Abruptly stopping SSRIs like fluoxetine can cause difficult-to-understand withdrawal symptoms such as 'brain zaps'. — Whalespan
Abruptly stopping SSRIs like fluoxetine can cause difficult-to-understand withdrawal symptoms such as 'brain zaps'.
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“imagine if you can what it would feel like if somebody took a warm wash wet washcloth and rubbed it directly onto your brain matter I had had that going on for weeks in addition to the light brain jolt zaps that constantly went on yeah a lot of times when people stop SSRI medications a lot of times when people stop selective serotonin reuptake medications like fluoxitine they get these brain zaps and it's very hard for Physicians and people who have not experience that to understand what you went through there with that withdraw from those SSRI medications”