A good drug for energy and motivation?

totally different disorders! Upsets me when people think ADD is same as ADHD! I am by no means hyperactive! Tho at times I wish I were! At least then, I'd have the energy and motivation I crave!!!

Anyway, see if your doctor will allow you to try Adderall to help keep you awake during the day. It will also help you to stay focused. I was prescribed 20mg three times daily. Personally, some days I think my doctor could up the mg and keep it at 3-times daily. And you really shouldn't skip days or it won't work as well. Plus, you're more at risk for falling asleep! I'm keeping two disorders at bay with one med which is great cuz I hate being so dependent on drugs to fix my disabilities. I also take Lexapro for my depression. Depression is associated with my Narcolepsy. Please let me know if you end up trying Adderall to help u stay awake. Oh and I almost forgot to share with you that after you take it, you should take a 15-30 min nap for it to kick in!

To the person whom tha "anonymous" writer responded to, which I apologize for forgetting your name... that's another problem I have is my short term memory is horrible! Dang it, I don't even remember exactly what u posted... oh wait! I think you said something about your insurance not helping pay for your drugs u need,,,

My advice to you is to get on All Kids Insurance, which is for single mothers and their kids living at home. Don't know right off hand if child (ren) must be 18 and younger or if it covers older if they are living with you). Anyway, it's state provided insurance which with most prescriptions for the mother being free for generic and about a $2 co-pay for name brand meds and kids meds are totally free. That's the medical insurance I have currently due to being divorced with a child. You don't have to be divorced with children... just have to be u wed with child (ren) to be accepted. Just Google All Kids Insurance and apply for it if you can and see if you get accepted. Hope this helps you get the meds you need!!

Also, keep me informed if you come across any meds which help boost motivation and energy and I will do same on my end if I come across any. And I'm aware that different meds work differently on different people.

I've been on Wellbutrin and Prozac for depression and neither helped with motivation. I can't take Prozac anymore due to the side effects of a metallic taste it leaves in my mouth... making anything and everything taste like medal and NEVER leaving my mouth!

Anyway, if anyone DOES know of a drug out there which I can ask my doctor about trying for motivation and energy, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME, too! I want to learn to love myself the way God loves me and in turn become a better motivated full of energy mother to my daughter!

I know this original posting isn't about me and yet in my response to someone else's response it seems like I HAVE made it about me and I'm truly sorry for that! I'm just going thru a bit of a depressive stage right now and I need help, too, that's all. I didn't know where to turn and I just did a Google search on which drugs are best for motivation and energy and this was first site which came up. So I got myself registered, so I could make a comment. And here I am.

Maybe if we all help each other, we can all start feeling much better about ourselves. I know as well as most of you all know, that not all drugs will react the same for everyone. It's more of an trial and error with any kind of medicine. So, let's throw those drug names out there for one another and start helping each other out! I know God wants "all" His children of the Earth to be happy. It's just trying to get there, which seems to be the hardest for a lot of us.

So, I'll start! My Lexapro for the most part when I remember to take it helps me with my depressive moods... to be honest, I haven't taken any for past 3-days including today and that's prob why I had a huge cry session and feeling sorry for myself and all the problems which I think I have just minutes ago. You DO have to take it on a consecutive basis for it to keep your emotions at bay. My Adderall seems to help me stay awake, but I need about 20-30 min nap after I take it so it kicks in... today after I took it, I got four 30-min naps in cuz I kept hitting my snooze on my alarm... I had NO motivation to get up. My daughter is with her dad this weekend (yes, her dad and I are divorced and he has her every other weekend). However, we live in my widowed mom's basement which she fixed up like an apt for us after my divorce. Which makes me feel even more of a loser, cuz my almost 11-yr old daughter and I (41), don't have our "own" place. That's another depression motivator.

I've got off subject of the drugs. Please if anyone has any helpful comments, I'd be more than happy to hear them! Please share! Thanks!

The bottom line is, my doctor asked if she, with my permission, could prescribe a low-dose mood-stabilizer to try to control the anger mood swings, but also because it can be prescribed for treatment-resistant depression.

I am NEVER one to turn an idea down when a doctor tried to help me with my mental health (except ECT or lobotomy), even if a drug is usually used for something I don't think I have, because I don't care about labels, and if it helps me, I am saved.

The medication she prescribed was Lamotrigine, and I had positive results IMMEDIATELY. I reconnected with my family after having been apart for five years, I started the motivation to have good hygiene again and spent that money to fix my teeth because 1) I wanted to be out in public and 2) because I wanted to smile again. I started going to concerts and events in large venues (I also have social phobia, so this was big for me.)

A year later, we've come to realize that I'm a soft bipolar II, and that's why all those antidepressants failed over the years. I didn't know that mania could express itself as anger instead of grandiose elation.

So now, I'm on an antidepressant okay for bipolar, Lamotrigine, and an atypical antipsychotic, andvI'm experiencing how easy life is (or can be) for someone who isn't mentally ill. It was like... "so THIS is what 'normal' feels like?" I wasn't a tortured soul, and I don't feel you should be, either.

I hope my experience helps, even if only in some small way. Take care, Meggie

I am glad if you feel that Cymbalta is working for you. I thought it worked for me, too - I took it for over 5 years, and it's only until I moved to Wellbutrin (bupropion) that I realized it had been only hurting me. I have spent the last two years doing a lot of experimentation. And there have been days where I have had emotional emergencies... days where I have BLASTED my mother with hatred over her alcoholism, only to cry and reveal my secreted diagnosis. I was always in relationships, and those people loved me SO hard, but they could do nothing right. Our relationships always ended because they left me, saying they eventually got to a point where they felt so poorly about themselves they came to realize that they were not the man who could make me happy. And the irony in all of this is that they loved me beyond love. They always left because they felt I deserved better. They always came back years later to say that leaving me was the worst mistake they had ever made.

I knew I had depression, and I knew a reason for it... a decade of sexual abuse. A decade-long relationship, and then marriage, to a man who broke my bones. Yet I didn't understand my mental illness. I didn't understand that there was truly a physiological component that I had no control over...

... oh - so sorry - must run to my French class... talk soon :0)