Posted by bleauberry on February 29, 2008, at 22:37:57
In reply to xanax unbelievable affect, posted by jgmw on February 29, 2008, at 11:18:30
Doesn't sound strange to me. I think it is very easy to make confusions between types of anxiety and psychosis and types of mania. There is a lot of overlap. The titles we give them are mere human attempts to neatly categorize things. The titles in no way predict what will work or not.
I had a delusional/psychotic/dysphoric mania type situation for about a month. It was crazy. It just kept going day after day. My doctor was getting frustrated that things that should work were making it worse. You know what shut it down and brought total peace in one day? A lousy skimpy 12.5mg dose of zoloft. Go figure. One day.
Anyway, I believe in going with whatever works and don't get too hung up in diagnostic lingo. Even with the best diagnostic lingo, the human error factor is always there. Ten doctors would likely have 5 or 6 different takes on what the diagnosis is. She should be very glad she's on Xanax low dose and not some high dose exoctic combo or expensive risky antipsychotic. As drugs go, xanax is probably one of the best studied, most widely prescribed worldwide, cheapest, and longest used drugs in history. It has its drawbacks of dependence. But not often admitted by doctors is the dependence on just about any other drug. For me, withdrawing from an antipsychotic was 100 times worse than withdrawing from xanax.
As for the small dose, hey, if it is a chemical imbalance, who is to say how large or small that chemical imbalance is? Who is to say that a small chemical imbalance cannot result in huge symptoms?
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