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Depression and high anxiety....i've been taking the drug prozac 20 mg?

for 12 yrs and i felt it really worked..well i decided to come off this drug....a couple of my brother told me its all in you head, so i weened off it......now 2 months later, i can't tell you how terrible i feel.. i am moody , i'm angry most of the time, i have no patience.. i'm so down, i can tell even my family hates me...
this was a stupid thing i did to through my meds out... so just want to warn people out there don't do what i did...hence i have an appointement this monday...and its for a refill.

Thank you for sharing your experience, I think it's very important to hear from real people affected, and not commercial sides or the pharmaceutical version of how great everything always works.

However, I'd imagine that after 12 yrs. of medication, "only" 2 months of "abstinence" may not be long enough to allow your body and brain to produce and retain its own serotonin levels. I have no expertise on this matter whatsoever, it's just my guess (same would apply if a patient would take a say a hormone replacement, a steroid etc. long term.). Good luck and good recovery!

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