Thanks for sharing. Im glad your son found some relief. I, too, tried SSRIs for about 3 months' time before getting off them. My personal experience with SSRIs was that at age 26, I was put on Lexapro. Lexapro takes some time to truly kick in. I was told that after a month, I would 100% know if it was working or not, and my doctor was not lying. I can still remember the morning I woke up in a panic feeling very "different". For the next 2 months, my stutter had dropped at least 30%. I was walking away from conversations, absolutely perplexed on how fluent I was. But I had some drawbacks. The only one that I couldn't ignore was how "different" I felt. The best way to describe it for me was feeling like I was just a passenger in my body, and my thoughts were not mine. The meds had completely taken over, and I hated it. I put the meds under my sink and stopped taking them. The only real positive thing that came out of it was knowing what it felt like to talk without anxiety. I carried that feeling with me when the meds wore off finally and began to work on managing my anxiety it more natural ways. I hope your son still feels like he can be himself while on the meds.