Tapering Off Paxil

When antidepressants block our emotional feelings of anxiety, guilt or fear, these feelings are essentially buried in our subconscious mind and never resolved.
If our feelings are not resolved properly by our thoughts or by our proper actions and interpersonal relationships while living among our significant others or our loved ones, these unresolved feelings will keep causing split thinking in our subconscious mind.
Therefore antidepressants may be creating another personality in us. Some of us have already had multiple personalities as Dr. Morton Price once wrote in his articles in his journal of human abnormal psychology.
Therefore, there is nothing better to recover from our Depression in the most natural ways that we have learned from our parents or our scriptures of Bible, Buddhist philosophy, Koran or the Indian Bhagwad Gita.
1. Check our desires that we cannot accomplish without hurting someone.
2. We should not want that we cannot have now especially by hurting others.
3. We should forgive our trespassers especially our loved ones because our loved ones give us the most emotional pains!
4. We should accept life as it comes, change what we can and have the ability to expand our mind and know all we can to solve this problem in the most productive way.
5. To continue to pursue the purpose of our life as our top priority at all times.
6. To stay away from abnormal addictions and wrong thinking.
7. To pursue all of the above my meditation, prayers and psychotherapy rather than antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs.
That is why I do not believe in any antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs.
Ramesh.

You should not be tapering off paxil without the advice of a medical professional. Doing so on your own volition could have ill effects. Psychiatric medication affects your brain chemistry and thus your emotions and/or behavior. If your system is unable to tolerate the Paxil and you feel it doesn’t help with your anxiety and depression, then you must discuss this with your Dr. Perhaps you need to be on a benzodiazepine instead of an SSRI, or a combination of both.Your symptoms will help the Dr. decide what’s best. Sometimes it’s a trial and error until you find what works best for you. Each individual’s chemistry is different and what may work for one person may not work for another. Ramesh Gupta’s comments really perturb me as they are based on his personal beliefs and religious views. Although I don’t think there’s anything wrong with “meditation” and “prayers” (I agree with the psychotherapy part), someone with clinical depression and anxiety will most likely need to be on some type of medication, at some point. We must not forget that these are chronic illnesses, like heart disease, diabetes, etc., and as such must be treated appropriately. I don’t believe that those of us with a mental illness like to depend on psychiatric medication to feel better and be able to function in our daily lives, but sometimes we have no other choice because nothing else works. I wish you good health and all the best Little_lady01!

I’ve tried to discontinue Paxil 2 different times, with my psychiatrist’s tapering guidelines. My depression and anxiety increased plus I had “flu-ish” symptoms of nausea, dizziness, headache. I’ve decided to continue my 60mg/day dose so that I can function. Thanks, Gina, for the support. And to you, Little_lady01, if you don’t want to be on Paxil, tapering it while increasing another antidepressant can be more successful than simply eliminating Paxil. Hope this is helpful.

I was on Paxil for 18 months. I made the decision to remove myself off Paxil. However, you should do this under the doctors care . I didn’t. My Nuerologist didn’t want me to get off the medication due to anxiety. However, in my case the anxiety was caused by sleep deprivation. For years I had only slept 5 hours a day. This overtime caused my condition to become so critical that I wasn’t in my right mind . What I did was take half the dose I had prescribed every other day, with regular dosing on other days. Then after 8 weeks, I took half my prescribed dose every day for 2 months. Then I took half my prescribed dose every other day for 2 months. Then I took one pill every four days…for one month..After that I stopped all together…My anxiety levels are in check. I sleep more often and try to get 7-8 hours of sleep. One side effect of Paxil caused me not to have any concern for anything…and it affected by business and customer relationships…I can tell you that My prayers and meditation on his word has delivered me from further requirements of meds…Good luck

I write articles for hubpages, about natural, and holistic medicine. I took paxil, and zoloft for about 4 years. It only made my symptoms progressivly worse, and the insomnia worse. It is one of the side effects of SSRI’s, as well as sexual dysfunction, and not caring. We all have anxiety, but if you can’t function, then it is necessary to do something. You are not weak, and it is not a punishment from from God. This is my experience. I quit taking paxil for three days, and started taking Trytophan instead. I found this wonderful clinic directed by Joan Mathews Larson. A holistic doctor. My journey started 4 years ago, I now study holistic medicine, in hopes of helping someone else, the way that I was. It was no ones fault, It just happened, for what reason, no one really knows, maybe to help others. My articles can be found at http://artist101.hubpages.com. Depression is just a symptom, as well as anxiety, if you can figure out the cause, then and only then can you heal.

