Is anyone on Spravato, Straterra and an ADHD stimulant for Treatment-Resistant Depression with Anhedonia and ADHD?
Trying to figure out whether adding Straterra will make Vyvanse work better and help with Anhedonia. Vyvanse and Adderall do not work while undergoing Spravato treatment and while I have Anhedonia.
Spravato has been helping me with severe cognitive impairment from treatment resistant depression and PTSD but during the second month, it left me with severe fatigue that causes me to stay in bed for four days after each treatment. I also suffer from ADHD and severe Anhedonia. Vyvanse and Adderall do not work at all during the entire period that I am in Spravato treatment.
Did anyone who experienced severe fatigue during their treatment find a workaround solution to this problem? Has anyone found a way to make their ADHD medication work while receiving treatment as well?
I have been suffering from treatment-resistant depression and PTSD since 2012. Doctors prevented me from being able to work since 2009 by refusing to prescribe Vyvanse more than 2 weeks every month. As a result, I have been unable to work since 2009 and my Depression worsened and became treatment resistant. I had secure housing until 2024 living with my mom until she passed away. My brother has financially supported me for 2 years but cannot help anymore. I am $5,000 behind in rent on a $1,450 rent apartment and $600 behind on ConEd. I planned to get new roommates to make ends meet until I secured a job but do not have the option anymore.
I recently did Spravato treatment for two months and it has helped restore cognitive function to be able to work part-time. I cannot work full-time because Spravato treatment makes me tired and stay in bed all day. I can work part-time if I do not go back to Spravato treatment and leave my untreated condition as it stands having some degree of cognition restored after Spravato and ability to regularly wake up and get out of bed after TMS treatment. I still have severe Anhedonia but am at least now able to be 40% functional where I could not before. I cannot do Spravato and try to work because of Spravato-induced fatigue that kept me in bed all day for four days after each treatment. I cannot work part-time if I just rely on Vyvanse, Dopa Mucuna and Tyrosine.
I need housing for 6-8 months to allow me to continue treatment while I apply for jobs and have enough income to rent a room in an apartment. I have short-term memory issues, ADHD that does not respond to meds while on Spravato and cannot do work that requires standing up due to knee and problems. Standing and/or walking for more than 1/2 hours also makes me very tired. I cannot do cashier work due to memory issues. I have trouble learning new information and am still cognitively slow. I can do customer service work and reception work (if I relearn MS Office). I have trouble learning, remembering things in the short-term, have no motivation and still have some random bad days whereby I am too tired to get out of bed. If I take Vyvanse, Tyrosine and Dopa Mucuna, I can convince an employer that I’m not incompetent for a maximum period of 5 hours a day. I wake up and take Tyrosine and Dopa Mucuna and then take Vyvanse. This makes Vyvanse work for 6 hours a day. I can focus/hyperfocus to complete a task as long as it is simple like writing a letter, making phone calls or answering questions.
I do not qualify for a one-shot deal or grant because I have no one to sign a document agreeing to pay rent in order to secure the grant that I need to be able to pay rent arrears owed and secure roommates to be able to pay rent until I am able to work. I do not qualify for City Fheps because I am unemployed and do not have income. I applied for social security disability twice and was denied even though I failed a short-term memory test. I do not believe that I will qualify for it anyway because Spravato is helping.
Does anyone know of any supportive or transitional housing in NYC that will help me have a place to live for 6-8 months to allow me to apply for part-time jobs? I haven’t worked for a very long time, have no skills and know that it will take time to get hired. I cannot function and make progress toward securing employment unless I have housing stability and food. I suffered a mental breakdown and ended up in a psych ward because of looming eviction, housing court, harassment from landlord to force me out of rent-stabilized apartment, lack of family support, harassment from non-paying roommates, destruction of property by roommate, Access-VRA’s refusal to put me in the requested training course after going through the application process for almost a year and PTSD.
I am trying to avoid homelessness for my mental well-being. I do not want to risk a relapse of my Depression by entering the shelter system.
. I had severe debilitating depression and discontinued antidepressant medications only made my condition worse, causing me to sleep for up to 22 hours a day for 7 years. I went to a good college, worked two jobs to financially support my mom and brother while I was in school and went to law school. I am not a deadbeat. I just had very debilitating depression and no support to help me get better sooner.
I have been suffering from treatment-resistant depression and PTSD since 2012. Doctors prevented me from being able to work since 2009 by refusing to prescribe Vyvanse more than 2 weeks every month. As a result, I have been unable to work since 2009 and my Depression worsened and became treatment resistant. I had secure housing until 2024 living with my mom until she passed away. My brother has financially supported me for 2 years but cannot help anymore. I am $5,000 behind in rent on a $1,450 rent apartment and $600 behind on ConEd. I planned to get new roommates to make ends meet until I secured a job but do not have the option anymore.
