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Anyone have any success using Remeron and I'm curious if anyone has went through what I'm going through?

I was smoking a LOT of marijuana for a year straight and didn't realize that it messed with neurotransmitters in your brain causing depression issues. Well, my system crashed and I had anxiety, complete loss of libido, nervousness, insomnia, etc.

The worst part of this whole thing isn't the nervousness, anxiety, it's the COMPLETE and total loss ...

I am 36 six years old and have been suffering from what I believe is an General Health Anxiety disorder (self diagnosed). It started for me about 7 years ago and has plagued me ever since. I have been convinced that I have had a brain tumor, a lump in my throat, colon cancer, and heart problems, just to name a few. In each instance, I have sought help from medical professionals, Internal Medicine, ENT, ...

Okay, the problem that I am having is very strange and, I daresay, quite unique. I’m worried that I am the only one with any issue even remotely comparable to this and, thus, cannot get any help for it.

A while ago I was having trouble sleeping at night due to stress of university exams and the like. However, while obsessing over this I came to focus on the act of breathing, and that is ...

I've always have problems with anxiety, but I've been able to control it by leaving the situation, running away you could say. I'm engaged and for the first time I can't run. I've dated every kind of guy and only been able to committ to one other relationship which ended up with my ex-boyfriend sleeping with the girl in the apartment below me. So I finally meet this wonderful guy and we are engaged but ...

Hi, how you doing?

Anyways, at first I thought I had bi-polar problems.
Well anyways I've seen the Dr. at the clinic, he gave me risperidol and some other $#%^ called gabapentin (more of a pain killer).

Anyways WTF is wrong with me?

I don't really take the medication because I'm not crazy. But I do notice it (risperidol) seems to help with what I call "the shakes".

What really ######6 bothers me, is I ...

I think i got a GAD fom cronic cocaine use for 2 years,I stopped w the coke,but anxiety symptons continue after 2 months of cessation and doesnt seems that will improve.This symptons doesnt begin after cessation ,they began after one year of use and persists.
I woulkd like to know if you members have similary symptons:

-Little muscle shakes
-Fast heart beat and sometimes pounding heart beat.
-Tightnnes(tension) in the chest
-insomnia,dificulty to sleep
-variations ...

An Angel says, "Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may
happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if
it does happen, you have to worry twice."

1. Pray.
2. Go to bed on time.
3. Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed.
4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time
schedule, or that will compromise your mental health.
5. ...

Just wondering if anyone has tried Lexapro? Do you think it helped? My doctor put me on it, I took it for almost a year, but I dont think it made any difference, do you think it could be because med's wont work with my level of anxiety? Please help...im confused... :?

Here's a good question for this form:
when you have an attack of tension or are coming-down of of one (or a scary event, even) how do you calm down and get over it again? Any time I get nervous my stomach gets in a knot and it usually stays that way for several hours, I don't want to eat (because my stomach hurts and is queasy) and it usually progresses to other digestive problems ...

Greetings all,

I have just stumbled on to GAD. I was researching sleeping disorders and found GAD so started researching it. Have you ever read something and the light clicked on saying “that sounds like me”? Well that is what happened to me today when I found GAD.

A bit of history… (warning: I tend to be long winded, sorry in advance)

I began having gastrointestinal issues about 4 years ago and after many tests, ...