Posted by utopizen on February 1, 2003, at 16:06:11
In reply to Re: Social Anxiety, about to go on Abilify- questi » utopizen, posted by SLS on February 1, 2003, at 14:48:35
Well, I've gotten paranoid on cannabis before (not heavy smoker- smoked about a dozen times in lifetime) to the point where I thought the cops were coming to get me, that the laptop beep on my roommate's laptop battery was a smoke alarm, that the fire engines going down the street were coming because I set off the building's smoke alarm, that I took the pot and put it in the trashcan.
I've also heard voices during another episode, and was very frightened- had vague sense of being out of it, severe anxiety, paranoia, anxiety in a way I couldn't articulate to you, but saying it made me feel like I was in Hell should suffice. Although this was Vikodin (taken as prescribe) plus cannabis plus 2 beers (taken as my 17 year old state of mind prescribed). Also got shakes during this.
Vistaril (like Atarax, it's an antihistamine) for my anxiety gave me vivid nightmares, where I was suffocating. I would wake up with the blanket over my mouth and felt light-headed several times throughout the night.
Celexa and Paxil gave me vivid nightmares where I killed people or myself.
When I was 12, I was telling an adult how how would have numbers flash quickly through my nightmares during a fever. He said how get got the same thing. Feeling like I connected to him, I naively continued by saying how I also killed people in these dreams. He stopped talking, and I realized my brain wasn't like others.
Virtually any psychotropic will give me vivid nightmares. If for no other reason that I should deserve Klonopin, I think it should be this.
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