Ask your doctor if you can take it at night. You'd need to schedule it as a slow shift - like 3 hours later a day for a few days. Nothing with Paxil can be done quickly! ;)
Yeah, it can really be an adjustment when your motivation for doing things isn't fear anymore! It's like we flog ourselves with fear to make ourselves do things we don't really want to do. Then when the fear is gone, we don't have any other feelings or motivators to rely on. For instance, once I was no longer irrationally afraid of being fired, I couldn't find any motivation to work for a long time. My doctor said that's pretty common, actually, with work.
I am not someone that can point you towards normal, though! ;) The more people I get to know, the more common anxiety and depression seem to be. Maybe there is no normal? Certainly there's probably an average . . .
I cope by accepting that most things in my life really aren't that big of a deal. They're just not that exciting or horrible or stressful, and so it's ok that I don't *make* them more than they are.
Continued good luck with the paxil. And please don't be shy about posting for help! I would never have been able to get off Paxil if it hadn't been for luvsbitch telling me to take dramamine to help the nausea. There are a lot of things that your doctor wouldn't necessarily think to tell you that can make this a less tedious experience.
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Yeah, it can really be an adjustment when your motivation for doing things isn't fear anymore! It's like we flog ourselves with fear to make ourselves do things we don't really want to do. Then when the fear is gone, we don't have any other feelings or motivators to rely on. For instance, once I was no longer irrationally afraid of being fired, I couldn't find any motivation to work for a long time. My doctor said that's pretty common, actually, with work.
I am not someone that can point you towards normal, though! ;) The more people I get to know, the more common anxiety and depression seem to be. Maybe there is no normal? Certainly there's probably an average . . .
I cope by accepting that most things in my life really aren't that big of a deal. They're just not that exciting or horrible or stressful, and so it's ok that I don't *make* them more than they are.
Continued good luck with the paxil. And please don't be shy about posting for help! I would never have been able to get off Paxil if it hadn't been for luvsbitch telling me to take dramamine to help the nausea. There are a lot of things that your doctor wouldn't necessarily think to tell you that can make this a less tedious experience.
Hugs!