Dawdy at Furious Seasons wrote a post on an editorial in the LA Times by Summer Beretsky's experience with Paxil . After reading her editorial, I'm reminded that my own experience with one antidepressant wasn't all that unique. Her drug was Paxil for panic attacks; mine was Lexapro for depression following a 3-month (on-and-off) stint with Paxil . I'm struck by the similarity of our experiences; not only did the same thing happened to me but I was also a communications major in college as well.
Paxil had one pretty undesirable effect on me: I started to lose interest in just about everything. I stopped initiating social activities (who needs that sort of thing?) and was no longer motivated to perform well academically.
My emotions had flat-lined: I hadn't cried in months, nor had I proverbially jumped for joy. I felt -- nothing.
I can still remember sleeping in bed at home on a weekday when I should have been at class. It was 2 in the afternoon, around the time my copy editing class was to begin. My boyfriend at the time (now my husband) lived in Kentucky while I attended college in New York. He planned to visit me that weekend but was getting fed up with my depression and listlessness. He called from work to tell me to get up and go to class. I mumbled on the phone, half-confused, and said no. He demanded, "Why not?" I said quite plainly, "Because I don't care." He said, "If you don't get up and go to class, I won't visit you this weekend."
I replied, "I don't care."
Dawdy at Furious Seasons wrote a post on an editorial in the LA Times by Summer Beretsky's experience with Paxil . After reading her editorial, I'm reminded that my own experience with one antidepressant wasn't all that unique. Her drug was Paxil for panic attacks; mine was Lexapro for depression following a 3-month (on-and-off) stint with Paxil . I'm struck by the similarity of our experiences; not only did the same thing happened to me but I was also a communications major in college as well.
I can still remember sleeping in bed at home on a weekday when I should have been at class. It was 2 in the afternoon, around the time my copy editing class was to begin. My boyfriend at the time (now my husband) lived in Kentucky while I attended college in New York. He planned to visit me that weekend but was getting fed up with my depression and listlessness. He called from work to tell me to get up and go to class. I mumbled on the phone, half-confused, and said no. He demanded, "Why not?" I said quite plainly, "Because I don't care." He said, "If you don't get up and go to class, I won't visit you this weekend."
I replied, "I don't care."