Remember being on a high dose of paxil – It really screwed me up. I was on Prozac at the same time.
Late last week the New York Times published an article titled Antidepressant Paxil Is Unsafe for Teenagers, New Analysis Says. After reading it through twice, I sent the link to my friend. He messaged me back almost immediately: “I knew that shit was poison.”
We’d both known.
I was put on Paxil when I was 16. The best word to describe that time in my life is probably soggy. I cried. A lot. I cried in class, I cried between classes, and I cried after school. At night, instead of doing homework I would lie in bed and read Lucy Maud Montgomery books and cry. I got an F in math that semester, which somehow felt validating, as if it proved that I was the failure I’d always imagined myself to be.
I went to see my family doctor and after listening to me stumble through what for me was an excruciating…
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Oh. I KNEW I would never take Paxil because one of my friends said it made her gain weight. MY cocktail was Zoloft, Seroquil, Tegretol (sp)and I can’t remember what else.
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