I have started tapering off Effexor. I'm was taking three 75 mg pills a night and am now down to one. I've had alot of the problems others have listed. What is really bothering me though, is how it seems hard to even form coherent thoughts and especially my lack of emotion. I read how some people are feeling like their brains aren't functioning right, but has anybody else felt that they have lost their emotions? All I can feel is frustration. I'm usually emotional and creative and all over the place. Now I can't feel anything. I don't feel alive. I hate this. Medications have made me feel like this before, and I went off of them as soon as I could because I could not stand not to feel. It was like they killed my soul. I'm down to that one 75 mg pill now, and any feeling, except frustration, has dried up. I thought it would have gotten better, not worse. Even my sex drive is dead. I hate this. Has anybody else experienced this? Is this going to go away or what? What is wrong with me??? I don't want to be stuck a robot.