dreams and paxil
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| Fri, 04-23-2010 - 10:29am |
This paxil I'm taking is causing the most intense and realistic (sort of) dreams. The anxiety I feel in the morning after one of these dreams is just as if I'd lived through the dream in real life. It's really painful. Last night I dreamed, in part, about the anxiety I felt when logging onto AOL and waiting for the "No new messages" notice to pop up. I woke myself up crying. I don't know if working through my fd up subconscious is a set back or a step forward, at this point. I'm considering going off of the paxil, but I still think I need it. I get chest pains from stress when I am not on it.
To complicate matters, I'm not as close to indifferent as I'd hoped to be. I am irritated when thoughts of xAP cross my mind, not longing or anything, just irritated. In the next few weeks, xAPs work project will be floating across my desk and I will have to deal with it. Yesterday came his press packet - complete with photos of X. E1, please bring that glock to my office and shoot me.
Sorry to whine about such a trifle when there seems to be so many other more important, pressing matters on this board. Big baby, me!!
;)
Anyhoo, any paxil advice would be greatly appreciated!
xo
Dee

Whine all you need to. We have all BTDT. It took me about 1.5 years to finally get of MM. Remember that you are dealing with a real addiction. Stay the course because the pain will subside but you have to go through the necessary stages in order to heal. I got this from my T many years ago and I still read it to remind me how toxic adultery can be.
Forbidden sex is an addiction that can--and usually does--have devastating consequences to an individual and a family. Adultery shatters trust, intimacy, and self-esteem. It breaks up families, ruins careers, and leaves a trail of pain and destruction in its path. This potential legacy of emotional pain for one's children should be enough to make a person stop and count the costs before it's too late.
Even when affairs are never exposed, emotional costs are involved. For example, adulterous mates deprive their spouses of energy and intimacy that should go into the marriage. They deceive their marriage partners and become dishonest about their feelings and actions. As Frank Pittman says, "The infidelity is not in the sex, necessarily, but in the secrecy. It isn't whom you lie with. It's whom you lie to.
Hi Dee-strought (that was a stretch I know but dis and de are close…),
Well no meds are without side effects and only you know which side effects you can live with.
Whether you think you can or you think you can't you are probably right. A parrot can repeat what it has learned but the mark of true intelligence is applying what is learned.
I'm on Zoloft and having the very same issue.
Hey, I just like the name Eff-X-or. ahahahahahah
Gonna soooo ask my dr. for some o' that!
Hi Dee,
Gosh - I HATE those kind of nightmares. I've had night terrors since I was a kid, and still wake-up when things are hard, feeling like I am being choked.
I don't have any experience with taking anti-anxiety meds, but just wanted to send you a hug (((HUG))), and to let you know how much you mean to me and the other women on this board.
Yup - not really related to this post, by hey, whatev.
TU.
"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
— Maya Angelou
Hi Dee. prozac caused the realistic nightmares for me. Effexor made me a zombie.
Dee,
I was on Paxil years ago and it turned me into an overweight, sexless
What happened during detox?? scary!
Dee