Posted by Chris O on April 11, 2016, at 17:04:41
In reply to Re: Anxiety » Chris O, posted by SLS on April 11, 2016, at 15:00:33
Hey, Scott,
I appreciate your frustration, amigo. "How would I characterize my anxiety?" That is an excellent question. It is so all encompassing that I am not aware of it, basically. If you told me, "You have to find a job and survive, now," I would have a panic attack and be incapacitated. The only reason I am not incapacitated is because my wife takes care of a lot of things for me. Not that I don't do a lot despite my anxiety, but ... it's hard to describe my whole situation in these forums; plus, I often have to go do things and do not have time to write a long enough response.
My chief concerns regarding Nardil are:
* It will somehow harm me due to the hypertensive crap.
* It will give my annoying side effects that outweigh any minor benefits and I will waste a year feeling dependent on a psychiatrist with all the humiliation that always entails for me.
* It will not help function better in the world in any significant way.Emsam--Yes, my psychiatrist suggested it many times. His experience was that for it to work well, it had to be taken in higher doses, which negates the anti-hypertensive aspects of the lower dose taking. One of the reasons I didn't try Emsam was because it was so damn expensive. But I'd be willing to try Emsam or Nardil, I guess. I don't know. Without my wife, I'd probably faced down that path anyway.
Klonapin I did try for a year or so, 3mg a day. As I said to Jade, it just kind of "glossed over" my anxiety and depression, not really helpful, kind of like I was slightly drowsy, anxious and depressed at the same time. Nothing grandly illuminating for me. Xanax did little as well. I think I was worse on Xanax, in retrospect. (more paranoid, more anxious, in some respects)
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