Experiences with Emotional exhaustion / burnout

I sweat the whole time that i am sleeping. I usually have to leave with a towel to dry myself off. I get sweaty every time i had to do anything physical and the sweating is only getting worse.
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I was prescribed citaolphram for my breakdown and the first few weeks were good until the side effects started, I quickly lost it. The dose was increased but it didn't get any better, panic attacks kept on coming and I could hardly leave my house any more, large groups of people caused me to spiral into panic. After 8 months I switched to another medicine. My advice for breakdown... make sure y...
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after a breakdown I started on citalopram but the severe side effects caused me to switch to sertraline, the first 2 months were good but then the side effects started: pimples on my body, sometimes small and sometimes really big and painful, pain in my joints, memory loss, loss of concentration, libido down to 0, weight gain. even today I still have pain in my joints, and it's even getting wor...
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Paroxetine helped me get over the anxieties (social anxiety) that I was suffering from before I had my breakdown, and get back to work, alongside CBT. I'm now coming off it, from 20-15-10-5-0 and no symptoms until I got down to the 5. I've been off it for almost 2 weeks now but the withdrawal symptoms are noticeable: tired, diarrhoea, stomach cramps, nervous, irritable to aggressive.
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Ablify supplements something in my brain. It makes me calmer, slimmer and more energetic. In the beginning I often felt sleepy, but this has got less. I think my body has started to get used to this medicine.
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A year later it seemed that the GP had given me much too much, despite repeated questions/subsequent begging for a different medicine. He was adamant that I just had to get used to is. this medicine stole years and years from me, the last few years I've been taking clomipramine, 30 mg is enough.
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I had an extreme reaction after 4 days: walked like a drunken sailor, made strange mistakes, nearly fell down twice, had serious loss of memory on day 5 and couldn’t answer simple questions like what year is it? They suspected a TIA and I was admitted to hospital immediately. Luckily the scan came out clean and after quitting quetiapine it only took 2 days to feel a lot better. My GP gave me th...
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Basically no decent communication between the GP and the psychologist has led to using Alprazolam for far too long. Which in itself has led to a breakdown. Luckily the emergency doctor made the right decision. A visit to the AMC, to the psychiatrist there, showed me that I need never have been given this medication. Long live the medical profession. Luckily I was able to stick to a quitting reg...
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I'm in rather a complicated situation which led to my admittance to a psych ward 6 years ago. There I was given paroxetine. I had always been strongly against this sort of medication but it helped me enormously, and still helps me today in getting my life back in order. It keeps my head calm. I do have a relatively low dose but that's all I need.
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In August 2015 I was admitted and it turned out I'd had a breakdown one month later I started taking paroextine (manufactured by Sandoz) started on 20 mg later increased to 30 mg during the first 6 weeks I had loads of panic attacks strange thoughts really down and depressed. After around 3 months I went up to 30 mg and it turned out that I had been on too low a dose which meant the medication ...
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started on Monday, 10 mg a day and they are really affecting me. Considering seeing what half a pill does for me. Constant feeling of "cotton wool" in my head. Really tired, was really nauseous yesterday and my symptoms, like not being allowed to drive, were really bad. Took my tablet after work yesterday and that seemed to be a bit better, felt fine this morning, except very tired, I could jus...
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To start off with I didn't want to take this because of the pain and not being able to sleep properly! I had a breakdown in 2013 so I decided to ask for it after all. Very happy with it for both complaints, the only really annoying thing is having a dry mouth. So I always carry chewing gum and water with me.
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Fell into a black hole after retirement. After stopping (half a tablet every day seven weeks and stopped on 1 May 2016!) terrible side-effects, like nausea, stomach pains, sleep. I want to persevere but every now and then a real bad desire start taking mirtazapine again.
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I've got nothing negative to say about this medicine and I've been using it for almost 30 years. There were times when I was taking really low dose after stopping it, sometimes completely stopped, periods of high doses (50-80 mg) and at the moment on 20 mg. Consequently just stop taking it but slowly tapering off works really well.
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Got stuck in my work. Went to psychiatrist via the GP. First check what medicines were suitable. I smoked. But I wanted to stop. Did it with effexor (150 mg). And mirtazepine (15 mg) before I went to sleep. I could handle things better then and felt more stable. I don't see the psychiatrist any more. He advised me to take this medicine for the rest of my life.
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Used 20 mg paroxetine since I was 15 because of burn-out/depression and hereditary serotonin deficit according to my doctor's diagnosis. I got a new diagnosis in May, delayed sleep disorder, which means I have to phase out paroxetine. Between April and June I went from 20 to mg and since Aug/Sept I've had really bad problems which seem to be withdrawal symptoms. The doctors don't know this for ...
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