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- Survivor Story 186:4/77 – Sturggling to Withdraw from Paxil.
- Survivor Story 187:5/77 – Serotonergic Poisoning on Paxil. “Horrible electrical feelings in my mouth.”
- Survivor Story 188:6/77 – Confused on Desipramine. I could not understand what was coming out of my mouth!
- Survivor Story 185:3/77 – An Answer to Our Nightmare on Paxil “No on a crusade to help”
- Survivor Story 189:7/77 – Effexor Survivor “I tried to commit suicide 2nd week on Effexor”
- Survivor Story 190:8/77 – Psychiatric drugs – Long path of uncertainty. “I think they should be banned.”
- Survivor Story 191:9/77 – Student’s Life Destroyed on Prozac. “I just felt insane. I felt like screaming…”
- Survivor Story 196:14/77 – Horror story of forced drugging.
- Survivor Story 192:10/77 – For the first time I know I am not nuts!
- ICFDA Survivor Story
SSRI Nightmares
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2005 [1]
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2003 [77]
2002 [49]
2001 [34]
2000 & Prior [185]
Atypical Antipsychotics
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Pre-SSRI Cases
IMIPRAMINE IS A TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT (TCA) MEANING IT TARGETS THREE NEUROTRANSMITTERS …THIS DRUG WAS THE FIRST ANTIDEPRESSANT INVENTED IN THE LATE 1950′S.
MANY DID NOT LIKE THE DRUG DUE TO THE HIGH RATE OF SIDE EFFECTS/ADVERSE REACTIONS.
MOST WHO TOOK THIS IN CLINICAL TRIALS OR STUDIES DROPPED OUT DUE TO THE SIDE EFFECTS. THEY WERE NEVER ABLE TO EVEN GET TO THE POINT WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSE TO DEMONSTRATE THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS!
Other Type of Medications
Zolpidem (Ambien)
Ritalin (methylphenidate) Schedule II controlled substance
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