I think it's a good thread too. I think AAAA's examples illustrate the importance of finding a balance between the Tom Cruise mentality and the pill-popping mentality. The pill poppers really make life harder for people who actually need medications. Thanks to the pill poppers, people who actually need meds are stigamatized or have their meds taken away.

Maybe it'll be easier if you decrease your Prozac more gradually, perhaps by 5mg increments so your brain will have more time to adjust. I'm secretly decreasing my Paxil. I haven't told my pdoc because I'm worried he'll react the same way as your doc. I was on 20mg and then I cut 1/8 of my pill down to 17.5mg per day for several weeks. Right now I'm on 15mg. I'm going to wait a little longer and then go down to 12.5mg or 10mg.