my brain wants so badly to cry, emotionally, feeling low, but my eyes wont do what i want them to. does anyone else know what i mean?

Hey there, I totaly get where your coming from, I get the same somtimes, I havent cried once since starting Efexor! I think its a side effect to be honest lack of ability to cry I have read it somwhere! I find going for a nice walk helps or just out for a coffee!

I never cried when I was taking Effexor and I'm not sorry about that because I had plenty to cry about.
Doug

Never been on that medication, but I know the feeling. I just want that relief from crying its like I can let out so much with tears that I cant with words.

HUGS
Isabeau

I know that feeling too.

It isn't necessarily all down to the medication - depression and anxiety can do that to you, too...

Hey there

I couldn't cry on Efexor either. Until I dropped my dosage, that is. Then it all came back with a vengeance. I was a sobbing wreck a couple of weeks ago.

It levelled out once I took my dose up again, but once that breakthrough was achieved, I can actually cry again now, even on the higher dose. Not often, and I can still feel it building up a day or so before it hits, but at least I can get it out now. It's a relief when it comes.

Interesting that this isn't listed as a possible side effect, when obviously quite a lot of people experience it.

Dan

I went through something similar, where it was so rare that I cried. I was really rather unemotional. What I believe now was that I was on too much of the medication. Now, I am taking 75, just up from 37.5 due to stressful event. I am able to cry again. In fact today, learning of my miscarriage, I cried, and it felt awful, but then I got it somewhat out of my system. I think that we need to be able to cry these things out so they don't all just get stuck and repressed in there.
But I think now that I'm on less of the medication, I am more in touch with emotions that naturally arise as situations do, and I believe it's healthy. When I was on double this amount, I was just numbed, and I think now I even set my life up wrong because of that, too far from any supportive family, out of my own culture.
Of course if I was on too little of the med, every event would feel like the end of the world, and I wouldn't pull myself out of the feelings easily.