So great to hear that, Stan!
So great to hear that, Stan!
Keep walking. Just keep walking.
Many people do not experience windows (or very rare) until 3-4 years off. SO Stan I think you are heading for the right direction. I am over 5 years now, still have waves but in many senses do way better than at the 3 years mark.
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
what??? no windows until 3 or 4 years, come on Claudious, you are scaring the **** out of me here!!! Surely some people are fully recivered in 18 months???
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
Suerly those people are there. For me it took a long long while to feel a bit better. Stan is now on the road for more than 3 years too. In fact I had a nice window after 19 months, lasting 2 weeks or so, just to enter a wave again. I really do not want to discourage you, just want to tell that it CAN take a long time to feel better, especially after a CT. Of course I do not know to which group you belong.Originally Posted by Iggy131313
And as far as I read, from the people who get protracted WD (not everybody does), not many of them are recovered after 18 months. But that surely does not mean that recovery won't come.
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
18 months for recovery is extremely rare in my opinion.
its very depressing, I do think that between 2 and 3 years is the usual recovery time, I CTed yes and now had a failed RI, Im scared so scared of it taking so long to get better. I dont think I can cope
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
Id be suprised if im recovered by 5 years, but i am sertain that by that time both of us will be ok. You will probably be healed by 2-3 years I am sure of that
lol, sorry to hyjack your thread claudious, but NH what on earth makes you think I will rcover quicker than you?
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
Absolutely not, Iggy!The windows may in some cases start appearing quite soon after coming off of drugs. Also, 3-4 years after the last dose (even in the case of cold-turkey and/or poly-drugged and/or long-termers - you are already in a much much better state than in early WD, plus quite many of the not-long-termers/those suffering adverse reaction may already be healed by that point).
You and Needinghelp are NOT even very long-termers! You will be healing. It will not, I repeat - IT WILL NOT take you 3-4 years to get better, to feel better, to have faaaar fewer and incomparably less intense symptoms than you are experiencing now in the worst stage of it, which is early WD.
Of course, in certain circumstances, healing takes longer than in others. There's no doubt about it. Some of us on this board know it all too well, and the last thing we would do is to deny it - this forum was, in fact, created to *not deny it* any more. I myself was banned from some other place for speaking the truth. But, again, by 3-4 years mark the improvement *does* happen, even in the worst case scenarios.
You are healing all the time. You will heal. I am sending you, folks, lots of energy for the window to open as soon as possible.
Last edited by Luc; 12-13-2012 at 02:28 PM.
Keep walking. Just keep walking.
I am acctually in a semi window now, yes Im still tapering odd this 2mg but today my anxiety is very low and I can connect to some pleasurable feelings, not properly but im not in hell today, just semi hell lol.
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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