I was on the max dose of Zoloft, so my experience isn’t typical. It has seriously sucked. I compare it to my brain rebooting, and sometimes the “sound” of the zap (really just the same experience but in my audio nerves) is nearly deafening. It wakes me up at night. Meanwhile, my optic nerves react as if my eyes just quit working. Makes driving unnerving.

From every account I’ve heard (including my own) it depends on how high the dose and for how long you were taking them. In my experience going cold turkey was pretty similar to quitting nicotine, the first two weeks being the worst but everything after that being much easier. You can expect to get occasional zaps for a long ass time after that. I will occasionally feel something and go “wait was that an ssri zap?” even two and a half years off lexapro.