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PANIC DISORDER update: SSRIs added
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 6:06 PM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party 4 mg of clonazepam per day. Still anxious as fuck and still having panic attacks, so I'm starting an SSRI, Lexapro. Doctor said higher doses are needed for panic attacks. 10 mg to start, then 20 mg in a week, then possibly 30 mg a week after that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205248) |
Date: August 22nd, 2025 6:13 PM Author: Primrose site goal in life 🥳 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205279) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 6:19 PM Author: pearly hall alpha You're doing great. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205314) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 6:56 PM Author: lascivious regret wow that’s a lot. are you making that up? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205583) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 7:25 PM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party No. Why would I make it up? I'm about to take my nightly dose of clonazepam. The goal is to pass out from the clonazepam before I have a panic attack. They tend to happen at night. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205714) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Primrose site goal in life pls poast as the benzo haze starts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205759) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 8:53 PM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party One hour in, and I'm feeling sleepy and calm. An uneventful night. I wonder if I'll forget that I poasted this tomorrow morning. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205920) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 7:48 PM Author: lascivious regret well I hope you aren’t having wine on top of all that. this is very concerning (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205781) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 7:55 PM Author: anal crotch Another one falls to the devil of Jewish Psychiatry. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205793) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 8:26 PM Author: lascivious regret you should visit the dentist regularly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205857) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 8:00 PM Author: Awkward brethren incel the panic anxiety is a summons from your unconscious mind to accept your homosexuality. this subterranean ego dissonance creates psychic pressure which boils over somatically in the form of paroxysmal adrenaline surges (so called 'panic attacks'). masking this with sedatives and neurochemistry scrambling SSRIs will only lead you further away from a true resolution of your discomfort. you will end up like Jordan Peterson, completely self-alienated, chained to a gurney in a Siberian detox facility. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205813) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 8:07 PM Author: curious heaven Lol faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205821) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 8:11 PM Author: honey-headed beady-eyed school cafeteria I've had this for ~15 years now. They put me on SSRIs at the beginning at it didn't do shit. Eventually I got to the point where I got a doctor to prescribe me xanax (1mg/day) that I just don't take unless I'm having a panic attack.
I always keep about 3mg of pills on me in a little case that goes in my wallet. The plus side is that I rarely ever get anxiety attacks anymore, because I know I can "stop" them with the benzos. The downside is that I'm more or less attached to the pills, whether I'm taking them or not. |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 8:57 PM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party Right now I'm at the point where I'm having panic attacks every day or every other day, so I need to take the clonazepam daily. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205929) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 10:15 AM Author: glassy flirting international law enforcement agency rigpig this is exactly what i did.
ssris are demonic. xanax as needed is cr. they just try not to prescribe it because people like getting xaned out. i rarely ever take mine and when i do i take 0.5mg and another if it doesn't work. that's not enough to make me feel intoxicated but it stops the panic attacks in a flash. it's perfect and i have no desire to start popping pills to get high. |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 9:01 PM Author: Motley Plaza Quadroon Seems simpler to just learn to enjoy panic attacks. People like roller coasters and stuff, so it seems doable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205942) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 9:11 PM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party The difference is that a roller coaster can be an enjoyable thrill/excitement, whereas a panic attack is an intense, overwhelming, and irrational sense of fear. Everything around you makes you anxious, you go from being calm to wide awake, you start sweating, etc. There's nothing enjoyable about it. The first few times people experience them, people think they're having a heart attack or some other serious health event. I've had so many that I've learned that they're not dangerous, but they make me feel sick afterwards and leave me with a deep sense of fear. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205971) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 9:14 PM Author: Motley Plaza Quadroon This sounds like something that would happen to a marijuana user (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205978) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 9:17 PM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party I've smoked weed like 10 times in my life, the last time being 6 or 7 years ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205983) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 9:07 PM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party Approximately one hour in after taking 4 mg of clonazepam, and I'm feeling sleepy and mostly calm. My panic attacks happen at night, but I timed the clonazepam right to prevent one tonight. Apparently people get high off of this? I just feel dull, emotionless, and sleepy. After a certain point I don't remember what I did. Whatever it takes to stop the cycle of panic: irrational fear that persists and grows into a rush of adrenaline that makes me extremely anxious: my breathing constricts and I breathe differently, heart races, sweat, every thing triggering anxiety, feeling trapped, etc. I think I've reached the point where the primary trigger of panic attacks is the fear of having another one after having so many in the last few weeks. I just need a few weeks without a single panic attack to shake off that fear of panic. Benzos are the only way I can break the cycle. The SSRIs might help during daytime anxiety, but I've been on them before, and they did not prevent panic attacks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205964) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 9:09 PM Author: curious heaven Bro just apply to jobs on LinkedIn lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205968) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 9:16 PM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party The problem is that my panic attacks are triggered by stress, and then they turn into a cycle triggered by fear of having another panic attack. The panic attacks are debilitating and leave me feeling kind of sick and extremely fearful for days. I don't have the capacity to interview for jobs or even apply for them when I'm this deep in the panic cycle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205980) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 9:26 PM Author: curious heaven Apply to jobs and go to interviews. Don't be a faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205993) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2025 9:17 PM Author: Elite Station Useless Brakes any gun owners can explain carrying during a legal protest? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49205984) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 8:52 AM Author: Primrose site goal in life update? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206558) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 9:53 AM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party I did NOT have a panic attack last night. That's two consecutive days of NO PANIC after two consecutive days of panic attacks.
