ABSOLUTELY! SSRIs make me as I posted elsewhere, a hundred times worse. There isn't a substitute for me to the ones that actually work like alprazolam, diazepam and bromazepam, the last named especially useful if you suffer sudden panic attacks; it works so fast and gives the most wonderful calm sedation for a couple of hours after 18-36mg.
When they tried me on citalopram I was 100% anxious 100% of the time and suffered sometimes two or three full panic attacks daily. Now I am back on an alprazolam script I haven't had but one fully-blown attack and my anxiety level is low, even though my dosage is tiny - 2.25mg/day. Ah, but I supplement it with the occasional diazepam and always carry bromazepam just in case.
Only about 50% of patients are receptive to SSRIs. Why the medical establishment is trying so hard to displace benzodiazepine treatment with these horrible things is a mystery to me. BZDs have proved their worth to so many of us sufferers. I can see the day we may have to demonstrate against the continued deletion of BZDs from various national formularies. Disgraceful.
We are Stardust

Hiya,
Just to say that my doctor told me that the SSRIs are prescribed more often than a good tricyclic (like the Dosulepin I'm now on) is because they are CHEAPER!! Well, that's just great, isn't it? Why worry if half of our patients prescribed them actually get worse!!!!
Of course there are a lot of people who have benefited greatly from the SSRIs (even if they've had to try more than one), so can't fully condemm them, but I do wonder. A lady at our church, who had severe post natal depression, said that when she had Prozac she actually developed anxiety, which she had never had before in her life! Yet Citalopram (which I was last on) did the trick for her. Another lady, who's now been on Lexapro for over 6 weeks told me she was STILL suffering from bad anxiety.
I don't know - I just don't trust them. I do know that the morning I woke up, 2 weeks after starting Citalopram, I calmly thought "time to die, I will just get in the bath and slit my wrists". FORTUNATELY, I recognised that this was not right (maybe some people wouldn't have!!) so went straight to the doc, taking my youngest daughter, home from uni, with me.
He told me to get off them right away, and had to prescribe tranquillizers for a while to bring me down again.
Something here quite funny (ironic?) on that day when I rang for an appointment the receptionist said "we only have emergency appointments left. Is it an emergency?" I told her that because of the side effects of the tablets I'm on I felt I would commit sucicide this morning!!
Now, at least I have it on my notes at the doctor's not to prescribe me any more SSRIs (tried 3, and they all made me worse!!).
Keep healing.
Pud
xxx

[QUOTE=wearestardust;3524297]ABSOLUTELY! SSRIs make me as I posted elsewhere, a hundred times worse. There isn't a substitute for me to the ones that actually work like alprazolam, diazepam and bromazepam, the last named especially useful if you suffer sudden panic attacks; it works so fast and gives the most wonderful calm sedation for a couple of hours after 18-36mg.
When they tried me on citalopram I was 100% anxious 100% of the time and suffered sometimes two or three full panic attacks daily. Now I am back on an alprazolam script I haven't had but one fully-blown attack and my anxiety level is low, even though my dosage is tiny - 2.25mg/day. Ah, but I supplement it with the occasional diazepam and always carry bromazepam just in case.
Only about 50% of patients are receptive to SSRIs. Why the medical establishment is trying so hard to displace benzodiazepine treatment with these horrible things is a mystery to me. BZDs have proved their worth to so many of us sufferers. I can see the day we may have to demonstrate against the continued deletion of BZDs from various national formularies. Disgraceful.
We are Stardust