Is it normal to become consciously aware multiple times a day?

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Back a year or two ago, this work release program I was in told me I had anxiety depression and started feeding me Citalopram, I have never felt the same as before starting this medication, whenever I quit the program, I stopped using these drugs cold turkey, and now I constantly feel like I'm living my life on auto-pilot, sometimes during the day I'll become aware of myself and think to myself "I'm alive right now.", it always seems like I can't make clear choices any more as well, I always just choose the path of least resistance, I've had several opportunities to advance in my job, and have let them all slide right past me, I feel like this is what depression is supposed to feel like, not what I felt like before taking these drugs.

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  • kuyhre5f
    9 years ago

    Sounds like dissociation. It's normal.

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  • RoseIsabella
    10 years ago

    I used to take Celexa but now I take Cymbalta.

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    • VirgilManly
      10 years ago

      Is everyone on this site medicated?

      Me? Citalopram here.

      To the OP- Maybe you just needed to reduce your dosage.

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  • Short4Words
    10 years ago

    Sicker minds have been healed I'm sure. I probably never went to the extent you did but I had a similar reaction, especially to Citalopram. I found it difficult to remember past events, or to daydream, its like I couldn't do anything but move forward, like you said, almost on auto-pilot and I had to stop cold turkey like you did. But I wasn't taking it that long, only a couple days. I'm not a doctor but I don't think your damaged goods. I think it will take time.

    Maybe there's a doctor out there that is more to your liking that can help you. What do you think?

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