Depression: What treatment can I try after so many years?

Posted by miray67 @miray67, Apr 22, 2020

I have fought depression and anxiety since I was about seven years old when I had panic attacks. Without revealing my age what can you take when you have tried all the older medicines? It’s been with me for MANY years. Not the panic attacks but long spells of depression and anxiety to the point I am ver shaky most of the time. I’m sure there newer medications than the ones doctors want me to try again. I am now on Paxil again after trying it back in 1995. Seems it does everything except what it’s supposed to do. My present doctor refuses to change it but has reduced the dosage again to 25mg from 37.5. I hate to keep changing doctors and trying over and over. Being confined for so long hasn’t helped, of course. I am in good health for my age, still drive a little and do most everything for my self with weak need and chronic pain.

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rosebud1981 | @rosebud1981 | Jun 21, 2023

Hi I’m new here! I’ve never heard of ice water for anxiety! It sounds like it might work! I’m on Seroquel for severe depression and anxiety! But they want me off of it because I’ve been on it for 20 years and I’m having a lot of issues with it! Such as body movements, jerking, dropping things, uncontrollable jerking, plus more! It’s what happens when you’re on Seroquil too long, I guess! Everything they try causes tardive diskonesia with facial movements! It makes me look and feel crazy! But I’m the most sane person ever! So they did an MRI of my brain and they found a Meningioma tumor that’s 9mm, which is the size of a pea! And they think that’s causing all my issues! Has anybody’s out there heard of this???!!