Balancing the brain experiment
Sep. 3rd, 2013 07:34 pmThis is probably the fifth day since I stopped taking my SSRIs.
I'm engaged in a wee experiment. The SSRIs were contributing to my weight-gain, and I had suspected - and today received proof - that they were contributing to my need for copious amounts of sleep (~11 hours per diem.) But today, either the fourth or fifth day since I stopped, I was able to wake up and function normally after a night's sleep of eight hours (eight broken hours, since I woke at least three times during the night).
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I'm engaged in a wee experiment. The SSRIs were contributing to my weight-gain, and I had suspected - and today received proof - that they were contributing to my need for copious amounts of sleep (~11 hours per diem.) But today, either the fourth or fifth day since I stopped, I was able to wake up and function normally after a night's sleep of eight hours (eight broken hours, since I woke at least three times during the night).
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