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Mead posted...

That has not been my experience.

I'm looking it up and it surmounts to "You'll feel sad".

Basically just all the withdrawal symptoms at once might make you mentally unstable if that's what you're prone to.

Hey you don't have to look it up (and what you're seeing is only a small part of the possibilities). Doctors explain the why to you. The pamphlets with the drugs explain the why to you. Many internet resources can explain the why. For fun I'll tell you from my own experience with this exact same thing that it's more than feeling sad.

You will have a destabilized mood. Dizziness, nausea, and headaches kick in. Then after a couple of days without it you will hit a wall. Mentally you're in a fog. Physically you will ache and have no energy.

Then the brain zaps start. You get these sharp, painful, disorienting jolts in your head. Forget being able to concentrate. They will come at you no matter what you're doing and stop you with the pain and confusion.

The mood situation is why these drugs have a black box warning. It's not just a bit sad. You can get full on suicidal. You can get extremely hostile. Or you may be a nonfunctional mess of feelings.

Do. Not. Stop. Cold. Turkey. These drugs take many weeks of regular dosing to reach effective levels and then just stopping abruptly absolutely fucks you up and throws you into a tailspin. You have to taper off.

Don't be dismissive of the withdrawal effects... They're real, they're intense, and coming off of it incorrectly can lead to people taking their own lives. It's not a joke.

@KevinceKostner get to the pharmacy and fill your prescription. If you don't have one explain to them that you're on an abrupt withdrawal if you don't have any prescription refills left. Then get to the doctor. Don't fuck around. It's not worth trying to tough it out.
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