No placebo?
Hm. This is odd. I've been on Citalopram for almost a year now, and 40 mg a day for a few months. On Thursday night I felt really ill. On Friday morning, I couldn't find my existing pack of Citalopram anywhere, and was too unwell to go to the doctor, so I didn't take any. I haven't taken any at all since Thursday. Today I found 1 day's dose but haven't taken them. Why?
NOTHING has happened. NOTHING.I've heard a lot of bad things about what happens a day or so after you miss your meds. The biggest stretch I can make is feeling more tired, but I *am* also unwell and I *have* been sleeping badly, so I'm not sure it's anything - no worse than I often feel anyway. I've been a bit concerned about whether the SSRIs are helping me at all, but have treated them as insurance, and noted that I've been feeling better at times (much less of the violent chest-paint anxiety stuff), so regarded it as something I might as well take as not. But has that actually been the case? I go up and down; for example, my eczema's currently flaring a bit. I worry slightly that starting with another dose might then trigger bad reactions, and I've got an essay due in on Wed so I don't want to provoke anything.
I'm in a bit of a dilemma. Should I just stop taking the pills? I'm increasingly unconvinced that anything except my own willpower, and patience for a change in circumstances, is going to do much to improve my mental health. I'm mostly treating it like a torn tendon or something, a problem I just have to treat gently until it gets better and be aware of it thereafter.
I don't really have much experience with this, which may or may not be a good thing.
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NOTHING has happened. NOTHING.I've heard a lot of bad things about what happens a day or so after you miss your meds. The biggest stretch I can make is feeling more tired, but I *am* also unwell and I *have* been sleeping badly, so I'm not sure it's anything - no worse than I often feel anyway. I've been a bit concerned about whether the SSRIs are helping me at all, but have treated them as insurance, and noted that I've been feeling better at times (much less of the violent chest-paint anxiety stuff), so regarded it as something I might as well take as not. But has that actually been the case? I go up and down; for example, my eczema's currently flaring a bit. I worry slightly that starting with another dose might then trigger bad reactions, and I've got an essay due in on Wed so I don't want to provoke anything.
I'm in a bit of a dilemma. Should I just stop taking the pills? I'm increasingly unconvinced that anything except my own willpower, and patience for a change in circumstances, is going to do much to improve my mental health. I'm mostly treating it like a torn tendon or something, a problem I just have to treat gently until it gets better and be aware of it thereafter.
I don't really have much experience with this, which may or may not be a good thing.
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