Posted by crepuscular on April 4, 2002, at 14:18:11
In reply to Benefit of Seroquel? » crepuscular, posted by Sparkboy on April 4, 2002, at 13:52:19
well, i wasn't having any anxiety when i started it, i was manic and not sleeping. nice at first, but then paranoid and angry. very much the opposite of social phobia i guess - i was in peoples faces constantly!
seroquel restored my sleep pattern, but it also slowed my mood cycling down to the point where i don't really know "where" it is. i am also now able to take zoloft (low dose) which i could only do for a few weeks before it made me deliciously hypomanic. i'm at 100mg seroquel, which is a low dose. but peoples response to this med is all over the place.
have you tried SSRI's (sure ya have)? they always made me fearless of people and situations. of course this probably was also some hypomania which makes one socially outgoing.
in terms of an antidepressant response, my answer is *yes*, but more in an amplitude damping sense. not in the usual way that i response to an antidepressant - which is good.
it does chill one out, so it could work for anxiety i suppose. but how about klonopin? nothing beats a benzo for anxiety imho.
> Does it give you an AD response or anxiety relief? Are you on a low dose? My primary thing now is crippling anxiety, fear of social interaction, lack of warmth, and indecision (fear related). Wake up with a mild anxiety attack each morning (have to face another day). It feels like standing in the center of a mine field.
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> I get along well with most people but live in mortal dread of those few fringe people in any setting (like a job) who like to undermine wherever they sense vulnerability. That's human nature, of course, but it drives me to distraction when it occurs. Social life will become possible when I feel good enough to stop sending off those victim signals. Sorry for rambling, but this is one of the few places I think people can relate.
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> --John
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