Posted by Tepiaca on November 23, 2005, at 21:52:12
In reply to Re: Experiences on Risperdal... Im afraid of TD » Tepiaca, posted by alexandra_k on November 23, 2005, at 15:31:56
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> Nope. I don't know a single person. The people I know with TD have been taking heavy dosages of the older style AP's (like chlorpromazine) over... 20 years or something like that.
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20 years? then IŽll have it when IŽll be 45the people you are women? I read women have more probabilities to develop this sindrome.
> The people I know who have muscle twitches don't have TD. They take a little bit of cogentin and that stops that for them. They get muscle twitches and jaw clamping. But the cogentin sorts that out for them.
>sorry... what is cogentin? . So I can have jaw clamping and that does not mean I have TD
> Christopher Frith in "The Cognitive Neuro-Psychology of Schizophrenia" considers that TD symptoms... Might not be caused by AP's. He thinks... That TD symptoms... Might be the result of schizophrenia being a degenerative brain thing, and he considers that it might be the case that without the AP's... People would have the same symptoms anyway. He says that people were recorded as having TD type symptoms... Well before the development of AP's. I don't know whether he is correct or not, but it is something to think about.
>Very interesting.
so just schizophrenics could have TD? that what hes is trying to tell us?>
> > > Can you talk to your doc about your fear?
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> > I have been telling to my doctor since I was 15 that I am afraid of people.
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> Okay. Personally... Personally... I think one would be better off taking a low dose of an AP for anxiety than one would be in taking a more typical 'anti-anxiety' medication like a benzodiazapine. Because... Of the very real risk of psychological / physical dependence.
>what is the problem with becoming dependent with a benzo? . I only would have to take it all my life rigth? but nothing wrong would happen,or I am wrong
> The best treatment for social anxiety (that I am aware of) is therapy. To talk through some of your fears and getting you to work on exposing yourself very gradually in very small steps to situations that you are frightened of. Have you had any therapy for that?
>I was in therapy for two years when everything started. But nothing helped me as much as meds
> I hope you find some relief for those.
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>Thank you very much
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