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Posted by uncouth on April 23, 2009, at 16:04:47
Just wanted to get a thread going on D-Cycloserine. Few threads a while back and years ago about it's utility for fear-extinguishing exposure therapy adjuncts for people with OCD...but i'm curious if it has more general antidepressant, anti-social-anxiety effects.
Is anyone currently on it? If so, how much/how often? How long did it take to see results...what are you on it for? Basically the whole shebang on your experiences. I have some on order that i'm looking to try, hopefully to help with my ruminating thoughts and social anxiety and general horrific state of depression I'm in right now, which has been refractory to (so far) 18 sessions of ECT.
Help me please, otherwise i'm going to kill myself one of these days I fear.
Posted by Phillipa on April 23, 2009, at 16:39:05
In reply to Anyone using D-Cycloserine for...anything?, posted by uncouth on April 23, 2009, at 16:04:47
Uncouth no haven't been on it just here to support you. Love Phillipa
Posted by rvanson on April 26, 2009, at 5:23:25
In reply to Anyone using D-Cycloserine for...anything?, posted by uncouth on April 23, 2009, at 16:04:47
> Just wanted to get a thread going on D-Cycloserine. Few threads a while back and years ago about it's utility for fear-extinguishing exposure therapy adjuncts for people with OCD...but i'm curious if it has more general antidepressant, anti-social-anxiety effects.
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> Is anyone currently on it? If so, how much/how often? How long did it take to see results...what are you on it for? Basically the whole shebang on your experiences. I have some on order that i'm looking to try, hopefully to help with my ruminating thoughts and social anxiety and general horrific state of depression I'm in right now, which has been refractory to (so far) 18 sessions of ECT.
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> Help me please, otherwise i'm going to kill myself one of these days I fear.D-Cycloserine had the effect of making me have angry feelings, which I normally do not have. A very bad choice for me anyway.
I hope the ECT helps, but you need to find a med that will keep the depression at bay for good, IMO.
Posted by uncouth on April 26, 2009, at 17:24:34
In reply to Re: Anyone using D-Cycloserine for...anything? » uncouth, posted by rvanson on April 26, 2009, at 5:23:25
so no one's played around with D-cycloserine at all, besides rvanson? would love to hear more experiences....
Posted by TriedEveryDrug on May 2, 2009, at 20:32:18
In reply to Re: Anyone using D-Cycloserine for...anything? » rvanson, posted by uncouth on April 26, 2009, at 17:24:34
> so no one's played around with D-cycloserine at all, besides rvanson? would love to hear more experiences....
I've taken it for social phobia.
I think it helps with anxiety, but it is weird - before I took it I had an interest in being social. Now I don't care.
I think it did something permanent or long-term to me. I can't say it was exactly positive.
Sorry this is so vague, but that is how the effect is - vague.
Posted by rvanson on May 9, 2009, at 6:07:48
In reply to Re: Anyone using D-Cycloserine for...anything?, posted by TriedEveryDrug on May 2, 2009, at 20:32:18
> > so no one's played around with D-cycloserine at all, besides rvanson? would love to hear more experiences....
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> I've taken it for social phobia.
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> I think it helps with anxiety, but it is weird - before I took it I had an interest in being social. Now I don't care.
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> I think it did something permanent or long-term to me. I can't say it was exactly positive.
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> Sorry this is so vague, but that is how the effect is - vague.For you perhaps. Every medicine or drug will not effect everyone the same way. I dont feel in my care that D-Cycloserine had a long term effect. I always have side-effects right away, and they never improve at all, so I knew enough to stop taking it.
Had I not, perhaps it would have made a long term change, but it would have not been for the better IN MY CASE, only. Like they say: Y-R-M-V.
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