When I first started Escitalopram (Lexapro), I noticed a marked improvement in my ability to get things done. I was a big exploiter of "productive procrastinati

When I first started Escitalopram (Lexapro), I noticed a marked improvement in my ability to get things done. I was a big exploiter of "productive procrastination", where I would work on smaller jobs to procrastinate bigger ones. With the anti-anxiety medication, that stopped completely, and it became pretty clear that it was feelings of anxiety towards that big/unknown/unbounded/boring/detestable job that was fueling the procrastination. Unfortunately, after about a year and a half, that all went away. Those baseless feelings of doom towards nebulously defined work creeped back. I found myself getting irritated at little things again. And on top of that, my work life had gotten significantly better, so it wasn't like I could blame stress anymore. The drugs just seemed to stop fulfilling their beneficial purpose, leaving me only with the side-effects (insomnia, teeth-grinding, anorgasmia). So I weaned myself off. Still irritable, but at least I can get to sleep at night, which is having a bigger effect on the irritability than the drugs did.