Posted by love bites again on September 23, 2004, at 21:02:40
In reply to Re: HELP!! Can't Stop Sleeping While Withdrawaling Fro, posted by utopizen on September 23, 2004, at 19:51:24
> Ask about Provigil. If that fails, ask about some Adderall or Desoxyn. It'll go away.
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> What I'm more concerned about is why people are going off antidepressants. Frankly, after being depressed for a year now, and just starting them recently, I would never think of stopping one that I found to work on my depression, hell or high water.
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> Give me no orgasm, I don't care-- depression is far worse than even the worst withdrawl symptoms.
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> Whatever doctors are telling patients to go off their antidepressants for is highly suspect. How on Earth could anyone test their fate with the throws of depression so casually? I'm sticking to ADs for the rest of my life if it means I don't have the threat of depression lurking on my back. But that's just me. Others may go their own way... as incomprehensible as it happens to be to me.I hear ya loud and clear. My depression was so bad that I'd have taken a lobotomy over it anyday!
Thing is, after 5 years on Paxil, my feelings are completely dead - no happy feelings EVER. No particularly sad feelings, but I've lost my passions (and I don't mean just sex), I just sit there in a fog all day unable to come alive. I used to paint, I used to be creative and energetic and now (remember it's been 5 years) I'm a shell. It isn't the depression returning, it's the Paxil! I learned that here when I was desperate for answers as to why I can't feel *me* anymore and found it to be a common thread amoung Paxil users. I definitely need an antidepressant (I'm a lifer), but I need to get off this crap before it kills what's left of me and find an antidepressant that doesn't have such extreme side effects. I guess that's what we're all hoping for. I'm just comming off the Paxil (maybe too quickly) and I've got the zaps in my head and tongue and when I finally fall asleep, I can't wake up - like I said, I've been asleep for the better part of 3 days now. It's scary.
Cheryl
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