Bruce/ Beth

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Thanks for the info, Bruce I will let you know what I come up with. Also Bruce I cannot find the post but it seems like I read on one of them something you said about xanax vs anti depres. oh xanax makes me so irratable when it wears off. Please let me know what you had posted on that. Thanks for all of your help.

Amy

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Amy

Xanax is an anti-anxiety medication. Now, many people who are depressed

are also anxious and there is some carryover effect with any mood

stabilizer. However, its purpose is more to calm than it is to remove

depression or uplift. Yes, you would feel very irritable when xanax

wears off for two reasons. First the anxiety it addresses returns.

Second, it's highly addictive and cumulative in your body so you get

withdrawal. Anyone on a significant dosage does have to taper. Now, I

used the word addictive strictly as a medical fact of the med and not

actually intending it in a bad way. I'm addicted in one way or another

to all my meds and especially my oxygen. Try taking it away and I'll tie

you up with my 50 foot oxygen hose. My point is simply that if something

makes our lives better and is managed, the fact its addictive to our

bodies in some way isn't necessarily an issue.

Ok, now as to what xanax might do to improve or worsen depression. By

relieving anxiety you might be less depressed by the anxiety. However,

as it softens or lowers your mood, you might also be more sluggish and

sleepy and slow (relaxed and sleepy not too far apart). So, feeling a

lack of energy or desire to do things you can easily feel more

depressed. Calmer but more depressed. I hope that makes sense.

If you're suffering then from depression you need an anti-depressant.

Then you may or may not still find yourself needing the xanax or another

anti-anxiety medication. Some of the anti-depressants help with anxiety

as well so much of it is trial and error. But while many people with

depression also have anxiety and it may be caused by the depression,

they are two different conditions.

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> Thanks for the info, Bruce I will let you know what I come up with.

Also Bruce I cannot find the post but it seems like I read on one of

them something you said about xanax vs anti depres. oh xanax makes me

so irratable when it wears off. Please let me know what you had posted

on that. Thanks for all of your help.

> Amy

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