"i started taking this medication during a particularly stressful period in my life and continued it for about a year.  it got me through a divorce and kept me within my stress threshold.  i stopped taking it when i started feeling like i was on stable ground and had little if any withdrawal symptoms.  after about a year, another stressful situation came up with my little sister tried to kill herself and i was in my first semester back to college with a full course load, trying to be a single mom to the best of my ability at the same time.  it definitely doesn&#039;t work as strongly as it did the first round, but it makes the stress level manageable.  it feels like he rock sitting on my chest has been removed, and then i can think through things"