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[quote=Anonymous]I take 300mg of Wellbutrin. When my dad died this last year, I tried adding Lexapro but it didn’t help so I stopped taking it after a month. The Wellbutrin is fine unless there’s some big extenuating circumstance. 6 months after my dad died, I was in a really scary car accident and added some as-needed Valium for the first couple weeks afterward because I could not function (crying all the time, could barely look at my kids because I couldn’t stop seeing their faces during the accident when I truly thought we were all about to die, etc.). That was in January, and at this point it’s just the Wellbutrin and the flashbacks and intrusive thoughts have subsided a bit.

I’m also a therapist with a ton of experience in helping other people cope with trauma and I have a great therapist who is also good at helping people cope with trauma. Sometimes there’s just so much of it that you can only do so much to alleviate distress.

Have you looked into ketamine or psychedelic therapies? They are reputed to work well for complex treatment-resistant issues and PTSD. I haven’t tried either because my approach has been working, but I’d definitely consider it if it wasn’t. [/quote]

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