A Survivor Speaks Out

2003

This is Survivor Story number 56.
Total number of stories in current database is 77


11/2/2003

I Beat Paxil with God's Help

Antidepressants

"I lay like a fetus and cried with pain getting off the drug."

I can't begin to tell you all of my story. I am disabled person, a person that was disabled because of wanting to commit suicide. I was put on Paxil and a lot of other drugs. I tried to come off of Paxil and didn't make it. So I had to have more and more of other drugs. It got so bad that I couldn’t hardly drive and my own grandchildren didn't want me to drive them to school. I was a loaded gun behind the wheel of a car. I got lost. I spent money I didn't know that I spent. I was a walking drunk full of Paxil and other things. My family couldn't tell me or I wouldn't listen. I would fall all over the place. I went to my heart doctor all the time thinking I had had a heart problem. I went through hell. My family can tell you more about what I did I don't remember much. But I can tell you one thing. I got off the drug when I called my doctor and cried for him to stop the drugs. That was in March of 2001.

In March of 2004 it will be two years since I took a drug. My doctor stopped all my drugs all at once. I lay like a fetus and cried with pain getting off the drug. No person should have to go through that, my doctor wanted me to go to a hospital for help but I refused to go. I beat the thing by myself and the help of god. Thank you for listening to my story.

Doris M. More
662-393-0336
aprilrose1987@aol.com