Mornings !!!!!!!

[purplepie]

I take 1-2mg when I am really struggling but I have only just been prescribed them. I know taking them for years is not advised but I do know people who take 1mg daily as they have been on the for years.

I am doing stuff with my time but feel terrible while doing it. My mood is so flat and I feel on edge and overwhelmed for no reason. This morning was bad.I woke at 6.30, took at valium, slept again for an hour and then took 20mg of propranolol which are not worth the prescription they are written on. In a morning my heart races at over 100bpm, I am clammy, sweaty, feeling sick with nerves and annoyed with myself for feeling like this!

[TRISTAN]

Yeah , been with them all weekend which has been nice but have to come back to mums at night ,

Just so fed up in the morning and in a real mess I just take 3 , doesn’t make me feel any better and psychiatrist said cut it back

[pulisa]

Easier said than done when you've been on them for years. As the psychiatrist should know of course..

So you take them out of habit?

[Carys]

I suspect its not out of habit, but because you need higher doses to get effect from them as time goes along as you become tolerant, so people gradually increase and increase and this can lead to dependence. The same as any benzo, you get withdrawl effects once you have taken for a considerable time (which varies from person to person) and certainly 2 years is a considerable time. What amount does your psychiatrist want you to reduce by ? Withdrawl can exacerbate the very problems they were taken to combat. I'm so surprised to hear of a psychiatrist prescribing 4mg a day for 2 years.

[pulisa]

When my daughter was younger she saw a psychiatrist who wanted her to take high dose alprazolam (Xanax) every day. She didn't.

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They have such a depressant effect over time as well.

[TRISTAN]

So this morning is the worst I have felt in a long time , upped sertraline and reduced quetiapine,

Really bad sleep too and just can’t calm down enough to function

[TRISTAN]

Your not alone there , my psychiatrist has just taken me off propanol after 4 years

[TRISTAN]

How is everyone doing today ??

[TRISTAN]

So upped sertraline to 200 on Sunday and my anxiety has gone sky high and can’t cope with this shit , so very scared

[whispershadow]

So upped sertraline to 200 on Sunday and my anxiety has gone sky high and can’t cope with this shit , so very scared

tristan, hope you feel less scared soon