Posted by willow on March 25, 2001, at 12:43:13
In reply to Re: Real or Mindset - Janie, posted by Pamela on March 24, 2001, at 13:22:17
"How can you be psychosomatic if you have no idea what the side effects are."
I'm no doctor but have done some reading on this topic because literally this is my diagnosis. From what you are describing I think it is more along the lines of having hypochondriatic symptoms. eg. Excessive worrying that one may have an illness. What I think some of the people may be having with the withdrawal from effexor are symptoms of somatisation, which is internalising their emotions. Everyone does this. eg. When nervous palms begin to sweat.
"I went to the emergency room thinking I was dying.... the second day off of Effexor."
You were probably experiencing anxiety and often anxiety is an emotion accompanied by physical symptoms. eg. pounding heart and/or nervous stomache As I said earlier, I have a somatisation disorder and the symptoms people are describing match what I have lived with for the past five years.
"I had no idea it was that and had no idea what the "STATED" side effects were."
The physcial symptoms are not imagined but worsened or heightened with emotional stress. And these physcical symptoms that are affected by emotions are the same for all people, thus the stated side effects. You may want to read about "generalized anxiety disorder."
I hope this is understandable.
Whispering Willow
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