How does taking Paxil affect daily life?
Since Paxil affects chemical communication in your body, your ability to perceive daily experiences or self identity can be affected. Science is still learning how emotions and serotonin are linked, but personal experience is clear that one affects, or is derived from the other. While on Paxil, your potential to experience a wide range of emotions that run from frightening anger to passionate bliss is diminished. This influence on your emotions is the desired effect of Paxil since it can diminish your negative sensations so that you can become a more productive and less encumbered machine (or human). But it turns out that it’s not necessarily selective about what it diminishes. Your joyous passions and sex drive can also get put on a shelf. The body doesn’t operate in a vacuum. When you change the serotonin level, you also change the balance of many other chemical processes in the body. It’s not as simple as “raise the serotonin, feel wonderful”.
