Lexapro gives me energy

I asked my doctor to give me lexapro instead of valium for anxiety wich he did. the lexapro actually give me energy and i take it when i want to get stuff done around the douse or i start yelling at my kids from the anxiety. I was taking them everyday and after about 3 weeks started feeling over medicated almost zombie just basically way too passive. Now i take a 1/4 pill of 20 mg, every other day or as wanted really. Any one elso have a nything to say. If i dont take anything i CANT get off the couch , put on make up, or even brush my hair. But with the pill i feel almost high - happy ya know. Is that what it feels like to be normal? I almost feel guilty like a dope fiend gettingf a fix

you say u cant function normally without the lexapro but feel guilty for being happy and productive while taking lexapro, i think if it makes that big if a difference it seems to be the thing for u, life is too short to be miserable and depressed and whatever it takes to make life happy i am all for.

shoniefrog wrote:

I asked my doctor to give me lexapro instead of valium for anxiety wich he did. the lexapro actually give me energy and i take it when i want to get stuff done around the douse or i start yelling at my kids from the anxiety. I was taking them everyday and after about 3 weeks started feeling over medicated almost zombie just basically way too passive. Now i take a 1/4 pill of 20 mg, every other day or as wanted really. Any one elso have a nything to say. If i dont take anything i CANT get off the couch , put on make up, or even brush my hair. But with the pill i feel almost high - happy ya know. Is that what it feels like to be normal? I almost feel guilty like a dope fiend gettingf a fix

Is that really from lexapro? I've read that to have any effect you have to take it for at least a week (every day)?I would love to take it just when I feel like it but since I started already(2 weeks) I'm affraid to quit and than experiment with taking a pill "now and then".
Any help/comments?

As far as I know it would be from Lexapro but then you do have to take it every day to get an effect. You can't just take it for a bit then quit it, because it has to regulate a steady flow of hormones in your head. Does that make sense?