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The pros and cons of popular antidepressants; advice on getting off drugs like Cymbalta, Effexor or Paxil; the connection between antidepressants and suicide. Non-drug approaches to beating back the blues. What to do if drugs don’t work.
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I was on "cocktail" of several different drugs, (most recently Cymbalta, Prozac and Limictal) as treatment for mild manic depression for almost 5 years.
Feeling that I was living a "muffled" life and not experiencing any real emotion (after several different combinations of these and other drugs), I decided to try non-drug treatment.
To this end, I asked for professional help on 7 different occasions to get off my drug cocktail. These professionals were, at best, not responsive to my requests to meet this end.
So, I consulted with family and friends, did my own computer research and decided to do it myself....
I am "clean" for two months now and feeling much better!
I feel more emotionally responsive and present to those around me, I feel clear headed and am able to be more decisive.
The transition time of approximately 3 weeks was very uncomfortable though: I felt almost constant muscle aches and pains, nausea, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, seeming unquenchable thirst, restless sleep.
I am glad I found the conviction to get off the drugs, the weeks of discomfort during the transition were worth the clarity and feeling present I am experiencing now.
I will not delude myself into thinking that I don't need some kind of therapy or that I am not mildly manic depressive.
I continue with my "talk" therapy; just someone else now who IS helping me. I'm feeling better now! :)
Congratulations. You are very lucky to have successfully detoxed off of your psychotropic drugs. There are many physicians that can amp people up with these drugs but very few that know how to stop said drugs. A family member took his life while on Cymbalta. He had never been depressed but when he explained to his physician the suicidal ideations he was having the physician doubled his dose of Cymbalta added Abilify and told him to come back in a week. He died by his own hands instead.