This is important as many individuals are significantly suffering and unable to stop taking it due to the severe withdrawal symptoms. It can take many months, but even years to come off of, and even with slow tapering off the side effects are not simply "unpleasant" as the psychiatrists claim, they are debilitating and dangerous. This is an antidepressant prescribed to people with serious mental health problems, and even women in the menopause for hot flushes, why is nobody being told about the lengthy and life destroying effects of this medication?