Posted by IsoM on February 19, 2002, at 11:45:41
In reply to Venlafaxine disinhibition: good or bad?, posted by Anna Laura on February 19, 2002, at 5:10:49
Anna Laura, your background is very different in many ways from mine (as you know from my e-mails) but what you're experiencing right now is the way I would feel when an SSRI starting working but the dose was still too low. When it was increased, my mood stabilised & I could still feel the anger & sadness in appropriate situations(the negative emotions) but would start feeling a lot more positive emotions too like a normal person should.
For me, the first emotions that tend to return with AD treatment is the sadder emotions. Before treatment, I'd just feel extreme bleakness & irritation. Then came sadness (got all weepy) or anger (felt like righteous indignation to me) & then with the proper amount of AD, happiness & joy would also return.
*IF* this is your case too, it's possible the amount of Effexor that worked for you before may now need an increase instead. It doesn't sound like it's a serotonin excess effect but it may affect diff people differently???
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