Hello

[SlowmotionGGD]

I'm 81 years old and started taking fluoxetine around 1995 and stopped taking it (I didn't think I needed it any more and if I did I'd just start taking it again) in April of 2022. I was prescribed fluoxetine because of a problem I had with anger. Every once in a while my wife would say something that would set me off. I would get very angry (but not violent) with no warning. Somehow I thought this anger was justified. After the anger came depression which lasted a day or so. After that I was fine until the next time.

After starting fluoxetine I no longer had problems with anger.

After stopping I was fine for about 4 months and I'd thought that any effects of fluoxetine were long gone.

But then my wife said something to me of no consequence and I had the most extreme outburst ever. I ran around the house screaming and pounding on things (but somehow being careful not to hurt anything, it was a very strange; I was both a witness and a participant). After the outburst came depression and a strange dizziness.

Then over the next (almost) two years came series of various antidepressants, many of which seemed to help for a month or so but no long term help from pharma.

My current symptoms include dizziness, a fuzzy brain and a strange feeling that I'm not in the right place. The very strange thing about my symptoms is that they don't start until I've been up in the morning for 2 hours or so. Then it's weird the rest of the day.

My own diagnosis is ADS - antidepressant discontinuation syndrome. How long can it last?