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Redirection.

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OK, scenario.
You are at work bouncing around at a happy 2500 RPM. Someone pulls one of your triggers. You say nothing but look at them the way a jaguar looks at an obese 3 legged gazelle. You go back to work wondering if they would sound as stupid if their tongue was in your hand. You are manic as hell.

What to do.

Usually I go back to work like Tony Montana after frebasing coke in the bathroom. Doesnt always work out well.

Suggestions. What do you do when you get like this?
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Klonopin to the rescue!
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See if you can take a break, splash water on your face, sit down and zone out on work.
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I need a good prn for anxiety. Want to talk to pdoc about it. Needs to be good for anxiety. Seroquel did not help. I worry about xanax. Will ask about klonopin. Anything else? I have pretty good self control and knowing to walk away from my triggers. But it will still just kill my day.
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I'm an ativan person myself, taken under the tongue, let it disolve, only takes about 15 minutes to kick in. Klonopin lasts a little longer but takes 45 - 50 minutes to kick.
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No advice, but thank you for taking the thoughts and putting them in words...
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Thanks peeps. I will pull this stuff up on drugs.com and take it to my pdoc. If anyone else has suggestions keep postin them and I will check in the am. :)
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Karl -- another cool site www.crazymeds.com check it out You may not want to use it as your primary source of info., but there is alot of stuff on there that the docs and the technical sites will never have. Real life things from real people.
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wow, no good advice from my side, I am reading this post to learn that skill.
I would probably throw the first thing in front of me towards the person, scissors, mugs, cups, paper, clips, monitors, or all at the same time.
NO, I should not be near a person when I am manic, but hey I learned some advices here and you made me laugh by the way you discribed the jaguar and obese 3 legged gazelle.
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well if you eat them it wont help you but it would be fun to watch and would make me feel better I am sur I looked at my husband that way this very morning. No that is bad, I am a bad tode dont eat them
I wish we could beat them just a little then erase there memory so they dont know we did it. I have a memory eraser beem
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