(depending on the drug) for half of the medicine to find its way out of the human body. Somewhere around that time, withdrawal symptoms may appear. These may include “bad dreams, paraesthesia, dizziness, agitation, sweating, and nausea.”1 Such withdrawal symptoms were once thought to be extremely rare, but they are now known to occur in about 7% of patients who quit taking the SSRI antidepressant, paroxetine. Withdrawal symptoms are often intense, and they can be similar to the feelings that caused