Posted by vanni on November 22, 2006, at 11:37:36
In reply to Re: Anyone had success on Effexor XR?, posted by dsm3r on November 21, 2006, at 22:29:22
Hi dsm3r,
Thank you so much for adding your experience to this site. I am 53 and have been taking EffexorXR for 8 months for anxiety, and trazadone 50mg at night so I can sleep. I feel like a new woman. My history is not as dramatic as yours but I do feel sad for the years I didn't live to my full potential because of periods of low level anxiety and depression I thought was normal. I am also in recovery from compulsive eating/starving and realize now that I used food as a drug to handle my feelings, which of course just worsened the problem. I am abstinent from my food addiction right now and I think the medication is helping. There are other behavioral and spiritual things I do so with it all working together I feel fantastic. I hope the next generation of people who suffer from mental illness get the medical help they need sooner, and without the stigma that still exists.
I work with adolescents in a counselling role and it is so hard to get the medical help they need and to support families in accepting medical help for "psychological" issues. With brave people (like you) sharing their stories on websites like this change will happen.
Vanni
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