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Along with a support group such as paxilprogress.org, I can’t think of anything more valuable for someone living through paroxetine withdrawal than to read exactly how someone else survived it.
While it’s true that there isn’t a whole lot of fun to be had for someone living through the effects of Paxil withdrawal, the important thing to remember is that you can survive it. That may not sound like much right now, but I have done it and so have many others who had it worse than me. If there’s one thing to learn from the record and testimony on this site, perhaps it’s how to smooth out some of the bumps in the road ahead so that when the worst of it comes at you, it doesn’t knock you so far down that you can never get up again. It can be overcome. As unbearable as it may seem at times, it will eventually go away, and you’ll be all right.
Okay, maybe not all right, but I’m pretty sure you’ll feel at least a thousand times better.
Paxil Free was a journal of my Paxil withdrawal experience that I posted several years ago (read the first post, Here We Go, for more details). The site was up for a few years and then I took it down. I re-posted the journal to this blog in September 2006 with some slight changes.
The content is relatively the same, but the method of accessing the information through this blog is a great improvement over the original site. Here’s how it works now:
The oldest post is at the top of the page, and the most post recent shows up at the end. So you can read this blog like a book, from top to bottom.
But you can access the information in any order you like. There are three methods:
1) In the right-side menu under CATEGORIES, simply click whatever topic interests you, and every post that deals with that topic will be displayed. For instance, if you’re curious about everyone’s favourite topic, sexual dysfunction, just click the Sexual dysfunction category and every post that deals with that topic will be displayed.
NOTE: The posts are categorized, but they’re also divided into five sections that encompass all the posts chronolocially. They appear in the CATEGORIES list under My withdrawal:
Introduction
Part 1: Cold turkey
Part 2: Weaning
Part 3: Off Paxil
Part 4: Post-withdrawal.
2) In the right-side menu under SEARCH THIS SITE, simply type in what you’re looking for (if it’s not listed under the Categories heading) and click the GO button. Then every post with that word or phrase will be displayed. If for instance you’re concerned about what kind of food to eat while going through Paxil withdrawal, you can enter the word “diet” and every post with the word “diet” will be displayed, and the word “diet” will be highlighted wherever it occurs.
3) The title of every single post is listed in the right-side menu under PAGES. Simply click whichever one you want to read.
There is also a « Previous | Next » feature at the end of each post that allows you to back up to the previous post or move on to the next one, so you can start in the middle if you like and then continue to read the rest of it in order.
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