Posted by linkadge on August 20, 2005, at 15:43:21
In reply to Re: Life not the same after SSRIs?, posted by tygereyes on August 20, 2005, at 10:41:41
It depends on the person. I would not say that everyone who takes them feels better than well. I certainly never felt better than well. Infact, even though I felt somewhat better, I never even felt "well".
I still contend that the drugs are completely addictive. I have come off about 180mg of codiene and 5mg of clonazepam, nicotine gum, caffiene, etc. I have three friends who also quit smoking and say that quitting smoking was easy, but kicking paxil is in their words "f*ckin' impossable"
I am in my fifth month of SSRI withdawl. I am still experincing brain zaps, flu like symptoms, nausia, the works. All go away within 1 hour of reinstituting a dose of an SSRI. I crave the relief that a simple zoloft or celexa will bring. I crave it. These drugs are highly addictive.It is funny how people will sit here and defend the drugs untill the day that they need to come off of it, then their attitute very quickly changes.
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