Baclofen as a cure for anxiety?

[kronkcarr]

I went to the Dr's when I was 21 and in a very bad place,she diagnosed me with anxiety states and gave me vets blockers.my mother had died the year before by choking on her own vomit but I had moved out when I was 17(as soon as I got a job) and to be honest after I got over the shock and grief I was quite glad.She was a milestone around my neck,used to come into the shop I worked in when she was drunk asking me for money ect.I don't feel bad about this although I know I should.
It's funny you should say you thought he might have been in the spectrum because that's how I feel about myself.
I don't even know how to look at people when I'm having a conversation,
Sorry to have all thus tumbling out but I seem to be in a roll and I hate to seem needy or pitiful because I've never been like that.Never ask ppl for help or talk about my problems,ppl who know about my upbringing say they can't believe how normal I turned out ha!
Even my husband says I'm cold and never shiwn my feelings or been romantic.
If I can just get this drinking gone I feel I will be in a much stronger place

I identify with so much of what you say. For whatever reason (how I was raised, genetics etc) I never disagreed with people to their faces, I stuffed my anger, I wasn't a soft, emotional woman and I drank because I couldn't handle how I felt. I didn't know it at the time, but when I started bac I slowed way down, I got insights, I started liking myself. It seemed that bac helped my anxiety initially. I didn't even know I had anxiety. Like others have mentioned here I'd take a little extra bac if I became anxious and it helped.

I am a low dose bac success. I switched at 80 mgs and maintained at 30-50 mgs. Around 2 years in I became anxious again. I don't know why. I guess I'm skipping ahead of what I want to say though. I've been to therapy and work in a field where I help others to "see" themselves--what drives them, where they falter etc. So maybe I had a head start into emotionally healing. Plus on bac I became a loner. I'm not very social now and hang out with a few friends. I do know that I don't take peoples' crap anymore. One of my first realizations on bac was that people do what they do and it's not so personal. If what someone does doesn't suit me I move away from them. They will find someone else who will accept their behavior. I used to get all angry and caught up in the fighting you've seen on here. Now it's like something switched and I don't have time, energy or interest in getting caught up in it. What a freedom that's been.

When I drank I became passive aggressive and asked and told all that I'd kept hidden. That's why I started bac. I'd messed up one more relationship.

I don't think you're needy or pitiful. I think a lot of us escape through alcohol because we're not comfortable in the world. Bac helped me to start getting comfortable and, as others here have mentioned, paying attention to diet, sleep, exercise and finding something I like to do more than drink brought the rest into focus for me.

There's been talk on here about brain plasticity. I believe it. I can only relate my story and that's that I stopped taking bac 2 weeks or so ago and I'm less anxious and have no desire to drink or escape what's happening in my world.