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Citralopram - loss of creativity?

Jon

I was just wondering if anyone has become less creative as a result of taking SSRI's? I paint and male electronic music alot. I think it is way I wind down and recharge. I can get sort of anxious when I do it and really focused. It feels good. When I took Fluoxetine in the past I am pretty sure it made music/painting less appealing and I just couldn't get into it the same. Now I am takling Citralopram I worry it may do the same. Citralopram may reduce depression and anxiety but does it also reduce creativity also?

  • hohner said:

    So do you think are Beta-Blockers any use ? or it is just another dead-end road

     

    Only you and your GP can really answer that question, hohner.

    I would recommend finding out as much as you can about beta-blockers, how they work, how they may help reduce anxiety, and most importantly what potential side effects there might be. 

  • So do you think are Beta-Blockers any use ? or it is just another dead-end road

  • hohner said:

    Citalopram lowered the anxiety but made me stoic. Better to be alive with anxiety than dead on drugs. However, my next option is a Beta-blocker in the morning, which is not a brain altering substance.

    I considered beta-blockers but the doctor wasn't so sure. I keep having the same thought that the best cure for anxiety is to explore what causes the anxiety and then deal with the cause. Anxiety seems to readily accepted as a 'symptom' of Aspergers and does not allow for the idea that there actually may be a problem. This goes for depression too.....

    For example if a Polar Bear was kept in a zoo in the desert I am certain it would be depressed and anxious. Would prescribing medication to make it 'feel better' be the solution? No.

  • hohner said:
    However, my next option is a Beta-blocker in the morning, which is not a brain altering substance.

    Not as their primary function they're not, no.

    However they do alter the release of a wide variety of hormones, all of which, amongst other physical effects, will, indirectly, have a brain altering effect.

    They can't affect anxiety levels if they don't in some way alter brain chemistry.

    In fact the anxiety reducing effect that they may have appears to be more of a side-effect than a primary effect.

  • Citalopram lowered the anxiety but made me stoic. Better to be alive with anxiety than dead on drugs. However, my next option is a Beta-blocker in the morning, which is not a brain altering substance.

  • .... reading on the internet just now there are suggestions there is some sort of relationship between Citalopram, serotonin, dopamine, Aspergers and special interests..... Some of the info is contradictory but it may be the case that the increase in serotonin may result in a decrease in dopamine which is already lower in people with Aspergers?  Intense focused interests are a way to help raise dopamine levels so if the Citalopram effects this......... Undecided