Dudes and Dudes, episode 146 of the Anxious Truth.

Welcome back.

Today we are going to do part 2 in my little three-part series where I talk about my own personal

experience with antidepressants.

In my case, that was Paxil, the antidepressant was called Paxil and I took that between 1996

and 2005 and I'm going to walk you through what my experience was.

In the first episode, which was podcast episode 145, so you can go to the anxioustruth.com

slash 145 to listen to that, I gave you a quick overview of my stance on medication

so you can get that there.

I'm not going to go over that again.

Why I decided to start taking an antidepressant and what my initial experiences were.

So to get this one going, I'll just remind you, I was in a really bad place.

I got some advice from my general practitioner, my family doctor at the time.

In retrospect, that advice was certainly questionable, but I hold no ill will against

him and I acquiesced.

I didn't want to take medication, but I said, okay, I'll do it.

And initially, my experience was that I thought it was an absolute 100% life saver.

It changed everything.

It stopped my panic attacks, it lifted my deep clinical depression.

And I would have told you that it was the greatest invention ever in the history of mankind.

That's true.

I take, I will, I will freely admit that.

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