Posted by juniper on March 9, 2000, at 23:51:43
n november, i, for reasons i'm not particularly sure about, stopped taking my effexor. at the time i was living in an one room cabin, alone. i wasn't under any doctor's care. i'd go to work (counselor for juvenile delinquents committed to a 6 month program), other than this i had little contact with people, and this was certainly my choice. i think that the combination of ceasing effexor and being a relative recluse (who had no responsibilities aside from showing up to work---i had no phone or computer to keep in touch with anyone and so no one expected such) and working on a base i recognized was a clusterfuck but had little control over operations exacerbated my depression and OCD and gave me a space to wallow in it. as for stopping the effexor cold turkey, i didn't have many of the side effects i've since read about on this site---just the exacerbation of existing problems, and lack of energy.
after i was removed from my position my mood began to improve. i also went back on effexor. ------------------fast forward to now (which i suppose i could have done in the first place). my mood is decently stablized with effexor and adderall, but the increase in my OCD, which first began during the break from effexor/recluse/clusterfuck time (and which is now more severe than i believe it has been in a long while), has remained. can anyone theorize on why this would be? i know that often when one takes an AD or such, stops it and then goes back on it, the effects are often different than originally. is it possible that stopping the effexor allowed OCD symptoms to florish and now, for whatever reason, it simply isn't reeling them back in?sigh, i think i need to sit down (over a cup of tea?) and have a chat with my serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine neurotransmitters...maybe we could work out a deal?
poster:juniper
thread:26564
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