Posted by pseudoname on October 26, 2005, at 14:53:51
I've noticed for years that "good" events in my life, including almost any small success (in social, work, financial, educational, family, relationship, status, aesthetic, personal, intellectual, creative, housekeeping, trivial, etc areas), ends up making me feel immediately TERRIBLE! So I avoid good events, which means I end up hiding in my house doing nothing as much as possible.
Does this bizarre reaction happen to anyone else? Have you taken any med that worked on this??
I figured it was an over-sensitive reward system regulator, and I thought the opiate antagonist naltrexone might help with that, but it didn't. I just finished a 35-day trial of it at 50 mg/day. I wasn't taking any other drug with it and I have no history of opiate use.
Afterward I tried several days of late-night low-dose naltrexone (3-6 mg), which also has had no effect.
I guess endorphins respond rather slowly in the brain (is that true?), so my IMMEDIATE bad reaction to good things may not be related to any opiate stuff.
Any thoughts??
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