Opinions - Atypical Antipsychotics for anxiety

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Hi, SWIM has anxiety and SWIM is wondering whether an atypical antipsychotic like risperidone is a good idea if antidepressants and the others don't work. SWIM has heard that they can be used for some anxiety disorders. SWIM have a few questions about them:

1. Can it be used with SSRI antidepressants?
2. How long does it take to work?
3. What is a good dosage for anxiety?

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These antipsychotics undergo metabolic changes to a very neurotoxic (to dopamine neurons in the negrostriatum) derivatives, within the atypical anti-psychotics it´s sometimes tried to be avoided by transformation of the said-to-be or better known-to-be toxic substituted benzene, attached to the piperine (piperazine) wher they´ve built inbetween an oxazole ring for avoidance.. I think this is even more toxic, if not-so to dopamine, even more-so to the serotonine receptors and then say good-bye to pain-inhibition, sexual potency, and circadiane sleep, slow wave sleep, learning-cognitive performance and any kinds of happy feelings -sure, no room for fear in this torment.(don´t believe the advertisments -lies!)

Funny shit is, 5-HT receptors react paradoxically to depletion and overstimulation -lots of serotonine -they grow bigger, too little, they shrink, degenerate, die-off and hardly come back.

Swim´d rather propose heroine or any other mood-lifiting substnace instead, than these toxic chemicals, even a bemnzo-withdrawl would seem like a happy adventure with a bright future, compared to that.

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Swim was prescribed haloperidol a while ago because she was suffering from anxiety, nightmares and flashbacks.
Swim was on only 0,5 mgs and was sick all the time. She turned into a zombie. She had more emotional crises.
The psychiatrist had forgotten Swim was on Effexor too and the two don't really match.

Then the psychiatrist prescribed levomepromazine (nozinan) because Swim had difficulty falling asleep. Swim slept for 36 hours straight and started getting weird joint pains.

Swim is in a resident treatment program for behavioural therapy and their policy is not to prescribe benzo's because of their addictiveness. Swim feels she's worse off with antipsychotics than with benzo's.
And Swim refuses to take them any longer.

The haloperidol also caused depression in Swim.

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Both Haloperidola and Levomepromazine are "typical" antipsychotics

[Adrasteia]

Swim is quite aware of that. Swim was answering the (okay, unposed) general question whether any antipsychotic should be used to treat (minor) anxiety or insomnia, since in her medical books it's explicitly stated (all) antipsychotics are not to be used to treat these symptoms solely.

ISwim'sO it's like riding an elephant to catch grasshoppers.

But anyway:

1. yes, SSRI and atypical anti-psychotics can be combined in general.
(Make sure to check specifics with SWiy's doctor and on the Net)
2. almost immediately
3. start at lowest possible dose (SWIY really doesn't want more of this stuff in his body than necessary)
In the case of risperidone start at 0,25 mgs.