A licensed clinical social worker, Laura Vigiano, adeptly shares her akathisia experience when trying to discontinue Cymbalta. Her Mad in America article can help all better understand withdrawal akathisia. “After an eight-month taper off 60 mg of Cymbalta in 2019 I was SLAMMED with delayed akathisia so severe that I had a plan to end my life if reinstatement of the drug didn’t work. (Akathisia can be a side effect of medications or withdrawal symptoms. It is a cluster of very distressing physical symptoms and an overwhelming sense of terror much worse than anxiety.”

Read the full article at https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/04/akathisia-after-a-five-year-taper-chained-to-an-antidepressant-forever/.