Posted by linkadge on May 28, 2008, at 20:43:05
In reply to Re: The best Tricyclic for anxiety.... » torachan, posted by SLS on May 28, 2008, at 20:32:24
I wouldn't necessarily say that the SSRI's / venlafaxine are better for GAD than the TCA's.
There are a number of reasons why they are more *studied* in GAD, ie the proliferation of SSRI usage based on their presumed safety, the more recently shunned use of benzos for anxiety, and the increase in medicalization of lesser anxiety disorders in general.
For myself, I needed to be sent into a severly agitated state by SSRI's, labled bipolar, subsequently treated by AP's then finally tried on TCA's to realize that the SSRI's weren't all that great for my GAD and agitated depression.
Ironically, many people are being called bipolarish based on the efficacy of AP augmentation when the AP might just be helping via a serotonergic modulatory mechanism.
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