Quote Originally Posted by nicola1980 View Post
Hi I'm not sure why my physc hasn't raised my ven apart from him saying I was on a good dose of ven already?
Venlafaxine doesn't even begin working as an SNRI until the dose reaches around 225mg/day.

I was stable but now with all the added pressures of my son I seem to have slipped back and it's kick-started my anxiety.
Antidepressants and stress are essentially in a tug of war. As stress levels rise a higher antidepressant dose may be needed to bring it under control and it seems me this would be a better tactic than adding more olanzapine, although olanzapine might help in the shorter-term as it can act more quickly than an antidepressant dose increase.