Here's what I do: Take 4 mg of clonazepam at around 7 PM. As I wait for the clonazepam to kick in, I watch or listen to something humorous and light to distract myself. By 8:15 or so, I start getting sleepy and switch to distracting myself with something less stimulating but still light, typically a sports podcast. I'm in bed by 8:30ish, and by then the clonazepam is in full effect: that dull, emotionless, tired, slightly confused, but mostly calm feeling. I slip into bed in a haze and fall asleep by 9 PMish as the sports podcast continues to dull my mind and ends after I fall asleep.
I'm going to slowly adjust the timing of the clonazepam so that I don't fall asleep so early.
Today is day THREE on SSRIs, and I'm starting to feel physical effects: my eyes and ears are less sensitive to stimulation, but baseline anxiety is unaffected so far, which makes sense since it's only day three. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 9:55 AM Author: curious heaven Apply to jobs on LinkedIn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206646) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 9:58 AM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party My psychiatrist thinks stress, in particular work stress, are causing the panic attacks. I'm mismanaging stress and/or under too much stress at the moment. I'm intentionally not doing anything stressful this weekend, like applying for jobs, so that I get more rest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206653) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 10:00 AM Author: curious heaven "If you ignore the problem it goes away" - guy you pay for high dose addictive drugs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206655) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 10:05 AM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party My doctor is saying the exact opposite, actually: he told me to be direct and upfront with my manager that my current role, which I was promoted to not that long ago, is not the best fit, and that I ask to be moved to a different role that doesn't put as much pressure on me. If that doesn't work, find a new job. Or work with a therapist to become better at managing stress. Etc.
He readily admits the pills won't fix the underlying problem, but I need them at the moment to function, otherwise I'll have debilitating panic attacks. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 10:06 AM Author: curious heaven Apply to jobs on LinkedIn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206668) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 10:10 AM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party At the moment I'm too busy trying to break out of this cycle of panic attacks and associated anxiety, but I will eventually start applying for jobs once the panic attacks are under control. After I get them under control, I'm going to take at least a week off, and then I'll start applying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206677) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 10:14 AM Author: curious heaven definitely let your manager know you're going to quit before even applying to new jobs. Being unemployed will help with the panic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206683) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 10:10 AM Author: self-absorbed dashing marketing idea What are you even worried about in the first place though? Have you considered an emotional support ai? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206674) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 10:11 AM Author: curious heaven He thinks he's going to be fired so instead of looking for a new job he's taking advice from a pill pushing bottom of his class jew (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206678) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 10:00 AM Author: Mind-boggling piazza weed whacker Have you tried turning your will and your life over to God? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206656) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 10:03 AM Author: french coral ticket booth stain be careful man. Klonopin is really hard to get off of and will make you want to kill yourself just to stop the mental anguish. When you’re going through that part later on remember that it’s only temporary but takes 3-4 months to return back to normal. It will feel like an eternity but it eventually does subside. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49206661) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 8:02 PM Author: Charismatic avocado reading party Full of fear as I count down the minutes until I take the clonazepam. I'm delaying it by 5-10 minutes a day so that I push it back to a more reasonable time and don't pass out before 9 PM. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49207796) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 8:37 PM Author: Primrose site goal in life obsessing over your dumb pills is just going to make things unnecessarily more difficult (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49207907) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2025 8:37 PM Author: curious heaven He's taking career advice from a psychiatrist he's already in deep shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49207912) |
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Date: September 29th, 2025 6:05 PM Author: lunch thoughts did the ssri help at all? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49312551) |
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Date: September 29th, 2025 6:27 PM Author: '"'"''"'"'''"''" Can't say for sure but probably not. The biggest stressor in my life when I poasted this thread was that I thought I was going to lose my job soon because we didn't expect our main client to extend their contract with us. About a week after I last poasted in this thread the client unexpectedly extended their contract for another year. Huge relief came from that. Not enough time for the SSRIs to kick in. Much less stressed and anxious now that my job is mostly secure for another year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49312595) |
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Date: September 29th, 2025 6:53 PM Author: lunch thoughts yeah I’ve heard SSRIs can help for social anxiety but not as much for panic. i have both unfortunately, but am down to 1 mg klon per week and might try an SSRI now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5765219&forum_id=2,#49312649) |