Posted by utopizen on September 8, 2002, at 20:47:28
Okay, and with a calm, friendly message to those of you who have been greatly helped by benzos are are enthused enough over them to suggest me to take them: my doc wants me to avoid the benzos so long as there's another drug to hop over to or switch or whatever.
Given the fact that there's several thousand I haven't tried yet, I have a feeling I might take awhile before giving up on this psychotropic cocktail buffet I keep eating at. So please, no benzos for me yet!
Anyway, the point is I'm on Ritalin (tried Adderall, but didn't like how it lasted in my system for 12 hours). An stimulants make me anxious. I need them for class to focus, but in class I also end up sounding like a dork, appearing uptight, and socially anxious. I feel like an anxious zombie. I know not everyone gets anxious on Ritalin, but I already have anxiety, and I heard if you already are anxious it makes you like this.
Anyway, what should I try? I'm already on Effexor for my social anxiety, been on it for 2 weeks. Waiting for result, but I doubt it could actually kill my Ritalin anxiety. Not even Neurontin can do that, which makes me calm off Ritalin.
I was thinking Clonodine or Tetrex... anyone feel calm on these? Or maybe Trofanil, which I heard kids mix with Ritalin to curb the anxiety. Gosh- my parents wouldn't even let me go on plain ritalin.
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