aspiringauthor: that's very interesting. i have not heard of gabapentin used for akathisia. hydroxazine or atarax are limited in what they can do for akathisia. i know for certain that the 1st gen antipsychotics are not alleviated by hydroxyzine, but there are antiparkinson medications that are worth looking into.

a good way to be an advocate for your own mental health is to look up the classes of pharmaceutical drugs used in psychiatry. there are also many add ons that are definitely important to research, because mental illness is a complex disorder in multiple parts of the brain. one drug usually only does one angle. you need multiple angles for debilitating illness