I've been taking Effexor for a week, and I've benefited from a friend's med diary about her early experiences with it, so in the spirit of paying it forward, here's what my first week has been like
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Thank you so much for writing this. I've just gotten insurance finally and I'll be setting up an appointment with a therapist as soon as I find one I think might work out, and have been kind of scared about the various antidepressants out there. My boyfriend takes Zoloft for anxiety, which I saw really helped him over time to manage it. It's easier for him to control his anxious feelings when he starts thinking certain things, so that makes me feel better about them in general.
But I've never been on antidepressants before, so there is definitely a bit of fear, and I hope whatever I get prescribed works out. I have been researching drugs and their side effects, but it gets overwhelming, so your post helped a lot. I would love reading anything more you have to say on your thoughts about and experiences with Effexor and/or therapy in the future. I've never been to therapy before, and I believe it can help and everything, but thinking about talking to a stranger about such terrible feelings is stressful and I've read horror stories. I know that therapy can be immensely helpful, but I've also read that it's like finding a good friend: it's going to take several tries to find the right one, which sounds exhausting. I've been depressed for a long time (over ten years) and, like you, my life and career were ruined and I became nonfunctional, basically. I'm scared to talk to a therapist about all of that stuff, and I'm afraid that an antidepressant might make things worse (increase in suicide ideation, etc.).
But I've never been on antidepressants before, so there is definitely a bit of fear, and I hope whatever I get prescribed works out. I have been researching drugs and their side effects, but it gets overwhelming, so your post helped a lot. I would love reading anything more you have to say on your thoughts about and experiences with Effexor and/or therapy in the future. I've never been to therapy before, and I believe it can help and everything, but thinking about talking to a stranger about such terrible feelings is stressful and I've read horror stories. I know that therapy can be immensely helpful, but I've also read that it's like finding a good friend: it's going to take several tries to find the right one, which sounds exhausting. I've been depressed for a long time (over ten years) and, like you, my life and career were ruined and I became nonfunctional, basically. I'm scared to talk to a therapist about all of that stuff, and I'm afraid that an antidepressant might make things worse (increase in suicide ideation, etc.).
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