switched from my ssri to bupropion and i didnt know that ssri withdrawals make me feel little tingles sometimes that feel like bugs landing on me

its worse when you live in the deep south and there actually are a fuck ton of bugs every summer so you have plausible reason to assume they actually ARE landing

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Yeah, I had brain zaps during and after tapering off my SSRI a while back. It definitely freaked me out, but they went away after a few months.
- FUCK DO YOU MEAN MONTHS
  
  Some can be fucking rough
  Coming off cymbalta I couldn't drive for weeks due to the severity of the brain zaps. The zaps lasted nearly 6 months in total.
  That was tapering too. At the end I was opening capsules and counting those little fucking balls to keep it manageable so I could still work.
I'm SSRI detoxing and it fucking sucks. I started titrating down over a year ago and got completely off close to a year ago. Still get brain zaps daily.
- How intense are the zaps? I've thought about if I lose my medicaid I might have to talk to my doctor about coming off mine.
  
  It depends on how high your dose was and it can vary from barely perceptible and infrequent to nauseating and near-constant. Tapering off can help make it less intense but at some point theyre going to be unavoidable. SSRIs are ass.
They call 'em the zaps. Not fun.
SNRI brainzaps are shit, it's what I imagine actually taking psychic damage is like - sonic strikes right in the core of your head

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