Matt's story: emotional numbness on Rexulti
Matt asked his psychiatrist for help and was prescribed Rexulti. Years of emotional numbness followed.
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An antipsychotic, after asking for help
Matt was prescribed Rexulti, an atypical antipsychotic, and describes years of emotional numbness since.
He went to his psychiatrist for help. He describes what came after as sexual dysfunction, chronic fatigue and a deep disconnection from his own life.
What Matt talks about
- The pressure he felt from psychiatry to take medication.
- What it was like to lose his emotions.
- The isolation of living with symptoms most people cannot imagine.
Moral Medicine files this interview with its Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction material.
Thank you to Matt for telling this story. This interview was recorded by Moral Medicine, who have filmed more than ninety of these conversations.
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