hello, it seems as though you are drying out from your previous antidepressant and please correct me if I'm wrong, but drying out is very painful, as it seems to be throwing you from one corner of the room to the other side until it leaves your body.
It could well be your anxiety causing this, but the withdrawal side-effects jump on board as well, especially after being on it for 8 years, and if you were on a high dose then I would think that the withdrawal is causing your anxiety, never the less what ever is causing this isn't pleasant.
If your doctor wants to try you on a SSRI then he/she would know best, because you have to take yourself back to the days when you weren't taking any medication and why you were put on this AD, I know it was 8 years ago and probably difficult to remember, but there must have been an urgency for your doctor to do this.
There is no shame in taking AD's, however people feel as though by taking them that they are abnormal, well not so, you, me and all the others have an illness, because depression of any type is so prolific in our society, and as though it's something we all hate and don't want, it's so prevalent and can't avoid.
We can learn to control it, but before we can do this, it's takes a process to know how and why we get it, so to start on SSRI we must realise how we will be if we don't take it, in other words the pro's and con's. Geoff.
