Anti-depressant update

I've been trying to wean myself off the Zoloft/Sertraline I've been taking for... too many years. It is actually classified as a "mood stabilizer" more than an anti-depressant. I've found that it seems to render me more emotionless than anything. And I'm tired of feeling like a zombie. That, along with some of the other side effects, are why I would like to try to go without (In other words, this started before the current book I'm reading).

I have taken either this or Celexa off and on since the late 1990's. There have been a few events in there that gave rise to the need, but at this point it seems I mostly just taken them because... I've always taken them. So I thought I'd give it a go without.

The most I've ever had to take was 100 mg of Sertraline. I have continued to get prescriptions for 100 mg, but for some time I have split them in half (50 mg). When I decided to try to stop, at first I tried going every other day with 50 mg. That felt a bit like a roller coaster, so I decided to quarter them and take 25 mg each day for a week or so. I'm not quite yet a week into it.

I do have to say, I can feel it in my head. I don't know how else to describe it. It's just a weirdness. Sometimes unsteady. I don't feel suicidal or anything; just different. So I'm hoping this is simply part of the adjustment phase, and that in another week it will be gone and I can stop altogether. It's also true that I've been fighting some type of sickness - probably what Jane had last weekend. So I haven't felt great physically in general.

At any rate, the plan is... one more week of 25 mg each day, and then stop. If the weirdness doesn't go away by the middle of next week, I may have to reconsider this plan and go back to 50 mg. I'm trying not to give in already though. So we will see...