You guys are funny with your thinking you know what it's all about! Believe me when I say you need to take ALLLLLL your preconceptions and notions about this, and throw them all away.
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Paxil works by detaching you from your own emotions
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This would have been a tremendous luxury when I was crying my eyeballs out for hours on end, week after week, after my divorce. And what a terrible thing, to miss the beauty and joy of the world that has come to me from the women I've seen since then (yes J, most especially the latest!). The excitement of the transformation in me. The emotion of the music I'm rehearsing to audition next week. I feel it all.
But it might not have, when I was at the higher dosage. At the higher dosage I felt "compressed", like instead of going from 1 to 10, I was going from 3 to 8. I was very aware of this compression. But the problem is, which is a better choice: the anxious illness or the compression/side effects? I would not take this choice away from any individual. It is their life; it is their choice; and they are fully conscious of their choice at all times.
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Paxil is particularly nasty on the side effects, most people experience 'zaps', like someing applying electroshock directly tho their brain, often for up to a week.
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This is the side effect one would get if one were taking it incorrectly. It's what happens if you go from a high dosage to a low dosage or no dosage at all. You are not supposed to do that. Either you switch to another, similar drug in the family of drugs, or you wean off of it, no faster than losing 5mg per week.
Unfortunately many docs don't understand this in depth, or the patients don't care enough to take the precautions of understanding what they're doing...