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Hey johnhans, I too was Hans for the first 12 yrs. of my life, glad to meet another, but I digress from the discussion. You are correct about the SAD light. I have had a long journey, 68 years, with anxiety, depression, concussions, traumatic brain injury, SAD, PTSD. I have all and more of the symptoms and conditions others have described. I have been on various SSRI drugs and benzodiazepines, I have stopped them, had withdrawn, started again and dealt with start up side affects. The only one that works for me is Paxil, I take the maximum dose age 60mg, increased to this gradually over many years, been taking it for over 20 years. 6 months ago the most miraculous happened, out of the blue my brain changed, almost all the symptoms have gone away or are reduced to next to nothing. I have no idea why, I will never stop the Paxil, but am very estatic about the change.
I would like to help anyone I can, I’ve been through it all!
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@jh31251 This shows how we are all different. Paxil did very little for me. I take Sertraline, Zoloft is the name brand. I had to go up to 150 when 50 is the normal amount. It pretty much controls my SAD, and does control my depression and anxiety at other times of the year. I think it is neat that your brain chemistry corrected itself. I had a period in my 20s when things worked well, but as I got older, I got worse.