Posted by Hugh on May 3, 2013, at 10:25:15
In reply to What is your magic pill?, posted by topdog on May 2, 2013, at 11:21:03
I took the muscle relaxant baclofen for muscle spasms in my lower back, and was amazed when it wiped out my depression and anxiety. I had to stop taking it after a week because it started to cause terrible insomnia. Olivier Ameisen wrote a book about baclofen called The End of My Addiction. Ameisen had tried many antidepressants and benzos and rehab and AA. None of them helped much. Then he tried baclofen. When he got to a high enough dose, it eliminated the depression and anxiety that was driving him to drink. He's been taking baclofen for ten years now, and has not developed a tolerance to it.
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