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Hi Community,

As the title suggests, I feel like I am craving insane amounts of dopamine and looking for some sort of a human connection.

A bit of context, I have never lived by myself for most of my life: My school days were spent in hostel, further during my bacholers days I was always surrounded by my friends and we used to go out almost all days of the week. The first time I ever sort of lived by myself was during my first job, during which I started observing similar kind of feeling (I wasn't diagnosed then) and to subside this feeling I used to smoke weed, it made me calm.

Fast forward to now, I have realised weed is a bad cope up mechanism (don't smoke weed now) but I am going insane and unable to function at my best. I kind of get hyperfixated on my dating app matches, or go insane if my friends don't pick up my call etc.

I am trying to distract myself with things I like such as movies, or finding new novelty, trying to meditate etc. I do weekly therapy as well. But despite all the efforts, I feel like I am going insane and thus reaching out to the community for any help.

Edit: I take Ritalin LA - 30mg, used to take SSRI (Lexapro) and stopped it few days back as I feel very dud when I take those.

Edit 2: Added information about smoking weed: I dont smoke weed now.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Do you use adhd meds? What about other meds?

[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I take Ritalin LA-30mg, the highest recommended dose for my genetics (Indian) is about 40mg. I used to take Lexapro, started observing that SSRI's make me feel very dud and have stopped taking it in the past few days

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You can try switching to Adderall, or one of the non-stimulant drugs like strattera. Also, i highly recommend shrooms. Doing it once every few months keeps my mind in a much much better place

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Psychedelics can have bad interactions with SSRIs. So wait a few weeks after stopping before trying.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

I think (think) ssri's just change the dosings in unpredictable ways, so in that situation you would start with a lowish dose of mushrooms to see how hard it hits you and then increase the attempted dose on subsequent attempts separated out by a bunch of days.

I'm not a doctor or an expert in any way, just speaking from the experiences of other people i know about

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