Posted by Fathe on January 30, 2005, at 12:36:45
In reply to Long Term Side Effects--Effexor, posted by AmyN on January 30, 2005, at 5:50:53
I did not experience this while on Effexor but whoooaaa did I ever during withdrawal. I did become pretty confrontational at work which is very unlike me...I usually sit quietly and stew in my own thoughts. But the worse however is when something out of my control happened, I still went a bit over the top.
One night my laptop issued by my employer for night production support (I am in IT) would not start..so what did I do? I tried to get it to start several times and when it didn't, I picked it up, pounded it a few times, threw it very hard to the floor, some of the plastic broke off it...etc..needless to say, what ever was wrong with it originally was probably fixable by the Help Desk people at work. But my antics completely broke it for good.
It was weird too becuase I knew this was a symptom of withdrawal and I did not control it better..luckliy my employer just thought I dropped the laptop and gave me a new one but I still was highly shameful of my behavior.
I feel much better now that the symptoms of withdrawal have started to wane and my emotions are leveling off. But that was very scary....
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