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Re: Zyprexa for racing thoughts/anxiety(methadone) » JahL

Posted by BrittPark on January 7, 2003, at 16:29:14

In reply to Re: Zyprexa for racing thoughts/anxiety » HawaiiStud, posted by JahL on January 3, 2003, at 19:25:48

> I won't win any popularity contests for this but I use low - dose (5mg/d) Methadone for irritability. Helps a bit, as well as giving me a little more energy.
>
> J.

<rant>
You're popular in my book (so's your doctor). The whole opiate receptor complex is largely and, I believe, mistakenly ignored in treating mental illness. So every person who is using an opioid successfully for treating some aspect of mental illness is more evidence that opioids need to become part of the psychiatric vocabulary and need to be studied in that context.

If there were an opioid that didn't cause tolerance and an amphetamine that didn't cause tolerance, I think that we would be able to successfully treat 99% of depressions.

BTW I have been taking 1 5/500 vicodin every evening for more than a year now and it has helped significantly in treating my depression and anxiety. If I could take more without developing tolerance I would, and would probably drop my imipramine and Remeron.

</rant>

Apologies for the rant but I make it a policy to bring this subject up whenever there is the slightest opportunity ;)

I take Zyprexa (7.5mg / day) also and find that it helps with my anxiety, though it hasn't been a cure. I'm unipolar so I can't comment on BP symptoms.

Feel better all,

Britt


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