Mine was changing before my eyes, but I didn’t know why—and I didn’t realize it. Only in hindsight do I understand: they put him on a serotonin-stacked cocktail.No monitoring. No warning. His empathy changed first. I used to tease, “Where did your empathy go?”He’d half-laugh and correct himself.I know now—he was mirroring me. He sent…
My mom and I guided her 79 year old friend on how to come off mirtazapine safely and her doctor was on board. Today when they spoke, she told my mom that he has since put her on trazodone and risperidone instead… and she still can’t sleep. I wonder what the Drug Induced symptoms are…
I was taking Effexor, 225mg for about 7 years. I decided to go off because it wasn’t helping my depression and anxiety all that much anymore. I found a psychiatrist and she supposedly helped me taper. She immediately told me to take one less 75mg a week. By the 2nd week, she added Wellbutrin as…
My husband became manic in 2018 after taking paxil. No one explained to us that the paxil can cause mania. Our family has been completely destroyed over the years because instead of being advised to taper off the paxil he was advised to add more and more psychiatric drugs. We thought he was bipolar because…
I was not on effexor, but had been put on lexapro, wellbutrin, zoloft, before finally being put on prozac, all this in combination with xanax that I developed an addiction to, followed by a hysterectomy at 32. I began lying to my husband of 15 years, with which by all accounts I had the most…
Please don’t switch. I was given Sertraline after stopping Venlafaxine too quickly and having anxiety after 5 months. It made me crazy so I was given Lorazepam and then switched to Mirtazapine which made me so depressed then back to Venlafaxine. I am now in such a mess after increasing Ven twice as per doctors…
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