I was the same way as a teen. I also didn't want anything in my system (unless I put it there-lol) anyway i've been on paxil for about 6 yrs (since I was about 19) and it helped me a lot. It does not alter your way of thinking, you will still be you, just feel better. It's had to explain. What I do remember is for about the first month all I wanted to do was sleep, it makes you really tired. Getting off of it i'm not sure about but as I am pregnant right now, I cut my dose down drastically and have not had any adverse effects. I am due to give birth in about 2 weeks and think I will stick with the dosage i'm on now as it is still doing it's job. I also know in the states, there is paxil cr (control release) which we don;t have up here in canada yet or I would have tried that.

Anyway see how the therapy goes with out the meds first and also look into others but this was my advice.

Good luck!

Yeah it really does depend on what your doctor or theropist will say.
I'm doing both meds mitrizapan or known as avanza and seeing a theropist.
Meds do not altar your personality, all it does it help with the chemical imbalance of your brain meaning lack of serotoin.
It's helping me consentrate better a work, my mind doesn't feel so cluttered, and well also its nice to know that I can acutally be happy, but with just a little help, that is all.
Good luck and hope things will work out for you!

Well, as you can see from the replies so far received, drugs help some people but not all people. Drug therapy is a very controversial topic, because we are bombarded with the idea that depression can only be treated by drugs and/or psychotherapy. We live in a age of ‘chemical happiness’.


But drugs can only mask the symptoms and do not redress the causes of depression. Most people have to take their drugs for the rest of their life, just as we do when diabetic.


If depression is due to a serotonin imbalance, which I think is one of the causes, then we should ask why we cannot produce sufficient serotonin for us to feel happy, relaxed and content when we should. And if depression is due to a chemical imbalance in the brain , then we cannot expect talk therapy to be much helpful either because we are dealing with a physical disease.


An alternative way of looking at depression is to consider this to be a nutritional disorder, a notion that is not as yet generally accepted.


But to understand this approach we have to realize that the brain depends on biological energy to be able to synthesize serotonin and other ‘happy’ hormones. This is produced from the foods we eat. The energy is derived from the sugars we eat and when there is an obstruction in the absorption and metabolism of sugar, as in the case of insulin resistance, then the brain is starved of energy. It will then trigger the release of stress hormones such as adrenaline and so we have an explanation for the varied and multiple symptoms of ‘mental’ illness.


The no-drug treatment for hypoglycemia is going on a hypoglycemic diet, that aims at correcting unstable blood sugar levels, insulin and stress hormones.


This is an entirely new approach and with all things new, there will be considerable objections by the old guard.


The hypoglycemic syndrome that can be responsible for depression, can be medically tested with a special gtth described at our web site as:

“testing for hypoglycemia and how the doctor can help” by dr george samra sydney australia.


We also have paper-and-pencil test called the nbi (search the web site.)

also read:

“depression a nutritional disoder” at our web site

please familiarize yourself with the connection between depression and nutrition and discuss with your therapist.


Jurriaan plesman