Stopping Prozac Rage 😊🔫

Mental health
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I'm a 45 year old male that has been on 20mgs of Prozac for 10 years, I cut down to 10mgs over six Months and everything was fine, I then continued on to reduce to 2.5mgs for a Month and then no Prozac for a Month...

With no Pozac in my system I felt invincible, back to who I should be, more confident and in charge of things than I can remember.

Then came the Rage, I don't mean anger, I mean true RAGE.

i have a friend who has tapered off before and he experienced the same thing.

im a great guy (even if I say so myself) but I was jumping out the car and banging on a Guys window, when he cut me off, ready to punch him in the face....

Within 3 days of going back to 10mgs, I am so calm and happy, it's unbelievable.. 

I wish my GP had told me 10 years ago that Prozac would make me dependant...

I spoke to a very clever GP and he was adamant that 10 years of taking the drug has changed the way my synapses function and they can't do without the drug...

im ranting, I know but

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you probably had a natural boost  of testosterones when you stopped taking the prozac  hence the anger.

3

You have every right to rant the chemicals they pump into us are dreadful but for me the only alternative is to be suicidal

Stay Strong

4

Don't get angry 😖 but .... do you think you should have weaned off them over the same period of time that you were taking them. This may give your synapses time to reprogramme more slowly.

I've been on them now for over 20 years - not sure I could come off them now 😭