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Off Citalopram for 3 months and now can't sleep properly

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Bluecardi2 · 23/05/2019 11:00

I slowly came off my antidepressants as advised by my GP. I am irritable but the worst thing is that I have been waking early for the past couple of weeks. By early I mean I wake between 2 and 3 and can't go back to sleep. I have about 3 hours sleep a night. I feel terrible. But if I go back on the Citalopram now how will I ever come off it? There is not a lot of help available here for counselling etc (they even closed the list for counselling as the waiting times were ridiculous). Where I live is rated as the worst for mental health services in the country, rated as inadequate 3 times is row now. I can't afford private help. Does anyone know of anything natural I could take to keep me asleep through the night? I'm getting really low again but don't want to be on antidepressants for the rest of my life.

LilyMumsnet · 02/06/2019 16:21

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