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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)
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Many kind words to read this morning; thank you, everyone. I am off work, using up the 186 sick days I had stored. After they are used, if I need to, I can apply to be approved for long term disability.
I miss interacting with the kids and am terrified of what going back to work will do.
My principal has changed my teaching assignment while I’m gone (yes, she can legally do that) and there is a “duty to accomodate” part in policy that means there has to be a position for me.
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SO glad you have an accommodating principal. And also, your 186 days of leave were earned! That’s what they’re there for.
If it helps I, too, work in a middle school. There’s nothing worse than knowing how fun I used to be and now not being able to be that person. I’m working on it and I’m back on antidepressants. I’m now just struggling with stupid constant dizziness...
But anyway, hoping that knowing there are many of us in your shoes will somehow comfort you 🙂
It will get better. It will.
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Good on you for having all those days - and don't be afraid to use disability. When you are in a better place mentally and physically - and you feel more "predictable" about yourself - going back to work won't seem so terrifying - You've done it before you can do it again, or you might want to rekick a whole new career path - possibilities are out there. The kids - a whole separate issue there (lame joke from one teacher to another.)