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Posted by adamie on May 30, 2002, at 23:52:14
i just read this and was shocked. perhaps i have been getting worse due to the low dose of ativan i been taking for many months? i doubt it is doing much. if i miss a dose or something i cant tell if anything is different.should i try stopping the med? do anti psychotics help for anxiety? that is what i plan to go back on. the only class of meds that has helped (paxil helped a bit before). and quickly too. they work so fast. seroquel or whatever it's called i hope to try.
can someone please explain to me how the benzos may cause greater depression because it recently seems like i have been getting worse and worse. if benzo's are a risk then i dont want to take them.
Posted by JonW on May 31, 2002, at 0:52:21
In reply to Long term Benzo use causes depression??, posted by adamie on May 30, 2002, at 23:52:14
Posted by 2sense on June 1, 2002, at 8:03:22
In reply to Long term Benzo use causes depression??, posted by adamie on May 30, 2002, at 23:52:14
I was put on 0.5 of Clonazepam/Klonopin in 08/0 and it is a benzo and addictive and I was originally put on it for insomnia. The tolerance thing hooked me at about 6 month intervals so by 11/01 I was on 2 mg. Then the doctor left and the new doc I saw upped me to 4 mg. beliving I was bi polar and then he had a massive stroke (very sad) and the doc they gave me only could talk over the phone (this was end of 11/01) and his first appointment was 09/2002!! And refused to take me off of it and said it was this or Depakote ... I had several conversations with him, then finaly had it refilled but too little to late I have two night of total sleep deprivation and wham I had a seizure. It caused (and causes since I am back on it with an anticonvulsant: tegretol/carbabmazepine) behavior changes and one of them was definitely depression I had to go on Wellbutrin SR (150 2X a day) -- which worked until the tegretol undid the wellbutrin (and on the tegretol you can't go on other tricylics while being on tegretol). I have read the 6 weeks is considered the marker for long term -- so I was long term -- but NO ONE told me that I could have a seizure (they call it a provked seizure) if I just stopped taking it.
Just my 2sense (Sue)
Posted by omega man on June 1, 2002, at 23:26:26
In reply to Re: Long term Benzo use causes depression?? » adamie, posted by 2sense on June 1, 2002, at 8:03:22
I was a benzo addict for 8 years..with mild seizure type stuff when stopping..
I would say they tend to make you dull and lifeless...which is not really depression..but the withdrwawals made me depressed for quite a while...one and a half years....
its taken me over three to stop ..but I'm a long term case....I'm not depressed now....so its just a re-adjustment thing..
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