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_medley_ May 9 2007, 18:20:50 UTC
Erg. Haven't watched House yet, but I cannot tell you how many times I have tried to explain antidepressants to people, both because I take them and because I'm a therapist. People will take Xanax, no problem, but OMG don't suggest that they take antidepressants. I don't have anything against Xanax if a person needs it, but people, please, can you start with something that's not so addictive? (Uhm, sorry -- I'll get down off my soap box now. :))

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phoenix64 May 9 2007, 20:06:05 UTC
Whoops! You've reminded me that I've been bad (bad fan! no cookie!) by not putting this behind a cut with a spoiler warning. Thankfully it's not too specific.

For some reason knowing that you are a therapist and fannish makes me more gleeful than it probably should. And soapboxes are just fine, though I might quibble over "addictive" - I recently switched from Paxil to Wellbutrin, and yes, I tapered, but it was still reallllly unpleasant.

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_medley_ May 10 2007, 01:09:28 UTC
For some reason knowing that you are a therapist and fannish makes me more gleeful than it probably should.

Hee--it seems like a good combination to me. :)

I might quibble over "addictive" - I recently switched from Paxil to Wellbutrin, and yes, I tapered, but it was still reallllly unpleasant.

OK, now these are things I need to know, so thank you. I've heard that about Paxil, actually, but only from a couple of people who seem to react oddly to *any* medication, so I wasn't sure what to make of it.

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phoenix64 May 10 2007, 01:56:21 UTC
Oh goodie, I get to ramble on a bit!

When my doc first prescribed Paxil for me about four years ago I did some reading, and there were already quite a few tales about Paxil problems. Though at the time I think recognition in the medical community was still a bit shaky. But fast-forward four years and my doctor actually talked to me beforehand about what could happen, and there's a lot of information available about it. It's called SSRI Discontinuation Syndrome. Paxil is part of a class of SSRIs where the medicine doesn't really linger in your system at all, so there's that much more of a difference when you stop taking it.

I tapered off, but I probably should have tapered off more slowly. It hit me the third day of the first week where I wasn't taking any Paxil at all. Have you ever had heat exhaustion? It was like that, with less sweating. All of a sudden my equilibrium was fried. It hit me pretty suddenly, and it having been a few weeks since I'd talked to my doctor, it really freaked me out at first. I had symptoms for ( ... )

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