It's been 2 weeks and 3 days now and the main side effect of chronic tiredness seems to be abating nicely although somedays I still want to lay around way too much. Now as for results, so far so good, I much more levelled in my day to day mood and approach to things.

I left a job after 15 years earlier on in the year after my social anxiety in that job became very bad and helped create a mountain out of a molehill type situation. I will blog about that one day but not now. This was the first time I have left a job where I felt it was neccessary for my mental health and I took it bad.Basically now I am bouncing back from depression,moving back to my home town, finding new work and trying to restore some kind of decent level of mental health. I have an awesome wife and two beautiful kids so giving up is not an option.So now it's CBT and meds for me not to mention the sensible and logical input from my wife.Hence the Paroxetine.

I was presrcibed Pristique earlier on in the year which was hell so it's been no meds for me for months except the occasional Xanax,(I actually prefer to be drug free) but Iv'e been struggling so here I am nearly 2 and a half weeks into this new(for me) SSRI. So as I said I feel more level in mood and approach to things, I feel like I am getting some strength of character back (through more fleible thinking) so that should help me to develop the thoughts and attitude I need to focus on the here and now and let go of past events and people who I'm still upset with. I still have the OCD type intrusive/obsessive thoughts but they don't seem to bug me as much now these meds are kicking in. At the moment i'm only taking 20mg daily so I guess I'll need to decide whether I want to increase the dose eventually or not, that should be simply a case of monitoring my progress or lack there of.So for now it's a cautious so far so good