My 2 cents worth is this... They are FAR to quick to give that kind of stuff to people and since we trust them, we take it... Never realizing how HARD it is going to be to get off of it and when you complaine about the WITHDRAWLS, they think you are crazy and prescribe a higher dose!

They hide what the withdrawl off of it is really like, I think the doctors are not aware of it or they do not care... I took Celexa and while I did far better on that than I did on Paxil, I took it upon myself to take only half of what they wanted me to. It took me TWO years to get off of it when I wanted off. I cut the dose and cut the dose and cut the dose until I was down to 1/8 a pill a day.. The doctor laughed at me, said 1/8 of the dose was nothing and I just as well quit it all together... But when I tried, I STILL got the ZAPS.... The zaps are like little electrial charges going through your brain and can get pretty intense.. They HID this from us for a long, long time but not long ago, low and behold, they dicscovered people REALLY DO get the electrial zap feeling in their brain as a withdrawl... I saw that on the news one night.

My advice to you is to go find a good understanding preacher or someone who you can trust to talk to and help you work through this time.... Anything, but stay off that stuff! No more mood altering drugs for me!! The withdrawls for me was 100 times worse than what I ever took it for!