“brain zaps”

ah ha!  found a way to describe it, on the SSRI discontinuation syndrome wiki page

"

Symptoms described as "brain zaps", "brain shocks," "brain shivers", "head shocks" or "cranial zings" are a withdrawal symptom experienced during discontinuation (or reduction of dose) of antidepressant drugs.[8][9] The symptoms are widely variable in description and of unknown etiology;[9] common descriptions include dizziness, electric shock-like sensations, sweating, nausea, insomnia, tremor, confusion, nightmares and vertigo.[8][9] The MedDRA "preferred term" for coding these types of symptoms in adverse drug reaction reports (for use in pharmacovigilance databases such as under the Yellow Card Scheme) is paraesthesia.<sup id="cite_ref-Medawar_9-0" class="reference"

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Verrrry interesting.

 

Went to the gym tonight, and that gave me a boost of the chemicals my brain is wondering where they been at…  feeling a little better tonight because of it, hoping for a good night of sleep.

not much else to say.  don’t know why, but this song was in my head today, lol

 

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November 30, 2010