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Seroquel for Anxiety Disorders

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I've been on most SSRI's and SNRI's and they just made me feel tweaked out and manic. Benzos worked well but I abuse them too much and they make me do stupid shit and forget a lot. I've just been prescribed 50mg of Seroquel, it didn't knock me out like I thought it would and it didn't make me feel like a zombie the next day. It made me feel clear headed, happier, energetic and confident, won't know if it'll work for my social anxiety until tomorrow but I'm pretty hopeful. I notice as it wears off I feel completely shit and dysphoric but my doctor just says whenever that happens pop another.

I've been reading lots of reports saying it's a horrible drug and I haven't seen any reports experiencing the positive effects that I have. Has anyone else found this to be helpful for anxiety? Is it safe to take long-term?

Also wondering if there are any drugs that I should steer clear of when taking it? Will it lessen the effects of MDMA or Codeine?
 
I take 200mg of Seroquel every night. If I was a psychiatrist, Seroquel would definitely not be my first choice for anxiety, but since you've exhausted other options (tried Lyrica yet? Best anxiolytic an the market IMO)...

For me, Seroquel is a glorified sleeping pill. It just DKs me every night. Maybe it does something for my mood. I'm not sure. 50mg will increase the sedative effect of codeine. It will decrease the MDMA high due to its sedative action but shouldn't completely erase it. Seroquel is basically a very potent antihistamine at 50mg.
 
I've had good luck with Seroquel for a short time and then it ended up not helping in the long run. But I have a friend whose been taking it for 6 months and says he thinks it helps. He acts different now for sure.

EDIT: You should be more worried about whether the med helps you live your life than rather or not you can take E and codeine.
 
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People with manic mood disorders or schizophrenia are the ones who normally change very rapidly...

I’m still not seeing anxiety fitting into that.
 
I was prescribed 1100mg of seroquel xr (slow release) daily for anxiety/depression and I was a bit psychotic from a 20x80mg oxys a day. I am now on 300mg of seroquel xr, 150ml of methadone and cymbalta 120mg daily. My mental health is now stable. Seroquel taken as prescribed has helped me with anxiety better than any benzo. Cymbalta is also great for anxiety. Good luck and remember "as prescribed"
 
I've taken Seroquel for three days. I don't remember how much I took, but it completely made me lethargic. Sure, the anxiety was gone, but so were the rest of my emotions.
 
I was prescribed seroquel 200mg xr nightly for a little under a year, i recently stopped taking it over a few weeks ago. For anxiety i felt like it was pretty shitty my first psychiatrist prescribed that along with 1200mg gabapentin (400mg 3x a day) (which i also stopped taking at the same time as the seroquel). In my opinion/experience neither really did much for anxiety.

For me the only thing that worked for severe anxiety/depression was a low dose of benzos daily that i don't abuse, and it's changed everything for the better even though that first psychiatrist claimed the seroquel and the gabapentin will work for anxiety and is (non-addicting which is a lie!).

If you have abnormal thinking, extremely paranoid behavior, or psychosis/schizoprenia seroquel can have some positive effects. For me it very slightly helped with depression but that was it, i was tired of feeling so spacey and virtually "dead" all of the time. Now i have bad sleeping problems since i stopped taking the seroquel and some headaches etc but if it works good for you than that's all that matters right? Try getting some hydroxyzine which is suppose to help anxiety as well and is not as addicting and easily prescribed (didn't help me) but it might work for you! XD
 
anti psychotics greatly increase the likely hood of you developing diabetes and high cholesterol and there are much safer drugs to try to help with anxiety
 
Yeah like the hydroxyzine i mentioned is pretty safe and works for many people with lesser degrees of anxiety. I hate even the word seroquel anymore.
 
It is definitely not a first choice for sleeping aid as it is a heavy-duty psychotropic with all the attendant long term side effects. Was originally developed for manic depressants with psychotic tendencies and anger issues, and my observations is that for whom it works. That being said, drug use changes body chemistry, so if it works for you, therapeutically, and you are aware of the long term side effects and that it is most definitely being pushed by its maker, then you know your body better than I. I highly discourage the large group of patients who are being prescribed this risk-filled medication as a sleeping pill. Do some research, keep a journal on dosage and effects, and if in doubt, come to your next med check with your psych armed with pertinent questions and bring an extra copy for your psych's file on you.
 
I was prescribed it for general anxiety/insomnia, and it didn't do shit for anxiety, and even though I would sleep through the night most nights I would wake up far more groggy and zombified.
Seroquel imo is best used for aborting psychedelic trips or easing comedowns
 
I was prescribed 300 mg seroquel xr and for me it actually gave me motivation probably due to it's noradrenaline action, it,s thought to have some na reuptake action or it' metabolite norquetipine is.... I felt a little manic I was so full of energy but don't think I was manic just normal as I have trouble with motivation. It helped me focus and helped my paranoia slightly and helped socialise as I wasn't so introverted, I was on it with an AD though. Like all psych meds it's really different for everyone.

You say you felt tweaked and manic, I sometimes get like this, I flit between ideas and my mind thinks away while the TV is on and I have hard time concentrating, I have ADD but only got given strttera, I think I may have a soft bipolar, i get mood swings which make me low sometimes and at others make me full of life/energy and want to chat and don't shut up lol, my psych is crap and reckons I have plain depression anxiety and paranoia from uppers, anyway I think seroquel can be a good med for bipolar with co morbid ADD. It can cover anxiety too as well as depression, give it a try. The sedation went after a week or two for me.
 
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