Yeah, I have a friend who was on Klonopin for 10 years and said that even tapering off under a doctor's supervision, the withdrawals lasted over a month! Ugh. I don't plan to be on it for more than a few months -- at least that seems to be my pdoc's intention. He just thought it would help get me over a couple of really stressful things I have coming up.

I wonder if bad withdrawal isn't just the way it goes with ALL psych meds. It took me about a month to get over withdrawing from Depakote, and it was horrible. And when my pdoc tried to take me off Risperdal, which I've been on for about 5 years, we tapered off that too, and when I quit taking it, I became actively suicidal in about 36 hours. Needless to say, I went back on .... I can't say I've heard any good psych med withdrawal stories, so I guess it's just the nature of the beast.

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