I've been on three meds--Zoloft, Klonopin, and Abilify--and the withdrawal from each has been brutal, including severe anxiety. It's not always easy for me to distinguish between withdrawal symptoms and recurrence of my depression and anxiety, but some symptoms do seem more like withdrawal because I didn't experience them before I went on meds. For example, when I tried to taper off of Zoloft a couple of years ago, I experienced an agitation that I had never experienced before from my depression and anxiety. I also dry heaved from nausea, which I had never experienced before, even when my anxiety was at its worst. I was unable to taper off of Zoloft, and in fact had to increase my dose and add Abilify and Klonopin. I would be very careful about trying to discontinue a psych med that you've been on for an extended period of time. Even slight dose reductions can cause intense withdrawal symptoms. I think many psychiatrists are criminally ignorant of the dangers of withdrawal. They do not adequately understand it, nor do they properly warn their patients.