Posted by hiba on August 26, 2002, at 0:23:12
In reply to klonopin and depression/anxiety/hypomania? » hiba, posted by hildi on August 25, 2002, at 14:22:57
Dear Hildi,
My diagnosis with major depression is at least ten years old. Since then I couldn't stay off medications. I have been on ten different antidepressants, and I must admit all of them worked for me. But prior to taking prozac which was (and I doubt still) hailed as a wonder drug, I was on klonopin for eighteen months without any problem and it is a record in my life. It is the best one I took in my ten years of hellish life with depression. Klonopin very effectively stabilized my mood and kept away anxiety and other obsessive worries which is the major cause of my depression. You will probably ask me why I quit it. The reason: klonopin is not available in the locality where I am staying now, and a benzophobic psychiatrist put me on prozac which has done enough damage to my sexuality. I have travelled far enough, that a return to klonopin is very unlikely although I wish I could.
Klonopin is a very potent anticonvulsant and like tegretol and depakote it should have some mood stabilizing properties(I guess). Its use in depression is still controversial, because there is not enough data to support. All I can say is,it helped me. Helped me tremendously. But it should not necessarily help you as it did to me.At the same time Xanax's antidepressant properties have been proven. So use your common sense and do the right thing. That is all I can say.
Good luck to you Hildi
HIBA
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