Thank you all for your input!! Now if I can get a doctor to allow me off of it! I really don't think it has helped me this whole time I've been taking it. And if it did, it was short lived. The best AD that I can remember was Paxil, surprisingly. But I gained way too much weight on it! I was eating carbs like crazy and not even realizing it. Kind of like Seroquel. I also did quite a bit of emotional eating on the Effexor too which means it was not doing it's job. My favorite was strawberry cake and strawberry icing. Mmmmm, it would be gone within three days just by me alone.