Depression
"Six months ago I (57 yr male) was severely depressed, difficult to think, difficult to move.  My doctor put me on 40 mg fluoxetine daily, with 0.5 mg clonazepam for the first 30 days.  After five days I felt the drugs were overwhelming.  I was having a lot of anxiety with hypertension and tachycardia and felt really out of it.  I cut the dosage in half (taking the fluoxetine every other day).  By about four weeks in I was doing much better, able to think and move again.  About four months in, however, I started getting the blood pressure spikes and rapid heartbeat again and just generally felt overstimulated, so I asked my doctor for the 20 mg size, and he agreed I could take it once every other day if daily was too much.  This has worked "