I've been recently recommended Seroquel and am still considering it. It is too bad it is not helping with organization and concentration for you. I find that when I'm too low, I don't have any energy to do anything physical or mental. When I'm too anxious, my thoughts are very disorganized and I can't concentrate on anything. The rare times that I am between extremes, I would seem to be completely normal. I find that structure and deadlines help as long as they don't cause my anxiety levels to ramp up too high. I think it's really important not to bite off more than you can chew for this reason. So, how to stop worrying so much? I thought Seroquel was supposed to help with that. Perhaps a talk with your Doctor is in order?

Seroquel helped me considerably in the beginning but it's kind of like giving up 20 IQ points in return.

It's really for schizophrenia, but is used off label for bipolar and unipolar depression in combination with an antidepressant. It has greatly reduced my anxious automatic thoughts, but if anything has reduced my capacity to organize my normal thoughts - such as would be used when making a to-do list, grocery list, or deciding how to schedule tasks so as to coordinate with others.

I will definitely discuss this with my pdoc next time I see her. It might work better for bipolar depression, so if your doc is recommending it to you I'd say to make sure there is a plan in place for how & when you'll get off of it before you start taking it.

He's recommending it as a "Major Tranquilizer" if that is still a category, to reduce my reliance on Ativan (minor tranquilizer). So I guess it's a matter of which is the lesser of two evils (I know, that doesn't sound very optimistic). I'm running out of Ativan so I guess I'll give it a try and cross my fingers.

I've only been prescribed Ativan for short term but from what I hear benzodiazepines can be pretty rough on the system with long term use. I'd say Seroquel is majorly tranquilizing for sure. ;-)