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teksla
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12 Jul 2016, 1:27 pm

After re-starting my antidepressant (escitalopram 10mg/day) my executive funtion skills have gotten worse. For example: I normally eat often but now i forget to eat all day
Anyone else have experience on this?


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12 Jul 2016, 6:47 pm

teksla wrote:
After re-starting my antidepressant (escitalopram 10mg/day) my executive funtion skills have gotten worse. For example: I normally eat often but now i forget to eat all day
Anyone else have experience on this?

That is probably due to the drug surpressing your appetite than it is to do with executing functioning.