Hi everyone. I know I posted about Paroxetine earlier, but I’m kind of freaking out right now.
I’m supposed to start switching to Paroxetine tonight - have been on Citalopram for 5 years and doesn’t seem to be working anymore. Lately been dealing with OCD and intrusive thoughts.
Anyways, I know googling is never anyone’s friend and I had problems with this when I had severe health anxiety. But I read that someone committed homicide while on Paroxetine?? And that’s got me majorly freaked out.
And then I read that there’s been other cases with antidepressants in general and homicide.
So, now I’m panicking because I don’t want that to happen to me and then I get freaked out because I am currently on an antidepressant .
I’m trying to remind myself that I was on Citalopram for 5 years and felt completely fine and normal. My intrusive thoughts were completely different before I read about those things, but now it’s all I can think about
It’s so hard to stop googling. But we need to. I was on paxil for 10 years. It was great for my anxiety. I never had any bad thoughts of self harm or harming others. It did finally poop out on me.
Just start on a low dose and keep a journal of how you are doing. Sometimes it’s hard to see improvement unless we write it down.
Good luck!
I’m now 4 weeks on celexa. It sure is taking its sweet time to fully kick in
Paroxetine is very good. I was on it for 10 years until it stoped working.
One thing i must warn you of though is it's very, very hard to come off of it. If you do start it, start off on as low a dose as possible and build up slowly.
I know, ugh. I was only researching it to see how people liked it and then one thing led to another and here we are.
That’s reassuring, thank you. I’m also worried about how hard it is to come off Paroxetine. If I felt I didn’t like it within the first few weeks, I hope I wouldn’t have been on it too long to get bad withdrawal if I needed to switch back to Citalopram..
How long did it take you to withdraw?
Also, good luck with the Celexa. I did have good results for 5 years and felt nice and normal. Hope it works for you
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