For me there was no "after" yet. Psychiatrist suggests to be on meds for at least a year or so. Combine with therapy. Going off meds should be very slow and take a month or so of dosage lowering.

I guess body should have be adjusted to increased levels of serotonin and lowering the dose very slowly should help the body to adjust the levels by itself. Nothing that was not done by millions of people already.

Most psych meds are not addictive, in the sense that they don't give you a high to be abused.

You have to titrate off a lot of them, but that's true of a lot of drugs and that's also not addiction.

Benzos _are_ potentially addictive, but if used correctly can help a lot. They also aren't generally prescribed as first-line treatments.