Take pride. 🌈
Please excuse my parenthesis.
If I analyze what my psychiatrist does, some of it does not really make sense. About one-and-a-half months ago, she increased my Effexor XR (antidepressant) from 150 (moderate dose) to 300 milligrams (higher-than-the-FDA-recommended dose), and she tried to slowly lower my Abilify (antipsychotic) from 12.5 (above-moderate dose) to 5 milligrams (low dose). I had suicidal thoughts while on my way to a low dose, so she put me on 10 milligrams of it. Then, she lowers my Effexor XR from 300 to 150 milligrams.
Why did she even bother increasing my Effexor XR in the first place?
She said that it was to “make the reduction of Abilify easier”, but it obviously failed because I had my self-harm OCD come back. I do not feel like she knew what she was doing when she doubled my Effexor XR.
Maybe her secondary intent was to cure my depression. However, this is nonsensical because I only complained of a lack of motivation at the time, not sadness. Effexor cures my sadness, not a lack of my motivation. Increasing it does not really make sense.
I hope that I am not confusing you [collectively].