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Don't want to have to go off the Lexapro!!!

Posted by CellarDoor818 on April 8, 2003, at 15:31:34

Hi to all! Well, I've been on Lexapro officially one week, and I won't bore everyone again with the profound changes I've experienced in my mood and thought processes. I was prescribed the drug from the MD here at the college I attend, which I will be graduating from in a month. She wrote me a prescription for two months worth. So yesterday I had a sort of evaluation from a therapist in my hometown, who is then going to refer me to a more permanent therapist. I told her about the meds, but she still referred me to a PSYCHOLOGIST, when I truly feel I need someone who is going to keep prescribing me Lexapro. I've made an appointment now with a psychiatrist from the same organization on my own, but now I'm a bit concerned that these people are going to want to take more of the talk-therapy route with me, which is something I've done many, many times without half the results I'm getting now with the Lexapro. It's like now everything I sort of paid lip service to in therapy has clicked, and I feel very able to make better decisions and utilize the collective wisdom of my various therapists on my own, now that the Lexapro has my emotions firmly in check. I've been proclaiming far and wide that as long as I stay this even and this rational, I don't care if I have to take Lexapro for the rest of my life, but I'm afraid now that approach has made me sound like I'm pill-happy or something.
So I guess my question is this: If my depression was chemical in nature, and seems to have responded rapidly to medication, won't my brain chemistry just return to its subdued normal state if I stop the Lexapro, thus allowing my symptoms to return? How is it possible that people with messed up brain chemistry EVER go off these drugs without a return of their symptoms? Also: is there anyone else who's ever been in a similar situation (that you didn't feel your need for medication was being taken seriously), and if so what did you do? I don't feel that I should have to prove I need this medication by going off it and subjecting myself another crashing bout of low moods, and relationship-threatening outbursts. I've already wasted enough time with that!!! I don't want to get worse to get better anymore!! Any help would be appreciated!!


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