Proud to say I am at the halfway mark for tapering off my anti-depressant.

[Gravitycollapse]

I never thought I would be here.

I should be completely off the medication within 2 weeks.

[Neoma]

1. Lucky.

[Tobin S.]

2. Maybe.

[Gravitycollapse]

3. This is just the beginning though. I have two other meds I want to ween off of over 6 months.

And another med I want to be off of in the next year.

My medicine cabinet looks like a pharmacy.

[Neoma]

4. Why the change?

Has your life changed dramatically enough to see how you do without?

[Gravitycollapse]

5. Yes it has. I don't want to feel numb anymore.

[Neoma]

6. Numb? Ouch.

Mine has just really just pushed my emotions back into the normal range...

[Gravitycollapse]

7. Yeah they made me feel numb. Which was perfect at the start.

I was on the edge and suicidal. I didn't want to feel anything. And I've been like that for too long. Time to make the change.

[rurallib]

8. I truly wish you the best

gotta be a bit - scary?

[Gravitycollapse]

10. Not really scary. I've been through too much to be scared by this.

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. WOOHOO!!! Though I hope you're doing this under the care/supervision of a therapist or doctor.

[Gravitycollapse]

11. It's doctor supervised.

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. I'm glad and I'm also glad for your success so far and truly wish you continued success.

[hunter]

13. The multiple times I've tried that it hasn't worked out well for me.

Fortunately I have a strong safety net and my dark place isn't suicidal.

Nevertheless, good luck to you.

[Gravitycollapse]

14. Thanks! I'm much stronger now emotionally and intellectually.

I know it won't be easy. But I feel nothing like the person I was when I was suicidally depressed 4 years ago.

[nomorenomore08]

15. My experience with antidepressants is relatively limited. I was on Zoloft for a year

and Risperdal for about 6 months. Neither did a whole lot for me, the Zoloft did seemingly make me feel better for a few months, but that may have been simply my optimism RE: starting college. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty convinced that the Zoloft did fuck with my head in unpleasant ways - I've never been as seriously suicidal as I was, at a couple points, while taking that stuff. And I've heard that that actually isn't an uncommon side effect. Hence why I no longer trust psychiatric meds as a whole and have refused to take them for nearly a decade now.

Good luck to you though. Sounds like you know what you're doing.