Antidepressant Drugs – We Don’t Know How to Get People Off Them Safely

For some people, the challenge of long-term problems after coming off antidepressants is so difficult to navigate that it ultimately undoes any benefit that might have been experienced during treatment. This is reason enough to pause before prescribing.

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Scottish and Welsh Parliaments Debate Psychiatric Drug Dependence and Withdrawal

Both the Scottish and Welsh Governments have been debating the issues surrounding the overuse of psychiatric drugs. They have been encouraged into action by petitions launched by those with lived experience and therapists who have witnessed first-hand the terrible difficulty that some people can have coming off psychiatric drugs.

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I’ve Been Tapering my Antidepressant for 365 Days and it’s Been Hellish

One year ago, on May 12th, 2017, I swapped from an antidepressant tablet to a liquid formulation with the intention of coming off the drug slowly and carefully. This is my third attempt to stop an antidepressant that I have been taking for five years. