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Old 03-10-2006, 07:20 PM
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OK, maybe it is because it is about 3 AM, but I have a hard time wrapping my mind around this. I mean lets take the addictive qualities out of xanax, you still are going to be depedant on it because it stops the attacks, which when you can stop one it is pure bliss. Addictive or not we know if we can halt a panic attack we are on cloud nine! How would this be different? With the Panic disorder mine would cycle out of control. I needed a horse's dose to calm down. But after taking it head on and addressing the PD I stopped them cycling with CBT. I still get alot of them and some days worse than others. I know what they are now and are harmless, just not a fun ride and they normally do not trigger one right after another for hours anymore. But I can have a day of none as I address my issues.

It is painful and certainly not the easy way out of panic attacks, and I certainly know how bad they can get with all the hospital trips to back it! But it just seems counter productive. You are not going to heal at all if you can take a pill and calm you. I could do things like shop if I took enough xanax... Now I can't, or rather won't, and have to face my fears since it doesn't cover it up anymore. This would be a patch just as the rest and if the fear is taken out like the other pills do where and how do you get to a point of healing?

If it is not addictive it is great to have to give to someone new to attacks until they get proper counsel on how to control them and learn to not fear the attack itself anymore (traing wheels). But again, you have to go through attacks again to get even there at some point... But I could see being useful if not addictive like the crap I am kicking for people who have the "pleasure" of their first cases of Panic Attack or Disorder.

As for long term use, I just see it as another pill controlling how I think and respond and it makes me uncomfortable, I would rather fight to feel somewhat sane most of the time and when I am not scared know it is because I faced my fears and retrained my mind how to respond. And man is it a bitch doing it.