I was on Celexa with lamictal for awhile. For anxiety I could see it working really well! It basically turned my brain off. I didn't have any anxiety or even thoughts about anything really. My mind was a simple empty hum. I remember complaining a lot because I knew I wanted to think about things but, I couldn't think at all. I would just sit and stare and not the kind of sitting and staring you do when you're so depressed you can't be bothered to do anything but, I had nothing in me.

It's the only time in my life I can say I understood what emptiness feels like. Physically I was alive but, I wasn't living. I was blank. I never had anything to say and normally, I have an opinion about everything!

As usual with antidepressants, and the desperation that drives one to try them, I lost insight into how it was effecting me and my husband had to ask me to stop it. He said it basically turned my personality off. My doctor didn't have a clue about this because he just listened to my self reports and was impressed I wasn't complaining of anxiety (really I was complaining I didn't even have healthy anxiety) and kept increasing my Lamictal because I was still depressed.

I've learned with any new drug it's important to listen to what your friends and family is telling you about how you're reacting and probably more so than doctors.

I also learned after Celexa being my third SSRI that I'm not willing to try another drug of it's class and likely won't even touch an SNRI either.