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Originally Posted by Iloveanimals25
I'm new here and very concerned about my dr taking me off clonazapam. I was on lorazapam with a different np before and she switched me to diazapam and the results were disastrous. I was having rolling panic attacks. Which means you have one, it starts to slowly feel like it's going away, and then a new one will start again.
I just got a new therapist but she doesn't really know cbt. My goal is to really get to know cbt and use it for anxiety. My question here is has anyone on here successfully come off a benzo? And hi! Nice to meet you all. [emoji4] oh I wanted to add that I slowly took myself off of 40 mgs of 40 mgs of doxepin. My Dr told me that everywhere is taking people off of benzos. I feel like since I was able to come off of doxepin, don't punish me by taking me off of clonazapam. If there's lots of typos, please forgive them I'm on a phone. I don't have a computer.
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It's really not good for your doctor to stop lorazepam and not offer you something else to provide ongoing treatment. The fact is that you're dealing with really bad anxiety and that he's leaving you essentially untreated for it is not at all helpful. He really should be looking at your overall situation and maybe increase something like an SSRI or whatever.
You asked about coming off meds for anxiety and I had managed to do that. I'm about 90% off Clonazepam/ Klonopin.
I did it through therapy. CBT helped manage the symptoms but therapy got to the underlying source of the anxiety. Once I saw she understood the cause I was able to change how I relate to my thoughts and responses because I had insight into why they were happening in the first place.
It takes time and patience but it worked for me.
I take Klonopin maybe 1 or 2 times a month now. I'm not completely free of anxiety but it is much better. I still break out in sweats, get tense, etc but the racing thoughts are pretty much gone and the sense of impending doom is a lot more manageable.
Next up, is my depression. But that's a really big thing that we're just starting to get into. I can see that it's going to be a lot of work.