Posted by Lou Pilder on June 17, 2010, at 7:24:10
In reply to The Best way to stop a SSRI/SSNI, posted by Huxley on June 17, 2010, at 1:15:10
> I have been doing alot of research on this. And as usual on the web I am getting mixed results.
> General wisdom seems to say the best way to do it is to taper over an extended period.
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> Can anyone answer me this. If I switch across to prozac (which I believe I can do without any ill effects), will prozaz be far easier to get off due to its long halflife? (2 weeks is it?)
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> Or does that simply postpone the withdrawals for two weeks.
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> I am on 50mg of Pristiq a day. If I try and stop cold turkey I become a mess which comes as no suprise.
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> My plan is to switch across to prozac and taper over 3 - 9 months+ depending on my progress.
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> Any tips, schedules or advice greatly appreciated.
>Huxley,
You wrote,[...{Any}...appreciated..].
I would like to help you here, and maybe could offer something to you that could save your life. But Mr. Hsiung has made a rule that if I was to post here what I think could save your life,which is the foundation of what I would tell you, I would be expelled from this community.
You see, you have been taking chemicals into your system that have mind-altering effects, which could cause a broken heart and make one captive to the drugs they take so that they have to have them or they go into a withdrawal so that they could lose their liberty to be free from the drug. The drugs can cause one to not see what could be seen by inducing a mind-altered state that could make one blind in a sense as to be a captive and be bound to the drugs effects to kill yourself or others. And the advice that I could give you is advice about the mind that could bring into focus things that could reverse the effects of the mind-altering chemicals.
I am talking about healing. And this healing that I could tell you about is the healing of the mind, which could then translate into healing of the body and the nerves and the brain. But this mind that I am talking about is not the mind that you were born with. It is a new mind and a new spirit and a new heart that I have been anointed to tell to the brokenhearted, to the meek, to the captives and to open up the prison to those that are bound to the drugs and to comfort those that mourn for their life to be restored before they took the drugs. For those that hear what I could say here could exchange beauty for ashes and joy for mourning and have the garment of praise for the spirit of depression.
In that day that you become free you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace, the mountains and hills shall break forth before you into singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Lou
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