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How long withdrawal lasts depends on the person on how long you were on the medication how well it was working and was metabolized and how safely you stopped taking it. Some people's brains adapt better than others'. One way to tell if something is due to withdrawal or something else is if you never had it before and it happens for the first time after stopping a med the most likely explanation is withdrawal. It also can be counterproductive to start some herbal remedies until withdrawal is complete. And you also need to realize that these drugs don't increase serotonin and neither do most natural remedies. Drugs that affect serotonin alter the way the brain uses it it doesn't increase the amount any. You should also know that nobody knows exactly how St. John's Wort works but if it affects serotonin and it probably does in part it doesn't increase the amount of it. Tyrosine plays a part but tryptophan is the amino acid most involved in serotonin production in the body. B12 isn't involved B6 is. Valerian probably affects GABA not serotonin or dopamine. When you're withdrawing you don't want to increase the availability of serotonin -- withdrawal is caused by the brain trying to work again by itself to use serotonin and break it down naturally and receptors that were not needed because the drugs were targeting only certain receptors begin to reawaken which is thought to cause a lot of the problems of withdrawal. So you have to be careful. Hopefully you have been.

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