Sounds like you definitely have a lot on your plate...and it's unfortunate that you can't trust your daughter around certain types of medications...when one sees that, whether as an adult or kid, it can certainly make you want to stay away or at least be leery.

It took me awhile to get used to taking an antidepressant....but after 20 years...my therapist thinks that I'm not getting (and may not need) their support any longer. I tend to agree with her...especially since I'm down to 37.5mg of Effexor from 150mg in early August, largely without any issues.

Today was probably my worst day - terrible headache, nausea, dizziness-- and I've been on my current dose for 10 days or so. I don't know if it is allergies, that I couldn't sleep at ALL last night (slept about 90 mins before I had to take the train to a meeting at 1:30)...or if it was the heat in NYC today....but I finally had a day where I wanted to just hit myself with a hammer and sleep it off. A/C helped cool me down and I was fine having a detailed financial discussion with a CFO...so I'm happy I wasn't a cognitive mess....I just hope today was an aberration and not the start of the hard part of the taper. But I see the psychiatrist for a follow-up tomorrow and my therapist on Friday....so I'll certainly have a lot of feedback and insight - particularly from my therapist who has been away for a month so it will be our first in person session since I started on the taper.