Rispiridrone and Sertraline

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My main symptom is anxiety I have had Sertraline for 5 years and have now been given a low dose of respirdrone however you spell.

Anyone else had it

yes,have had it before,it really helped with a lot of autism difficulties and behaviors of mine but not with the pyschosis nor did it help with severe challenging behavior,severe anxiety or pyschosis for self,ended up swapping to another anti pyschotic called halperidol and it was so much better;it dampens down the difficult sides of autism,severe anxiety AND pyschosis.

woud recommend halperidol but woud suggest trying out respiridone for a while first as everyones biology stuff is different, have lived with many other autistics [all profoundly or severely autistics] on respiridone who it manages to help, two of them were on respiridone and halperidol so its just a matter of neurology.

I was on it and it didn't help me, only effects I noticed were weight gain (which may or may not have been due to that), and when I had my dosage increased I experienced muscle stiffness in my jaw and neck, which is why I was taken off it. However, it might have helped at an increased dose if it wasn't for that side-effect - I hear it has helped some people. As KingdomOfRats said, everyone's biology is different.

i take both of those pills now.
Sertraline: take in the morning. keeps me calm and happy
Resperidone: take at night. lets me fall asleep

I have been on Sertraline for just over 5 weeks and I must say I have noticed some changes in myself. It has definitely helped with my depression, even though the doctor specifically put me on this one for anxiety. I am still feeling anxious and agitated, but I can safely say that I don't analyze a social faux pas, if I do make a social faux pas it just goes over my head and I can move on. So that's good. But I still find myself getting worked up about other things.

Fortunately, it has definitely helped with rage, which I believe was linked to the depression, so obviously it has decreased both. I still get sad and annoyed, but to a more ''normal'' extent, not an intense extent. I broke down yesterday but that's because I am going through, shall I say, a crisis with my special interest, and it has made me feel terribly upset. But I am not depressed. The mental illness of depression has definitely gone, and I am feeling less urges to fly up in a rage, instead I might have little rages but not anything like I used to have.

Also, before I went on the meds, I found that each time I was in a good mood, I still felt bad emotions being bottled up inside me, and so each happy mood actually moved me further and further towards having an angry outburst. Now when I feel in a good mood, I do not feel negative emotions bottling up inside me. It does make me feel more normal.

OK, I know as you're reading this you're probably thinking ''you've recognised all that quick, with only being on Sertraline 5 weeks'', but yes funnily enough it did start to kick in after about 2 days of taking them, and I haven't felt depressed since and I still don't now. I have an appointment with the doctor next week to see how I'm getting on with the meds, and I will consider on upping the dose because I still find I am getting agitated. I think the Sertraline seems to have worked on the depression more than anything else, and the agitation I got wasn't anything to do with the depression, but I think I'd rather anything than be depressed.