Posted by katekite on July 7, 2002, at 9:41:14
In reply to Re: gnosis, antipsychotics, pdoc suggestions wanted, posted by cybercafe on July 5, 2002, at 14:50:43
At the time I had sort of a moderate general anxiety and severe social anxiety. The neurontin, for me, took away the general anxiety completely and reduced the social anxiety to the point where I could work on it with therapy type tips. I also felt like I was more able to work on particular goals. I was much happier, but this was probably secondary to the amazing improvement in anxiety.
So, out of, lets see, the 20 or so meds I've tried I found it the most helpful for anxiety. Better for me than benzos because (for me) less sedation and less interference with rational thought at a dose that produces calmness. Better than buspar, which actually for me made anxiety worse. Better than paxil which made only a slight improvement. This is speaking for anxiety only, though.
The only thing negative I have to say about it was that in retrospect I think I viewed life over-simply on it, I think I was more naive than usual. I'm not sure how much -- just when I read stuff I wrote then it seems I had turned into a disney version of someone on a self help binge. I got distracted by working on my social anxiety to the point I didn't do other things I needed to. A little weird. I'm generally cynical and my personality shifted to being an optomist (no one in my family is an optomist, it's genetically screened for in potential mates and any optomists are discarded.) But, at the time, it felt good.
kate
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