Posted by cache-monkey on January 19, 2006, at 10:22:56
In reply to Re: What do you take for your anxiety? » cache-monkey, posted by 4WD on January 18, 2006, at 21:32:25
> > It doesn't sound like you've reached tolerance. Good for you! I think that substantially reducing the dose and/or abstaining for a while both probably have helped to keep tolerance from occurring.
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> > ~cache-monkey
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> I sure hope so. That's exactly why I did it. My pdoc kept asking me "why suffer?" and I kept wanting to say , "so I won't have to suffer so much later on." I hope it will turn out to have been worth it.
>I think this is a very healthy approach to benzos. In retrospect, I was going for full anxiety control, rather than taking just enough to be functional and then working on the rest in therapy. Are you in therapy, BTW?
I'm just finding out about a whole host of therapy-based tools for coping with anxiety and wish my last therapist had provided me with a better toolkit... I'm going to be trying a course of EMDR this summer, which I have high hopes for.
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