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Citalopram - after a week free.

In a nutshell. So far so good.  I'm a week into being Citalopram free and it's different coming off it than I thought it would be.  I all honesty, I think I underestimated how hard it would be, and with hindsight, I'd have done what many do, and alternate it, one day on, one day off. Now however I feel committed to doing it this way, but I am conscious some of these side effects may last another week or so. Besides the complete and utter emotional car crash that was Tuesday, most of the other effects have been much more tolerable. I did have a wave of anger on Monday. A minor niggle that became a rage in my head, although I appeared calm, inside I was furious. It didn't last though, and by the evening, the issue was resolved, and I was calm again.  Besides this I've had two frequent weird phenomenon that I'll attempt to describe and a one off (I hope).  The first is the easiest of the two to describe; dizziness. It's pretty much constant, a...

Citalopram set back

So yesterday I got a photography job in Liverpool. A lovely lovely group of people, just getting together and enjoying some food and drink, and an opportunity to network. Also a good opportunity to thank the people involved doing such great work in social care from a company doing well. All went well to be honest, a good turnout, music, nice food served by really friendly caterers and I managed to get some good photos, which I'm sure the client will be happy with. But all was not well. I stopped taking my anti depressants just over a week ago, and I was (until yesterday) thinking that it was easy. But yesterday my negative voices joined forces and were snide and nasty.... "Your camera is budget, you look cheap" "This lighting is going to make your pictures look rubbish" "You'll be found out" "Maybe you shouldn't charge, they'll be that bad!" "Making yourself obvious, stood there" "Another flash going off, ...