Who is on medication?

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What are you on, and how does it help?

I'm on clomipramine for OCD and anxiety.

I'm on Adderall, Welbutrin, and a tiny amount of Zoloft. It's taken me years to get on the right cocktail of meds.

I am on celexa for anxiety and adderall for ADD

Lexapro for anxiety.

I've been on Prozac and Zoloft for depression, and I've stubbornly refused to take any other medication because of how they made me feel. One of them made the depression worse and the other turned me into a zombie who couldn't feel anything at all.

I'm on zoloft for depression its helped me a lot I feel really good wish I had been given it years ago.

What do your meds do and how do they effect you? My psychologist does not prescribe meds. He is pro medical marijuana though. Also I take a fist full of pills for high blood pressure, diabetes, and to control my heart beat so he is nervous about perscribing me meds even if I demanded any. Or lease thats what he told to keep me from asking.

The reason I am asking I keep having invasive thoughts of past meltdowns and bad situations I was involved with (Being beaten as a child, being set on fire in school, and all the times I was treated like garbage) that come back to me like flashbacks. I can do with out having them everyday I guess its OCD if I keep having the same thoughts all the time.

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Wellbutrin (for ADHD, but it helps my sensory issues instead) and Ritalin (for ADHD, and it does help).

I've been on Citalopram (Celexa/cipramil) for 7 years and I am now coming off it. PLEASE don't go on medication as a first resort. I am having an extreme withdrawal from the medication and I am becoming shaky, disorientated and violent (mainly towards inanimate objects). I have been told to go on aripiprazole (a powerful anti-psychotic) to control my Tourettes but after feeling like this coming off my Citalopram, I have refused.

Lyrica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregabalin) for generalized anxiety disorder and a small dose of diazepam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diazepam).

Has anyone tried occasional use of antipsychotics (e.g. Chlorpromazine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine) for repetitive thoughts and sleep disturbance?

These medications seem to be either long-term and continuous, or not at all. I think that there is a role for occasional use, perhaps one or two days and under nursing supervision if necessary, when things get bad - and remaining drug-free the majority of the time.

I took Citalopram for one year (Celexa) and I really regret it. I had a terrible time coming off it and its effects are still happening today, even though I went off it three years ago.

im on fluoxetine for anxiety

Yes, I am on Seroquel/Quetiapine for repetitive thoughts/sleep disturabance.
My mind switchs into intellect, work it out mode, automaticly when people talk. It goes very fast and doesnt just try and
work out those who i'm talking to but any words/sounds and situations in the background. When i've left the situation it
continues 'working out/going over' the situations. Trying to make sense of things and makeing me unable to sleep.
I dont seem to have a 'stop' switch for it.
The very small dose of antipsychotics calms my mind.
If i stop takeing them my mind goes off again, trying to work out the world and all its problems. Conversation/people mostly.

It helps me.

I too take small doses (50mg or less) of Seroquel, and find it lowers the temperature of the bath of anxiety in which I spend most of my days.

I was prescribed chlorpromazine for the same reason (repetitive thoughts, agitation, poor sleep) and it did really help, but with a downside of serious mental fog at the 150 mg / day dose I was prescribed.

I was left with about one month's supply (from about three years ago) and now I take a single 50 mg tablet at night for two nights when things get really bad - so far only three times in three years. I have found this low-level usage to be really good for breaking the cycle of intrusive thoughts, although I am wary of telling my psychiatrist that I retained unused tablets and use them in this way. I am wondering how to raise the discussion of minimal drug use (along with reducing the Lyrica I am on) with a profession that likes to be in control, and favours continuous on-prescription use, usually at quite high doses.

I must read Temple Grandin's pieces about being in control of her own, minimal, prescription drug use.

I'm on Concerta (for ADHD) and a tiny bit of Adderall in the afternoon (for ADHD).