Posted by Cairo on June 08, 2006 at 03:59:20:

In Reply to: New doctor how to get help? posted by acrufox on June 07, 2006 at 23:34:39:

It's funny, but I feel grateful that my doctor refused to give me anything but Remeron. If she hadn't, I would have gone through the cycle of taking med after med trying to find the magic cure and not succeeding, and I would not have learned to use CBT effectively. I also probably wouldn't have left my job, which is what I needed to do. So it's all in your perspective.

Doctors see insomnia as related to depression, and often it is, but it's more often related to anxiety, which they don't always know. That being said, each doctor is different in his/her comfort level in prescribing benzos, so there are no perfect words to say, you just have to see what his/her perspective is on the issue.

I take Remeron and I believe that meds can be part of the solution, so don't hear this as the anti-med crusade coming to town...but what about really trying to apply CBT (with or without medication) so that the cure is always coming from within you rather than from outside? It does work, but it takes time and effort. I hear that you've tried, but perhaps not in a way that might really work. Just a thought.

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