Posted by Francesco on August 25, 2003, at 18:31:33
In reply to Re: I need some pharmacological AD knowledge » think2much, posted by Francesco on August 25, 2003, at 12:10:41
Antidepressants are the best way to control anxiety over the long period. The anti-anxiety effect for some of them occurs since the first days of the treatment (while you have to wait at least a couple of weeks for the antidepressant one). If I were in you I won't focus on the eventual side-effects like -worsening depression- because the're are so many side-effects reported that the only way to know which (if any) will affect you is wait. I can't understand the reason of those (weird) restrictions for the Valium, above all if you're not an addictive personality. Is your doc a p-doc ? Benziodazepines are usually associated with antidepressants (even if as I said before I don't know anything about Trazodone ... but I must have read somewhere that it's quite sedating in itself). Anyway, don't worry about the possibility to get more depressed with antidepressants: as you can see from the name it's not the way they usually work ! Sometimes (quite often) they work even if you don't expect them to work ... Let us know
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