I have been on Lustral for a year. I felt ghastly at fi...

I have been on Lustral for a year. I felt ghastly at first. I felt like hell. In fact later I asked my consultant why they torture people when they could just give them Lustral! However, although all the side effects were present at first - shaking, nausea, total panic and despair, dry mouth you name it, almost like all my most hideous symptoms for the past four years condensed into Now - it did pass. Now I feel like me. Its taken a while. A year later I still feel I am on the path back to me. I am not deleriously happy etc, but I feel I am beginning to cope and that I am in a place that I can continue the coping process from. I dont understand why doctors dont tell you that taking these anti depressants can be like a baptism of fire at first, I suppose because they are frightened you wont take them...But my other friend who had sever postnatal depression has had the same experience as I have, and we both feel we have come through it and are better for it. It is tough that when you are feeling probably at your lowest ever, you have to go even lower before you can start the SLOW rise up. But it did help to know that even Robbie Williams has been there on the same drugs and he has been helped. Today's life style is so unnatural, no wonder we find it hard. Dont punish yourself for being on these pills either. I always tell people if I feel they will use this information constructively, but I dont NOT tell them because I am ashamed. Because I am not. I am a yoga teacher too! But we all need help through the crisis, and then we can deal with what got us there in the first place from a focused and calmer space where we can once more access our inner widom and let it guide us. Hope this helps.

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