Research Person Who Quit Ptsd Meds Needed For Master's Thesis Please

[Powder]

Meds/alcohol are a temporary solution to a permanent problem that they exacerbate through withdrawal being worse than baseline. Simple as that.

Meds cost $ via Rx and Dr's appts.

Meds have nasty side effects and have to be taken at the same time or panic feelings increase.

The body becomes tolerant. The anxiety always trumps the meds. It rises like a water table. More symptoms can appear, which requires more meds to mask. Meds are offered to counter the side effects of the main meds.

SSRI's increase previously mild suicidal impulses and other impulses.

Drugs numb the person who needs to remember and process soberly and with full feeling, all the feelings still in the body leftover from the traumatic experiences. This is SO PAINFUL to carry around, with or without processing, but processing is like learning to live with it, through frequent, controlled exposure, so that you feel more in control of it rather than it's killing you.

Another way is to say that coping may really be tricking oneself into feeling like one is "living with PTSD" versus "dying with it."

 

[Anarchy]

@Muse
extremely well put
and thanks for the reminder that the most commonly used drug for trauma is alcohol.

 

[trying2movefwd]

My body acted poorly to several medications. I got more depressed on some, on one, remeron I became very mean, on some I shook so much it interefered with every day life, I had body jolts on seriquil. ...and finally found a winner with an Abilify,Wellbutron, lemictal combo....I have been diagnosed with severe major depression recurrent, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, BPD...and i am totally thinking ohhh panic disorder though sooo I dunno what your looking for. I went off a lot of meds due to horrible side effects and two alleric reactions zoloft and serioquel.