It sounds like this person’s problem was that she tapered her meds too quickly and not a return of the depression.

So many people taper their psych meds way too quickly and as a result, withdrawal symptoms are confused as a return of the illness. As a result, many people who could get off their meds don’t.

As a general rule, antidepressants should be taperered 10% of the current dose around every 3 to 6 weeks. More powerful meds like antipsychotics should be tapered in the 2-5% range. You should wait a minimum of two weeks and wait until you feel just as well or better than when you made the last doseage cut.

Of course, cutting in these percentages can be challenging depending on what med you are using. But that is a whole other post.

But my main point in responding was that so many people including this particular person confuse withdrawal symptoms with a return of the illness due to way too fast tapering schedules.