How to come off Zyprexa safely? I was wrongly prescribed Zyprexa to treat my PDST. After a sexual harassment at college ( four years ago), I was irritable and feeling harmed. I did not have any psychosis or halluciations, and though it was difficult time, I was sleeping and eating well. The doctor I saw, however, prescribed me with Zyprexa. This drug has completely changed by my being, personality, and life in the course of three years. It completely blunts my emotions. I used to be a very happy, positive and engaging young person. But the drug has made me indifferent to all things. I feel like a zombie, a walking dead, losing all interests and joy in life. Two months into taking the medicine, I gained 30 pounds. I had never had sleeping problems, but shortly after I took Zyprexa, I experienced insomnia when not taking it. ( that s the main reason why I keep taking it, because without taking it I could not sleep.) What s more, Zyprexa has completely killed my libido. I haven t had intimate relation with my husband since shortly after I took the drug regularly. This July, after suffering so much from it, I tried to come off it on my own and it proved to be disastrous. We cut down from 3.75 to 0.60mg in a span of one month. The reduction was ok; I did not experience any anxiety, racing thoughts or any thing. But when I went .60 to 0, I experienced terrible insomnia for almost a month. I took 1mg of Ativan, but it worked some nights and didn t work for most nights. I had great difficulties falling asleep and the insomnia was really trying. We were in India when this happened. With the insomnia prolonged and withdrawl from Zyprexa, I became increasingly unstable. Two weeks into 0 on Zyprexa, I started to have mood swings and uncontrollable thoughts, keeping thinking about Zyprexa, how I was led to it and all the unpleasant things that happened it the past to the point these thoughts made me suicidal, which I had never thought in my life. I also felt very low and weak, a feeling of depression I never had had before. Facing with a very trying situation, my husband and I had to make decision, whether get me hospitalized or get back on the Zyprexa. I don t have any mental problems; I was basically a normal person who was wrongly prescribed and stuck on a very strong anti-psychotic drug for such a long time. I did not want to go to hospital because I knew I would be put on more drugs if I go. So we went back on 3.75 Zyprexa and 1mg of Ativan. After experiencing such a terrible withdrawl, I m feeling helpless. My question is, how can I come off the drug safely without being hurt again? How can I cope with insomnia and disturbing thoughts when coming off it?