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Old Apr 19, 2010, 01:32 AM
WendyAussie WendyAussie is offline
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I nearly died because of this issue - I was incorrectly precribed SSRI's for nearly 7 years and I lost everything in life and then nearly my life itself. And for the majority of that time I was on mood stabilisers as well - didn't make a jot of difference to the SSRI's shooting me into hypomania and mania, mixed states, rapid cycling, the panic and anxiety disorders most of us have, and then, of course the massive plummets into daily suicidal Bipolar Depression, which obviously, ended up with me making a 100% serious attempt on my life which nearly succeeded - 5 day coma, many intervetions to save me.

I can't tell you to go off them - you must discuss this with your doctor, but please believe that now that I know what happened to me (lost house, career, friends, family, passion and interests - and the years chewed up mean I can't have kids now) I can now find information and research on this all over the Internet. So talk to your doc about it.