Xanax is the only thing that has ever helped me with my anxiety and panic attacks but now that I’ve been on it for 17years at 4mg a day and it’s been less and less effective he won’t up the dosage. He said I have to go to rehab to get off it. I can barely cope now. How can I go on?
Xanax is a rescue medication you can't it and do ERP, so you have to go rehab and get it out of your system, then you can do some ERP, some introceptive exposures for panic ,like breathing through a straw ,I wish you the best of luck in your recovery
@KeerenJialal I don’t think I’ll be able to do ERP without it bc I can barely do it WITH IT. I’m fucked and considering going to another country for euthanasia.. I heard of a girl recently who did it and it’s not what I want to do: I want to enjoy life like I once did. I can’t do that anymore. My biggest supporter, my husband cheated on me and became an alcoholic so I have no one. Im still with him but only bc he used to be such a supportive person to me then he became verbally abusive and he’s told me that I’ll never find someone else who would put up with me and that I’m such a burden. What sucks is I know he’s right..
I'm sorry you are going through that but you are not a burden ,ERP and accepting uncertainty is the only thing that will help you get better ,if you are seeing a therapist they will guide you through ERP, if you can't afford to see a therapist, nathan perterson has a online self directed master your ocd course, I took it as I can't afford to see a therapist
@KeerenJialal How did it work for u?
I took kolopine for years for treatment until erp. I am now off of it completely. Remember ocd loves to tell us we can't.
@Will86 That’s true. Did u have to go to rehab? How were the withdrawals?
I wanna say I was fuckin super scared to stop the meds. It was rough but I'm glad I did
@Anxiousashley I didn't go to a clinic and the step down helped make the withdrawal tolerable. Ocd has put me through worse.
@Will86 Thank u 🙏🏼 I’m glad u were able to stop them too. I hope I can too as I am barely functioning even on them🥺
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It's not unheard of depending on the level of dependency and type of med if a safe taper isn't an opinion. I would be interested in knowing why it isn't and cold turkey/medicall supervision is required. As you said though kitkat second opinions are always encouraged as long as they're not reassurance seeking.
@kitkatalikat I don't disagree that proper therapy is needed. As I said I was on kolopine for years and had physical dependency. It wasn't until erp that I realized it never worked. I was popping the pill to help and it never did but I just kept doing it. Erp alone didn't remove my physical dependency but it helped me realize I can live without it.
i can’t cope with the fact that i’m alive. i am currently 3 1/2 weeks into prozac 40mg feeling nothing with 0.1mg clonidine daily for anxiety attacks. i have heavy derealization and can’t tell what around me is real and fake. please someone tell me it gets better.
im getting so annoyed i cant stop thinking about time and death and everything how do i stay present and cope literally almost everything is triggering me its been weeks it feels like everything is moving so slow yet so fast and i can feel every second and i keep getting random memories of things i usually wouldn’t even remember they aren’t bad but its just another reminder of time passing and the only thing that helped just enough is xanax but i cant keep taking it every day cause i dont wanna get addicted i need like natures xanax or something how do i produce the same effect a xan gives without taking one for the love of god bro as soon as i think its getting better i start spiraling an hour later and wont be able to stop and its making me feel like i need to go to a psych hospital or something but then i feel like what if im not bad enough to go to one
I don’t know how to cope, everything feels like too much, my medication isn’t working and I’m so tired with looking for the right one as it takes months between each appointment, and therapy is there too it’s just that I need all of what I’m struggling with to go away NOW, you know? on top of responsibilities like my TAFE course and all this other stuff I’ve got to get a handle on, it feels like I’m not cut out for life, I’ve been taking a sedative everyday just to cope with existing and I don’t know how to even keep going.
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