So I will be your one in ten. I take Lexapro and Klonopin every night. For 7 or so years I took Celexa which is chemical a cousin to Lexapro. Celexa didn’t work really for me, I faked it. Then I changed to a doc who I used to be in choir with, and I knew he’d gone back in his 40’s for an MD. He’d spent years as a PhD therapist and wanted to be able to prescribe the meds for his own patients. Lexapro had become generic, and switched me. Nine months later when I went for a yearly with my primary care doc, he asked, “Is there a difference between them?” and I smiled, “See this? I call this an organic smile. I couldn’t and didn’t do this taking Celexa!” TRUTH.
I know that my SSRI is changing the wiring in my brain. I know that I may take Lexapro for the rest of my life for I embrace my depression/anxiety as I would if diagnosed a diabetic. I am a trauma survivor, cancer, etc. . . I don’t regale others that they don’t work or that SSRI do. I dislike how your bio says your not a techo-cynic yet you are very cynical in this piece about allopathic doctors, the fancy terms for Western Meds. . . for all of us to heal, it seems, we must embrace what works for each of us. And for pity sake, you must use current studies, 1998? Dear me. You can do better than this.
