(05-10-2017, 05:45 AM)Noonehere Wrote: I really don't know how to start this. I was diagnosed with severe social anxiety disorder with panic attacks at about 22 years old. I went through so many drugs for about three years trying to find one that helped me and most made me even worse off than I was without them. Till one day my Dr gave me alps and voila it was a temporary fix to what I thought was unfixable.
Over the years I have learned I can live a normal life and manage my problem without taking a bunch of other crap. My 1mg or 2mg a day dose was all I needed to be productive. I am now married with two kids a small business owner and have felt for years I had solved the problem. Then My "Dr." decides it's time for me to stop this after 12 years of it working for me because they are addictive and now there are better alternatives.
This was the beginning of a new level of panic attacks I had never had. I was being tapered off and I could already tell things were going to get bad. After 3 months of being cut from 1mg +/- .5mg-1mg a day to .25 a day. I threw in the towel and found a source and have been stable for many many years but all good things come to an end sooner or later. Now I find myself in a predicament.
Forums are great when I don't have to say anything I can troll and find what I need without asking questions or being "seen". I break out in sweats when I come on here just to say welcome to people to get posts. I have scoured the forum looking for anything I might be able to help with or share my experience but someone always has the answer already posted. I hate when 20 people say the same thing on a thread it tells me they didn't read.
So am I crazy or is there other people that are like this? Have major anxiety over posts on a forum?

(05-15-2017, 01:20 PM)Noonehere Wrote:

(05-13-2017, 02:28 PM)Cricket Wrote:

(05-13-2017, 05:47 AM)Noonehere Wrote:

(05-12-2017, 04:48 PM)ComeDayGoDay Wrote: I have a similar situation. After having a baby (and reluctantly, albeit necessary, getting off all medication during pregnancy), I went to a new doctor to start up my schedule of meds again. This included antidepressants, anti-anxiety, ADD and insomnia. It worked well for me as a whole. The new doctor wanted to start me on tiny doses of the antidepressants and refused to even consider to put me on the other meds. Even though I told her it is what I was prescribed for years before the pregnancy. It worked well. So, I just went along with her. After a couple months of upping the dosage, she "allowed" me to be put on ADD medication which helps with the side effects of the antidepressant. It was still a very low dose. She said all the meds were "addictive". Well....sure! But, I am fine and function BETTER on them. I am a better mother, wife and friend on them. We all know what a PITA it is to change doctors so I'm hanging in there a bit longer, but I am thinking about switching. But, starting over with new doctors is so hard and time consuming. I feel like I was a guinea pig and she wanted to be the one to find the cure of alllllllll my problems. She didn't like me telling her I had a solution that worked, that I just needed her to prescribe what I wanted. That's where this site has come in and helped, I took matters into my own hands. I take what I need when, because I know my body the best. It's so frustrating. Yes, doctors are so scared of their licenses being revoked. I think so often it's not about the care of the patient any longer. I kind of thought that some doctors get kick backs from pharmaceutical companies to prescribe meds all willy-nilly (yes, I just said that!  ) but, I'm starting to think that docs are getting nervous to prescribe things that are potentially addictive more and more.

I understand the social anxiety. Sometimes I have leaving my house, sometimes I hate taking my kids to playdates because I have to talk to other people, I have telephone anxiety, I hate answering the phone because I stress out about not knowing what to say...I even have forum anxiety too because I don't know what to write...it's easier to hide behind a computer though, that's for sure.

Sorry for any typos, my kids are screaming at me to feed them! haha!

Sounds like we are in very similar boats! You are right it is like guinea pigs. That's why they call it a practice they are practicing on you.

Medicine is no longer about helping the patient. It's now all about control.
Doc's prescribe meds to you for yrs. and get you dependent on them and then just cut you off outta the blue. Now they control you and make you jump thru hoops to try and get back to what helps you.
Doctors are also being controlled by Big Pharma and the government. They now have to toe the line and do as they're commanded to do even tho they know what needs to be done for their patients.

Big Pharma, which is just another government run entity with mega power, controls the doctors which trickles down to us. The powers that be now have control over all of us and can pretty much make us do whatever they want. Control is what they're all about and want to control EVERYTHING in our lives. They're doin' a great job at it too.

I've said it a thousand times, government needs to keep their noses outta medical decisions. Let doctors do what they've trained for and stop threatening them. Freedom in this country is now a thing of the past and when you've lost it, we'll never get it back. This is the New World Order at it's finest and it sucks, but we allowed them to do this to us by doin' nothin' about it. It wasn't like we were not warned of these things coming. It's just that too many people never thought this could happen in this country. So here we are and it will only get worse until people stop burying their heads in the sand and FINALLY stand up and fight back. Things are movin' in a very bad direction and will continue to until enough people "wake up" and demand our lives back. It won't be pretty or easy, but has to be done.

God help us all before it's too late, if not already.    

Cricket

Exactly! Its all about control. Let see just how far we can pull this jack ass without a rope.

(10-10-2017, 02:53 AM)gemini Wrote: It is amazing to me that many still think of alcohol not being the same as a d**g.  Alcohal is probably the worst d**g than all the others.  Maybe it's so someone can say, "I don't use d**gs"?

(05-11-2017, 04:36 AM)alexandrema Wrote: i Had anxiety over posts on other foruns. 

Here people are so nice, that i don't feel much stress. 
Plus there are people with so much knowledge and experience than me that my control freak mode doesn't kick in. It does when i can be in the leading pack (NOT the case here).

Hope you excuse my portuguese's english.