After 20 years of anti-depressant addiction, I finally weaned myself off effexor over 2 months ago. Since then I have felt my head clear up and emotions stabilize, but the damage done by the month or so of withdrawel anxiety behaviors has destroyed my life. Let me explain briefly. I did have extreme agitated behavior for a month then it leveled off. The effect of my withdrawel has left me at the mercy of just about everyone telling me to go back to using anti-depressants and labeling with all kinds of emotionally negative terms such as: emotionally unstable, irrational, depressed, angry, etc. I personally have enjoyed feeling any emotion again, and I am admitting that my self control of all this pent up emotion has been eratic. I am born again so to speak and learning how to deal with being an emotional person again. I have told anyone I am close to that I had quit taking Effexor, but the understanding, compassion and encouragement have not been there whatsoever. Now I am starting to feel the depression of rejection from everyone and I need to know where to turn next. I am absolutely against further medication just so you know. Thank you for listening.