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Effexor Withrdrawals and antipsychotics

Mikaxz <mikano...@hotmail.com>

Ive read so much stuff about that people should not take antidepressants if
they´re mood
swings (like mine does), either schizophrenia or manic depression. Most of
this is
just disinformation, cause everytime i try to quit my effexor, i get these
crying attacks,
and generally i cry a lot without the effexor and i have schizophrenia.
Trying to explain to
people that this crying of mine is NOT psychotic but the opposite. It´s for
the reason
my serotonin and dopamine and noradrenaline levels are lower because effexor
increases these neurotransmittors. Also the antipsychotics i am forced to
take doesn´t
help in fact they decrease my brain activity even more by blocking these
very same receptors that the effexor activates making me more depressive.