4 months off of high-dose SSRI's (Escitalopram) 33-year-old male, living in Australia. For about 10 years I have been taking escitalopram at varying dosages. Towards the end I was using 40mg daily. After some things in my personal life made me question whether the pills were affecting me in a negative way. I decided to go cold turkey, stopping the escitalopram completely around mid-December 2025. I told the prescribing doctor around 1 month after stopping it. Things have gotten weird since. \- I have lost around 25 kg since January. \- Considerable appetite changes; I eat perhaps half of what I did on the SSRI on a daily basis. \- Food tastes different; I can't exactly describe how it just does. \- Experiencing brain fog, difficulty with logic and connections, losing trains of thought, some tinnitus, occasional dizziness. \- Sleep issues waking before 5 am consistently for the past 1–2 months. \- Emotional flatness, anhedonia, irritability, and depressive thoughts.…