Posted by omega man on April 17, 2002, at 10:18:04
In reply to Re: ANYONE'S ANXIETY HELPED BY A STIMULANT?, posted by jonh kimble on April 15, 2002, at 21:06:38
I have had chronic anxiety 12 years...eight spent hooked on benzo's..after withdrawal hell I tried all types of stimulant approaches
i.e. effexor ..prozac type lots of stuff...which seems to make the mind and body so highly strung that the anxiety becomes excitement and positive energy..
but the quality of thinking or perception mmnnn seemed sort of like continual train ..because your drug regime has little to do with the dynamic of real life...I mean if you have your head continually buzzed with stimulants it can piss people off..when in fact you may need to listen to what life is telling you...
omega 3 oil which is the food of intelligence (fish) helped with my thinking and seemed to give my mind space..and this makes sense when you think of the brain as a volume of electricity and the high quality fat of omega 3 stops the neural feedback that results in brain regions overloading and blocking the whole organ acting en masse..
I would say that after a year that omega 3 is my choice for anxiety..the anxiety I had was not being able to think..to be overloaded by events ..along with particular neurotransmitter adjustments..which I believe should be done as needed to shock the brain back into producing its own and then stopping to let the body lead you to the foods and drugs which you really need..
NOT to take the drugs every day..but to stop and start ..during stopping you take a break ..go food shopping play with lots of drugs ..and let your mind and body lead you to the key..and in a drug crazed society you may find that biggest shock is that after a while you are just fine with nothing..I would never have believed ten years or even three months ago that oil tablets would stop my anxiety..but with all these drugs filling my drawers including benzos..I choose the chemical Omega 3 ...and occasionally I reach for whatever else to jump start the transmitter deficit but omega 3 allows me to think..and to be in situations of extreme stimulation complexity aND PRESSURE (Social) ....when one cannot be social one loses what it is to be human and the isolation creates more need to take drugs..
like the saying goes do not adjust your mind the fault is in reality is not true of course..but on this forum people need to be reminded that this is a huge part of the process of getting well..
Omega 3 gives me the space to take in reality..the space to see how my hurt from the past clouds my judgement of social situations...but most importantly omega 3 is the intelligence chemical and to have the space to be laid back with your own transmitter profileand not zonked or spangled or hyperenergetic is a step from a very complicated process to gain the mental space to deal with the competitive and social situtations ..
Sorry to ramble..
> Hi, I know in my experience with social anxiety with some g.a.d, i have not responded to other anxiety agents. although anxiety is considered to be mediated through serotonin or gaba dysfunction, i believe that dopamine also plays a large yet unknown part, as it does in depression and social anxiety as well. this may explain why you do well on stims. i dont have any expereince with amisulpride, but it is totally a dopamine drug that benefits anxiety, social anxiety and depression. you may want to find out more about amisulpride, i know i sure do.
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> jon
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