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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 610676" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>To my knowledge (and according both difficult child's doctors and psychiatrist we talked about difficult child separately) BuSpar is not addictive. It can be same way habit forming as SSRIs, but for most is easier to get off than those. But not addictive like benzoes. For our difficult child it has been helpful. Not any spectacular changes and it ended up not being enough on it own, but when Lexapro (and Atarax PRN) was added, he seems to be doing fine medication wise. According docs BuSpar is also sometimes used as a booster for SSRIs with anxiety symptoms.</p><p></p><p>CBT is slow work. They don't have any patented solutions or tricks that would work for anxiety attacks right away. It takes lots of work and quite a bit of time to first learn the techniques and then learn to use them in real situations. I do know that my son has slowly built his coping techniques both with his therapist and his sport psychologist (to bit different things and to different situations with both) and it took lots of time, visits, homework and practising to use them before they were for any use. But he says that now he is often able to use those tools and make things better for himself. And while he is kind of sabbatical from most of his work with therapist (and only has an online meeting twice a month with him) he continues to very regularly work with his sport psychiatric with partly very similar issues and techniques. </p><p></p><p>So try to be patient with seeing results from the therapy (and also from the medication, it can take months to see if it works or not as you probably well know.)</p><p></p><p>Maybe you should keep record of your anxiety and sleep? Mark to your calender how you slept, how was overall anxiety, did you have any anxiety attacks etc. Same way we do with our kids. You could notice some patterns and it would also help you notice if drugs are working or not. At least with my kid there was never any great feeling that drugs worked and made his life better, but when he tracked his feelings (and certain physical factors) and also others recorded his mood etc. it was evident that drugs did work even though he may not have felt like that (of course he is rather medication resistant so he didn't want to notice them helping.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 610676, member: 14557"] To my knowledge (and according both difficult child's doctors and psychiatrist we talked about difficult child separately) BuSpar is not addictive. It can be same way habit forming as SSRIs, but for most is easier to get off than those. But not addictive like benzoes. For our difficult child it has been helpful. Not any spectacular changes and it ended up not being enough on it own, but when Lexapro (and Atarax PRN) was added, he seems to be doing fine medication wise. According docs BuSpar is also sometimes used as a booster for SSRIs with anxiety symptoms. CBT is slow work. They don't have any patented solutions or tricks that would work for anxiety attacks right away. It takes lots of work and quite a bit of time to first learn the techniques and then learn to use them in real situations. I do know that my son has slowly built his coping techniques both with his therapist and his sport psychologist (to bit different things and to different situations with both) and it took lots of time, visits, homework and practising to use them before they were for any use. But he says that now he is often able to use those tools and make things better for himself. And while he is kind of sabbatical from most of his work with therapist (and only has an online meeting twice a month with him) he continues to very regularly work with his sport psychiatric with partly very similar issues and techniques. So try to be patient with seeing results from the therapy (and also from the medication, it can take months to see if it works or not as you probably well know.) Maybe you should keep record of your anxiety and sleep? Mark to your calender how you slept, how was overall anxiety, did you have any anxiety attacks etc. Same way we do with our kids. You could notice some patterns and it would also help you notice if drugs are working or not. At least with my kid there was never any great feeling that drugs worked and made his life better, but when he tracked his feelings (and certain physical factors) and also others recorded his mood etc. it was evident that drugs did work even though he may not have felt like that (of course he is rather medication resistant so he didn't want to notice them helping.) [/QUOTE]
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