SSRI's
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Yer_Blues
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I've been on various ones for the past four years. Started on Paroxetine and during this time things got better. But I don't know if it was the medication or not. Things improved in my life generally so I felt better. Also when starting the medication I was exited that I was on something that would help me. So it could have been a bit of the mind over matter thing.
I started going downhill again and stopped taking the Paroxetine and I felt so much better. Coming off the drug made me feel better than at any time I was taking it, who knows what it was doing to me. I was then put on Venlafaxine and was on it for a just over a year. During this time I got to my lowest point ever. I've stopped taking the Venlafaxine recently and I am going through the withdrawal, but I'm not going back on it because I felt it did nothing and was a waste of money. My Doctor doesn't know this and I'm not sure I will go back. They just seem to want to put me on drugs. The only type of therapy I'm getting is 'get out more', 'join a club' etc. I can't believe I am paying someone to tell me this.
I used to believe the marketing hype about all the anti-depressants. All that chemical imbalance stuff. They may work for some but not for me, after four years of drugs I think therapy and some sort of plan to tackle my problems would be more effective. I just need to find the right person to give me that support. Perhaps in conjunction with decent therapy I would start taking them again, but I don't think they did anything for me.
Wow, this has become a long post. Also I forgot to mention I am also on Mirtazapine, I am still taking it because it helps me sleep. You can see how my Doctor has just switched me between drugs. I may be being a bit cynical, but when I visit the place every bit of stationery has drug advertising on it.
I have taken Xanax a few times, and it definitely helped me with my anxiety. But it is hard to get a prescription for it where I live.
I started going downhill again and stopped taking the Paroxetine and I felt so much better. Coming off the drug made me feel better than at any time I was taking it, who knows what it was doing to me. I was then put on Venlafaxine and was on it for a just over a year. During this time I got to my lowest point ever. I've stopped taking the Venlafaxine recently and I am going through the withdrawal, but I'm not going back on it because I felt it did nothing and was a waste of money. My Doctor doesn't know this and I'm not sure I will go back. They just seem to want to put me on drugs. The only type of therapy I'm getting is 'get out more', 'join a club' etc. I can't believe I am paying someone to tell me this.
I used to believe the marketing hype about all the anti-depressants. All that chemical imbalance stuff. They may work for some but not for me, after four years of drugs I think therapy and some sort of plan to tackle my problems would be more effective. I just need to find the right person to give me that support. Perhaps in conjunction with decent therapy I would start taking them again, but I don't think they did anything for me.
Wow, this has become a long post. Also I forgot to mention I am also on Mirtazapine, I am still taking it because it helps me sleep. You can see how my Doctor has just switched me between drugs. I may be being a bit cynical, but when I visit the place every bit of stationery has drug advertising on it.
I have taken Xanax a few times, and it definitely helped me with my anxiety. But it is hard to get a prescription for it where I live.