PSYCH 123: Anxiety Disorders - Somatic Therapies
Medlock Holmes enters an immense Neo-Victorian treatment complex called The Grand Pharmacological Dispensary of Anxiety.
Rows of treatment pathways stretch before him.
Some contain SSRIs and SNRIs.
Others hold benzodiazepines, pregabalin, buspirone, beta-blockers, older antidepressants, antipsychotics, neurostimulation devices, and emerging experimental therapies.
But Holmes immediately notices that the first room contains no medication at all.
It is labelled:
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Not every anxious person needs pharmacological treatment. Some symptoms are transient or subsyndromal. At…
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