Sorry to hear that you are sad and having bouts of crying. There is always an adjustment period when going off medication. You may want to talk to your doctor about increasing the amount of Celexa to see if it makes a difference in how you are feeling. I am taking the maximum dosage of Celexa and it has helped me feel better. Sometimes the doctor has to add another medication to take along with the Celexa.. My doctor put me on Wellbutrin as well. It takes time to find the right amount of medication that will work for the patient. Please feel free to contact me if you need to talk. Hope you feel better soon.

I have been on 30mg for about six months now. I don't think it's working :( if anything I've been worse. Hoping to find the right balance of meds. I'm willing to try something new.

Have you always been on celexa? Has it helped you?

Gosh. Never go cold turkey. You're lucky all you were doing was crying. I went off citalopram cold turkey and I nearly threw myself off a cliff. You can't teach your body not to make a chemical (seratonin) and then withdraw all the seratonin suddenly. Your brain craps out. Absolutely.

I think the best trick is to maybe taper down from 40 to 30. Wait a while and see how wobbly you get, and if you get a bit wobbly then wait till you're feeling normal. That's when your brain has readjusted and is making more seratonin again. Ok?

Expect to have crying bouts. This is your body processing whatever the drugs stopped you from processing so let it do its thing but try to arrange to cry at home at night if you can. Absolutely distract yourself at work. Just... drive those fingernails into the palms, pick up a task and drive on through, if you can, to avoid crying - but let it out properly at home at night.

And then after a month or 2, go down to 20mg. Or longer - depends on how long your body takes to settle.

Everyone's different. You can go up really fast but you can have to go down really slow. Ok? There are lots of youtubes, and your doctor may have some suggestions but my experience of doctors is that they actually haven't a clue. Your counsellor would probably know better than your GP. (that's been my experience.) So go with the youtubes and go down slow enough that you can handle how it makes you feel.

It worked while I was taking it, then I weaned off of it over a 6 week period, 40, 20, 10mg in March. I finished March 3. That's the way the dr. told me to. I was having headaches and sinusitis. He started me back on 20mg March 21. I'm waiting for it to kick back in.

I started on Zoloft years ago. About five years ago, a psychiatrist raised my dose to 200mg/day. That's the max, and I heard only helpful for OCD.
Anyway, I've jumped around a lot, by going off the deep end and forgetting doses, coming back full strength. I don't recommend it. I'm now back to a mostly stable 100mg.
BUT, after getting a script for gabapentin for headaches, I realized THAT was SO much more effective at relieving anxiety and boosting mood.
So I'm even more skeptical of SSRIs. I'd talk to your doc about trying a different class for a while. After all, no one really knows how these are supposed to work.