I'm a new member and I am currently taking Mirtazapine. I had been taking the maximum dose which was two tablets. It's a bit naughty of me, but since stress levels were really bad I increased the dosage without asking the psychiatrist. Things improved dramatically. I decided to increase it still more in order to break my thought patterns, and then go back to the maximum dose once I had done that. I have been unable to find any information as to what's bad about taking more than the maximum dose. All I know is that it is not recommended to go higher, but why? I went up to seven tablets last night. From what I've read there's no chance this could cause death. I really couldn't care less if exceeding the maximum dose is risky, because my life was awful before. I haven't noticed any bad effects of increasing the dose, and I'm the most well I've been for a while. I'm about to see my psychiatrist, and I'm not sure how happy he'll be about what I've done.