Hi y'all.
I've suffered from depression on and off for years. I've been on Prozac and Seroxat in the past and when I felt it was time to stop taking them on both occasions I just stopped, and was fine. Just over 2 years ago my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I started having panic attacks visiting him in hospital, and my doctor prescribed Citalopram. He said it would take around 3 weeks to feel any benefit from them, but within a couple of days I felt them take effect.
I was grateful for the slight foggy haze I felt while dealing with my grief after he died soon after.
A month ago I felt ready to start feeling real again. TBH, I was feeling a foggy haze of happiness coming through and wanted to feel this happiness for real. This time I decided to cut down and went from 20mg to 10mg every day. The first couple of weeks my emotions were all over the place, and I put this down to some sort of withdrawal, but a month on I am finding it difficult to handle the feeling of real emotions. I'm feeling overwhelmed by the emotions that I am feeling now - in particular I'm have episodes of extremely bad temper, and the hazy happiness has disappeared. I don't want to up the dosage again, but I can't help but wonder if this moodiness is just me and the hazy-happy was the drug.
I'm wondering if any of you have similar experiences that you can share?