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Posted by linkadge on June 22, 2010, at 18:56:40
I restarted escitalopram after a month or so break. I feel so incredably depersonalized and numb. I've also been feeling like I'm on a really bad trip. Things look strange, feel strange, spacy, like I'm dead and hollow. I feel suppressed emotion leaching out - resonating periodically. I project feelings on to objects I see, cars, trains. I'd like to be dead. This is pointless. I f'd up again by going on an SSRI. This is a brain disabling treatment. Perhaps good for people wracked with dysphoric emotional overdrive - certainly not for people who just hate life and enjoy nothing. Why do doctors prescribe this crap. Does it go straight from the lab rats to human trails. Do the reseachers ever ingest the stuff themselves, somewhere in the process, to see if the drug can be prescribed with any ethical sensibility?
Linkadge
Posted by tom2228 on June 23, 2010, at 11:02:39
In reply to escitalopram BAD TRIP, posted by linkadge on June 22, 2010, at 18:56:40
First of all, are you unipolar or bipolar?
Either way you are not alone... I've tried this sh*t twice, went up to 20mg as my first med in 2008 and tried again this past fall at 5mg, then 2.5mg.. ugh, BAD TRIP that esSHITtalopram is. You describe it so well.. you feel so lifeless and lost inside that you start to "feel" your surroundings instead. But in a dysphoric, confusing way.. it's like a trance. I personally felt so empty and confused but it's as if my brain "liked" it on a chemical level.. I would search to find that "good feeling" in the external world.. Every time I've walked/biked/driven around wondering if certain places would make my mood better, as if that feeling my brain was enjoying about the mindset physically existed in some corner of town.. I honestly felt possessed. o god bad memories. What a disgusting feeling.
I can't tell if SSRIs put me in a mixed state or if it's simply the drug itself that makes me feel so f'd up. For example, the impulsivity I get on SSRIs, it's hard to know if that's the manic part of a mixed episode or if it's just the fact that I'm so empty inside, leading me to do impulsive things because I'm devoid of actual emotions that would normally inhibit my behavior? Hopefully you guys could shed some light on this.
Either way no more SSRIs for me either. Its always some strange feeling or "realization" that tells me I should go back to one.. ugh never again.
to everyone else: If this med works for you, great, and I apologize for bad mouthing it. Just sharing my (really bad) experience..
Posted by jade k on June 23, 2010, at 14:06:56
In reply to escitalopram BAD TRIP, posted by linkadge on June 22, 2010, at 18:56:40
Hello Linkage,
I couldn't stay awake long enough on Lexapro to get to where you are, but I do despise SSRI's. I geuss they work for some people. Hope you can get off escitalopram, sorry you are feeling so shit*y, and I cross my fingers that you find some peace soon (the above ground kind).
~Jade
Posted by Goering on June 23, 2010, at 15:30:48
In reply to escitalopram BAD TRIP, posted by linkadge on June 22, 2010, at 18:56:40
I did not like Cipralex at all. It was not good enough to treat anxiety and it was not powerfull enough to alleviate depression. I don't understand the hype around this drug. But unlike you, i did not have side effects with it.
Posted by Phillipa on June 24, 2010, at 18:37:31
In reply to Re: escitalopram BAD TRIP, posted by Goering on June 23, 2010, at 15:30:48
That's the med that messed up my resonse to SSRI"s as pdoc put me in a trial of his patients when new. I hit a mailbox with the car when on it. Was always tired. Phillipa
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