Posted by Else on July 5, 2001, at 19:21:24
In reply to Re: SSRI's and irritability » Else, posted by JahL on July 5, 2001, at 15:38:12
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> > > I guess the dx is only useful if it leads you to the correct medication.
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> > The correct medication is clonazepam. I know this for a fact. But you know how it is with doctors and benzos.
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> Ain't that just weird (not to mention screwed up)?
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> Here in the UK it's almost impossible to get anything off-label, even relatively std meds such as Olanzapine & Lamictal, yet I can get Clonazepam all day long. My brother's just got a 4 month supply to take on his travels. I thought pdocs didn't view it in quite the same light as other benzos.
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> I find Clonazepam augments my Lamictal & helps with night-waking.
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> Re: yr other post mentioning Borderline P. Disorder. Don't swallow it. They tried it on me. Personally speaking I think it's an oft-used ploy of besumed pdocs who use it to explain their inability to treat adequately. That's not to say it doesn't exist. I don't know.
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> JI think Borderline personnality disorder does exist because in group therapy I've seen people who fitted the description perfectly. They were apparently much more confused and unstable than me about their sense of self (EXTREMELY labile and unsure of themselves) and had mostly been sexually abused as children (I wasn't). Some researchers think it's a form of chronic PTSD which makes sense given that the symptoms are very similar.
Anything can look like BPD though. The diagnosis I would choose personnally for myself is Generalized Anxiety Disorder, among others. I am relentlessly anxious and it wears me out. I don't think the diagnosis matters as much as the actual symptoms you are trying to control, even if they don't fit neatly into any particular category. I would be pretty much beyond caring if my treatment didn't depend on the diagnosis I got stuck with. (Frankly, I'd rather get stuck with GAD because then I would be prescribed clonazepam by my pdoc instead of going behind his back and getting it from my GP. How sneaky of me). I really do ramble on, don't I?
OH yeah. I need to ask. What is the deal with meds in the UK? It sounds even worse than Canada where, as I've mentionned before, your options seem to be limited to Paxil, Risperdal and Epival(valproate). I had to insist to get a shot at Effexor (it was dreadful but worth a try) and Wellbutrin. But I keep reading about how you can't get decent treatment in the UK. What about that?
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