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prozac withdrawal

I was on Prozac for post natal depression, for 3 years , after several unsuccessful attempts to stop I have now not taken Prozac for 2 months. I felt completely better and had felt brilliant for the required period ( 6 months) before my GP stopped my medication. I was 20 mg a day.
However I feel as is I am heading back (albeit slowly) to where I was mentally before. I am feeling short tempered, hard down by, over sensitive, tearful, over emotional, paranoid, insecure. I remember something vaguley that the withdrawal of Prozac can bring on orginal symptoms and that they will pass with the withdrawal process. Or am I feeling like this because I need prozac and I should never have come off and never will come off??????
I also have the physical symptons of bloating , stomach cramps insomnia, vivd dreams etc but accept that these will go away in time. But the question is am I a chronicly unhappy person or is it just the withdrawal and it will pass?
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I stopped taking Prozac for 2 years, and my life just kept going downhill, but so slowly that I didn't even realize what was going on until I found myself depressed again, and tried Effexor (which was horrible) and Wellbutrin (which was something of a wash).. finally i'm back on Prozac, and I am starting to feel good (like me) again.
It's sad, but I think I might have to be on it indefinitely.
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This is a hard one.  I was the same I came off my medication for post natal depression and felt so good for about 6 weeks and then I slipped back and in the end I went back on medication.

I can only suggest that you see if you can keep going a while longer and see what happens, some people seem to have withdrawal symptoms for a long time.  Then there is the idea that you can become psychologicaly dependant on the medication.

If you do go back on maybe you need a lower dose or a lower dose will do you in order to prevent relapse.
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