Depakote was pretty effective for anxiety for me. Trileptal totally knocked me out (on a teeny dose, it was weird) so I'd guess it's good too. Gabapentin is supposed to help anxiety and I think my small dose does (I don't tolerate higher doses of it).Hydroxyzine works for me sometimes ( used it long-term for a while and did well on it when I was doing something in therapy that was causing enough anxiety that my therapist and pdoc discussed it before we started and got me well-established on it then did the therapy work and it was good for that; I've used it short term as well. It's been weird; I used to do well on 50 and now 10 knocks me out which will be in my favor while coming off Seroquel). I'm sure there are others; those are the ones that come to mind as most effective over the years. Topamax also probably helps but with my other meds being sedating I've never been able to tolerate more than a little of it.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD.
Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily
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