Posted by zeugma on November 4, 2003, at 19:20:38
I finally decided to ditch the CBT. It's done nothing for my anxiety other than to make it easier to stand with people in elevators. Wait a minute, I was in an elevator today, and I felt anxious.... OK, it's made it easier to stand near certain people in certain elevators, but only at certain times. A paltry result from four months of weekly therapy and too many panicked phone sessions to count. I finally told my OTHER therapist (a neuropsychologist) that I was giving up, and she knows all about my anxiety (she's had to clean up a lot of the mess the CBT has caused, since many of those panicked phone sessions were with her). She got up in the middle of the session, called my pdoc, and asked him to write me a script for Klonopin. He readily agreed as I have no drug abuse history.
What made this more urgent is that I have just started a demanding new job, and I won't have TIME to have these endless crises with anxiety. Not to mention I will have to deal with many more people, and I can't afford the problems that social phobia's always caused me when interacting with the public.
Hopefully I'll get my Klonopin script on Thursday.
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