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Topic Title: don't want back to clomipramine!
| |  "don't want back to clomipramine!"
, Sat 1 Jan 16:44
Dear all,
I've been suffering from severe anxiety and panic attack for more than 3 years. I was taking clomipramine. Recently I stopped with it and start to take 5-HTP. Yes, it worked out but for a week or so only. Now all that horror came back. I don't know what to do with this.
In a day I have an appointment with psyhiatrist but I know in advance that he'll prescribe me chemicals. I really don't want go back! 3 years it is so much! I want to be normal again like 3 years ago. If somebody went through this nightmare, please give me an advice.
I'd also like to ask if 5-HTP available in Europe. I've got american one through Russia where lots of american medicines available. I live in Holland.
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| | "Re(1):don't want back to clomipramine!" , Sun 2 Jan 03:41
You are not going to want to hear this...
Chemicals, even 5-HTP, SJW, Benzos, SSRIS, TCA,....etc
arent magic pills, they work but the side effects and eventual poop out are what you are experiencing and hate, you have to face your anxiety if you want to be free of this merry go round. I've been there. Exercise, diet and (cognitive behaviour therapy) CBT techniques are whats required. You'll probably have to go on some effective chemical maybe an SSRI, or German pharmacy grade SJW, BUT you must insist that you are assigned a cognitive behaviour therapist so that the underlying reasons for your anxiety are addressed. YOU and only you must work hard at the CBT. Your dosage can be then lowered. These chemicals are dumbing down your limbic system, once you come of them it kicks back in. Your limbic system is responsible for emotions, appetite and sex hence the loss of libido etc. NOTE that even in high doses SJW creates loss of libido, appetite problems, sweating, acne, vivid dreams just like SSRIs profile although admittedly to a lesser extent. I'm sorry to sound hard, but I had to face up to my anxiety in the end.
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| | | "Re(2):don't want back to clomipramine!" , Thu 6 Jan 15:32
Thanx a lot for advice. I don't think behaviour therapist can help in my case because it's rather genetic in my case, just appears recently, in my 30. But even before I was too much sensitive to negative externalities. It made no panick attacks though... Yes, I'm rather down with clomipramine. But if you went through those panicks of my force, I believe you won't think about sex, for instance - to have it or not. I really don't care. I just don't want to suffer again and go on with my life without fears. Today I get back to clomipramine :) No way! By the way, I met a couple of those behaviour therapist, they're just making money on people's horrors, they were so irritating... i hardly could listen to them (even with the help of clomipramine!)
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