Posted by Budgie on September 1, 2003, at 21:17:13
In reply to Re: Facial twitches in SA » Budgie, posted by mattdds on August 31, 2003, at 0:44:31
> Hi Chris,
Hi Matt, it's good to be back. Visiting wasn't as bad as I had feared!
Yes, the tics are very obvious and people have commented on it before, which is maybe why I'm more self-conscious about that than anything else, why it's spiraled into such a big problem. The plan is to go at it with all guns blazing, as you said, with CBT and hopefully a benzo.
It's really remained a mystery to me, what the biological basis of it is. I always thought that twitches and neurologic problems like that are caused by too little dopamine in one's system, as with Parkinson's. The Parnate, while raising dopamine, hasn't helped the problem at all. Zyprexa, a dopamine ANtagonist was the only thing that helped (it also helped with other anxiety symptoms). I really don't understand. Am I right that Parnate doesn't affect GABA at all, that it could be why I'm still anxious even though I'm pretty happy?
Perhaps the Zyprexa just made me stop thinking and giving a **** what everyone thought. So the self-conscious spiral was stopped. That stuff is really good if you over-think and analyze everything to death, as I do.
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