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“And then in zaps the chorus, a remonstration of sorts, or a call to arms: "Life is just a precious minute baby," it yells.”
“Thinking in those terms zaps the lack mentality pretty darned quick.”
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“To attract attention the alliance staged what its members called "zaps," confrontations with people or institutions that they believed discriminated against gay people.”
“Max naturally assumes that the man is a typical loonie, but then the machine not only works, but has a side effect that not even Boles anticipated: it "zaps" the reporter the scientific nature of what happens is never explained, inflicting him with a bizarre condition.”
“It feels a little like the sheen you get before those "zaps" that occur when you're coming off Prozac, even though I know those little seizures aren't imminent.”
“The UV light "zaps" microrganisms such as viruses, cysts and bacteria that may be present in your household water supply.”
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“It literally feels like it is going to explode and on top of that, I keep feeling 'zaps' in my head (and elsewhere at times), a bit like if I had missed a dose of Venlafaxine, only much worse in severity.”
“Sure, it affects everyone differently: a close friend of mine only experienced tension headaches throughout the process, but I had the pleasure of dealing with headaches, lethargy, depression, dizziness, the "zaps", nausea, and more.”
“Hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in the Linux environment "zaps" the Xorg server, causing an unrecoverable crash.”
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reesetee In my (sleepless) experience, yes. Mar 31, 2009
chained_bear So maybe here is a good place to ask: is restless leg syndrome real?
*prepares to dodge thrown items* Mar 31, 2009
sionnach reesetee makes an excellent point. Clinical depression is a well-defined disease, and there are undoubtedly people who benefit from taking Paxil for that condition. Where things become problematic, I think, is when companies try to expand their market by defining "disorders" of a more nebulous kind (e.g. "shyness" as a disorder, rather than just a personality trait). Mar 31, 2009
reesetee Yes, it's still available.
I think it really depends on who's taking the drug and why. I've heard of people who not only do wonderfully on it, but swear by it--and that's probably true of many of the newer antidepressants.
The author of this article clearly didn't "need" to take such a drug; he simply wanted to see what it would do for him--whereas many people who use antidepressants are taking them for a diagnosed disease (such as clinical depression). Mar 31, 2009
yarb I've never heard of Paxil before. Is it still available? Stevenson makes it sound like rather a crappy drug all round. Mar 31, 2009
sionnach Hmmm. This article just feeds in to my preexisting conviction that, where brain chemistry is concerned, an unmedicated life is preferable, as much as possible. I attribute this to growing up with a mother who was a doctor (basically, to get even the remotest sympathy or attention, we kids had to be either near death, or have visible lesions). The odd thing is that this conviction has remained, despite 25 years working in the pharmaceutical industry. Go figure.
But "social anxiety disorder" always had that aura of being a "disease" that had its origins more in the cupidity of big pharma than as any reflection of objective reality.
And those withdrawal symptoms certainly didn't sound like a picnic either. Mar 31, 2009
chained_bear Seen here.
"More alarmingly, the dreaded "zaps" have arrived. I'd read about these on the Paxil Database, a site for self-proclaimed Paxil victims, but I thought they were made up—there are so many hypochondriacs on the Web." (Seth Stevenson, "Extroverted Like Me," Slate, June 18, 2006)
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oroboros Spaz in reverse. Jul 22, 2007