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05 May 2017, 1:52 am

Just a few descriptive words in title. I find myself to have severely slurred speech, hard time walking, and putting together sentences. I've even had significant trouble on here putting together my forum posts. I've become SEVERELY lazy from this medication, and I've also become a MUCH slower thinker, and I feel like I'm dumb. I'm planning to get off of it with my psychologist person over time. However I've become much more logical and I learn things quicker.

The only problem is, the MOMENT I get off this med, the anxiety returns full force, the OCD takes over EVERY SINGLE THOUGHT, and I literally cannot live anymore. I'm confused. And no, nothing natural works, and no amount of cognitive therapy works. The only thing cognitive therapy has done is teach me some social cues.



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05 May 2017, 10:51 am

wrongcitizen wrote:
I've become SEVERELY lazy from this medication.


Side affects of zombified synthetic meds.

wrongcitizen wrote:
And no, nothing natural works, and no amount of cognitive therapy works.


How do you know these don't work?Is it because you tell your mind/brain,that 'no',they won't and don't work?


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05 May 2017, 11:00 am

I know someone that was helped by Lexapro.

http://www.steadyhealth.com/topics/lexapro-for-ocd
Here is a discussion.



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07 May 2017, 4:46 am

I don't mean to make myself look like an idiot wasting all your time but...seems I missed a dose. Whenever I miss even one my whole sense of everything gets knocked out of whack.



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07 May 2017, 5:38 am

I am in a similar situation, but medication (I take paxil) does help to alleviate some of my anxiety. If I am brutally honest, I am usually rather tired, foggy and slow anyway.


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07 May 2017, 5:51 am

what medication do you take?

Whenever i started taking my old antidepressants i couldn't think properly for about 2 weeks but then they returned to normal.


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07 May 2017, 9:38 am

I have refused to do "the old switcheroo" with meds.

It is true that I build up a resistance, need increased dosage, and eventually must switch to something else. Aha! I have beat that rap. I don't switch if it's a med that originally worked well. I taper down to the minimal dosage and stay there. This is uncomfortable but better than bouncing off all the walls with new meds all the time.

So once I'm tapered down, I can carry on as usual. This is with doctor's consent. After a few years, I've tapered back up and have to repeat the process. But I'm stable and this combo works, so why try others?

If I go off meds, then full-blown panic attacks come back. Not a way to live at all.



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07 May 2017, 11:40 am

Claradoon wrote:
I have refused to do "the old switcheroo" with meds.

It is true that I build up a resistance, need increased dosage, and eventually must switch to something else


Feels like that's all I've done with meds since I was 19 , it usually reaches a point where I just stop taking them until I have a breakdown.


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