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    Celexa and xanax

    Today my dr raised my celexa from 10mg to 20mg and Xanax 0.25 twice a day. I am scared of the increase. Any advice??

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    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living

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    Why you scared to start with ??
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living

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    Quote Originally Posted by forwells
    Why you scared to start with ??
    The side effects and the damage it does to your brain, heart, kidneys and liver.

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    You know that you can die from drinking too much water ??

    I understand where you are coming from . I am having a bit of the same problem in rearguards to drugs at the moment .

    Its good to knock back a drug but you have to make sure that you are doing it because its what you think is right and not your fear itself .

    If your not happy with it DONT take it and if its being pushed on you then maybe a second option is needed .

    Two questions . How you find out about these side effects ??

    Do you think that your anxiety is playing into what you are thinking ??
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living

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    Quote Originally Posted by forwells
    You know that you can die from drinking too much water ??

    I understand where you are coming from . I am having a bit of the same problem in rearguards to drugs at the moment .

    Its good to knock back a drug but you have to make sure that you are doing it because its what you think is right and not your fear itself .

    If your not happy with it DONT take it and if its being pushed on you then maybe a second option is needed .

    Two questions . How you find out about these side effects ??

    Do you think that your anxiety is playing into what you are thinking ??
    Yes I know about the water thing. I looked up the side effects on google and then I start thinking about all these stars who died of taking meds.

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    Yes well google is not a good thing with a anxious mind .

    As with the water each case is different . If you abuse something then something will more than likely go wrong .

    Its fine to say that these stars died because of this but the fact is that there was a lot more that played into things.

    The right drug with the right doctor and you will be fine i am sure .
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living

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    Quote Originally Posted by forwells
    Yes well google is not a good thing with a anxious mind .

    As with the water each case is different . If you abuse something then something will more than likely go wrong .

    Its fine to say that these stars died because of this but the fact is that there was a lot more that played into things.

    The right drug with the right doctor and you will be fine i am sure .
    I hope so. Thank you so much! Can we pm? Become friends??

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    We can drop me a line when ever you want . I work on line so around most of the time .
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living

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    Quote Originally Posted by forwells
    We can drop me a line when ever you want . I work on line so around most of the time .
    Oh thank you! I never saw u on here before. Is there a way on here we can become friends? Or fb??

 

 

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