Coming off antidepressants: I'd spent almost my entire adult life on them. Who might I be without medication?

"Two weeks after I stopped taking the lowest dose of antidepressants I'd been on in years, the feelings I'd been avoiding came screeching back. I was terrified, nauseous, irritable and pathetic. I could and did not stop crying. Even in the times when I wasn't actively sobbing, singular tears would roll down my face."

"Nothing felt like the life I'd enjoyed on medication; food no longer had a taste, and confronting anything - from a walk to a text to a food shop - paralysed me to the point of breakdown. It was misery, the kind that cannot be overstated, and it made me ache with regret over choosing this painful path."

Read at Independent