Posted by Ritch on March 7, 2005, at 9:52:19
In reply to I know it's the paxil...apathy, posted by Slinky on March 6, 2005, at 20:30:20
> Hello... I'll be nice : )
>
> I don't care anymore..people mean nothing..but I know maybe deep down they do..this filter -paxil-
> makes me dislike everyone.
> I'd like to get off the med but I don't know if I'm safer feeling this way...also my brain needs a rest from going on and off meds.
> I've lost all passion and spirituality...
> I often think of going a rehab to get off my meds and maybe start again/or not , but a rehab for this problems doesn't exist.
> My messy life..I'm sleeping most of it away but I don't really care much.
> What I've become is someone with little personality miserable and quite horrible.
>
>
I think that SSRI's generally could be called "mental crisis anesthetics". You might try slowly backing off the Paxil and find that at some point a *little* works Ok, and you won't feel so BLAH. I'm just taking 1/2mg of liquid Celexa every other day and although I get a little grouchy when I take it, it keeps me from being panicky. At some point though at a little higher dose than that things go from anxious "What If?" to apathetic "Whatever". They have done studies that show that 5mg Prozac actually works *better* after a couple of months than 20mg does (I think Ed posted that recently). Maybe you could get some liquid Paxil and draw down your dose and see what happens?
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