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what are the side-effects of paxil?

o.0

these extremely vivid dreams have blown in like a monsoon or something. all of a sudden i'm getting tired faster--i got falling-over sleepy after only six hours TWICE today and i seem to wake up, all at once, like fully awake, after three--and then having these dreams and they stick. and all of a sudden i'm getting this overwhelming urge to write them.

i woke up just now with another original novel filling up my head so fast i can't write down all the scenes and i think it'll work. you'll recall this happened last night too. i'm not scared about getting it published; i just want to write it. this one wouldn't be young adult. it involves a female protagonist and would probably be told in the first person, but she's clearly not me. and it's kind of complicated because it would have a surprise ending... a surprise ending that worked.

you know how usually you wake up thinking 'oh my god, that dream would make the best action adventure/romance/occult/fantasy/science fiction/mystery novel EVAH!11!!!1' and then you write it down, and go back to sleep or whatever, and three hours later you're scratching your head in bemusement because it's really lame, like chasing aliens through the yard with ray guns and hiding behind a fern with two members of *nsync; or a giant paper bag destroying the ceiling as it falls onto your head; or a mystery guy getting locked in the closet with you and you jerk him off and then spend two days walking around looking for him in the crackhead's version of your local university?

yeah, but these dreams are getting gradually less like that, i think. like, i had some on vacation that were eh, but would have worked maybe, not really, big flaws, ff.net, probably i wouldn't rec them, or i'd do it with a thing like 'it's good but you could drive a truck through this plot hole.' well, last night's could probably be fixed up with some structural changes that didn't affect the flow of action a lot. and tonight's--would just have to have some clues to the mystery ending distributed through it.

o.0 like, what is it doing to my brain chemistry--not that i'm necessarily pissed off. when i get done scribbling madly, i guess i'm going to try to find information about it.

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Date: 23 Jul 2003 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-thewayout304.livejournal.com
my brother used to take paxil (and ativan and concerta and risperdal and geodon) for his autism.

unfortunately, being autistic, he couldnt tell us what the side effects were. and even if he could, any number of drugs he was taking could've been causing them.

i wasn't much of a help, was i?

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Date: 23 Jul 2003 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com
well, no. but thanks for playing! ::petpet::

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Date: 23 Jul 2003 01:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com
I've never taken Paxil, but I had amazingly detailed, vivid dreams, and near-perfect recall of them, when I was on Prozac. I understand it's pretty normal.

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Date: 23 Jul 2003 05:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com
i was on prozac for a while and i didn't get that, but now, oh boy. well, that's interesting. huh.

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