Finn Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/distinguishing-brain-from-mind/276380/ Tapering Zoloft, Dec 2014 Started Lamictal Re-started Zoloft mid-Oct 2014, 25-50mg Stopped Zoloft end of Sept 2014 Started Zoloft July 2014, 50mg Stopped Prozac from 3mg May 2014 Stopped Effexor Dec '13 Started 10mg Prozac Reinstated Effexor 15mg on Nov 2013 Stopped from 21mg on Oct 2013Effexor 112.5mg, since Dec 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Emeritus Narcissus Posted June 12, 2013 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted June 12, 2013 Great stuff Finn, thanks. 3 Years 150 mgs Effexor 2 month taper down to zero 3 terrible weeks at zero Back up to 75 mgs 2 months at 75 6 or so months back to regular dose of 150 - was able to restabilize fine. 3 month taper back to zero 1 HORRENDOUS week at zero 2 days back up to 37.5 3 days back up to 75 One week at 150 - unable to stabilize. Back down to 75 mgs At 75 mgs (half original dose) and suffering withdrawal symptoms since October 2012. "It is a radical cure for all pessimism to become ill, to remain ill for a good while, and then grow well for a still longer period." - Nietzsche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Emeritus Narcissus Posted June 19, 2013 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted June 19, 2013 Although it's cloaked in neuroscientific garb, this free-will question remains one of the great conceptual impasses of all time, far beyond the capacity of brain science to resolve. I agree with this point especially. Science can be annoyingly ahistorical, presenting old problems (free will/determinsism, mind/body, etc) as new and unprecedented just because they've been taken up by high-tech science. I get the sense sometimes that the things we're arguing about with such urgency today were argued about by the Greeks millenia ago. If the Greeks never resolved these arguments why should we? Because we have fancy tools? Isn't it possible that these problems are expressions of what it means to be human, and aren't resolvable in any conventional sense? Perhaps the meaning is in the arguing, and not in the arguments themselves? 3 Years 150 mgs Effexor 2 month taper down to zero 3 terrible weeks at zero Back up to 75 mgs 2 months at 75 6 or so months back to regular dose of 150 - was able to restabilize fine. 3 month taper back to zero 1 HORRENDOUS week at zero 2 days back up to 37.5 3 days back up to 75 One week at 150 - unable to stabilize. Back down to 75 mgs At 75 mgs (half original dose) and suffering withdrawal symptoms since October 2012. "It is a radical cure for all pessimism to become ill, to remain ill for a good while, and then grow well for a still longer period." - Nietzsche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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