Posted by Anna Laura on February 19, 2002, at 18:49:24
In reply to Re: Venlafaxine disinhibition: good or bad? » Anna Laura, posted by IsoM on February 19, 2002, at 11:45:41
> Anna Laura, your background is very different in many ways from mine (as you know from my e-mails) but what you're experiencing right now is the way I would feel when an SSRI starting working but the dose was still too low. When it was increased, my mood stabilised & I could still feel the anger & sadness in appropriate situations(the negative emotions) but would start feeling a lot more positive emotions too like a normal person should.
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> For me, the first emotions that tend to return with AD treatment is the sadder emotions. Before treatment, I'd just feel extreme bleakness & irritation. Then came sadness (got all weepy) or anger (felt like righteous indignation to me) & then with the proper amount of AD, happiness & joy would also return.
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> *IF* this is your case too, it's possible the amount of Effexor that worked for you before may now need an increase instead. It doesn't sound like it's a serotonin excess effect but it may affect diff people differently???
Hi Judy,Thanks for the info! I have experienced these states before (even without medications, but it was quite a long time ago) and it's so frustrating to experience these tiny little "awakenings" which seem rather promising but eventually fade away with time!
I'm currently taking 300 mg. of Effexor already: since i don't have a pdoc at the moment, i'd be rather scared to raise the Effexor dose myself (well, may be a could, but just a little).
The psychopharmacologist lady i called last week is having a conference and she'll be back next Monday for an appointment.
My father will be in France next week and he's supposed to get me the Adafrinil.
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