I started taking fluoxetine 1 year ago. By then, I was having a heavy (but very invisible to people in my life, even my boyfriend) relapse on my depression. I am not officially diagnosed with depression or clinical depression but everytime I am having a worse episode I just call it a relapse because since I know myself, I have been always feeling depressed. Things got worse with my mothers death 4 years ago and this grief still makes me feel really scared at times. Im scared it will never go away. People change so much after the death of a loved one. I am only 24 and feel so old. But back to fluoxetine, I started taking it 1 year ago and it changed my life, it gave me vitality. I could smile for the first time in years. I could get up early and go for a walk. I could enjoy myself. And it was only 20 mg a day. 
A month and a half ago, my psychiatrist prescribed me to take fluoxetine every other day. I said I was feeling better and capable and he said it was time to lower the dose until I stop it totally by the end of summer. He said I wasn’t suppose to feel a difference cause the pills have a big half life (2 weeks). But right now; I am feeling a big difference. I am getting depressed again. Not heavily depressed, but I know how I feel in the beggining of a big episode. I am more needy, crying all the time, thinking my friends dont love me, self critical, hopeless and irritated. Is this psichological? Since the doctor said I shouldn’t feel a change. How was your withdrawal and process on fluoxetine? I dont wanna be dependent on pills forever but maybe I have no choice.