Posted by SLS on June 29, 2016, at 8:13:17
In reply to Re: developing psychosis or panic attacks?, posted by jonhed on June 27, 2016, at 18:53:00
> My psychiatrist is a professor in psychiatry and say that for depersonalization/derealization, klonopin in high doses are the only thing that doesn't make the perceptual dissociative changes worse.
> Xanax definitively is better for anxiety, but it's two different things.
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> Xanax can make you perception worse, and with you symptoms that can exaggerate your panic attacks.
> It did for me.
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> And be very careful with antipsychotics if you have depersonalization/derealization,
> It can be very very very much worse and it's proven and it's a lot of abstract on it.Interesting stuff.
If Klonopin exacerbates or causes depression, I wonder if Valium (diazepam) would be useful - perhaps in combination with a drug like Trileptal (oxcarbazepin) to substitute for the mood-stabilizing properties of Klonopin (clonazepam).
I imagine this idea is misguided. I know a few people who have dissociative symptoms that presumably resulted from the childhood abuse they suffered. One person in particular is doing very well. I'll see if I can ask her what type of treatments she undergoes to mitigate the dissociation. I know that psychotherapy has been a mainstay of her treatment plan.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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