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SSRI withdrawals
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Stopped paroxitene about 2 weeks ago cold turkey, this week has been absolute hell and it is getting worse day by day

Last night I went to bed at 22pm, it’s now 10am and I didn’t sleep even one minute, I was wide awake and still am, my eyes, body and mind are all rdicilously exhausted

So 3 weeks ago I was using 60mg daily, was only prescribed 20 but it did nothing so I went to 40, then 60 and had been using it for a few weeks, then I travelled and forgot my other medication for anxiety so I decided to up the dose and then ended up taking 120mg daily for a week which was extremely stupid but it was my only hope and also during some of that time I was intoxicated so I didn’t think straight

After that I came back home and decided to quit, because the 60mg basically did nothing for me, same with 120mg

Symptoms I have:

Brain fog / problems with memory Insomnia Brain zap Being light headed 24/7 Feel extremely weak, like i’ll faint any moment Flu like symptoms Loss of sense/feeling on skin Tingling Total loss of emotion, feelings and acting very ignorant Intrusive thoughts

Possibly more but can’t think of any right now

Haven’t really had any anxiety/depression though, all my energy and thinking has gone into those things above, I can’t concentrate on anything at all

Lately it has been taking me like 4 hours to fall asleep and then I can only sleep for about 4 before being wide awake again, but now I couldn’t fall asleep for the whole night and still can’t and it’s making me go crazy

Also because of all this fatigue, instrusive thoughts, loss of all emotion towards anyone combined with bad insomnia I have made some reeally bad choices and decisions which now don’t really feel like anything, but as soon as I’m back to somewhat normal at least, I know for a fact I will regret every single thing I have done lately and rethink all of them.

What’s my best bet? Can I thug this out for a couple weeks and be fine, or would it possibly take longer and I sould seek medical help?

I don’t have ANY money now, don’t have a refill and threw the old half full bottle away 2 weeks ago. New bottle of paroxitene would be $28 here and I can’t even afford it if I wanted to right now

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