"i was in a very bad place at the time i started taking it. my doctor wanted to ween me off of effexor after 7 years of 300mg of it. i&#039;ll tell you coming off the effexor is like coming off hard drugs like heroine! i&#039;m not sure if the zeldox (what they call geodon in canada) was helping or making it worse. i officially got off the effexor after 10 weeks of weening and i&#039;m still currently on 80mg of zeldox. i will say you have to eat with this med or else you&#039;re really only giving your body half of what you&#039;re putting in it. i&#039;m a week into lithium at 600mg. i&#039;m feeling fantastic, but i&#039;m thinking about weening off of the zeldox, i do not believe its being effective and i&#039;m just getting negative side effects from it."