Posted by cpallen79 on August 26, 2004, at 13:00:24
In reply to anticonvulsants can help some anxiety, posted by linkadge on August 23, 2004, at 16:02:02
I ahve to agree with this... I take Ativan as needed, but boy has trileptal helped me /w anxiety, whoah... too bad it gave me a rash, now we're doing Lithium for mood swings/ BP... great.
> Personally I think that anticonvulsants can help some anxiety. They can help the endless mind racing and rumination that is caused by some depression. They can also be of some help if your anxiety has psychotic elements.
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> But what they don't help at all is anticipatory anxiety. They make you feel dumb, I agree. Feeling dumb can in turn make anxiety and depression much worse.
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> I found that depakote was good for physical anxiety, probably because of its strong gaba effect. But again it made me depressed.
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> Personally I think the best anxiolitic would be a 5-ht1a agonist/5ht2a antagonist/ gaba agonist
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> I am doing a little bit better but it is just the wait that is so excruciating for me. Docotors don't seem to understand this. If sombody is coming into the hospital with 2nd degree burns. They don't tell them to go home and take a pill that *might* help their pain within the next *few months*. They give them morphine. Likewise I consider a severely depressed persion to have emotional 2nd degree burns, and sending them away to wait for a few months is unnacptable.
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> I should go back to the hospital, but you sit in your room and wait 2 weeks for them to give you an ativan.
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