If you are going through withdrawal you are tapering off too fast. I was on paxil for years and it took me about 5 months to get off it.
Let's say your reg dosage is 40mg/day. Ask your doctor to prescibe you 4 10mg tablets instead of 1 40mg tablet because your will have to get a little knife and cut up the 10mg tablets in 4 parts so you can taper down in 2.5mg increments.
So in the first 7 days take your regular 40mg dosage (or whatever your regular dose is). Then for the next 7 days you take 37.5 mg (3 x 10mg + 3/4 10mg tablet. 10+10+10+7.5=37.5mg). Continue taking the 37.5mg dosage for a minimum of 7 days. If you still feel OK then lower your dosage to 35mg for the next 7 days and continue until you are off the drug. At this rate it take about 16 weeks (yes 4 months) to get off. If you find 7 day intervals are too fast increase the interval to 10 days. It's important that you NEVER MISS A DAY. You have to discipline yourself. You will feel very tired from taking it every day. But it's worth it. The anxiety will come back but just hang in there. It's a good feeling to be off. The good news is I lost about 35lbs when I got off it. I really does make you gain weight.
Get your self one of those little plastic pill containers to help you manage your little drug junks and mark everything on a calendar to monitor your progress. It get's confusing looking at all those little cut up pieces without any dosage stamps on them. It's like managing little pieces of crack.
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By the way Effexor is just as addictive. It's the same class of drug (ssri).
Good luck