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Thanks JDRN. I didn't quite do it your way, but my way worked fine. I had the greatest problems early in my withdrawal (severe fatigue and itching). Towards the end I had very little withdrawal side effects.
My advice to anyone wanting to do it is to be thoroughly determined that you will do it, and that will get you through any side effects. And be sure to use the bead-counting method rather than how drs. tell you to do it (way too fast). Not only do you avoid side effects by withdrawing slowly, but I think you also prevent yourself from being hit in the face with depression again. The body needs time to re-wire the brain gradually. Best of luck to all of you.
By the way, I am 62 years old. You're never too old to change your life. I was on a 4-psych med cocktail for 6 years (in a drug-induced fog). It was only reading Robert Whitaker's "Anatomy of an Epidemic" that woke me up out of my miserable fog and gave me the courage to get off psych meds (He proves to you in the book that they don't work and they damage the brain). I started taking anti-depressants off and on when I was 30 and did until just yesterday. I had decades of depression and then was put on a high dose of an antidepressant that threw me over into "bipolar" supposedly. I don't even believe in "bipolar" anymore as any mood cycling I once did is now gone forever. And the depression is gone forever too, I know it in my bones and it has been proved to me for having no depression the last several years.
Whitaker's book changed (and saved) my life. I highly recommend the book to anyone who still buys the crap that GP's, shrinks, and Big Pharma are still feeding us. Whitaker blows all that crap out of the water and presents the real truth, which will set you free. You don't need these drugs.
God bless and God speed.
Thank you so much to the Admin of this site for providing such a great place to get advice and support in getting off this horrible medication. Thanks to all who have helped me along the way, especially Cookie and JDRN.
