u/Mac543

I started taking 20mg of Latuda about 2 weeks ago to help with the emotionless, constantly tired, unmotivated kind of depression I get from bipolar disorder.

At first, it actually helped a lot. I don’t feel emotionally numb anymore, I have more motivation, I can enjoy things, and the constant fatigue I had 24/7 is mostly gone.

But over the past few days, instead of feeling emotionless, I just feel intensely sad. Every intrusive thought feels 10x more painful, and it’s really overwhelming.

I really liked what Latuda was doing for me because it was the first medication that helped me get out of that empty/dead feeling I’d been stuck in for so long. But now I'm in so much pain from intense sadness all the time.

I don't even wanna think, and don't wanna even do anything because I feel like I need to distract myself now with my phone or laptop constantly, or else I'll be in so much emotional pain.

My psychiatrist seemed kinda confused by this and recommended I up my dose to 40mg. Has anyone else experienced this on Latuda?

wtf i’ve been taking latuda 20mg for 4 days now for some form of rapid cycling bipolar (but depressed like 90% of the time) and i have never felt so good. seriously, i have had some form of this emotionally numbness, demotivation to do anything, and fatigue type of depression as long as i could remember. and it has affected pretty much every area of my life negatively. but for the past few days, it has been completely gone. i’m also on lamotrigine 200mg which helped a lot but not nearly as well as Latuda for my depression. i feel so happy to not be depressed. this is actually insane. i feel like i can actually have a normal life now instead of staying inside all day every day and not being able to get myself to talk to people or do anything because of demotivation. im a little unhappy it took me this long to get the right treatment (im 24 now) but still really happy im not depressed anymore. man i had to go through so many meds before getting this far. most of which did nothing or made my depression sooo much worse. this is the first time ive felt this good for so many days in a row. i didnt even know it was possible to feel this good for so long. does this last? is this what you are supposed to feel like when you aren’t depressed? also this seems kinda fast for a medication. is this the medication working or did it throw me into some sort of weird state? im just really happy right now that im not depressed, tired, and demotivated.