I tried Prozac but it didn’t help a lot and I found my gf so I didn’t want the sexual side effects, then after a lot of anxiety tried Lyrica and it worked decently for a bit less than a year but I think that now it doesn’t help that much (either because my circumstances are more anxiety inducing in general or because of tolerance).
There aren’t that many CBT therapists in my country either let alone ERP specialists (most are talk therapists or psychoanalysts). I’m not sure how much it would help anyways because I mainly have mental obsessions which might are more difficult to prevent.
What did you do in a similar position? Did you manage to find some semblance of inner peace? Thanks for your time
I tried to lower my Lyrica dosage from 2 x 50mg to 2 x 25mg but my sleep was worse for a month with no signs for improving, so I started it again, I dread what would happen if I completely stopped taking it.
Yeah, I also do that and its the compulsion that has tormented me the most. The depression stuff like forcing positive thoughts didn’t work either for me, I don’t know if I did it wrong or CBT was conceived for the NT brain or sth
Oof, your doctor is being kinda irresponsible with Lyrica if they recommended that drop. 25mg is the most you should drop at a time, but that’s still harsher than I’d recommend. You’re right at the line (100mg a day) where the withdrawal should still be manageable, but you’re also at the point where you have to do tiny long term drops in order to make it bearable. If you want off, you essentially have to do a slow taper to zero or you will literally be dealing with the withdrawal for years. I didn’t want to deal with the full taper so I did a fast one to get off, and it is literally the biggest regret I’ve had my entire life because of how bad the withdrawal fried me afterwards. The nerve damage and PAWS depression from it make my time quitting benzos and fentanyl at the same time feel like fucking child’s play. Medical professionals usually don’t understand how bad the withdrawal is or that there even is a withdrawal, so unless your psych is particularly smart, they will give bad advice on this subject.
They didn’t recommend it. Sometimes I feel that while my doctor is much better than the psychiatrist horror stories I have heard, they wait too long to react to certain side effects I am having, or they aren’t very good at extracting that information out of me. I tried to reduce it because it made me extra sluggish this summer (every summer I become depressed and fatigued for whatever reason), and I couldn’t take it anymore so I reduced it on my own. They didn’t object to the decrease though, so that’s on them