Posted by adamie on August 8, 2001, at 22:40:35
In reply to Re: Effexor detachment, i am a ghost, posted by reb on August 8, 2001, at 22:07:52
> doesn't it take at least a week to see the effects of effexor or any of these drugs? how can you see effects of it from the very first day you are taking it? is that really possible?
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> > hi. I started taking Effexor today.
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> > it is a very strange feeling. I dunno what the hell it is but I feel very detached. Apathetic I THINK. The detachment makes me feel like I am some ghost in this world. That I am not here. And I dunno but things seem scary. As if everything looks darker. it is so hard to describe. the effexor deffinetly did something to my thinking. at least before it I would have a very small imagination and ability to picture things in my head with of course bad feelings accompanying them. Now I can't picture things. I feel extra detached from my fiance. I dunno what this is. it also seems harder to cry. I hope this will pass. I hope this isn't some numbing effect. I just feel strange and like a ghost. I feel very dead. earlier today the effexor made me feel at ease. but it seems to be some deadful feeling now. i felt very bad off the effexor but had some small attachment to the world. now I am feeling very bad but in a different kind of way! and I dont like it. I dont want apathy. I cant live in this horrid state. I need my emotions above everything else. I will see how I do the next few days.I doubt it's the actual anti depressant effects. What I am having is probably just side effects. I know the very first time I took paxil I noticed something different only 20 minutes after. I felt like I was drugged and dreaming. The next day it was more normal but generally paxil made me kind of like a zombie.
So just like the paxil I think the effexor deffinetly did something this very first time I took it. Probably just something that will go away. It's really strange how I have been feeling today. It's hard to describe but I know for certain I am feeling different somehow than when I was not taking any med.
Currently I am feeling better than the way I was earlier in the day. It's just strange how it makes me feel. In the shower I felt a tiny bit more motivated to do things. Then after it was quite the opposite. Apathy, feeling unattached to the world. now it's less of that. I dunno how or what is going on.
as it is now I look forward to seeing how I am on effexor in the coming weeks. perhaps I will start feeling better soon enough and whatever I am feeling now will just subside or go away. Before I felt apathetic but now a bit less and like I was before the effexor, as in apathy due to depression, not due to meds. but effexor before seemed to add to the existing apathy. but I am not sure exactly what it did. maybe it just made me feel more apathetic while I actually wasn't. take care. I am less worried now. I feel more waitable. I wish I had motivation to do something. all I can do is wait to see the effects.
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