depression
"I am extremely disheartened in reading the negative reviews.  I have taken Effexor since 1993.  I began taking 37.5 mg and later lived for one year in a private psychiatric hospital for a suicide attempt. My psychiatrist, then the President of the American Psychiatric Association, increased my dose to 600 mg per day.  This miracle drug kept and still keeps me alive some 23 years later.  I have experimented with not taking this or any medication.  I never presented with any withdrawal symptoms.  However, like clockwork, on the 3rd day w/o it I begin to cry tears over nothing.  By the 4th day I find myself in the midst of severe depression.
within an hour of beginning my regimen again, I am back to my normal.
Do not be afraid to try this medicati"