I guess what caused me to have this anxiety is bullying when I was 6 and crazy parents. Basically it's my childhood and genetics. My mom has always been on antidepressants and benzos so yeah. It's day two on doxepin and idk if it's placebo but I'm more calm during the day.
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Marijuanster
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Drugs don't magically stop working.
Psychedelic Jay
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Yes they do. They all eventually do.
Your body adapts.
That’s like saying one can do one point of heroin for the rest of his life.
That is why we say they are only band-aides... Because they are temporary fixes to long term problems.
TheTraveler2
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Yes you do not have to take the xanax its just helps till the Cipralex enter your blood stream and Cipralex is the cure for the long term, for me the xanax was given for my panic attacks (imagine tony soprano panic attack style).
If you go with the xanax or any other benzo for that matter be careful, now days i just abuse the benzo, its addictive as hell and just like SaY4cT i took the xanax+alcohol+stims way, and boy that is a very bad place to go and its hard coming back.
If you go with the xanax or any other benzo for that matter be careful, now days i just abuse the benzo, its addictive as hell and just like SaY4cT i took the xanax+alcohol+stims way, and boy that is a very bad place to go and its hard coming back.
TheTraveler2
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The body adopt for everything, 4 years ago i was taking one 0.5 Xanax and it would pass me out, this days (just last night) i need to take 7mg just to feel something from the med.
Psychedelic Jay
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I highly advice lifestyle changes and counseling before even jumping into the medication bandwagon in the first place.
dopemegently
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Yeah there are some thing drugs just can't do for you, not to mention side effects. (It's only now after 5 years I find out about "SSRI discontinuation Syndrome".)
erniestavros
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Hopefully you don't have a benzo addiction
adder
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As a teenager I was diagnosed with "social phobia" (among many other things...) and from all the drugs indicated for it, excluding benzodiazepines, only paroxetine really speeded me up socially and dug me out of depression I suffered from too. My then doctor, having heard from me at some point that I'd been feeling worse and worse from paroxetine, decided to add buspirone, so it easies anxiety and adds up to paroxetine effects on serotonin. It ended dramatically, I was actually hypomanic all the time and eventually I did a stupid thing to a girl who liked me and who I liked. :/ I got off paroxetine with some withdrawal and promised myself never to use antidepressants again. Once I was clean from paroxetine, I realized how it was changing me as if I was a different person.
The only drugs that really made me more social generally or rather kept me up to some extent from turning completely depressed were unfortunately benzodiazepines. I started using temazepam at first sporadically to calm down when I was 13. Contrary to how people perceive temazepam, it felt weak for me. I moved on to lorazepam and estazolam and these two actually got me hooked on. Lorazepam released me not only from anxiety, but also it boosted up my mood, and estazolam was ideal for chilling out. Also, similarly to estazolam, alprazolam is good to quickly chill you out and it's much less sleepy. But the best option for anxiety I've come across is bromazepam - it kicks in fairly quick, definitely quicker than lorazepam does, and it seemed to me completely devoid of drowsiness, however, I was quite tolerant to benzodiazepines at that time already. Diazepam and clonazepam are probably two most overrated benzodiazepines; for diazepam it's probably because it's the most widespread, and for clonazepam it's probably because of its potency, but neither really has "the feeling". Eventually I ended up on clonazepam, I was young and had a doctor who I could easily manipulate and manipulated her into switching me from lorazepam to clonazepam. Now as I'm thinking of it, I can't imagine a psychiatrist who would switch a patient from anything to clonazepam. There are a few long-lasting BZDs much less potent I could be partially switched to (diazepam, clorazepate, chlordiazepoxide) and then get off. If I had got to my present doctor back then, I guess I'd have been off this shit by now.
Benzodiazepines are miracle drugs for anxiety, but they must be used wisely, otherwise you're into the worst physical dependence possible as you're messing with one of the most "basic" neurotransmitters and when you mess it up (GABA/glutamate), there's really nothing you can do, but slowly try to bring back the right balance with GABAergics.
