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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)
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@notaround
Not that this will help but back in the day if we didn’t work we didn’t eat. My grandfather had a brain tumor which he died from in 1926.
When he could no longer walk my Dad hitched up his team and my Dad and his older brother carried him and tied him to the plow and at lunch they untied him and carried him to the house to eat. After lunch it happened all over again and was repeated until he died.
I believe we’re spoiled. In the past I think people were to busy just trying to survive to be depressed etc. In the past people didn’t enjoy the luxury of being able to pick and choose if they would work, stay in bed or watched tv etc. Just my 2 cents.
Jake
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I know you mean well and, in my case (I successfully weened off Effexor!) I believe it was because I forced myself to stay busy, work, be purposefully healthy and fit. While Effexor DID assuage my anxiety and depression (for 20 years!) I thought back to my life before Effexor and thought if I could do it then I can do it now. Truth be told, I probably never should have been on it in the first place. I shouldn’t have gotten married so young to a person who made me feel awful about myself. And on and on. I know what you mean about folks being lazy - I feel these are the folks who make up drama and tragedy in the news! But, sadly, there’s also real depression out there. A real chemical thing. And maybe it’s exacerbated by the American lifestyle, but for now, we’re all just doing our level best to feel better 🙂
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Probably right. But if I was born a century ago, I would have not made it to adulthood.
Mental illness isn't some new thing. Just used to be people died from it more often and everyone else kept it a secret. Well that still happens. Dead or considered an invalid.
I grew up homeless and I know firsthand the attitude of work or don't eat is tragic. I will probably never stop tying my own judgment of my worthiness to live based on my employment because of it. I work myself sick and better than my coworkers in every job I've had, but am always laid off after a year or less.
Your grandfather's suffering is exactly the kind of thing that a humane society has a duty to prevent.