so i know some of you girls have lots of experience with SSRIs etc.
background:
mr naut was having a shit time a few months back... combination of things, midlife crisis, hated his job (his employer is worse than an abuser for breaking him down then sucking up to him again - ruining his confidence to leave to find another job etc), hated what he had achieved in life, hated where we were living with a baby on the way (inner city apartment with heaps of noisy, party-drug neighbours)... etc. textbook depression/anxiety.
eventually i made him go to the doctor once i couldn't stand to see him so upset and lying in an empty bathtub staring into space with tears in his eyes...![]()
fast forward:
doc says "lexapro" and he took it for about 3 months.
we moved house, which relieved a huge amount of pressure once it was done. anyhoo, he was coping very well with the drugs and was nicely evened out. his confidence was coming back and we even got his resume done and out with a couple of headhunter agencies.
so... in that classic SSRI style he starts to think he's fine. so he weans... then he stops. it's been about 5 days of no drugs for him now and his tension level is through the roof today. it's like his magic 'coping blankie' has been taken away.
the things that bug him are things that wouldn't normally.
what sucks is that i can see what's going on and he can't.
the problem... how do you tell anyone, let alone a head-strong male, that you think they shouldn't have weaned without seeing the doctor. there's nothing more personal than someone else's mental state. what do i say?
he thinks he's fixed but i know he's not.
anyone? anyone?



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