Posted by Chairman_MAO on March 2, 2006, at 23:18:15
In reply to Re: Yes, posted by zeugma on March 2, 2006, at 22:50:36
I'm not sure what you mean...
Following your suggestion, one should be able to employ the "benzodiazepine antipsychotics" in paranoid schizophrenia, for the benzodiazepines definitely lessen feelings of fear, worry, suspicion, paranoia, and other lawn orniments residing in front of Mental Misery Manor. In fact, at high enough doses (provided the patient is kept away with other meds), they can stop it altogether. Are they antipsychotics?
Depression can feature anxiety, and depression can be caused by anxiety. However, if you treat such anxiety with an anxiolytic, the anxiety is gone quickly, yet the depression remains. If buspar is used in that circumstance, after 4-6 weeks (at ueber-doses) the depression might improve to the point where there's not as much anxiety (or in this case I think "worry" is better). Does that mean buspar is an anxiolytic? What it means, really, is that buspar isn't ANYTHING. Did it get rid of the depression or anxiety? No. It just "improved" both. And I wonder if that has anything to do with the way SSRIs "improve" things...
It is a weak 5th1a partial agonist with some other properties. It should be labelled as a REM sleep control drug, if anything.
or did I miss your point
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