Posted by Dinah on September 9, 2002, at 10:19:29
In reply to Robin D.J., posted by Roo on September 9, 2002, at 10:06:18
You've pretty much described my own medication dilemma. I finally decided to go with low doses of mood stabilizers, benzos, and additional therapy. I used to go every other week to therapy while I was on Luvox, now I go every week or sometimes twice a week. Because I am a bit more unstable in my emotions and things do affect me more than before. But maintenance therapy seems to really help, and it's a better option for me than the blunted SSRI experience.
Have you evaluated what options you have to compensate for the bad side of increased feeling? And I have a contingency plan for going back on meds. If this or that happens, I will go back on an SSRI.
(By the way, my official diagnosis is cyclothymia and OCD, but I have the sort of mood instability, rejection sensitivity, and other internal feelings that would go along with borderline personality disorder, although I don't fit the criteria because they are mostly action based, and I don't have the behaviors. The way we experience being on and off meds makes me wonder if you also are cyclothymic. I'm sure I should remember, but my memory is not great.)
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