Post here if you have taken Paxil

[stormbv]

I just started on Paxil last week, for OCD. My stomach was upset the first couple of days, and I am pretty tired. I'm don't really know what to expect..I hope it helps.

<------Hope it pulls the paper bag off of my head...

 

[conjur]

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<< The best way to deal with depression is to set one's mind straight and have a strong will to deal with the issues. It took me some time but I eventually did without taking that disgusting pill.

I didn't like the idea of depending on chemicals to control my mood either. >>



This is how I feel too. I have a vague uneasy feeling about people en masse depending on psychoactive chemicals just to be able to function through their daily lives. The mindset of "I'm depressed, I need to take Prozac/Zoloft/Paxil/whatever" seems to be becoming all too common. >>



Well, not everyone can "snap out of it". It's a chemical imbalance in the brain, typically hereditary or something that can be triggered by a severe, emotionally traumatic event (my daughter) or even a head injury (a guy who sits next to me at work). If it lets someone live a normal life, free from anxiety or depression where psychiatric nor psychological therapy is doing any good, then I'm all for it.

 

[rival]

i took it for about a year 3 years ago, i gained weight from it (or im blaming my recent weight gain on it), and um also, they say 'some sexual sideffects'..that means um, you cant uh, 'frost the cake' for like, hours....

i guess it helped me...im alive

 

[stormbv]

<< i took it for about a year 3 years ago, i gained weight from it (or im blaming my recent weight gain on it), and um also, they say 'some sexual sideffects'..that means um, you cant uh, 'frost the cake' for like, hours.... >>



Did it increase your appetite, rival? I want to demolish a buffet

 

[gplanet]

I believe it may be hereditary in my family....but my parents or their parents don't seem to have any symptoms of it.

I have 2 sisters (20 and 15) and I believe both experience variants of the anxiety/depression I have.

My 20 year old sister, graduated with like a 3.8 but never went to college...after high school she stayed in her room every day for 6 months with my parents trying to make her get a job. She would fight and cry about it until finally after 8 months she had a min. wage job...more than 2 years later, still the same thing. And she will not learn to drive for some reason and won't talk about it, she takes a taxi to work. She likes cats but not people. I am pretty sure this must be a chemical imbalance.

I am better off in symptoms than she is, and my younger 15 year old sister is even better off than I am. I have a feeling that while we have similar depression/social problems, the difference is that she is willing to freely talk about her depression and social life/problems to the family and isn't as concerned about what others think.

For some reason, if I went on a date with a girl I would never let my parents know (yes I am an adult now)...for some reason, i would be embarrassed. Things like this have always discouraged me from doing something like going to the prom or having (trying to have) a g/f. This is part of the problem. Also, have you ever felt flustered when you are around a girl you have a crush on? Imagine that but it controls your life...that's what's happened to me. It keeps getting WORSE, and WORSE because I am so scared of it. It controls where I eat, when and if I go to class, if I go out to party. And if I go someplace where I might see her, I am constantly on alert and in fear like someone is out to kill me. It's not fun And if I do see her, I literally almost pass out and I become sick for a few days and can't do anything....I fear it will eventually lead me to hurt myself or someone else

Well, there's my rant. Hopefully the drug will help!

 

[stormbv]

good luck gplanet