Been on Effexor since Nov last year, now on 75mg for GAD, SAD and mild OCD. Hasn't touched the OCD but that's never been a great problem anyway. Just annoying to me.

Effexor definitely stabilized my moods until towards the end of January, then all the crazy old re-runs began again........ anxiety (but maybe not as bad) sadness that might last two hours or a whole day, anger, despair, frustration, emptiness, loneliness......... all these things can surface in the course of a day and are sometimes interspersed with periods of relative calm. On top of this, I haven't had a decent nights sleep since I started on the stuff, yet I don't feel too bad all day even when I'm at work.

I don't blame the Effexor. I think it's more of a case of only telling the prescribing Dr a fraction of what was really going on in my head. I am still loosing weight though, but that was happening before the Effexor.

Going to do a new mental health care plan tomorrow and off to see a new pdoc as soon as I can get an appointment. Maybe he/she will shed some light on all this. I was way worse when I was younger and really thought I was getting past all this emotional turmoil, but I guess you never can tell