Caroline Foran

Yeah, like friends were dabbling, you know, with recreational drugs and stuff.

And I was so afraid of like, what if I lost my mind on that?

So like, I just wasn't going to do anything that was going to make things worse or like compromise the already very fragile mental state I had.

I was just too scared.

But I went on an SSRI.

I went on one first that...

didn't really move the needle for me in any meaningful way.

And again, I was just like, oh God, am I beyond help?

Like, is nothing going to work here?

Which one was that?

That was Effexor.

Yeah.

I was on it for maybe a few months, but I was so bad anyway.

I was like, let's just do it.

So when I went on the Prozac, I had read enough about it at this point to understand that I might feel a lot worse before I feel better.

And that can be very normal and sometimes can be an indicator that it might actually be changing things.

So the first four weeks on Prozac were brutal.

And it's very hard psychologically to take something to solve one problem that it's creating more of.

Like it feels... When you say felt brutal, what does that mean?

The physical anxiety was so exacerbated.