Posted by mike1970 on March 20, 2004, at 0:58:42
I have experienced generalized anxiety disorder for a number of years and have benefited from cognitive behavioral therapy. My main symptoms have always been negative predictions ("X is going to screw me over") and then rumination about the predictions. These symptoms worsened a year ago and I went on medication for the first time. Paxil at 25 mg reduced each symptom considerably. More paxil did not improve upon the 25 mg. Adding 300 mg of wellbutrin has further decreased the rumination, but some negative prediction continues. My pdoc has concluded that medications cant take care of the negative predictions completely. My ideal is to have none of the negatoive precitions, but perhaps that is not possible.I welcome any feedback about this situation.
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