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Originally Posted by Tasaio 
That's exactly why I'm writing this post -- since I don't feel depressed in the least, would it be safe to go off my medication? My doctor feels I should remain on it for several years, but I won't be able to afford the medication soon.
However, there are some mornings I forget breakfast (and hence my pill) Without realizing this, I feel very irritable and angry these mornings.
This could be because I have not taken my pill...or it could just be hunger pains.
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I was on Prozac for depression and PTSD. I took myself off the medication after a few months because I felt I didn't need it anymore. And I didn't. The one thing I wished I had done was told my therapist so she could have told me to go off it slowly, not cold-turkey. The pain in my head was incredible for a few days as the meds flushed from my body all at once. Oooops.
As for you, if you want to get off your meds, you need to realize a few things:
You ARE yourself and you ARE your medication. The change in your being is not from the medication, but from a choice for change in your consciousness. The medication is just a permission slip to let you experience life without depression. What's really going on is you're making the change yourself and don't want to know it is you relieving you of depression and you'd rather blame the change on a pill.
I think you feel you have no power to change this yourself. You even opened your post saying that all the women in your family have the same depression. To me that says "I cannot change this, look no one in my family has changed it, we are all destined to have depression. "
You need to assume the role of the force that is making the changes. Medication is just a prop we use to help us on our journey until we say, "I'M the one making the change here, not the medication".