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Erm no, that isn't how it should work at all. If things are made worse by the drugs you should tell your doctor and they should immediately do something about it, either changing your dosage or switching to a different drug. Also, while it does take 4 to 8 weeks to see a drug's full effectiveness, you would only play with the dosage if it seems to be working and very few antidepressants would require you to be weaned off of them, plus if something doesn't work at all then there are a limited number of different drugs to try, yes there are dozens of different drugs but not all that many different drug types, if something kind of works then you try a different drug that works on the same neurotransmitter(s), if it doesn't then you try one that works on a different one. It really sounds like you are being treated by a GP and not a specialist who really knows what they are doing, which is unfortunately quite common, not just with depression but pretty much all of the "common" psychological disorders.