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Learned helplessness is a leading theory on why people become complacent in mental disorders after developing the belief that nothing they do can change their situation.
I was on Klonopin 4mg/day and I became tolerant and dependent. It is important to note that before this I had been on Paxil, Lexapro, Zoloft, Seroquel, Wellbutrin, and Ativan. None of these worked except Klonopin.
Eventually the Klonopin stopped helping and I started thinking that my anxiety would never get better no matter what I did. I started drinking alot and my life got much worse. I got very depressed and I started to have a flat affect for much of the time.
I eventually got off the Klonopin and now take Celexa and Xanax, go to therapy, and exercise. Basically getting of Klonopin helped me realize there was still many ways to improve anxiety and it got me out of the cycle of learned helplessness thinking.
Does this type of **** happen to other people?
I was on Klonopin 4mg/day and I became tolerant and dependent. It is important to note that before this I had been on Paxil, Lexapro, Zoloft, Seroquel, Wellbutrin, and Ativan. None of these worked except Klonopin.
Eventually the Klonopin stopped helping and I started thinking that my anxiety would never get better no matter what I did. I started drinking alot and my life got much worse. I got very depressed and I started to have a flat affect for much of the time.
I eventually got off the Klonopin and now take Celexa and Xanax, go to therapy, and exercise. Basically getting of Klonopin helped me realize there was still many ways to improve anxiety and it got me out of the cycle of learned helplessness thinking.
Does this type of **** happen to other people?