I recently did Spravato treatment for two months and it has helped restore cognitive function to be able to work part-time. I cannot work full-time because Spravato treatment makes me tired and stay in bed all day. I can work part-time if I do not go back to Spravato treatment and leave my untreated condition as it stands having some degree of cognition restored after Spravato and ability to regularly wake up and get out of bed after TMS treatment. I still have severe Anhedonia but am at least now able to be 40% functional where I could not before. I cannot do Spravato and try to work because of Spravato-induced fatigue that kept me in bed all day for four days after each treatment. I cannot work part-time if I just rely on Vyvanse, Dopa Mucuna and Tyrosine.
I need housing for 6-8 months to allow me to continue treatment while I apply for jobs and have enough income to rent a room in an apartment. I have short-term memory issues, ADHD that does not respond to meds while on Spravato and cannot do work that requires standing up due to knee and problems. Standing and/or walking for more than 1/2 hours also makes me very tired. I cannot do cashier work due to memory issues. I have trouble learning new information and am still cognitively slow. I can do customer service work and reception work (if I relearn MS Office). I have trouble learning, remembering things in the short-term, have no motivation and still have some random bad days whereby I am too tired to get out of bed. If I take Vyvanse, Tyrosine and Dopa Mucuna, I can convince an employer that I’m not incompetent for a maximum period of 5 hours a day. I wake up and take Tyrosine and Dopa Mucuna and then take Vyvanse. This makes Vyvanse work for 6 hours a day. I can focus/hyperfocus to complete a task as long as it is simple like writing a letter, making phone calls or answering questions.
I do not qualify for a one-shot deal or grant because I have no one to sign a document agreeing to pay rent in order to secure the grant that I need to be able to pay rent arrears owed and secure roommates to be able to pay rent until I am able to work. I do not qualify for City Fheps because I am unemployed and do not have income. I applied for social security disability twice and was denied even though I failed a short-term memory test. I do not believe that I will qualify for it anyway because Spravato is helping.
Does anyone know of any supportive or transitional housing in NYC that will help me have a place to live for 6-8 months to allow me to apply for part-time jobs? I haven’t worked for a very long time, have no skills and know that it will take time to get hired. I cannot function and make progress toward securing employment unless I have housing stability and food. I suffered a mental breakdown and ended up in a psych ward because of looming eviction, housing court, harassment from landlord to force me out of rent-stabilized apartment, lack of family support, harassment from non-paying roommates, destruction of property by roommate, Access-VRA’s refusal to put me in the requested training course after going through the application process for almost a year and PTSD.
I am trying to avoid homelessness for my mental well-being. I do not want to risk a relapse of my Depression by entering the shelter system.
. I had severe debilitating depression and discontinued antidepressant medications only made my condition worse, causing me to sleep for up to 22 hours a day for 7 years. I went to a good college, worked two jobs to financially support my mom and brother while I was in school and went to law school. I am not a deadbeat. I just had very debilitating depression and no support to help me get better sooner.
Just curious for anyone who has tried SSRI’s and had them fail, how many total antidepressant medications have you tried?
I am going to be sued for nonpayment of rent and ultimately evicted because I have not been able to work in almost 19 years due to illness and cannot qualify for public assistance help because I cannot prove future ability to pay using future roommates (people do not like to give their employment information to strangers and sign HRA forms for people that they just met after moving into an apartment). My brother was helping my mom when she was alive and I was staying with my mom but she died two years ago and he is tired of paying my rent.
I don’t qualify for social security disability—I tried twice and was denied because it’s hard getting covered for mental illnesses and I didn’t have the strength or mental fortitude to go through the process. I am actually now recovered enough to be able to work part-time due to recent successful treatment so will be perceived as not disabled anymore to be able to qualify anyway.
I need six months to be able to learn MS Office and apply for jobs. I imagine that this is how long it will take me to secure work given that I have no experience or skills. I have short-term memory issues, ADHD (when I’m on medication to treat another illness, ADHD meds are ineffective), a recent ankle fracture that is improperly healing and difficulty retaining new information—otherwise I would do cashier work or security work. I can sell my deceased mother’s jewelry to put some things in storage for a few months but I need to know about accessing shelters.
How does entering the shelter system work? How long will I likely have to stay in a shelter until I am placed in Section-8 housing? I need to know from practical experience. Thank you.
