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Hi Linda You may first want to ask yourself if any of these symptoms, i.e., spending, having lots of energy, not focusing, making lots of plans, etc., are symptoms that you can recall having before you took the effexor or seroquel?  Think hard about that question because it is important.  The reason being is that I went to see a psychiatrist who first said I had dysthymia (chronic low-level depression) and put me on an antidepressant.  I should have told him that other than being depressed, my other symptom which was causing the most distress was my violent temper and irritability.  So, to continue....I took effexor which at the time, the doctor did not realize, was causing me to worsen. I had suicidal thoughts, began cutting my self....and I had periods of feeling intense with nature, I was intensely consumed with religion and spirituality, I had urges to become a nude model....yes, believe it or not!  So, after being on effexor for three years, the doc decides I could be bipolar ll and placed me on lamictal.  This stoped my suicidal thoughts, urges and intensities.  Point being, effexor could be doing to you what it did to me.  I would suggest you really look at your behaviors in the past before the medication and see if any of these were present.  I had the violent rages and irritability,(with my loved ones,I seemed to control it when around others) which goes along with bipolar disoder....so, I am told the antidepressant, brought the rest out.  I find it so interesting, however, that on the label and in the brochures you read about anti depressants, they mention how they "can produce suicidal thoughts in children and young adults".  I was 42 at the time I began effexor. I just wonder if the effexor itself caused me to want to kill myself and other stuff, or if it really was an underlying condition.  I do know that I have always, since college, had periods when I would go on shopping sprees and spend WAY too much...on clothes, basically...and like I said, always moody and moderately depressed.  So, just check your past behaviors...if you have any of the things like shopping sprees, periods of time when you get a lot done and then times when you feel like you are stuck and irritable, basically, if your mood seems to change alot?  I would definetly tell your psych. that you may want to try a mood stabilizer, like lamictal....and see if any of your behavior changes for the better.   (: raku