i'm a 36 year old male and am on my second
major depressive episode in 2 years. The
first time I took paxil 20mg/daily and was
fine after 2 months. During this time I
felt so euphoric that started my own
business, borrowed lots of money thinking
I was indestructable. After a year on
paxil I weened myself off them during a 3
month period. I still felt fine. Then 6
months later into beginning of december
last year, things weren't going too well
with the business and then almost without
warning, another spiralling despressive
episode almost causing me to go bankrupt.
This time i'm on celexa 20mg/daily as
apparently its supposed to have slightly
less side effects to begin with (not that
i've noticed much difference).
My question is this. Slowly, i'm making a
recovery on celexa 20mg/daily and expect
to be my "normal" self in the hopefully
not too distant future. One thing i'm
really worried about is that over time
i'll get too used to my anti-depressant
and I won't spot it in time before another
catastrophic episode. To get round this
i've read some stories of people rotating
their anti-depressants when they become
too used to them. I would be grateful for
anyone with experience in this to reply
and explain with dosages and strategies
exactly what they did?
