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Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness

Questions posted in the Mental Health forum are being answered by Dr. Roger L. Gould, author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program and affiliated with the UCLA. Department of Psychiatry. Topics covered include anger, attention deficit disorder (ADD), bipolar disorder, dementia, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), learning disabilities, memory, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic, personality disorders, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), schizophrenia, stress, transitions, and work problems.

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by worriedguy, Nov 03, 2002 12:00AM

Tags: meds, Depression, mental, Health, Mental Health, dose, prozac, xanax, years

I have recently begun (re-)battling severe anxiety/depression.

I am now on prozac 40 qd and klonopin 1 mg at night

and 0.5 in the am. I'm still very anxious and depressed.

I am debating (along with my psychiatrist) whether to

increase prozac dosage to 60, change to another SSRI,

or add buspar on top. Which do you recommend, if any?

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by Roger Gould, M.D.

, Nov 04, 2002 12:00AM

I think all three possibilities are equally good, but I personally would have a slight preference for adding Buspar.

Member Comments (1)

by joyce45, Nov 06, 2002 12:00AM

I would try Buspar first. However, when I took Prozac over a year I used Xanax as needed [not too often] but it helped with insomnia. I also increased my 20 mg Prozac dose to 40 mgs, and even 60 mgs at times. I know if you try Buspar it should be taken 2x a day at very small doses at first, and it should take 4 weeks to work with the Prozac. I find generic Xanax [alazopram] to help me tremendously. I have never increased my dose in 3 years, and, in fact, take it less now than I ever did.

by Jason6088, Nov 08, 2002 12:00AM

Come on... Masturbate once a week or even once a day should not harm you in anyway. There are people out there that masturbate excessively such as three to five times a day. They don't know that kind of frequency would harm. So after couple years later. Their penis got limp. And they have to seek help from experts from HerboLove website. It's so pathetic. If one can just control the urge or be inform about the consequences of "EXCESSIVE" masturbations can do to them.

I have stupid friends that got so horny that they masterbate daily. Before they reach 30, they have impotence and premature ejaculation altogether. Their girlfriends left them because they are Losers on BED.

Men! Just don't over-masturbate!

God Bless you!

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