Posted by Prefect on January 13, 2013, at 19:48:37
In reply to Re: Pooped out SSRI - No discontinuation problems?, posted by linkadge on January 13, 2013, at 13:40:24
I have no social anxiety. As a matter of fact, outside my agoraphobia I'm as cool as a cucumber when it comes to tangible life issues and I can even do public speaking.
My anxieties strictly revolve around the absurd concept of my distance from home. So when I leave home, the farther I am, the more anxious I get. This culminates periodically to panic, where I have a crazy adrenaline rush, after which I feel very calm. I may periodically feel aftershocks afterwards with lesser intensity. This is how I recovered the last time. I went out and panicked till I didn't. Reponse fatigue.
This time around, this thing has come back with a few new karate moves and much higher panic intensity, which makes me believe your point about chemical imbalance when dropping an SSRI.
I'm a little reluctant to drop back down to 50 mg, because I think this relapse has already been made complicated by constant dose changes. If the long haul on 100 mg /day doesn't help I have half a mind to quit drugs all together and tough it out with pure unadultrated exposure, maybe hire a CBT specialist too, though I'm not sure what they could teach me with my experience and previous recovery with this disease.
My GP wants me to switch to Pristiq, but I don't undertand how a norepineperine reuptake inhibitor's supposed to calm me down. The only reason I keep taking the Luvox is I'm wondering if I'm a lifer anyway (agoraphobia doesn't happen to normal people) and probably should be medicated, have downregulated receptors and possibly benefit from all the other implied long term SSRI theraputic effects such as neurogenesis, neuroprotection, anti-inflamatory, CCK antagonist properties all of which are most likely baloney anyhow.
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