What if the anxiety doesn't pass?

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Paxil is supposed to be very hard to get off of. I was on 10 mg for over a year, then started to wean off 2 mg at a time changing only every 6 weeks or so. After this (I had just gotten down to 2 mg), I went back to 5 mg and hopefully that will suffice. Personally I have a bad reaction to benzos with terrible rebound anxiety. I took a valium a couple of weeks ago which isn't supposed to cause rebound because it is long acting, but I still think it does for me. So I have to taper off it very slowly, over several weeks, but I am getting by. It is only temporary.