Posted by SLS on December 4, 2013, at 6:21:26
In reply to Re: Nightmares + Meds are they Connected? » Phillipa, posted by Twinleaf on December 2, 2013, at 21:37:53
> Phillipa, please do consider what Scott and I have said, in different ways, about dealing with trauma, anxiety, and moderate depression- whether of old or recent cause, with Prazosin and a therapeutic relationship. Even an occasional therapy session can be very helpful, and Scott and I are both proof of the helpfulness of Prazosin. Don't feel there's nothing that can be done about the fears you have. It could well be that you will do better on little or no medication, as I found I did, (Scott has found the opposite) but you have been letting us know for several years that there are unresolved issues also.
Phillipa,
I have also used psychotherapy to help me process issues of childhood and adulthood. I was determined to work hard to be as mentally healthy as possible.
Do you sometimes feel as if the world is closing in around you with no escape? Does your marriage leave you feeling trapped? I have experienced both of these.
1. If environmental stressors produce anxiety and depression, and
2. that anxiety and depression causes a further deterioration of your environment as you become less able to manage it,
3. how do you treat both the biological and psychological when they appear to go around in circles? *
It is much easier to process one's history and transform one's psyche through psychotherapy when one's brain is functioning nominally, or at least as close to it as possible. The brain has an easier time responding to biological treatments when one's psyche does not interfere with this process.
* Ideally, one will use medication and psychotherapy at the same time.
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I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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