Posted by Henry Miller on June 14, 2008, at 0:19:40
In reply to Re: Stimulants increasing anxiety, OCD? (long) » noa, posted by kingcolon on January 25, 2008, at 0:25:44
I have the same skin picking problem. Try boosting your SSRI with a low-dose of Lithium. I take 150 mg of Lithobid( 300mg cut in half) twice a day. The Lithium + 50mg of Liquid Zoloft knocked my depression and OCD right of the water and significantly abated my social anxiety but not completely. I've had zero side effects on Lithium. In fact the Lithium boosts my sex drive. If low-dose Lithium, doesn't work, try Buspar. Buspar is pretty awesome stuff when augmented with an SSRI. It's really dose specific and thus requires a great deal of trial an error. It didn't start working for me until I reached 60 mg. I would still be on Buspar if my doc had encouraged Lithium and since the Lithium is about ten times more effective...I'm sticking with it for now.
As for stims, I too have a fondness for these little magic pills. Stims, particularly desoxyn, work great for my social anxiety and cognition but are horrible on my OCD. I wish there was something that could boost my brain power without turning me into an OCD nutcase that can't stop checking his MySpace page every thirty seconds.
Has anyone tried Dextroamphetamine ie. Dexedrine. I read an article on the web that claims Dex is supposed to help OCD in some cases??? It's funny b/c Desoxyn treats some of my OCD symptoms but makes others worse.
I had high hopes for Provigil but that also triggered the skin picking. Selegine (2.5 mg wafers aka Zelepar) seems to be working for now but my blood pressure has dropped drastically?
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