Posted by Shortelise on July 8, 2005, at 13:40:12
In reply to Re: Celexa!!!! » Shortelise, posted by SLS on July 7, 2005, at 20:44:24
I have been in psychotherapy for seven years with a good psychiatrist. We are in the "termination" phase of therapy, a slow tapering of session which will take a couple years more, I think.
I went into therapy because I was having a great deal of work related anxiety, which is pretty normal for the intense business I work in. I was unable to work for a couple of years.
I began taking Celexa after I had a reaction to Topomax which I was taking as a migraine preventative. It caused acute anxiety. After about a week of taking Celexa, I had a period of about a month where I felt wonderful. It was amazing.
That was three years ago. I have gained about 20 lbs. Not good. The last thing a menopausal 50 year old woman wants is to be fat. I am fat.
As for being borderline, this is self-diagnosis. I read about it a few years ago and my psychiatrist said that nowhere had he made such a diagnosis, but he did not say, no, you are not BPD. I am self-aware enough to recognize myself in any and all of the descriptions I have read of BPD.
I have found that the OCD stuff I do increases with a decrease of 1/4 of the Celexa. I have never discussed the OCD stuff with my doc as it's nothing severe.I have gone back to the full dose of Celexa.
Read in all of this that yes, I am peri-menopausal - so there's the hormone thing. I am now on HRT.
It would be very helpful to me if you'd keep your language within the understanding of the lay-person, Scott. I didn't understand what it means for meds to have a "similar psychotropic effect", for example, and had to look it up. It can get pretty frustrating when there are toomany of those in a post, in addition to a bunch of meds I look up.
I am not ungrateful, I just get frustrated.
Thanks Scott.
ShortE
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