Posted by sar on August 3, 2001, at 1:17:58
In reply to Re: diagnosis debacle, posted by mila on August 1, 2001, at 10:09:05
> Hi sar,
>
> the before starting meds diagnosis is right.
> Prozac triggers hypomania in you, it did in me, although I am not a bipolar, borderline or histrionic, you would easily confuse me with one when I am on prozac.
>i don't know that i qualify for "hypomania," per se. as i said before, i've always been this way *menatlly,* it's just that the relaxation brought by prozac + klonopin has allowed me to be more true to myself/
> Prozac will eventually cure your major depression, you seem to respond to SSRI, but social phobia and GAD do not go away without therapy. SSRI masks their presence but doesn't cure them. when you'll try to go off the meds the depression might not return, but these two suckers will. and the vicious cycle will begin again. Social isolation brought by social phobia is very depressing, and GAD is as well.i did try CBT for 1.5 yrs for social phobia and it helped a bit with rumination/paranoia; however, it never quelled the physical symptoms: throat closing, tunnel vision, dissiness, sweating or extreme coldness, stiffness, delayed response, trembling, etc.
>
> your problem is not that prozac leads to mistakes in diagnosis, but that it will interfere with therapy. First, your therapy will be geared towards dealing with the consequences of taking prozac instead of dealing with real stuff. Second, it influences your thinking and doesn't allow for the change in beilefs and new behaviors to take place (it will make you therapy resistant, so to speak)that makes a lot of sense, except that i've always been a rather unusaul social phobic. i experience all of the classic symptoms and fear, but my "impulsivity" has existed nearly always. i've always nervously been a bad girl! next time i see my pdoc i'm going to tell him that my root prpblem is social anxiety (which he might not believe, because i don't feel it as much one to one with the opposite sex; on the contrary, i become flirty.
when i'm not parlayzed-shy, i'm extraverted-sexy. does that make any sense?
thanks mila,
sar
> hope this helps
> mila
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