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Open original source ↗“I was very skeptical. It made me ridiculously drowsy, starting to gain weight, with no energy and feeling like 10% of myself, and like a robot with no thought or emotion whatsoever, a completely different and inhuman person, no sense of humour, unrecognisable. I hated it.”
- Cause
- Anonymous first-person SANE member blog (archive dated 21 Oct 2024). Antipsychotic quetiapine prescribed after bipolar 2 diagnosis (later revoked) for mood regulation despite no psychosis. Attributes robot/no-thought-or-emotion state to quetiapine on-drug; later stopped.
- Duration
- On-drug stretch during psychiatry contact after bipolar assessment; later stopped quetiapine (timing of course not quantified beyond narrative). Blog posted 2024-10-21 looking back.
- Recovery notes
- Stopped quetiapine (and psychiatry). Reports coming back toward self after stop; later developed separate intrusive-thought problems months after stopping. Writing at blog date describes perinatal MH support and feeling somewhat more normal day to day.