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Specifically for the anxiety disorders GAD and social anxiety. The SSRI's were useless apart from Lexapro but it stopped working on me. The older classes of anti depressants tend to be less prone to the 'poop out'.

There's a lot of these types of drugs out there for depression but finding ones that can help specific anxiety disorders and are still available is a bit of a pain.

Over the last number of years I have been treated with all of the atypical antipsychotics, a few anti depressants, Lithium and nearly all the anti epileptic drugs available and what I though was bad before has become much worse now.

I now have pretty bad tinnitus the depression if far worse and the anxiety is through the roof. I have lost pleasure in activities I used to enjoy.

What's your experience?

I have been suffering from bipolar 2 for 18 years and only found out today that it's an anxiety disorder. I feel like I have wasted the last 14 years (when I first saw a shrink) looking for methods to treat one disorder when I could or should have been working on sorting out something else. I was on up to 10 drugs at a time only a few months ago with about 3 mood stabilizers but still never had that much relief from them. This new doc put me on Lexapro and it all started to clear up, the mood swing went away instead of getting worse which is what I had been told and is why I have been warned against using anti depressants.

So if you have been misdiagnosed how long did it take to get the correct diagnosis, how did you feel about it and how did it effect your life?

I was taking the drug Lexapro and as great as it was that it worked for the first moth it began to fail after that. It's been downhill ever since. I have really bad anxiety and without an anti depressant that works and a mood stabilizer I am all over the place and really quite suicidal. I explained to him that it had stopped working but he started giving me random examples of other things to prove that an SSRI can't stop working.

I let him know I had experienced this with a few drugs but he was having none of it. He suggested I look at Pubmed the website and do a search for drug tolerance and SSRI. This i did but came up with nothing so I did some searching off pubmed and found a number of reliable sites that contradict him.

If you have been on an anti depressant for years you probably know this tachyphylaxis or 'poop out' effect by now. It's meant to come to everyone, just some sooner than others.

So I don't want to ditch the guy, he's a good doctor and has done me a big favour by cutting his rates. I am also due to start therapy for the first time with him and he's already made me realise things like a lot of my problems stem from embarrassment. How do I convince him that there is in fact a possibility that an SSRI will stop working and give me another drug?

Much as the Yoga, mindfulness and meditation are great this anxiety is looking like it's about to get much worse and I have no idea how bad the depression will get.

So I posted a question in here not long back about being suicidal after having no more options left. Time and again meds have either failed or not worked at all for me. Adding to that the meds seem to have made my condition worse.

I am bipolar 2, social phobic have a GAD am hyper vigilante and think (though not diagnosed yet) I am suffering from PTSD.

I have a new pdoc now who has decided he doesn't want to prescribe me all the meds I am currently on. He thinks I am too heavily medicated and it's no good for me. He has given me Lexapro and some muscle relaxers the first of which are working on the GAD but it's too early to tell on the depression.

He wants to admit me to some centre that treats junkies and alcoholics as he sees my reliance on medication as a crutch but I remember what it was like without meds beforehand and worry about what it will be like coping without. Take it all away and I will be worse than when I started but on the other hand I am out of options otherwise.

I am suicidal already but a part of that was because I lost hope, this has given me some. I am not worried about dieing at my own hand but am at being saved and having some lasting damage.

Should I go? Has anyone else been forced off all their drugs at the same time? Sorry to ramble.

My GABA receptors are all burned out for good now after a time of being prescribed them for social anxiety. Now I have GAD to toss in on top of that and no drugs I know of to help. I also have a real problem with muscle tension and now head ticks that make me look like a walking pigeon.

I need something, strong that will help. I'm at this point open to anything. Chinese medicine is a problem for me as it's not available here in India but if it's Ayurvedic I'd give it a go.

Last time I went to see the psychiatrist he just looked down and shook his head then .....

I have Bipolar type 2, social anxiety and now generalized anxiety, paranoia and PTSD. The Bipolar has with the help of the numerous drugs I have taken switch between manic and depressed numerous times per day. It's all just too exhausting.

I am on calcium channel blockers now and taking them at unsafe levels without the consent of the doctor as it is giving me a few extra days of relative peace but I have been back to planning for suicide. I have been on the suicide forums, buying the drugs for a peaceful exit and reading all the material to make sure it's plain sailing.

The problem with the drugs is I never had much time on the ones that worked, they all stopped working maybe a week or two after giving some relief or having side effects that in one instance put me in hospital with a life threatening infection.

The benzos don't work anymore as my GABA receptors were burned out after excessive usage at the start of treatment options and I have also recently discovered that muscle relaxers don't work either, at least the GABA ones.

Does anyone know any others?

Is anyone else in the position of being untreatable or know anyone that is?

How exactly am I meant to steer away from suicidal ideation at a time like this when all I had, hope is gone.

Please don't reply with anything about God, I'll just mark you down.

Have they even heard of them?

All I remember is having two dreams last night and this morning. My sleep patern was all messed up. The first was about getting naked with a guy in a sauna and then I woke up. I remember the guy was dressed up as one of the guys from the group that sang YMCA.

The second dream was about my wearing my mums pants then masturbating to her (pants are underwear in the UK).

So, tell me what do my dreams means? what's my diagnosis? Am I really that screwed up?

Is it short release?

There are two versions of this drug available I know of, a delayed form and short release form but I don't know which one to order.

I'm guilty of trolling in here at times. I'm ultraradian bipolar and flip numerous times every day many times making others' days a misery and posting all sorts of crap.

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Holiday Velvet sold at 10 for about 200GBP.

On my lap top all of a sudden i can't use my left mouse button as before, it's frustrating. It's like the shift key is being pressed at the same time. It's not just in my browser, it's in other applications.

When making the text box I need to add the image so the text goes around the image.

Mine's is busted. RROD. I am located in Goa.

It just started a couple of days ago. Now it is still under warranty but I am not sure if they will accept it back. I half expect it to keep running partiality till the warranty runs out fully in December.

old? I have the the dialogue settings set way down. In your opinion is alien violence really that bad?

I use Any DVD Converter Professional to rip my DVD DVD's but need something to rip all my CVD's.

I have a kid who's only experience with a computer is playing games.

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