Hello everyone..
due to severe anxiety and "what if" intrusive thoughts i started taking paroxetine (Seroxat) 20mg almost six weeks ago. I had some side effects but the benefits definitely outweigh the negatives. I still don't completly feel like myself ... but the insomnia is gone, no physicall symptoms of anxiety, less and rarer intrusive thoughts. I go to work and pretty much function normaly.
What consernes me is that ocasionally i have some days when I feel like not doing anything. Not in a good/normal way but in a depressed kind of way (wasn't diagnosed with depression). That immediately triggers my anxiety because I'm affraid what will happen next... I feel increadibly nervous but strangely without physicall symtops. I want to take xanax/valium because I'm scared of that unease. But I stop myself because I don't want to go on that path... That happend 2-3 times during last few weeks but went away. It happend again today and is still going on... my question is should that be happening after 6 weeks of paroxetine? Is that maybe a side effect still after all this time? Or does that mean I'll have to go on 30 or even 40mg?
Would be so thankful if you shared your experiences with this med. I will surely ask my therapist but I'll be seeing her mid September.