Posted by bleauberry on July 5, 2010, at 15:49:38
In reply to where to go from here?, posted by europerep on July 5, 2010, at 10:52:44
Well, if the meds are failed attempts as you said, then there is no sense at all in including any of them in going forward.
I agree with you that meds are needed for stabilizing before psychotherapy can have any meaningful effect. I've been through intensive psychotherapy on meds that were working fairly ok, and also while off meds. Psychotherapy does not work if the underlying biological part of it is not addressed first. My experience.
Whatever you do, it should not involve any of the meds you have already been on. Go for something like prozac+zyprexa, or prozac+ritalin, or any ssri+modafinil....get completely away from the ones you have already tried, and instead go for things that have high potential. A plain ssri does not fit that. Neither does another TCA.
This doc doesn't sound like the type that would go along with Parnate or Nardil. Too bad, if I'm correct in that assumption.
The last thing you want to do is add yet another med to the lousy ones you are already on. The new med, no matter how good it actually is for you, will be drowned out by the negative noise of the others.
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