I was on Paxil for 8 years. I had a very difficult time coming off of it and I was weaned off of it. They tried switching me from Paxil to a few different meds (at different times) I had some bad reactions to that. Eventually I did need to be hospitalized to get off Paxil completely and switched to Effexor, which I wasn't on very long b/c it didn't work.