Posted by mrgeek on March 9, 2004, at 17:31:50
In reply to Re: Worried about my father...seeking advice, posted by Bill LL on March 9, 2004, at 9:53:45
> Anxiety, depression, and OCD seem to be closely related. A lot of people who have anxiety, also have some degree of depressioon and OCD. Also, this stuff does tend to run in families. Docs will often prescribe a certain drug to a patient if the patient has a family member who is doing well on it.
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> Also, antidepressants generally alleviate anxiety and OCD as well as depression.
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> How are you doing on Klonopin? Is it taking care of your anxiety? Do you have any depression. If you have depression, you might need an antidepressant instead of, or in addition to the Klonopin.
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> You are a role model for people with anxiety or depression because you do not have a defeatist attitude. You are a fighter.
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> As for your dad, I guess all you can do is tell him that medication is helping you and that it might therefore help him. There is only some much that you can do. If he is against taking medication, then you might not be able to change his mind. It's a shame that he will not even take the HBP medicine. HBP is very serious. It's hard to say if his anxiety is causing his HBP.
Bill LL,Thanks you very much for your insightful reply. For me, Klonopin is completely wiping out my anxiety (not ALL anxiety, just the unreasonable degree of it if that makes sense). I do not have any problems with depression. I did a lot of research before I decided that Klonopin was right for me.
I dont think my dad is so much against taking medication. He definitely knows that he needs his HBP meds. It's the anxiety medication that I think may be hard to sell him on. I think hes just afriad to admit to himself that he might need it as well as the fact that he is very uneducated about psychology/psychological meds in general. I'm currently working on this, but it's an uphill battle with someone his age with his family background.
If you say I have a defeatist attitude, which I agree with you on...then he has the exact opposite. He sees a problem as a problem and nothing more. When I see a problem I look for a solution until I find it. Anyway, thanks again. We'll see how things go.
/mrgeek
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