I just quit. I know it’s totally not the way to go but I just did it. I was taking 30 mg, if I remember correctly, for I don’t know how many months. When I ran out of pills and had to go to the pharmacy for my refill, I simply didn’t go.

I was very irritable for the next two weeks, though, quick to anger, and I had that funny “electric shock” thing that I keep reading about. Totally not pleasant.

This was over two years ago, though. I do miss the feeling of not caring about stuff.

Withdrawal from many antidepressants is hard. Hellish would describe my discontinuation from one but I found, for me, that a tablespoonful of coconut oil eased the symptoms.

I’ve been taking paxil 40mg for almost two years off and on, but I personally think it sux all it does is make me madd drowsey…so I stoppped taking it and hoping to get changed to something else.

I agree with artist101 comments. I was on Aropax for 16 years – YES 16 very long hard years and agree with artist that it only made my symptons worse and then some more. I KNOW it is not recommended but I did the same as Ronald and just quit cold turkey after realising I just wanted to die and one night (2 weeks ago) took 22 of my tablets along with some other stuff. I went to my doctor and now seeing a Psychologist once a week along with taking natural supplements. The biggest supplement that has helped me is Inner Health Plus – a probiotic with 25 billion bacteria. I have been off Aropax for only 2 weeks but feel Good. I sleep like a baby and wake refreshed with lots of energy – I NEVER had any energy when I was on Aropax. This is my Eighth try of coming off this drug and so far so good. I am getting stronger every day and have a CLEAR head. I feel plugged back in and ALIVE. Everyones journey is different. I wish you very very good luck.

There are many like you. I am tapering off Celexa I use to be on Paxil. There is a great website Paxil progress for people tapering off Paxil and other anti-depressants. You will find much support and help there.

I was taking paxil for about 12 years, it was one of the 1st medications they gave me. I wasn’t taking anything but vitamins. paxil turned me into a different person. I didn’t know it made me like that till I had a small breakdown in CVS because I could not find anything to buy to use my expring coupons; that’s when my husband told me how I had changed. I felt like I was a person standing beside me. It’s hard enough to deal with reality without adding to the problem. . paxil from my experience is BAD!!!!! My doctor kept saying we will talk about stopping it later., I was also taking about 12 other meds at the time. I had a car accident which left me with surgery after surgery. I guess that’s why I really didn’t know how it was actually affecting me. I don’t know if anyone else had that problem,, but I did. I stopped my paxil on my own, I know I didn’t have the doctors permission, buy my body is my body. Doctors are not God, they are human like everyone else. That’s why they call them Practicing Physicians. I do respect their opinions, but I made the choice to rid my body of this terrible medication. I was taking paxil twice a day, so I cut down to 1 a day for a week, it didn’t affect me, so I I cut the pill and took half for about week, then stopped the 2nd one completely. I had no ill effects from stopping. I can’t really say if I had a bad reaction because I’ve had about 18 surgeries from my neck, stomach, knees and more. So I have bad days everyday when I wake up. I told my doctor I had stopped and he said well good. My family physician was thrilled. I have enough sense to know if it really caused extreme withdrawal problems. My husband is right on top of everything. He was so happy, I stopped about 3 years ago, and my little sign of my stopped date is still on the fridge. I smile every time I go by it.

Little_lady01, your story sounds like mine. Would love to know how your going? I too am at the point that I want to get off the Aropax because I’m unable to reach goals, don’t care about much. However I’m scared of my moods around my period.