insanity: the journey or the destination?

[lumberjim]

what would YOU do if you started out as a shy person, and then half the time you had dinner in public or went to a movie, you broke out in a cold sweat and palpitations and had to leave?

this would be the kind of thing i referred to as treatable chemical imbalance, then? I guess I'd take 15 mg of paxil everyday for 5 years and counting.

have you experimented with foregoing the meds? or does it take time to wear off/take effect again if it doesnt go well?

what was the basis for the anxiety? were you afraid of embarrassing yourself by saying something innapropriate, or was it a more general thing?

[jinx]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

have you experimented with foregoing the meds? or does it take time to wear off/take effect again if it doesnt go well?

Paxil can make you physically ill for weeks when you go on/off of it. Not to mention the whole suicide factor.

Just a little anecdote, but I have a friend who has been on serious amounts of several antidepressants among other 'meds' for many, many years. She started seeing an acupuncturist and went off everything. I noticed no change in her at all. I knew about the acupuncturist but did not know about the meds until she told me a few months later.