I had PTSD and Depression that stem from something that happened to me from 2007-2013. I had treatment resistant Depression and while undergoing Spravato treatment while experiencing the threat of homelessness due to being sued for nonpayment of rent, harassment from my landlord, a roommate who said they planned to live in my apartment long term only to lie and move out after two months, a person who backed out of moving into the apartment on Thanksgiving 5 days before she was supposed to move int who then sued me for the return of her security deposit, and a roommate who refused to pay rent on time and threatened to call the police to give a false statement that I beat her, a roommate who caused over $5,000 in damages making a room untenable who stiffed me for $2,300 in rent when she moved out—I snapped.
I had a PTSD episode that was triggered by having a brother who makes over $200K a year refusing to help me with $7,000 in back rent or provide documentation to enable me to get financial assistance from the city with rent arrears when I busted my ass in college working two jobs to make sure that he and my mother had a roof over his head and to shield him from the pains of going to high school and college in absolute poverty.
The two traumatic events that triggered my PTSD were, for the most part unrelated.
Is it really possible to have more than one traumatic event be responsible for two pathways for PTSD? Why did it take 8 years after my PTSD symptoms went away for them to return for a different trauma?
I have a half-sister who I reconnected with a few years ago and she has been working as a corrections officer at Sing Sing for probably 9 years. She is completely abusive to me, always angry and hostile and quite frankly a complete bitch who talks to me like I am one of the prisoners she supervises? She’s a complete bully outside of work. I don’t know if it’s because of the prison that she works at or because she is always working overtime and basically has no life. She is disrespectful toward females but, for some reason, treats her brother like a human being. Even when she manages to say something nice, it sounds like she’s in a fight.
Is this normal? How do I get her to turn off her prison switch mode when she talks to me? I’m on the verge of blocking her out of my life because I would never let anyone talk to me the way that she does? I feel like she’s the type of person who would murder someone in his or her sleep and not think twice about it. She has no soul and is a very toxic, abrasive person. When I met her before she was a corrections officer, she was completely different; she was a human being instead of an animal.
How do I approach her without her threatening to ‘take this outside’? She’s 35 so it’s not like she’s a kid. It’s almost like she’s low-key undiagnosed Bipolar. Thanks for your help.
Has anyone with ADHD and treatment-resistant depression been prescribed Vyvanse and straterra at the same time?
There, I said it.
I need a stable mindset and emotional disposition to be able to figure out how to get a low-functioning, part-time that job that does not require intelligence or training. However, as soon as something happens or I think about my housing insecurity, I essentially have a breakdown where negative chemicals flood my brain, I become paralyzed, unable to concentrate or engage in any actions to help bring myself out of the financial and life crisis that I am in. I constantly feel like I am having to chase my emotional reaction to things, recover and start all over again. Instead of providing any mood ‘lift’ or motivation, Adderall or Vyvanse only causes me to focus more on negative thoughts and intensifies my hyperfocus on avoidance at times. I have no emotional resilience to be able to put issues aside and plow through difficulties to try to work on finding a job, finding roommates to help pay bills and trying to move on with life and get out of my crippling daily basic function mode for survival.
Sometimes, it is just saying something that could help me change my doom and gloom perspective, tips, strategies or reinforced mantras that could help me figure out a way to survive and get through this difficult transitional time.
How do I get my brain to ‘bounce back’ upon disappointment after disappointment or bad news quickly instead of it taking me weeks or months to recover from minor and major setbacks for me to be able to actually move forward with finding a job and housing security plans? Thank you for taking the time to read this and help me.
I have been suffering from Depression and am looking to watch some good streaming shows or movies to help lift my mood. I could really use recommendations as I’m unable to find anything that my cognitively slow, low-attention-span brain can follow. For some context, some oldie but goodie movies and shows that I have enjoyed from the past include:
Dead to Me
Catastrophe
Gavin & Stacey
Ted Lasso (of course)
Bridget Jone’s Diary
Love Actually
Wonderland (Aussie series)
Poldark
Fleabag
All Creatures Great and Small
The Durrells in Corfu
My So-Called Life (just throwing that in there!)
Thanks for taking the time to read this and I would greatly appreciate any and all responses!
I was admitted to the hospital for Depression and prescribed a dose of Haldol after I became upset at seeing something. I am not psychotic or schizophrenic but have had untreated/poorly treated depression for almost 20 years. I received a single dose of Haldol two days ago but am still feeling the effects of that single dose—namely the inability to stop pacing, accelerated heart rate, inability to feel relaxed and my brain feels really weird. Does anyone know of a non-medication way to make this feeling of restlessness go away? The closest thing that I could think of is drinking chamomile tea but otherwise I am out of answers. Thanks so much for reading this and trying to help me. I hate antipsychotic medications and I do not know why they are being used to treat my depression. I was on Spravato and it was helping but I lost my insurance and was made to stop treatment.