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Originally Posted by Pastel Kitten
I'm not in therapy yet because I was only recently diagnosed with BPD at my last pdoc appointment. I plan on finding a therapist ASAP and this will be brought up with her right away. This sounds stupid but even thinking of taking another medication gives me anxiety (I'm on mood stabilizers for bipolar), ever since I had an awful experience on saphris which was supposed to help ease it, but gave me anxiety even worse than what I already deal with. I expressed this to my pdoc and she said that a lot of people with BPD are non compliant but I'm not trying to be....I'm just genuinely anxious about it.
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I wonder if Effexor would work for you? I've found it really takes the edge off of my anxiety and gives me a buffer from the abrasiveness of the outside world. (It really helps you tolerate distress if you aren't feeling it constantly like sandpaper on your nerves. Makes me want to scream, and I don't even have the separation anxiety like you do, so I can't even imagine how bad it is for you.)