Posted by headachequeen on November 13, 2004, at 14:55:06
In reply to dead chickens and creativity » headachequeen, posted by rainy on November 13, 2004, at 14:21:39
> Well, you're always on about, and probably rightly so, tritrating up slowly so I just assumed you'd advise the same in the other direction. Besides with Klonopin a physical addiction develops and the results of stopping quickly are nasty. I think Lar said they could be life threatening. .5 mgs is a low dose and I'm not having much trouble today (except for being smart mouthed about chickens)so maybe it wasn't the Klon, maybe I took 2 Topamax by mistake. Who knows?
> I understand and respect what you're saying about the creative process and the sometimes extreme highs and lows that come with an artistic temperament, but really and truly, this is different.
> What, you mean you're impulsive? You just quit stuff cold turkey? Well, me too.
> rainyImpulsive? Moi????
Well, once my doctor found out about it, that is not the term he used... idiot was one of the terms in there...
I honestly did not know that effexor and zyprexa were addictive... no one told me so... and I never asked...
I just decided that I should quit because they seemed to be shutting down my emotional responses and hampering the psychologist's efforts to break through my natural reserves... which he was complaining about...
so I quit...
I know now that I was not the sharpest knife in the drawer to do so...
but it had not occurred to me at the time...
when I was on trazodone, and he was switching me to something else... luvox I think, the switch was made slowly, tapering the trazodone and introducing the luvox ...
then when the new doctor who hates luvox with a passion decided on welbutrin, he tapered off the luvox and introduced the welbutrin as he tapered off the luvox...
same with the welbutrin...even though it causes seizures and could make the ones I had worse, they still took me off it slowly...
but I who am supposed to be reasonably intelligent didn't catch on to the concept...
so I just quit that day...
had been taking both of them twice a day...
and quit...
but I am NOT impulsive, I am just determined...
when I decide that this is what I am going to do, I do it...
and then I was afraid that my doctor would refuse to treat me for non-compliance so I didn't tell him for a couple of months...He had started the effexor to replace the welbutrin with its insulting little happy faces, then that psychiatrist I think is so good, the WOMAN psychiatrist, that is, <GGG> prescribed the zyprexa 10 mg twice a day for the condition I can't remember the name of...
the one that means one cannot control one's urges to do more and more and more...oh I want to know when my memory will return...
I want it all and I want it now...kat
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