Posted by WhyandHow on November 20, 2006, at 0:03:12
In reply to Re: Are people compelled to be unfaithfull on cymb » alex101, posted by Lindenblüte on November 12, 2006, at 22:11:49
I agree with everything said here and want to confirm some and add a little. I had a friendship relationship with an older women once 1 to 2 years ago (I am 40 - she was 56). She had a past where her husband had been sexully abusing their own son for many years! When her son was 18 or 19 it came out - needless to say it had quite an effect on everyone. The son was a whole host of feelings trying to be a man on a football team etc....The husband eventually comitted suicide by hanging himself in their garage THEN not much longer her son got drunk after being back home in his 20's and (while smoking? - she says a candle) burned himslef up in bed.
She obviously had depresion. she was on antidepresents. She met me and we developed a quick bond. I seemed to fill a void that she was missing from her son. I suspect she also had a few sexual/husband lonly feelings that she was meeting. Anyway, once she was changed to either Cybalta or Celexa and she suddenly had changes in behavior simiar to what you describe. her loving nature turned to sometihng else and while some circumstances about me may have contributed, there was no doubt that she had been changed by this medication - SOMETIMES THESE CHANGES ARE ALSO WITHDRAW FROM THE ONE THEY WERE ON. Was your girlfriend on a different anti-depressent before this?????
I also have ONE friend in my life who lives in a city 5 hours away. He is gay and after his boyfriend was having major behavior changes for quite a while on Lexapro (and combining it with alcohol - DONT EVER DO THAT!) He finally had to split up with him after many years.
Everyone is different and these medications can do strange things to people. I am very skeptical of the pharecutical industry. They have an investment in their billion dollar medication industry. I don't want to say that they can't be good but THEY SHOULD BE TAPERED OFF OF - NOT JUST COLD TURKEYed. If she was on another one before and was ok, she should gradually get back on that one for a while at the same time.
Does she do any other meds OR ALCOHOL with the med? Doing alcohol with lexapro makes me really sick for days - with others it can cause bizarre behaviors evan more.
Bottom line:
TAPER the med - the counselor idea is great.If she has quit cold turkey she is probably having a flood of negative emotions worse then what she had to begin with.
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