lavendertealatte Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Months of CBT therapy and a group ACT therapy class have only made small dents in how I was doing. I was mostly too scared to try supplements, I would find myself reacting poorly to the ones I tried. But in the last few days I am doing better, but it's because I'm fairly certain my anxiety is just another part of mindbody syndrome (which i encountered before years ago with a stint of Repetitive Strain Injury) and I found the app Curable which is walking me through the neuroscience of pain. It's awesome and I can feel it in my bones that this is what will work for me. Took this list from the app-- if you have these personality traits and identify with this, I urge you to try seeing if therapeutic neuroscience education will help you. The first lessons are free so there's nothing to lose and the science is solid unlike much of the CAM out there Perfectionism Goodism Serial caretaking Low self-esteem Strong inner critic Bottling up emotions Hypervigilence 29y.o. Started Lexapro, 15mg in 2013 for anxiety and depression. 9/28/15- Started taper, went down to 10mg, then 5mg by 10/31/15. 1/2016- anxiety, nausea, fatigue, crying spells, sadness, by January. Reinstated back to 10mg. Leveled out. 1/1/2018- Began further taper, down to 0mg by 1/31/2018. Last dose was 2.5mg. Feelings of dizziness during taper recommended by pdoc. Slowed down taper, but still had symptoms of stomach upset. 2/12/18 - Dealing with symptoms of dizziness, anxiety, sadness, stomach upset. 2/20/18 - Reinstating medication with .6mg. 2/21/18 - Emotionally feeling better. Dizziness much improved. 2/24/18 - Went to sleep with extreme feeling of chills. No fever. Fatigue. 3/19/18 - Increased anxiety. 5/1/18- Began therapy. Have trouble with anxiety and GI symptoms. 9/22/18 - Decrease to .5mg. Anxiety, GI, chills. 9/26/18 - back up to .6mg. 10/31/18 - app Curable, feeling distinct change in outlook and anxiety levels decreased. 2/1/19 - not seeing improvement in anxiety. started 10mg Prozac 2/7/19 - up to 20mg Prozac, experiencing chills, tiredness 2/21/19 - tapering down to 10mg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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