Does anyone know if Lexapro is bad? Does it do any harm? Are there any other cures to depression and anxiety? Dealing with all sorts of things isn’t fun especially when it’s during these times we are living in. I am hesitant to trust any kind of medication that Big Pharma has pushed out to the public. Lexapro seemed to be helping but I keep hearing that it is also very harmful to take it. Does CBD oil work? Can I ween myself to CBD oil instead?
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Oh, please be careful with those. They change your brain chemistry and it can take years to lose the side effects of going off of them . The side effects of withdrawal can be horrid some say worse than a heorine withdrawal on the mind and body. There are many groups out there experiencing this. Just as everything, please do your research. If anything only stay on them as short as possible. But, don't just research the medication, research and look for people that have gotten off of them and can tell you or you can read of their trauma. Look into benzobuddies, there are groups there that share antidepressants story's. 🙏 just saying.
Yes! Withdrawal from psych meds is the same as heroine withdrawal. You actually learn to sympathize with the drug addict and why they won't withdraw. At one point in the psych med withdrawal I thought "I need to go back on it to stop this!" A second later I realized I was thinking just like an addict.
Absolutely, I was put on benzo's back in 2003, I was stuck on them for 14 years cause the withdrawal was so monstrous and the dose I was taking ,I became tolerate and everyday was hell unless I uped my dose. I was living in hell even while being on them. I finally put 2 and 2 together and started researching benzo's and I stumbled on benzobuddies site which also has groups for antidepressants. Anyway , they gave me the strength to get off of them . I suffered the withdrawals for 2 years ,the first year was hell! Brain zaps ,tingling throughout, barley slepted just completely hell not feeling like I was there. Just awful!! Slowly after the first year all thise symptoms started slowly fading and I was starting to feel myself again. My self from before I got on them. While I was in tolerance withdrawal and didn't know it, I literally was suicidal everyday. I just wanted out. The minute I went off them that feeling of wanting to kill myself was gone. I realized then that it was those that made my brain feel like that. Awful and the doctors still push this crap.....Making myself get off them and struggling for so long was the strongest thing I have ever done in my lifetime. I go back to that time whenever I feel like this crap going on in my country, world that I can't do it anymore. I remember how I forced myself to be strong during that time.
Omigosh yes! I forgot about the brain zaps!! I remember just wanting the feeling (ALL of it!) to end. Glad you made it through, fren!
We are truly survivers!
The zaps, yes that is the word I should have used, in telling people about the "weird sensations in your brain" you get when trying to get off the new generation anti-depressants as well. It is like an electric sensation, very very icky.