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Suggest Treatment For Unemotional Behavior While Having Anxiety

My 19 year old son was originally taking Prozac for anxiety which were causing terrible headaches. He did very well on it but had terrible drowsiness and couldn t stay on it in college. He has moved to Citalopram because he found he was very short tempered and wanted to explode on people (more a phrase than anything physical, very stressed with college life) when he came off the Prozac. The citalopram has helped with that short temperedness but he feels completely emotionless now. Of the serotonin reuptake inhibitors, is there one that would be better to consider. We have an apt with the doctor in another week but I would like to go in prepared with a game plan.
Tue, 10 Jan 2017
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Hi,

This is one of the known side effects with serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. It can be helped by adding bupropion (dopamine reuptake inhibitors) or switch to SNRI like des-venlafaxine.

Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Walid Hassan
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Suggest Treatment For Unemotional Behavior While Having Anxiety

Hi, This is one of the known side effects with serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. It can be helped by adding bupropion (dopamine reuptake inhibitors) or switch to SNRI like des-venlafaxine. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Walid Hassan