It's been a while, I'm back, now on Paroxetine and I want off...

[earlgrey]

I guess it's been a bit since I posted last.. March or so. Long story short I was breaking down and saw a doctor, he put me on Paroxetine for my anxiety and depression. For a bit it seemed to work, I was feeling better and things weren't bothering me. Things wouldn't "snowball" in my head all day, wasn't feeling like a hypochondriac at all, and my sex drive was totally bombed so I assume it was working anyway. Uh so yeah only been taking the medication now for a few months and I've been having fucked up lucid/vivid dreams. Some of them aren't so bad in the sense they aren't nightmares but they're fucking deep, I keep thinking I've woken up only to wake up to another dream. I can pinch myself in my dreams and see hairs on my arms it's stupid. Other dreams have just been nightmares, sometimes I don't even know why, they just have an evil undertone that disturbs me. I woke up today so fucked up I felt like crying, I didn't get it. Some weird dream about working in an orphanage and all the women and children wearing boxes on their heads with the eyes cut out.

Anyway I told my doctor about it, he said he could just put me on something else, but after that dream I just want to quit it all. Maybe my anxiety is situational, I really don't know I just want a normal nights sleep without having nightmares, so has anyone quit Paroxetine before? I know you can't just stop taking it but I was wondering how long it takes to wean off. I was on some anti depressent a long time ago and just quit it in one night flat. I really don't know what I'll do about my depression everythings like a downward spiral but I don't think a pill can fix it.

[ova'it]

Paxutine is the worst med ive ever been on. I struggled to get of it only to take it again after one yr drug free. My doc switched me straight from paxitine to celeprM. Had no anixiety at all and feeling gud.