Hi,
I am very careful of anything potentially addictive and am very set off by anything that leaves me feeling sedated. If I feel sedated my hypervigilence kicks off and I have a paradoxical effect to the meds. I've tried the more sedating antidepressants like TCAs and they have this affect on me. Sleeping meds do too. Or all the ones I tried anyway.
I have trauma where I was drugged and it took me a long time to connect that and my hypervigilence to my resistance to taking drugs. Resisted sleep for the same reason. I have successfully used SSRi's.
Any ideas? I ideally need to bring my anxiety levels down enough so that I can be functional enough to think and act strategically at present. Then hopefully my decisions will help longer term. Thank you! Appreciated.
I am very careful of anything potentially addictive and am very set off by anything that leaves me feeling sedated. If I feel sedated my hypervigilence kicks off and I have a paradoxical effect to the meds. I've tried the more sedating antidepressants like TCAs and they have this affect on me. Sleeping meds do too. Or all the ones I tried anyway.
I have trauma where I was drugged and it took me a long time to connect that and my hypervigilence to my resistance to taking drugs. Resisted sleep for the same reason. I have successfully used SSRi's.
Any ideas? I ideally need to bring my anxiety levels down enough so that I can be functional enough to think and act strategically at present. Then hopefully my decisions will help longer term. Thank you! Appreciated.