Had a good friend get disgusted with the whole serotonin uptake inhibitor thing and try to quit cold turkey. It isn’t recommended and there’s a very good reason - he genuinely thought he was going nuts. Ear echoing, panic attacks and a little delight he told me was called “brain freeze.” His Doc was horrified and helped him wean himself gradually. These are brain chemicals and messing with them is serious business. Just because it’s advertised on TV doesn’t mean it’s harmless.
You can get serotonin syndrome from SSRIs when starting them or increasing the dose and serotonin withdrawal syndrome when you try to stop them.
Anyone tryong to stop them should be switched to Prozac as the dose is reduced. Prozac, aka fluoxetine, has the longest halflife of the SSRIs.
Not a good way to stop as your friend learned...You have to wean yourself off psychtrophic drugs over a period of several weeks..Good info for any considering taking themselves off anti depressants or major tranqualizers...For anti depressents in the winter is not the best time, mid spring is....more sunlight.