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Re: Lou's request -vudupsi

Posted by bleauberry on September 11, 2009, at 18:01:55

In reply to Re: Lou's request -vudupsi » bleauberry, posted by Maxime on September 11, 2009, at 9:09:19

> Stimulants relax me, especially ritalin. But I have never been diagnosed with ADD and I don't think I have it. Weird.

Thank you Maxime. That is exactly my point. While a stimulant probably is not the first thing or even the third, forth, or fifth thing someone would think of for relaxation, it can and does happen.

I just believe, opinion, that when the "obvious" choices are bombing out one after another, it is time to think outside the box and start doing the unobvious ones. I've just seen it happen too many times, and unfortunately the sufferings that led up to that were very long and prolonged. And oddly, it was usually an accident or coincidence that led the person to discover this thing that helped them so much but made no sense.

That's just the way it is.

If someone is treating anxiety with things that calm the nervous system, depress the nervous system, buffer the nervous system, and such, and these things are not working, then it seems, at least to me anyway, that this is obviously the wrong approach. This particular person does not need a calmed or buffered nervous system. They need a different mechanism. So get out of that class of meds. It has already been a very long tortured journey, and thus no sense letting it continue. Get off that bus and hitch a ride on a new one.

Easier said than done, I realize. But let's say for example one were to look at their list of med failures and say, "well, there isn't really anything in there with a potent NE reuptake mechanism. Then bingo, that one is now on the candidate list. Maybe it is Milnacipran, Desipramine, or Nortriptyline. There is nothing resembling a stimulant in the history. Bingo, it goes on the candidate list. The reason it goes on the list, and the only reason, is because we already know for sure that the opposite mechanism does not work.

The difficulties of trial and error continue unfortunately. But at least now we can narrow down the list of choices to things that do not resemble anything we have already tried.


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