I was placed on Paxil CR for SDD. After being placed on it my personality changed completely. I was no longer the person that I once was. It actually made me more depressed than I have ever been in my entire life.
After remaining on paxil for 3 months I asked my doctor to switch me to Lexapro. I began to take lexapro 3 days after stopping my dosage of Paxil. One night I went to go check the mail and received a few bill notices. So the next thing I knew I was sitting out by a lake, crying, and holding a bottle of Hydrocodone. I ingested the bottle and went back to the dorm where my room mate saw that there was something wrong with me and called 911.
I was taken by ambulance to the hospital where my stomach was pumped and I was placed in ICU. I have never had a history of suicidal thoughts or tendencies. The strange part of the whole overdose was the fact that I felt like it was not me even taking the pills. It felt like I didn’t know what I was doing. I was killing myself without the presence of fear.
