us up and anhedonia is part of it, they want us to be empty and not make any fuss, can't even make a fuss when you got anhedonia, at least I am not taken seriously by the quacks just thinking I am talking about symprtoms, its not very fair and i natureally smile and perk myself up when having to talk to people I am fighting the effects oof the sedation ut spend most of my time in bed, I am still in bed if not smoking cannabis.

Maybe CBD's would help you not sure how easy that is to get and what the quality is and CBD content its a bit vague.

as I said maybe I get over this by getting back into chi gung but I need to feel a bit better bbefore I can get back into it unless I force myself, maybe I get more out of it if I maintain a routine ....I used to be into meridian meditations and stuff too but I think I ###$ something up now my little finger and the two fingers go numb when I sleep with my hands up on my chest its really annoyin gI have to sleep wht my arms by my side otherwise I get numb fingers. It came on after modfying moves of different dragon moves embdying the dragon and made my own routine and think I did some things wrong to get the numb finger thing and plus I fellinto psychiatry after moving unit to a place I couldn't do my routines very easily and developpoed a coondition in my neck and signals to it leading to insanity and repetative moves Idid to fix my neck just made things worse, psychiatric treatmetn didnt help with my neck the pain wud return and i never get my balnce back when on psyahciatric drugs.

srry for the rant.