Been off Fluoxetine for a month and struggling :(

Treatment and medication
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Hi, I have taken Fluoxetine for a couple of years now, maybe more and last year had the dose increased after going through a stressful time at work.  Since then the doctor reduced the dose back down to 20mg and about 2 months ago asked me if I had considered coming off it all together.  I had been happy for a year after meeting someone so I felt I was ready to start coming off them.  I weaned myself of them as he had suggested but to be honest I was forgetting to take them for days at a time even before this and I have been off them for a month.  I have felt fine until last week when I just seemed to hit rock bottom again and I'm anxious and crying all the time for silly reasons.  I am questioning everything in my life and am scared of losing my lovely man although if I keep worrying I probably will because I'm worrying and questioning everything.  It feels like a vicious circle.  I'm starting to question as to whether I should have come off them in the first place.

Can anyone offer any advice please?

Thanks.

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I came off mine 3 weeks ago but I'm back on them couldn't cope crying all the time going off it as well

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Hi Julie,

How long had you been on them and did you feel ready to come off them?

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Been on for 8 years thought I could come off them trying for a baby

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Hi Sadielouise,

 I believe Prozac just helps you gain clarity. But most importantly, you need to identify your stressor. What is the deep, underlying problem that makes you anxious? You need to discover this, and only then it will set you free. Prozac restores neurochemicals in your brain while you build some sort of coping strategy.

 My advice: Identify your main problem, there usually is, I spent a painstaking 6 weeks listing and solving every single one of my problems. And then it dawned on me that the problem was actually my so called 'stable' relationship. I decided to call an end to it as I was deceiving myself. It was painful initially but got better gradually.

Y.