The psychiatrists will confess to this as a “Foul up,” but then they try to murder the patient to cover up the adverse effects of their toxic drugs.I can certainly attest to that. BTW – I just entered menopause about 1 1/2 years ago, so maybe that is causing it to be worse than for someone not at that stage of life.Went on Prozac in my early twenties for mild depression and binge eating. Another more plausible explanation is that, since SSRIs and other psychiatric drugs are well-known to be addictive, the distressing symptoms are the result of going cold turkey. Still not sure if what caused him to give up his practice had anything to do with that, but it left me to start all over again with another shrink trying to pull me down the rabbit hole again. I think I’ve done myself permanent damage with SSRIs and I don’t know where to turn now. One thing I had to painfully accept during this ordeal: We can’t expect our previous level of functioning from ourselves during this phase. It is now August 2011 and I am still caught in a limbo of bad memory, bad concentration, derealization, depersonalization, bad eyesight, bad social skills, fatigue, and extremely bad insomnia. I was hospitalized for 11 days and then labeled Bipolar 1 and given anti-psychotics, mood stabilizers, and I don’t know what else. My GP said it wasn’t withdrawal, but anxiety.Does agitation and inability to relax sound right? He immediately started weaning me off the heavy anti-psychotics because clearly I was going mad on them. I honestly can’t believe they give people these drugs. I think I’m past the point of being able to reinstate. Brain chemistry is an incredibly complex system involving not only neurotransmitters like serotonin, but also nerve cells, genes, and brain structures. I am 3 years free of Celexa and Xanax. I have an adorable child climbing on my lap =)Great story, and unfortunately, a familiar one. I cannot believe that someone would shake for 4 months because of anxiety. I dont know how much linger I can go for. Everyone has to make their own decision to start back on the drug that, in all honesty, put us in the position we’re in—we go on these meds with the best intentions: to help ourselves crawl out of the muck, or, if not out, then to be able to manage our lives while in the muck. Check out survivingantidepressants.org. The stupid thing: Nobody knows for sure. I felt like someone had injected my brain with cocaine. I also had infrequent but severe muscle cramps/spasms that left affected muscles feeling bruised for days. If you find you have to reinstate, use the lowest dose that will alleviate symptoms then go on a slow taper program (there is a lot of info on the web now).Hang in. I'd love to know if this could cause one. I took this poison for a couple of days only. The Panorama programme was the first time the curtain concealing what goes on behind the scenes in drug trials had been pulled back.A UK committee on drugs announced Prozac was the only SSRI that could be safely used by children, despite the known suicide risk for adults. Of course, this alternative choice for p-med withdrawal comes at a financial cost and with a risk to idiosyncratic delicacy of one’s overall health and well-being. That doctor put me on a Lexapro (AD) and eventually I went “high” or hypo-manic on after about 8 months on that drug. The good news is that with very slow tapering I was able to get off the SSRIs finally, with none of the problems I had experienced in the past.I participated on the website Surviving Antidepressants for several years and highly recommend it.Non selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibators, such as Kanna.I was just prescribed Pristiq (Desvenlafaxine) 50 mg a couple of days ago after having trouble rebounding from a bad breakup and financial trouble. It’s hell – brain zaps, nausea, anxiety, insomnia, aches, pains, twitching, tingling and much more. 'The drugs have failed to deliver what patients want, which is for the treatment to work for specific mental or emotional problems. antidepressants used to work for me (or maybe it was the placebo effect) but they no longer do Every time I dropped the dose I would have a week or two of marked physical and mental withdrawal symptoms including transient suicidal thoughts, which would gradually settle. Quitting “cold turkey” may cause withdrawal symptoms. I’d made two previous attempts to withdraw but could not tolerate the process and went back to the original dosage of 20mg. They can’t ever let the door ever be opened, even just a crack, because then they’d have to admit that they’re wrong about everything and they’re never going to do that. Fantastic site, tons of info, exactly what I needed right now. None of the children getting a placebo or therapy had any risk while a clear link with Prozac showed up.In a fierce broadside on the profession, Professor Gøtzsche believes the large sums of money brought into psychiatry from the drug companies, because of the theory that depression was due to low levels of serotonin, was a key factor in allowing this data to stand unquestioned.At the same time that TADS was apparently giving Prozac a clean bill of health, psychologist Professor Irving Kirsch, associate director of the Harvard Program in Placebo Studies, published the results of his analysis of unpublished SSRI trials, held by the FDA.