Posted by Emory on January 25, 2004, at 16:45:44
In reply to Xanax - Lexapro..Is it anxiety or depression???, posted by jewelzz on November 21, 2003, at 8:38:45
I am a teenager and I was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder a few months ago. This disorder has affected me all my life and I am still learning more about it. I have been hospitalized several times within the last year due to the extreme trauma I have been enduring. It is now just unfolding and sort of comming out at its worst and is affecting my mother a ton! I have suffered from anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and other things that effect me uncountiously. The reason why I say that is because due to my situation I cant stop and lick my wounds, I have to keep going. I have seen a lot of doctors and they have put me on anti- depresants such as lexapro, prozac, zoloft, and none of them worked. They either made me more manic or more depressed. Now they have me on Trileptol (1200 mg), resperdal(.25 mg), and Ativan(as needed). Both the trileptol and resperdal are mood stabilizers and the ativan for anxiety. What I am experiencing with the trileptol is cotton mouth, numbness, fatigue, dizziness, etc. I believe that I am now not in the crisis that I was in a few weeks ago and I seem to be doing A LOT better. I dont know if this is because my meds all of a sudden kicked in, or SOMETHING just in my head just clicked naturally, OR I am just experiencing one of my "STATES" that I go into periodically where I think im just fine and then I blow up. I really dont know. I am tired of taking these meds and doctors just shoving pills down my throat including my mother. I understand that I need them until I get more stable and then I can work out my problems but FRANKLY, I am scared of becoming more of a zombie, possibly becoming addicted, or what these DRUGS might be doing to my developing mind. To answer the question that the previous person has posted (in my opinion) the LEXAPRO was a terrible drug for me. It had WAY to many side effects, including making my social anxiety WORSE -- believe it or not. My doctor witnesss this as well and agrees ( he took me off of it ). He wanted to put me on lithium ( he was my outpatient doctor ) -- when I was in the hospital my other docor who was more familiar with GIRL problems (me being a teenage girl) decided to put me on TRILEPTOl which is a lot safter considering you dont have to get your blood drawn regularly and eating a certain way, etc. ANYWAYS, hopefully im not BOREING anyone-- lol-- I am doing pretty good now and I hope in the future I wont be taking all these drugs and will be working out my problems in therapy.
THANK YOU
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