Posted by West on November 13, 2008, at 16:49:05
In reply to Re: La vie en Ixel, posted by elanor roosevelt on November 7, 2008, at 23:52:10
REVIEW: Tapering off since this medicine doesn't want to go quietly. I cannot recommend NRIs The energy they provide is not good (even if ixel is subtler then cymbalta)- it is merely tension - and that the NRI mechanism is common in so many meds is misleading.
I can see for example that if i were being observed for depressive symptoms in clinical trial, i would be more animated. To have spent ages being morbidly depressed and introverted to have your adrenal system jacked up and speaking the rubbish in your head as it occurs to you is demeaning and peverse.
For me, the shift in mood and mind state from tianeptine to ixel really shows the SNRIs to be blunt and unpleasant instruments they are in mood alteration.With tianeptine you begin at least to feel and explore the world, you have a sense of your place in it, not speeded-up or displaced or labotomised. I also won't sleep tonight, like every other night.
Tianeptine won't be enough in itself for me, i will only touch non reuptake inhibiting drugs from now on, i hate who they turn me into and how i feel on them. Maybe i'll start mirtazapine soon. Maybe even the tricyclics don't destroy the imagination or turn you into a thoughtless odiot. I am 23. I have literally lost 4 years of myself to SSRI drugs, and the ones before that painful and troublesome, but at least i was...me.
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