Paxil and Xanax
I have recently tapered myself off of Paxil after being on 30mg per day for 3 years. I felt like it had stopped working for me (it did work for a long time, for anxiety and mild depression). I also started to feel it was turning me into someone else, which is a feeling I can't really describe other than that. So I decided to quit. At first I went cold turkey for 2 weeks. WRONG DECISION. It was a horrible experience and I was emotionally wrecked, physically withdrawing like a mo fo, awful. So I wnt back to 15 a day. And then, after about a month, I got broke. Like, eat what is in the cupboard broke because I had NO money. And I ran out. And that time I didn't have such a strong reaction and it was over in a week and now I am free of SSRI's. People say docs don't make the withdrawal issue clear with benzos, but with Paxil, my doc never even brought it up.
Xanax and I do not mix. I do bad stuff on Xanax like go to a casino with 20 mg in my pocket and eat them all over the course of 15 hours while I have gambled away thousands of dollars. Or almost hit a pedestrian because I'm falling asleep at a stop light. Or forget to pick up my wife at work and leave her stranded for hours. At the height of it I was taking 10 mg per day. We were on vacation in a place 4 hours from a pharmacy. I ran out after being on that dose for months. I didn't even know about withdrawals from benzos then, let alone the seizure potential. It was very hard, but mostly I stayed drunk to keep it at bay.
I'm done with both of them shits. My 2 cents.