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Hi I've been taking 20mg for about 2 years and have lowered the dosage and have finally stopped but I'm 6 day free and I'm feeling awful, crying and being emotional and feeling dizzy and can't concentrate... I can't get a doctors appointment either do I just plough through?
Feel not myself at all
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Hi Rebecca,you will experience some rebound depression and anxiety for a time,while your brain adjusts to not having the medication keeping the serotonin in-between the synapses and having to go back to doing it without the medications help. I'm assuming you tapered down very slowly over time. Your brain has to adjust coming off the same as it had to adjust going on,so if you were alright tapering off,you should be alright after a while coming off completely.
I'm also assuming that the reasons you went on Citalopram for in the beginning have been resolved. If whatever was making you depressed eg grief, divorce etc has been resolved in your mind,or if it was anxiety,that you now have the coping skills in place by having done CBT or mindfulness,etc to be mostly anxiety free. Hope that helps