Topiramate (topomax) is the antidote worse than the disease. It turned me into a zombie, literally living in my head but too dead to even open my mouth to say “hi” or “good morning” when I made eye contact with a stranger (yes, I’m from the Midwest and we do that here).

(Venlafaxine on the other hand is like a shock collar wrapped tightly around your brain waiting for you to miss a dose by even two hours, after which it’ll punish you for the next twenty four hours with electric shocks and spasms in your freaking brain. It’s a real pity it actually kind of worked :/ I still don’t know if I would ever do it again.)