The muscle twitching seem are permanent
What do u think cotcha
Those muscle twitches or "fasciculations" occur in normal, mentally and otherwise physically healthy people - just wanted to say that those aren't anything to be concerned about, I still have those too in my calf muscles but a messed up spine from physical labor probably hasn't been helping there. But they don't bother me at all, and believe me, once you're recovered, you won't care about them either.
The syndrome you describe is pretty common, the outlook is good but its important to not catastrophize too much (negative thoughts and voice in the head/inner monologue) and follow what many people before you have figured out to be (in my opinion) the optimal recovery regimen. Mindfulness meditation, exercise/stretching, and time. I would also recommend avoiding sugar, caffeine, alcohol and fast food et cetera
There are certainly cases where people have come off of medications too quickly and had a recurrence of symptoms. Our collective anecdotal experience was that if you're stable on an SSRI or making progress, it might not be the best idea to come off of it before you've been ~80% recovered for a year or so. Benzodiazepines are a different animal because the issues with dependence after using them for a year are much stronger. But they have the potential to help quicker, and there are long acting benzos that are used in a similar manner as how Prozac was described above, for the purposes of tapering off of a medication. Anti-psychotic withdrawals are no phone as well, and they should certainly be tapered. They can help keep stress under control, and help wiith insomnia/over active minds for some people at lower doses. Higher doses have a more typical anti-psychotic effect and that's not necessarily what is desired in this case, in my opinion.
Can you recall what medications you were on, at what dosages and when the different drugs were initiated? Or taken together?
If you were helped by a combination of SSRIs, antipsychotics and benzos before, then have you considered talking to your doctor about trialing those medications individually to see which one was helpful? If it was helpful before, I assume it can still be helpful now. Your story is not uncommon. I had some slip ups with withdrawals from medications too. Gabapentin was a pretty bad withdrawal for me after taking the highest dose for a while. I was definitely pretty upset with how much progress I felt that I had lost.
Doing great now though, and totally substance free. I'm not as good about doing my mindfulness meditation as I should be these days, but I've still got so much to learn about that. For many people that is actually their miracle recovery secret though. I would start by doing some body scanning sessions daily for a few weeks, scan your body and relax every single muscle group as much as you can. There are many great, free guided meditations on youtube. Many people seem to have some issues with head pressure that may be related to overactive cranial nerves, and the occipifrontalis might be a culprit there. Many of these symptoms are reminiscent of occipital neuralgia, but that's a big bag of potatoes to unpack accurately
Don't lose hope or get stuck, I can't believe that I ever thought I would stay stuck like this for the rest of my life, but those negative thoughts just lead to anxiety and perpetuate the symptoms. Mindfulness was my main way out.
CY
its been 31 month now