Posted by Tomatheus on June 19, 2008, at 0:46:00
In reply to Clomipramine vs. Nardil, posted by Phoenix1 on June 17, 2008, at 23:48:43
> Does anyone have anything good or bad to say about clomipramine (Anafranil) for depression and anxiety?
I experienced severe irritability after just one dose of the medication when I tried it during my last psychiatric hospitalization. As you know, everybody is different, and not everybody is going to respond to clomipramine in the same way that I did. This is especially true considering that clomipramine is typically prescribed to patients with mood and/or anxiety disorders such as major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and my diagnosis is schizoaffective disorder. I took Nardil before I had my psychotic break and experienced a wonderful-but-short-lived remission on the medication. I ultimately stopped taking Nardil after I received a bad batch of it more than two years ago.
So, in a nutshell, I found clomipramine to be quite different from Nardil. However, I didn't give clomipramine enough of a chance to get any kind of idea as to what its overall effect would be in the long run, and I took it when I was suffering from a condition that had progressed significantly since the time that I took Nardil.
I hope this helps some.
Tomatheus
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