58-mayoconnect-celexa-8yr-blank-mind

“I cold turkied my Celexa after nearly 8yrs of use and I've developed debilitating symptoms. Complete genital numbness, lose of libido, loss of sexual attraction, and even worse anhedonia, horrible emotional blunting, devastating cognitive impairment, a blank mind and visual issues... Like I'm a robot. All my humanity has been stripped away.”

Cause

cold turkey off citalopram/Celexa after nearly 8 years of use; later reinstatement of Celexa and a mirtazapine trial both made symptoms worse. Poster attributes state to the drug/withdrawal, not relapse.

Duration

~8 years on Celexa; time-since-stop not stated in the retrievable snippet

Recovery notes

Reinstating Celexa 'just made symptoms worse'; same with mirtazapine. 'I can barely function and I can't cope with any of it.' SNIPPET-VERIFIED ONLY: Mayo Clinic Connect blocked WebFetch (timeout) and curl (Akamai 'Access Denied') on 2026-09-03, so username, post date, and thread replies were not captured. Quote appears verbatim and repeated in the search index of this URL. Treat like cases 17/49/51. Possible-but-unverified same-person overlap with case 48 (Shauna, Celexa ~7 yrs, US); distinguishing details here are the reinstatement attempts, explicit 'blank mind', and visual issues.

Source URL

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/going-off-citalopram/