Thecommonhuman: feel like losing my mind

[Thecommonhuman]

After trying paxil and setraline to no effect (for over 10 months altogether), I got talked up for lexapro... Took it for 21 days and just could not carry on... Terrible sleep (I have got these triple bags under my eyes, almost since starting paxil, September last year), no sex drive (and no ability to ever ejaculate), brain zaps. I stopped cold turkey (from 20mg a day) 5 days ago. 

There are few things which are happening in my life now, and inconveniently some stuff which wasn't happening before, started to happen a day after I had gone cold turkey... 

Cut the story short - I am sick worried about the safety of my family. I cannot cope with the thoughts I have. I take pictures of the cars in a traffic... Write down registration plates... See the people people in them and think - alright - if something was to happen, I am ready to die, but please, don't do any harm to my family. I check the locks in a house 5 times over and do other stuff which I cannot really even write about on here... I never drank before, but I cannot cope without alcohol now. 

Is it just cold facts about me or my family being in danger, or is it me losing my mind 

 

Edited August 21, 2022 by Thecommonhuman
I am new here. Didn't know what to put where

[ChessieCat]

Hi Thecommonhuman and welcome to SA,

 

We are going to need more details about your drug history before we can provide any information.

 

Please tell us about the symptoms that you are currently experiencing.

 

Dr Joseph Glenmullen's WD Symptoms Checklist

 

Please create your drug signature (this is different from the information you provided when you joined).  Please include ALL drugs you have every taken including supplements.  Follow these instructions:

 

Instructions:  Withdrawal History Signature

 

This is your own Introduction topic and is the place where you ask questions and journal your progress.

[ChessieCat]

Please don't edit posts.  It was only because I saw that you had changed the topic title and then glanced at your first post that I realised that you had added more information.

 

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