Posted by Corafree on July 9, 2004, at 13:10:54
In reply to Need help!, posted by monkey-d on July 9, 2004, at 12:36:33
Yes you should do something. Cold turkey ... NOT with this one, not unless you're being taken care of every minute of the day! Contact his doc or a discrete friend/fam. He needs to taper off it slowly and maybe w/ a backup med. I know how he feels. I am on it and I feel like a zombie too. Until you wrote this, I guess I didn't really know what I was going through, I knew the anxiety was gone and that was good. I thought I was better because I wasn't having anxiety, but ya' know, it's hard feeling nothing, it's so unusual to an emotional and used-to-be outgoing person like me. I lost my best friend, mentor, too, my father, five mos ago. I am calmly planning suicide. Maybe I should be taking a second look at Effexor-XR, but then again the doctors will not give me anything for my anxiety, like Klonopin, any bendodiazepine! And, this is the only thing that works for my anxiety! I'm stuck. I just hope you can help him. He is lucky to have you.
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