The biggest mistake I ever made was taking Paxil for depression after my divorce
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> The biggest mistake I ever made was taking Paxil for depression after my divorce > The decision to take psychiatric medications is a personal one. I have chosen to stop > taking medications. I made this choice on my own after doing much research on the subject. > I was given no support from my therapist or psychiatrist for wanting to stop taking meds > but I quit them anyway. I spent several months slowly tapering off meds. I am very happy > with my decision. > I no longer believe that I ever had bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder. > The biggest mistake I ever made was taking Paxil for depression after my divorce. Paxil > made me manic and gave me horrible mood swings. Paxil made me feel
homicidal, while taking > Paxil I obsessed about murdering a man and I had a plan. I asked my doctor for help > because I felt like killing a man, I told him I was not depressed but
"help" was to double – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> my dose of Paxil. He noted in my chart that I was in a cheerful mood but he doubled my > Paxil. > On a double dose of paxil I became manic and obsessive and began to cut my own flesh. > While manic on Paxil I was diagnosed with "bipolar disorder" later as more drugs were > added I became sicker and sicker and my diagnosis was changed to "Schizoaffective > disorder". (I was also taken off Paxil cold turkey and this drug is known to cause > withdrawal psychosis / mania) Now that I have quit taking medications I am fine. I’ve not > had a mood swing or "psychotic episode" since I went off medications nearly a year ago. > The longer I took Anti psychotic medication the more psychotic I became. I had major > problems with Risperdal making me manic and psychotic. Risperdal is known to cause mania. > (Dwight and colleagues reported that six patients with Schizoaffective disorder all > developed new or increased manic symptoms after about a week of
risperidone treatment-and – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> two of these patients were taking "concomitant mood stabilizers.") But my doctors never > made the connection on their own. > Each time I tapered off my final anti psychotic (Seroquel) I became more psychotic that I > was before I took the medication. Doctors call this "rebound psychosis" but I waited it > out and the psychosis went away after a week. Each week I was able to taper down till I > was off it all together. Some people confuse drug withdrawal psychosis with the original > symptoms. > I am very angry for the pain my child and I have suffered through at the hands of > psychiatry. I now suffer from a drug Induced Movement disorder. I lost my innocence, my > childhood, my career, my self esteem, my college scholarship, a chance to go to high > school, and years of my daughter’s childhood to psychiatry and
indiscriminate psychiatric – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> drugging. > I still see a therapist whom I mostly trust and now find the support that I get from her > to be invaluable. I had to quit taking meds for my mind to be clear enough for her to be > able to help me. > My goal is to tirelessly spread the word about the dangers of Psychiatry and psychiatric > drugging in the hopes that others will not have to go through what I did. >
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