Anyone ever been prescribed an anti-anxiety drug for ssri withdrawal symptoms?
I've been told I seem more frustrated and stressed-out since going off my antidepressant. Well, I have been feeling that way and I also feel my symptoms are a little worse than before I was ever put on an ssri.
My shrink wants to prescribe Klonipin .5mg for these symptoms but not sure if she wants me to take them on a long-term basis. i think she said I can it on an as-needed basis.
But, this med is highly addictive, isn't it?
I've heard good things about Kava Kava and Valerian root and am contemplating about using one of these to help with ssri withdrawal symptoms, instead of Klonipin.
Any medicines must be short term use. This is a principle. If taken for a long term, the purpose of medicines is temporally effective. If you stop to take it, all present symptoms will come back. Better ways are to find the exact cause. Your case is depression. Where does depression come from? Without diagnoses, I guess that it might be from stress. Where does stress come from? It comes from emotion. This emotion comes from anger, joy, thinking too much, worry or fear. All these emotions are related with body organs, which are liver, heart, pancreas, lungs and kidney. We try to find which organs are involved for your depression. We try to find the related organ and strengthen the organ. As soon as organ function begins to improve, you are going to take less amount of medicine and able to stop to take medicines in the future. I believe this is a right approach. All these can be done by acupuncture and herb formula. These methods are all natural and no artificial chemicals.
