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Originally posted by BoyOnBoy Wonder
Mhmm - mostly for panic disorder though. I'm back on meds now and plan on just staying on them for a long while.  I had other reasons that triggered the bad anxiety coming back though, so don't think that that will necessarily happen to you. |
Yeah! There's no shame in doing whatever works for you. One time I went off drugs I'd been on for 3 years in like a week or two, and I went through a period of depression for 3 months. I had a complete mental breakdown. Started making myself vomit after I binge ate, having panic attacks, went to the mental hospital in an attempt to be admitted, pulled knives threatening to kill myself, missed 2 weeks of school, cried all and screamed at my parents all the time, broke furniture, was in physical pain from depression, etc. But it really wasn't the withdrawal that caused that, it was other stuff, like being obsessive with my school work, trying to make it perfect (I was so obsessed I had like manic episodes) / trying to do everything perfectly / having no social life / etc. The withdrawal just triggered a breakdown that was going to happen anyway.
But that's the past and I'm all better now
This summer I weaned off drugs slowly (completely) pretty successfully. If I get depressed again I'll go on new drugs. I'm still emotionally numb from being on the drugs so long though. But things are looking up for now, and I'll go back to how I felt before the drugs in a few months hopefully.
