I'm on 150mg Venlaflexin daily. I have narcolepsy and don't sleep properly anyway due to night terrors and panic attacks. I had a breakdown in 2005 and effectively lost two years of my life, another two years was spent getting help and I'm sketchy at best in remembering those years. I now have a memory problem and laughingly call it my dementia episodes. If I didn't laugh about it all I'd fall apart. Laughter helps. The last four years have been spent dealing with my husbands terminal illness, we live each day as it comes, laugh daily and love each other unconditionally. My husband's anger and mood swings means I have to act as buffer with him and the children which adds more stress, but we come together as a family at least once a day and if he (my husband) is having a bad day, we ignore it and smile and act silly and diffuse any "bad feelings". Life is never easy, some days its great, others I could jump in a hole and pull a rock down on top of me. More often than not I get through, each day I get up, I win, each time I get dressed, I win, every time I leave the house, I win. Agoraphobia is a nightmare but I'm getting better, slowly but surely. I may never be the same again, but who knows maybe I can be a better person all round :D :D :D