37.5mg Effexor antidepressant (down from 150mg, which I took for a year after my last major depressive episode - Im getting better!)
5mg Abilify - antipsychotic, but taken in this really low dose it makes me much more sociable and hence happier (as I was getting unhappy due to social problems), and less 'in my own world'. I have even noticed that my eye contact is better than it was before taking the Abilify which is strange with people like my family who I have never looked much in the eyes, it makes me feel embarrassed to do so. It also stops me being so obsessive about things which is good because I am more relaxed but bad because I used to have very strong will power to do things and now I often just dont bother if I dont feel like it. My doctor wants me to stay on the Abilify for the medium term - at least another year. I think he thinks that will correct the problems in my brain and they will stay corrected, but methinks that I will go back to my normal personality after coming off them, however long I stay on them. (He has not diagnosed me as AS and we have not even discussed it because I dont feel like bringing it up with him as AS is not well known here in France). ANyway, I feel happy and as I havent felt this well for that long, I dont want to spoil it by coming off the drugs before I am told to.