Posted by Quintal on February 4, 2007, at 19:48:35
In reply to Re: Ashton Rocks! » Quintal, posted by Phillipa on February 4, 2007, at 18:54:15
I'm not sure what you're asking me to explain Phillipa? You suffered severe panic attacks and were prescribed the standard anxiolytics used at that time. You've managed to wean yourself off them for short periods of time when you had little stress - that's good and part of what I mean by the goal of treatment being independent wellness. You seem to know this instinctively but it's something that seems to be forgotten or ignored in psychiatry now, where the focus is most often on obsessively fine-tuning neurochemistry with cocktails of drugs - most of which we are expected to stay on indefinitely under the premise of correcting some sort of hereditary deficit.
I don't really accept this notion any more because as you've already said, your anxiety decreases depending on your circumstances - to the point where you no longer need benzos. The goal of therapy is to get you to reorganize your life so that the demands of your circumstances match your limitations and temperament. Using drugs to push boundaries and alter personality is to me more suggestive of performance enhancement than treatment of a medical condition.
Q
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