Posted by Chris O on March 3, 2005, at 19:46:05
In reply to Re: What people's experiences with Cymbalta?, posted by Spriggy on March 3, 2005, at 19:29:55
Spriggy:
I'll reply to you now since I'm still on.
I've been following your posts here. I'm not certain if we are similar in terms of our symptoms. However, perhaps we are. I'm way over in the GAD (generalized anxiety disorder), OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder--mostly obsessing here), agoraphobia, and panic camp. I don't think I have ever had any bipolar symptoms. I'm just anxious, anxious, anxious, all the time. My mom is also a very anxious/paranoid person. Her parents were both hardcore alcoholics (probably to combat anxiety). My mom was my grandmother's caretaker, and I, in many ways, was my mom's emotional caretaker. I'm a 37 year old male, but there is still much unresolved baggage for me there, probably causing much of my anxiety, and probably has caused it for so long to such a degree that there are brain changed physicological symptoms that are difficult, if not impossible to reverse. I can't say that I had the same response to SSRIs as you either. I just stopped taking Lexapro after being on it for 8 months; it's not that it was a particularly bad drug in terms of side effects for me, it just did not do much, it was not strong enough. Five years ago, when I took the Celexa/Wellbutrin combo, it also worked, but...I don't know...I am so "drug paranoid" (as I said to you in one of your other threads--in that way we are similar), that I just stopped taking that combo after a year, even though it was doing something. I was teaching high school English at the time, and lost my job, probably due to my anxiety disorder, but I was on the meds when I lost my job so...go figure. I can function with my anxiety, but...it's becoming imminently clear to me that my life will never go anywhere unless I get it managed better. I am a functional dysfunctional right now. I hope the mood stabilizer works for you...it sounds like, with your dad (and mom?) being bipolar, that might be the ticket out of your funk. I'm just curious: How was/is the Klonopin? That seems to be a really good drug for people with anxiety. Even though my psych wouldn't prescribe it, I might revisit Klonopin in the future. Anyway, Spriggy, I appreciate the feedback and I will keep looking at your posts everytime I come back to see how you are doing. I hope you get your game back with or without the meds.
Good luck
Chris
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