PS. After all these years I came to a conclusion I never really qualified to be diagnosed with social phobia or anything else. All I suffered from was plain depression and there were reasons for it which probably could be overcome with proper psychotherapy. But it's so hard to find a good therapist if you're generally resistant. A few specialists even tried to hypnotise me and it never worked, I simply can't trust anyone.
The only drugs that really made me more social generally or rather kept me up to some extent from turning completely depressed were unfortunately benzodiazepines. I started using temazepam at first sporadically to calm down when I was 13. Contrary to how people perceive temazepam, it felt weak for me. I moved on to lorazepam and estazolam and these two actually got me hooked on. Lorazepam released me not only from anxiety, but also it boosted up my mood, and estazolam was ideal for chilling out. Also, similarly to estazolam, alprazolam is good to quickly chill you out and it's much less sleepy. But the best option for anxiety I've come across is bromazepam - it kicks in fairly quick, definitely quicker than lorazepam does, and it seemed to me completely devoid of drowsiness, however, I was quite tolerant to benzodiazepines at that time already. Diazepam and clonazepam are probably two most overrated benzodiazepines; for diazepam it's probably because it's the most widespread, and for clonazepam it's probably because of its potency, but neither really has "the feeling". Eventually I ended up on clonazepam, I was young and had a doctor who I could easily manipulate and manipulated her into switching me from lorazepam to clonazepam. Now as I'm thinking of it, I can't imagine a psychiatrist who would switch a patient from anything to clonazepam. There are a few long-lasting BZDs much less potent I could be partially switched to (diazepam, clorazepate, chlordiazepoxide) and then get off. If I had got to my present doctor back then, I guess I'd have been off this shit by now.
Benzodiazepines are miracle drugs for anxiety, but they must be used wisely, otherwise you're into the worst physical dependence possible as you're messing with one of the most "basic" neurotransmitters and when you mess it up (GABA/glutamate), there's really nothing you can do, but slowly try to bring back the right balance with GABAergics.
PS. After all these years I came to a conclusion I never really qualified to be diagnosed with social phobia or anything else. All I suffered from was plain depression and there were reasons for it which probably could be overcome with proper psychotherapy. But it's so hard to find a good therapist if you're generally resistant. A few specialists even tried to hypnotise me and it never worked, I simply can't trust anyone.
dingophone
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Over time, you can build up tolerance to GABAergics, but with spacing doses (for instance I skip every other night of zaleplon) you can reduce how fast it builds up. Anyway, I've been through a lot of anxiety meds. Buspirone didn't do shit for me, nor did citalopram nor sertraline. I took clonazepam for a bit but it made me too sleepy, so I increased my bupropion and for some odd reason that really helped with the general level of anxiety. I also have lorazepam as a back-up for panic attacks, and it's a pretty great anxiolytic too.
brutus
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The anxiolytic effect of benzos does not decrease IF taken as prescribed.
I strongly would advise against taking benzos and take them only if you have exhausted every other option.
I strongly would advise against taking benzos and take them only if you have exhausted every other option.
Does not decrease ?! I always thought you will eventually build tolerance if taken each day or so.
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Brutus said all of this in one sentence.
But you can read further if you are still having any doubts.
Treatment should be as short as possible. The patient should be re-assessed regularly and the need for continued treatment should be evaluated, especially in the case of a patient being symptom free.
The overall duration of treatment should, generally, not be more than 8 - 12 weeks, including a tapering-off process. In certain cases extension beyond the maximum treatment period may be necessary; if so, it should not take place without re-evaluation of the patient’s status.
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But you can read further if you are still having any doubts.
Treatment should be as short as possible. The patient should be re-assessed regularly and the need for continued treatment should be evaluated, especially in the case of a patient being symptom free.
The overall duration of treatment should, generally, not be more than 8 - 12 weeks, including a tapering-off process. In certain cases extension beyond the maximum treatment period may be necessary; if so, it should not take place without re-evaluation of the patient’s status.
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