CHAPPERS 1980 ... Check out Wikipaedia. Sorry to rain on your parade, but Venlafaxine appears to increase susceptibility toward suicide in some
people. I have pasted some info about that below:
Adverse effects
[edit] Suicide
The US Food and Drug Administration body (FDA) requires all antidepressants, including venlafaxine, to carry a
black box warning with a generic warning about a possible suicide risk. In addition, the most recent research indicated that patients taking venlafaxine are at increased risk of suicide.
A study conducted in Finland followed more than 15,000 patients for 3.4 years. Venlafaxine increased suicide risk 1.6-fold (statistically significant), as compared to no treatment. At the same time,
fluoxetine (Prozac) halved the suicide risk.
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I believe that the wise course is to check out on line, say in Wikipaedia, whatever drugs that you have been prescribed and, which the Doctor or prescribing Physician did not have the time to tell you. Forewarned is Forearmed as they say.