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angelicgoldfish05 · Aug 19, 2015, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by highfunctioning

I have been seeing this therapist for SIX YEARS. During that time, I have been through some enormous personal stress (marital problems, financial setbacks, drug addicted stepkids living in my home, etc.). We are still undergoing some financial issues related to trying to get the stepkids some help.

I am only taking .5 mg of klonopin to control the anxiety. It helps some, but I don't want to up the dose too much. I am actually thinking about going back on Effexor even though it was hell to get off of it because things were better when I was taking it.

I have a lot of physical symptoms as a part of the anxiety (stomach trouble, chronic pain, etc.) and I find this type of therapy useless in preventing this from happening. It's like they are triggered by a part of my brain that is more primitive than the part that controls rational thought.

You may want to look at gabapentin, it helps with anxiety and also chronic pain. I'm not a doctor, just know that it worked for me. Also, I would not discredit yourself for all the work you have done in the past 6 years. It may seem like a long time for you, and that you should be seeing results by now, but it sounds like you have had some major setbacks and stressors along the way. This makes progressing in treatment that much harder. Everytime you are hit with a new stressful event, all your energy goes into managing that. Sometimes we just don't make a lot of progress and then suddenly break through and move in leaps and bounds in a very short time. You just never know when this is going to happen. It may be right around the corner for you.