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    So I saw David Healy today, he was very nice and validated what I am going through, he is writing to my GP to tell her that what i am going through is real. of course as you all know he has no answers apart from he said that the best thing to do to aid recovery is a gentle exercise routine that can be built on, he likened it to a taper off the drugs, but going up, he said do what you can tolerate and build on it. He also said it was important to be as mentally active as possible, engage with people and different environments, I expressed how hard this was and he said ''I never said it would be an easy thing to do, its not it will be extrememly difficult but you need to look at it as the way to help yourself recover''

    He said not to rush things and think I should take on everything ike going back to work etc but to just start small and work my way up into some kind of daily routine. He said this injury will heal given enough time, he said usually within 6 years, I know many on this board are suffering beyong that point but he said he knows it happens but is not as common as the 6 year healing and it takes longer in older people but it does happen. Sheila, I dont understand why you are still suffering so, I can see no reason for it, but we will all heal, he said this CAN be rectified.

    I asked him how similar to benzo w/d this was and he said that there are difinate overlaps but ssri w/d has elements to it that benzo w/d does not, I didnt ask him what but I may email him to ask about that point further.

    on a personal note I asked him if I should try another ssri to pull me out of this (its something I wouldnt consider until I was at least 18 months off but I wanted his opinion) and he said that if the celexa had done so much damage to me in 2.5 years that he recommends I never touch an ssri again.

    He said he has seen many heal but the ones who have healed quicker are the people who are more engaged with the world (although I wonder if thats because these people have less severe symptoms) so Im going to try to come out of the bedroom that I have been hiding in for the past 5 weeks, I have hardly left the room.

    He recommended that I taper off this remaining 2.5 I am on at 0.5mg per week, meaning I would be off at the end of March.

    So that was it, i got what i went for, the validation and someone to tell my gp that i have not gone crazy overnight.

    Healing vibes to everyone, oh and m&m I had a dream about you kast night, you were fine, you had had your surgery and you were telling me that you were healed and grateful and were having a wonderful new beginning, that was wonderful. Then I had another dream where a mad man was trying to strangle me and saying that I KNEW i was going to have w/d and it was my fault and I woke myself and my husband up shouting ''i didnt know''. But the first bit was very nice. xxx
    Put on citalopram July 2009 during a physical illness - didnt need it. 40mg
    went down to 20mg July 2010 CT in Jan 2012 - 2.5 years on.
    Tried to restart July 2012 due to 1 panic attack (never had one before - start of CT W/D) - adverse reaction
    Down to 1.5mg from the failed RI
    Now at 0.48 and trying to stabalize - been 6 weeks
    now have SEVERE anxiety, akathsia, feel like Im on acid 24/7 depression, D/P, signed off work. Scared of everything..please God let me heal from this

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    Iggy, that is great news! I know you will recover. How wonderful that you were able to see Dr. Healy. I'm really proud of you. Persistence does pay off. Thank you for sharing the news with us. Oh, and about that dream lol, hope it comes true. xx

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iggy131313 View Post
    So I saw David Healy today, he was very nice and validated what I am going through, he is writing to my GP to tell her that what i am going through is real.
    Validation is so so important, Iggy. It'll help you keep improving. I especially like the bolded sentence - I'd like to see this person's reaction when reading it.
    Keep walking. Just keep walking.

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    your GP who deny your withdrawal will recieve from Healy a paper, inside him he will be angry; someone telling him he makes his work wrong
    12 years paxil(9 years only 10 mg) - cold turkey(1,5 month) and switch celexa tapered 1 year 20 mg
    62 years old - for GAD - 4 years 3 months meds free [since april 2009]

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    Quote Originally Posted by stan View Post
    your GP who deny your withdrawal will recieve from Healy a paper, inside him he will be angry; someone telling him he makes his work wrong
    100%.
    Keep walking. Just keep walking.

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    Thanks very much for reporting on your visit, iggy.

    Great dream about m&m!

    It's pretty noteworthy that he's saying that most people heal within 6 years. I'm pretty sure that a few years ago, he would have said most people heal within 3 years, maybe even 2.
    Meds free since June 2005.

    "An initiation into shamanic healing means a devaluation of all values, an overturning of the profane world, a peeling away of inveterate handed-down notions of the world, liberation from everything preconceived. For that reason, shamanism is closely connected with suffering. One must suffer the disintegration of one's own system of thought in order to perceive a new world in the higher space."
    -- Holger Kalweit

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    Very good to read that you are getting so much support frm dr. David Healy. If the shrinks I visited during WD had even 10% of his wisdom....
    Indeed confirmation that what you are going through is real is very important, and many of us never got this from our ignorant docs. I almost beggged my doctors to write a paper about my condition and the causes of it to show it to the social security but to no avail.

    May I ask you were your visits take place? Is his working office in Ireland? For me it is a bit too late becuse I am (I hope) in the last phase of WD but still would like to have the opportunity to consult him of my social security cuts down all support.
    And do you know whether he ever take foreign people as his patient?
    And iit is good to read that he adjusted his maximum recovery period from 4 to 6 years, I am now at slightly more than 5 and hope to be done with it after 6 years...
    Recovering from the ravages of withdrawal after 5 years on Paxil/Seroxat, originally prescribed for stress and, looking backward, PTSS.
    Though it is hardly possible to get something positive from the utter hell of repeated c/t's and protracted w/d, all of this unnecessary, I still believe in the possiblity to emerge from this as a healed, wiser human being.
    All we need is just a little patience - Guns N' Roses

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    You have to be refered to him though the national health service so you would have to be resident in england. He was very kind and saw me in an office in wales closest to where I am in England so only an hours drive.

    He told me he thinks I recover before 2 years, but obviously he is not a phrophet and I think he was just saying that to be kind.

    But yes it feels good to be validated and I CANT WAIT to see my Dr next week, although when I was insisting it was the drug that had caused this she said ''well I agree that you need to see a specialist so dont make any more drops until you have, its not my area of expertise''

    so thats fair enough, but SHE is the one who gave these drugs that have ruined my life.

    Claudious, have you NEVER been on any other meds before paxil?
    Put on citalopram July 2009 during a physical illness - didnt need it. 40mg
    went down to 20mg July 2010 CT in Jan 2012 - 2.5 years on.
    Tried to restart July 2012 due to 1 panic attack (never had one before - start of CT W/D) - adverse reaction
    Down to 1.5mg from the failed RI
    Now at 0.48 and trying to stabalize - been 6 weeks
    now have SEVERE anxiety, akathsia, feel like Im on acid 24/7 depression, D/P, signed off work. Scared of everything..please God let me heal from this

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    you can email him thoug, and I know that stuart shipko does skype consultations, you have to pay but you could always contact him to ask how much
    Put on citalopram July 2009 during a physical illness - didnt need it. 40mg
    went down to 20mg July 2010 CT in Jan 2012 - 2.5 years on.
    Tried to restart July 2012 due to 1 panic attack (never had one before - start of CT W/D) - adverse reaction
    Down to 1.5mg from the failed RI
    Now at 0.48 and trying to stabalize - been 6 weeks
    now have SEVERE anxiety, akathsia, feel like Im on acid 24/7 depression, D/P, signed off work. Scared of everything..please God let me heal from this

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iggy131313 View Post
    But yes it feels good to be validated and I CANT WAIT to see my Dr next week, although when I was insisting it was the drug that had caused this she said ''well I agree that you need to see a specialist so dont make any more drops until you have, its not my area of expertise''
    And I can't wait for your update after this visit, Iggy. This is one of those life situations when the truth wins.
    Keep walking. Just keep walking.

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