Posted by snapper on June 25, 2004, at 19:11:03
In reply to For anxiety, posted by partlycloudy on June 25, 2004, at 18:18:29
Thanks everyone.Your words are encouraging, hopeful and inspiring! I used to take Klonopin & Effexor and I think it was keeping me more in check than I thought! It seemed to be pretty effective at treating most of my depression (within reason) quite abit of my GAD, OCD and maybe more. But like a lot of people, I thought I could come off those two meds and try "better meds"-guess I was wrong! I can barely leave the house and 20mg of Ambien is doing the job to at least knock me out for 6 to 7hrs a night.Remeron used to help also...but was not that great of an AD for me, so I d/c'ed it about a month ago. To have ect done , they like you to be on as few meds as possible; as to see the best therapuetic results from the ect alone! I totally understand this but God its horribly painful(the process, not the actual treatments) and agonizing.I wish I could slumber for 12 hrs or more per day, as to escape most of this nightmare.But it just does'nt look like that is in the cards...at least for now:( ... I am also doing my best to not submit to the ER...again. I don't want to be in-patient. I don't do to well in psych wards.I am pluggin' one minute, one hour, one day at a time and that is NO cliche!I am sure many if not most of you know this senario too well...You feel like you're dying and suffocating and you know you just Can't let go!!Not an option!!Thanks again for all the support!It really helps! I plan to be there for all of you, in what ever way I can!! Thanks again!
Clint
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