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Posted by utopizen on January 16, 2003, at 16:15:28
'Maybe the most negative thing to come out of all of this is that people with social anxiety disorder are going to be gobbling down Paxil and other SSRIs, trusting and believing they will get better (because their doctor told them so). When these medications don't work, people with social anxiety disorder will become more mistrusting and doubtful, and feel even more hopeless than they already do. Another drug, another failure.
Posted by cosis on January 16, 2003, at 16:55:04
In reply to Paragraph on SP- tells my life story, posted by utopizen on January 16, 2003, at 16:15:28
Very good article, thanks
Posted by zeugma on January 16, 2003, at 22:12:48
In reply to Paragraph on SP- tells my life story, posted by utopizen on January 16, 2003, at 16:15:28
SSRI's are not the best drugs, or the worst drugs, or drugs people should take, or shouldn't take (for anxiety or anything else.) They're above all CONVENIENT drugs- convenient for the doctor, who can prescribe them knowing there's minimal physical risk to the patient; convenient to the patient, who can take it with little physical risk; convenient to the manufacturers, who can rake in lots of money off people's anxiety and illness. Have they made psychiatry 'one-size-fits-all'? A little, I think. The patient can get lost in the convenience, ease and profitability of these drugs.
Posted by Tepiaca on January 18, 2003, at 23:17:53
In reply to Re: Paragraph on SP- tells my life story, posted by zeugma on January 16, 2003, at 22:12:48
Hi.
Are you a happy person? Which is exactly your problem? HAve you tried other medicines instead the SSRIS? like nardil , or some benzos
Posted by utopizen on January 19, 2003, at 7:55:57
In reply to Re: Paragraph on SP- tells my life storyUtopizen, posted by Tepiaca on January 18, 2003, at 23:17:53
> Hi.
> Are you a happy person? Which is exactly your problem? HAve you tried other medicines instead the SSRIS? like nardil , or some benzos
>I'm a *very* happy person. Nothing phases me. I'm sensitive, so it's difficult if people try to make fun of me, but thankfully fewer people do that after grade school.
I've never been depressed for a 24 hr. period. The only times I remember feeling sad for a few days were during times of mourning, which of course is healthy. And even that didn't last a week.
I've tried Neurontin, which works. Yet it tends to make my speech monotonous at times, in a way I really can't compensate for, because it also makes me feel slow in the way my tone becomes. It slows down my thinking in a way Klonopin doesn't.
I see a very good psychopharmacologist, and have been for a year and 1/2. Yet it barely gives me Klonopin prn, and even so he doesn't offer me it prn in regular frequencies even when asked to.
I've recently tried Atarax, and it gave me the worst nightmares ever, so I stopped. I'm seeing a new psychopharmacologist soon. He happens to be friends with my current doctor... once you enter an elite bunch of doctors, chances are throwing a dart at one of them on a map will land next to your current one here (at least in Boston anyway).
He's going to give me a 1 hr consultation and then refer me to another psychopharma in the hospital. So he must be really good if he thinks giving me a 1 hr consultation is going to give me something more than simply refering me to the doctor he'll refer me to afterwards.
Posted by zeugma on January 19, 2003, at 12:48:13
In reply to Re: Paragraph on SP- tells my life storyUtopizen, posted by Tepiaca on January 18, 2003, at 23:17:53
> Hi.
> Are you a happy person? Which is exactly your problem? HAve you tried other medicines instead the SSRIS? like nardil , or some benzosMy problem is that I have inattentive ADD, generalized anxiety disorder, and depression- probably the ADD came first. The only medications that worked for me were TCA's,specifically nortriptyline, but I felt like I needed more so I started on a very low dosage of Buspar at the end of December. The effect was immediate and anxiety and inability to concentrate started to diminish. From what I've heard this reaction is very unusual. But obviously I'm happy with this combination because besides SSRI's I've taken Wellbutrin and stimulants and all they ever did was make my problems worse.
Posted by comftnumb on January 21, 2003, at 9:17:51
In reply to Re: Paragraph on SP- tells my life storyUtopizen, posted by utopizen on January 19, 2003, at 7:55:57
If you're so happy then why are you chaging doctors?
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