I was on Prozac @ 20mgs (was once the standard dose, I think...) and it was pure gold at first. fewer ruminations, calmer, mood lifted a bit, and...wow. its like it ****ed my neurons in all the right places. and then...

tremor, because it boosted Abilify blood levels. shrinky shrink reduced Abilify. more and more apathy. laziness. excessive sleeping, with...nightmares, bu I was kind of apathetic about the nightmares...

so I dropped it. good thing: Prozac has a long, long half life. dropping suddenly....not a big deal, it seems to have self-tapered. another bonus: i doubt shrinky shrink would have reduced Abilify, otherwise. so, now I'm on a lower (but still effective) dose of tranq.

in -general- , a lot of people find ssri drugs apathy-making. not trying to scare you, its just...it is what it is, basically. and sexual dysfunction is kind of a big thing, and some people say that can persist after discontinuation (I'm thinking that'd be long, long term use?). and...because I'm in it to win it with Abilify (not a huge fan, just..I can actually tolerate it, that's all), I did a little bit of research on antidepressants+tranqs, and...it seems that the TD risk -might- go up, which makes sense, because....

now, there are emerging cases of TD coming from the antidepressants (ssris, in particular), without the additional use of neuroleptics or anti-nausea drugs, (both those categories of drugs are known to cause TD on a fairly regular basis).

and...again, not to scare you, but...there's -some- data/research that would seem to indicate that in -some- people -some- times, ssri drugs buy short term relief, but over the long haul, make depression more severe, more frequent, more disabling, and eventually..."treatment-resistant."

blah. i dunno. oh, and drug induced psychosis, agitation, mixed states, mania...those happen, too, to get back to your concerns, finally. how often? good question. some "critical psychiatrists" obviously have their own agenda to push in demonizing the drugs, I'd argue that most work a day shrinky shrinks have a vested interest in deliberately ignoring evidence of drug-induced harm, so...

ugh. have you tried Wellbutrin?