Balancing the brain experiment
Sep. 3rd, 2013 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbThis 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).
The experiment: stay off the SSRIs for at least two weeks, see how it affects my sleep needs, weight, and moods. If things are relatively stable, stay off for another two weeks: if things grow disturbed, return to a lower dosage.
Today I am less sleepy and more alert. There is some background anxiety, not serious, and no physical anxiety component that can't be ascribed to the last three days' alteration in diet. Mood has been moderate to good, disimproving as the evening advances and I've spent that much more time on my thesis. Concentration: roughly normal.
So far, so good.
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).
The experiment: stay off the SSRIs for at least two weeks, see how it affects my sleep needs, weight, and moods. If things are relatively stable, stay off for another two weeks: if things grow disturbed, return to a lower dosage.
Today I am less sleepy and more alert. There is some background anxiety, not serious, and no physical anxiety component that can't be ascribed to the last three days' alteration in diet. Mood has been moderate to good, disimproving as the evening advances and I've spent that much more time on my thesis. Concentration: roughly normal.
So far, so good.
