A harrowing odyssey of Effexor…entry into the system, withdrawal and recovery

This is a popular archival page. I can see by the stats on the blog that sometimes people happen upon one of these posts via search and then they sit and click through one after another until they’ve read the whole thing! I’ve noticed this a few times now and I don’t really look at my stats all that closely most of the time, so I imagine it happens with some frequency. People get glued to their computer for a few hours! It’s a compelling story and so I’m sharing it again.

Keener is now a long-time blogging friend. We actually met way back when I first started blogging almost 5 years ago now. Her and her friend’s blog was/is predominantly about gardening but Keener had this side story that she worked on over time with multiple posts. I’ve been given permission to reprint it as well as publish the final chapters for the first time. It’s a downright odyssey in how she explains being sucked into psychiatry and ultimately how she escapes. The story as suggested with the title of this tab centers around a radically awful adverse reaction to Effexor.

She tells the harrowing tale with a great sense of humor!

It’s really a short autobiographical novel of sorts in parts.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13 Finally the happy ending comes

For information on safer withdrawal vist: Withdrawal 101

New video: Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach | Will Hall

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