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Old Feb 15, 2017, 12:18 AM
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Hi,

I'm not sure that what I'm going to write so much qualifies as an answer, but from what I've gathered in the time that I've spent reading about the experiences that patients with mental health conditions have with their medications, the way that your medication is affecting you seems to be pretty common. Not everybody responds to SSRI antidepressants (and Lexapro/escitalopram is one SSRI antidepressant) in the same way, so I'm not sure that there's a such thing as a "typical" SSRI response, but I'd definitely say that the sort of response that you're noticing doesn't seem to be unusual. Without a doubt, both the benefits and the drawbacks of any medications that we might take for the mental health conditions that we have are things that we have to keep paying attention to, and when the negative effects of any medications that we might take become difficult to tolerate, discussing your treatment options with the professional who prescribes your medication is something that I'd most certainly advise.

At any rate, thank you for posting and for having recently joined the forums here. Sometimes just expressing our frustrations in writing can help us understand certain things that we're going through a little bit better, even if it doesn't always do much else.