Day 56: First Day Off Paxil
Wednesday, November 1st, 2000. A journal entry:
Today was my first full day of not taking any Paxil. I’m still walking around feeling dulled, but at least I’m walking.
It’s going to be wonderful starting from zero again. Unable to think most of the time, I have no plans, only a faint feeling that perhaps I’ll be leaving, moving on, travelling to some place I’ve never been. Does that sound hopeful?
Postscript - February 26th, 2001: This was my first “official” day off Paxil, but because the withdrawal got worse and not better as the weeks went on, I occasionally took an extremely small dose of Paxil purely out of desperation. My last actual dose probably took place somewhere between the 15th and the 20th of November.