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Old May 31, 2011, 03:50 PM
thea_kronborg thea_kronborg is offline
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Originally Posted by Illegal Toilet View Post
I also went off my Efexor a few weeks ago with my psychiatrist's help. Down from 300mg to 225mg. I'm feeling alright, but perhaps an unhealthy focus on life's grim realities.
this sounds familiar. when i went off my antidepressants last fall, i started to feel "okay, but grim".

in retrospect i wish I had taken it as a sign that I was still depressed and needed intervention. if i had had a better living situation at the time (living alone, my husband and family hundreds of miles away, somewhat hostile job) I might have managed it. But things went badly and eventually (two months ago) I had a major depressive episode.

I'm back on antidepressants and much, much better now.

of course we're different people and in different situations, i don't mean to scare you. I'm just saying, pay attention to your moods. It is a normal thing to feel grim, purposeless, small in the universe, from time to time. the question is, does it last and can you deal with it.

thea