I'm seeing a psychologist and getting my medication from my MD. I was originally prescribed Zoloft for depression and social anxiety disorder but I had to get off of it after six weeks because it was making me climb the walls. My MD then prescribed Effexor and so far I've seen no unpleasant side effects; I'm still only taking 75 mg. I've read many people complain about Effexor causing emotional numbness, basically causing you to not feel much of anything. My question is this: how high of a dose of Effexor do you need to produce this effect? This is what I want, to not feel much of anything anymore. What I've learned in therapy is that I'm screwed up, I've screwed up my life by making the wrong choices, and at the age of 46, things are not going to change. So if someone could tell me what dose of Effexor i would need to take to make me functionally numb, it would be much appreciated. No, I'm not kidding.