Effexor does have a pretty ugly discontinuation syndrome, but there is a lot of emerging information about minimizing the symptoms of withdrawal. And from everything I've read, you can take it until there's a reason to stop taking it.
For what it's worth, I took it for several years, until it stopped working for me.
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There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Thomas Carlyle in essay on Sir Walter Scott
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