Annabella

Age: 22

“I have been dealing with this condition since the fall of 2016. Back then, I was a normal and healthy, athletic teenage girl. At the age of 15, I was prescribed Lexapro (escitalopram) for social anxiety after a brief conversation with my GP, lasting less than 15 minutes.

I strongly believe that I should never have been prescribed medication in the first place, and this opinion has been shared by other doctors and neurologists.

I decided to discontinue the medication due to dizziness and fainting, but I continue to experience symptoms such as emotional blunting, genital numbness, loss of libido, and anhedonia.

I attempted to reinstate a few different psychiatric medications, but even after being medication-free for over 4 years now, these symptoms persist. The impact that this has had on my life and the profound loss I've experienced are truly beyond words.”