Effexor gave me horrible side effects it made me 100 times worse when I started to take it I never saw an improvement to was sucidal on it and I was paranoid out of my freaking mind it's like I was on a movie where someone was paranoid but it was me I mean everything and I was out to eat at that time and i called my parents crying constantly nothing helped me get out of it I just had to stop taking it once I got off I was better