Posted by zeugma on July 21, 2008, at 7:49:56
In reply to Re: Have you tried stimulants? » elanor roosevelt, posted by cactus on July 18, 2008, at 3:51:53
It depends on the type of anxiety you are suffering from.
There is a lot of evidence to suggest that social anxiety and 'generalized' anxiety (including panic disorder and most of what is subsumed under the name of 'anxiety') have different substrates.
Ritalin helped enormously with social anxiety, while worsening my general anxiety level, and seemed to counteract the effect of clonazepam (whose dosage I had increased merely to deal with the amplified anxiety from Ritalin).
I take Provigil, which IS a stimulant (I will post elsewhere my reason for saying so) but which causes less general anxiety, while having very limited, if any, effects on social anxiety.
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