Posted by Sparkboy on April 4, 2002, at 21:05:24
In reply to Re: Benefit of Seroquel?, posted by crepuscular on April 4, 2002, at 14:18:11
> have you tried SSRI's (sure ya have)? they always made me fearless of people and situations. of course this probably was also some hypomania which makes one socially outgoing.
Yeah, but no mood benefits I'm aware of. Zoloft stopped a little OCD I had at one point (fingering my hair). There does seem to be something serotonergic about my problem though; when I tried tianeptine (serotonin re-uptake enhancer), it brought on oversleeping in the summer, something I never had before. That suggests a serotonin relationship to the seasonal part.
> it does chill one out, so it could work for anxiety i suppose. but how about klonopin? nothing beats a benzo for anxiety imho.
I could've had Klonopin again if I'd wanted it, but asked for Ativan. I wanted something with a little shorter half-life so I can regulate according to my need rather than just being ON something 24 hours a day. It's a band-aid that doesn't deal with the underlying fear and depression.
Oddly, my winter episodes used to be just oversleeping, depression, and leaden fatigue, but in the last couple of years, early Nov. means the onset of anxiety attacks. The benzo controls it enough so I can sleep. If I stop sleeping, it's like a complete short-circuit feedback loop. Like having my finger stuck in a light socket. I wised up last fall and added a benzo to my regimen before things got out of hand. I think my med regimen before eliminated oversleeping and leaden fatigue, but cut off the escape route from anxiety.
Glad you found something that works.
--John
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