Detoxing from anti-depressant

[cowboyup]

So I am trying to cut back (1 pill every other day) on my anti-depressant-with doc approval.

It's an SSRI and there's supposed to not be many withdrawal effects but for some reason I am experiencing the 'side effects' as withdrawals...weird. My doctor said that it's not uncommon. For some people it happens, others it doesn't.

I want to get off them because once they get out of my system I feel like a cloud has been lifted from me - like I've been in a total brain fog. I want to think, do, be motivated to do things and with the anti-depressant, I feel stuck.

I'm going thru the motion of life but without color. I want COLOR

Has anyone been on anti-depressants and then weened themselves off them, and if so, do you begin to feel better?

 

[BlueDays]

So I am trying to cut back (1 pill every other day) on my anti-depressant-with doc approval.

It's an SSRI and there's supposed to not be many withdrawal effects but for some reason I am experiencing the 'side effects' as withdrawals...weird. My doctor said that it's not uncommon. For some people it happens, others it doesn't.

I want to get off them because once they get out of my system I feel like a cloud has been lifted from me - like I've been in a total brain fog. I want to think, do, be motivated to do things and with the anti-depressant, I feel stuck.

I'm going thru the motion of life but without color. I want COLOR

Has anyone been on anti-depressants and then weened themselves off them, and if so, do you begin to feel better?

I can relate to the "brain fog" you mentioned. Yes I have gone off them twice before. The first time I thought I did not need them anymore. The second time I went off because I had been on them so long I wanted to give my system a rest from them.

My mother asked me how I was feeling and the answer just came right out without having to think about it. I told her "I am starting to feel alive again". The word "alive" for me having the same meaning as your "color".
I only got to enjoy "color" again for a few months before my serotonin levels dived to unbearable levels again and I had to go back on them.

For me it was a decision between having life with "color" as you put it (which for me only lasted a short time) and constantly fighting suicidal thoughts, or having the brain fog. So I chose the non suicidal option, lol.

I guess you have to decide which is best for you, how much depression can you bear to have the "color" in your life?