Re: Why give an anti-depressant for anxiety?
they do use them to treat anxiety but they can sometimes make you feel worse before feeling better, sertraline is used for treating anxiety amongst other things, it just takes a while to work like most antidepressants.
The reason they won't give a repeat for diazepam and lorazepam is because they are both benzodiazepines, a class of drugs which is highly addictive and continuous use causes tolerance, i.e. the more you keep taking them, the higher a dosage you will need in future to get the same effect, and from what I've heard from others, they are hell to get off once you are addicted, my doctor won't even prescribe them short term, which is a pain as I could do with some jsut to get me throguh the first few weeks starting clomipramine...
hope this helps
Dan
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