Antidepressants may take days or weeks to leave a person’s system. People may experience withdrawal symptom days or weeks after reducing the dose. Symptoms may last for weeks or even months.

They had been unable to kick one of the psychiatric drugs known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs, which include Lexapro, Zoloft and Prozac, among others. Since withdrawal ...

For example, he says, 66 percent of patients stopping Paxil (paroxetine), 60 percent stopping Zoloft (sertraline), and 78 percent stopping Effexor (venlafaxine) have withdrawal reactions ...