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Originally Posted by redbucket22
Why I’m seeking treatment (the problem)
- I genuinely hate people at a core level.
- This creates an amount of constant anxiety which I’ve been treating with a combination of Zoloft (50mg / day) and Klonopin (2mg / day). Klonopin helps greatly with the anxiety, Zoloft helps to calm the racing thoughts I have, and then every once in a while I’ll smoke marijuana because it helps to “rest” my mind.
I’ve tried medicating but nothing seems to work all that well.
What can I do?
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Hello redbucket,
This must have caused a lot of havoc for you and added to your anxiety quite a bit. And trying to navigate your way through it all these years must have been difficult for you.
May I ask please is there any particular meaning to the words "which I’ve been treating"? This indicates that you have prescribed these medications for yourself. I just want to be very clear in my understanding of your words
(being obsessive compulsive causes all sorts of trouble for me), and have the right understanding.You then say
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"I’ve tried medicating but nothing seems to work all that well."
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This also indicates (to my mind ) self medication or self prescribing. Not that it matters for any given point or reason other than an understanding about how some different medications work or do not work on particular issues, diagnosis/diagnoses, and for different people. Using marajiuana can also be a form of self medication too, which you also mentioned.
You are very candid in your comments and that is commendable; truth is the first route to healing, and though for some not found until they have been around the table a few times (for no other reason than they did not know what the actual truth was in their particular case), it is what sets them free.
I hope you do search out a psychologist, they have the grounding and ability to help in many ways and they are patient focused with depth & tools needed to correct the more difficult cases; since you have tried other routes with no success, this may be the way for you to go,
Rhiannon