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Re: Klonopin making me worse? Depression » Spriggy

Posted by ixus on March 27, 2005, at 16:31:46

In reply to Re: Klonopin making me worse? Depression, posted by Spriggy on March 27, 2005, at 11:01:16


> Well, my "original" condition was "normal". LOL
>
> Then life happened and I suddenly became Bipolar 2 more focusing on the anxiety part.
>
> So the Klonopin is supposed to help with the anxiety. I realized after I uppsed the dosage, it really wasn't helping AND it was making me depressed.
>
> So since that day, I have been weaning off of it. I am only taking .12 a day at this point. I will ditch it totally in a few days.

Klonopin is NOT a mood stabilizer, so if the diagnosis is right, you should get antidepressant and then switched to mood stabilizer. Don't wait to long, you can get MDD. You can alway get a second opinion. Sometimes agitated depression is mistaken with bipolar by pdocs.
/ixus


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