it can take a month or two for people to get through the rebound effects (withdrawal effects, basically).
see... when you are taking psych meds your neurology starts to change because your brain starts working hard, doing what it can, to return to its prior state. it starts countering the effects of the medication, basically. medication produces more serotonin? then the receptors that pick up the serotonin start to die off so that your brain isn't (from its point of view) being flooded with more than it needs). then you stop the medication and your brain is dealing with less serotonin (what the doctors thought the initial problem is) and now with new de-sensitised / dead receptors. hence you experience... worse symptoms than you ever experienced before.
one might worry that the medication has perminantly damaged your brain by killing those receptors. nah. brains are pretty plastic and so if you lay off the meds for a a month or two then the receptors start growing back / becoming more sensitised to the serotonin that is available. you gradually start to come right.
the million dollar question is: can you get through that hard time? might take a month or two.
strangely enough... there are people who ask the same question about people when they are having a major episode of mental illness. because... symptoms tend to remit in a couple months (aside from the more 'persistent' things that aren't so well managed with meds at any rate - such as dysthymia).
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