Sorry you had such experience. I had discontinued paroxetine immediately, because me and my doctor didn't think it was working. It wasn't. After taking 3x20mg daily, for a year, I just stopped, and had no side effects. Neither did I have any effects while taking it. It was useless for me. Zoloft was the same, I just gained a lot of weight, and had some side effects. Currently on fluoxetine, which seems to be working, but it might be placebo because the clinical significance of it in moderate to severe depression was disproved in a study. I officially have bipolar with moderate depression, and take aripiprazole and fluoxetine. I also once was taking haloperidol which was like torture (haloperidol 10mg 1+0+1). I was 14 at the time. What the hell.