What helped in the three months after

What I noticed after stopping was that the habits stayed longer than I expected and then quietly went. That was useful information about which habits had been mine.

I would say do not stop in a difficult week if you can possibly help it. My decision was sound and the timing was terrible and the timing is what made it hard.

I came off during a pregnancy, on advice, and it was straightforward clinically and complicated emotionally, and I did not find anywhere to say that until this circle.

Nothing to add except that I am glad this thread exists.

I stopped and did not go back, and I am at peace with it, and I would not present that as a recommendation to anybody. It was my situation and my body.

The grief part surprised me. I had not expected to grieve a medication and I did, for about a month, and then it passed.

Building on what Tressa wrote rather than answering the original question.

My stop was abrupt because of a supply problem rather than a choice, and I want to name that as its own category. It happens and it is nobody's decision.

I would gently suggest keeping your journal going through the stopping. Mine is the only reason I know what actually happened in those months rather than what I remember happening.

Coming back a year after stopping to say that I am well, that it was the right decision for me, and that I still read here every week.

I stopped twice. The first time badly and alone, the second time properly and with support. The second one is the one I would describe as coming off.

If you are reading this while deciding, the only thing I would push on is: is anybody clinical in the loop. Everything else is genuinely yours to weigh.

No advice, just company. Here if it helps.

The thing that made it manageable was that nothing about the decision was final. Reviewing it in three months was always an option and knowing that took the weight out of it.