Re: What happens if anxiety disorder is unmedicated?

Posted by SLS on December 17, 2012, at 6:05:47

In reply to Re: What happens if anxiety disorder is unmedicated?, posted by jono_in_adelaide on December 13, 2012, at 16:35:52

> > Wouldn't my head at some point desesitize?
Not necessarily.
Quite the opposite can occur through a kindling-like process, although I imagine your anxiety can't get much worse. Under certain conditions, one can become sensitized rather than desensitized to a repeated external stimulus. Not only that, but the amplification of anxiety to the stimulus can become generalized to a whole class of related stimuli.
Untreated anxiety can lead to depression or perhaps make the anxiety more treatment resistant.
> I'd be more inclined to increase the Luvox (and maybe add Buspar or Atarax to it) rather than discintinue drugs all together.
Those are two great suggestions.
Although it is rarely mentioned here, I have seen Phenergan (promethazine) work as well as Zyprexa in a man with severe anxiety. The switch from Zyprexa to Phenergan was made because of the weight-gain Zyprexa had produced.

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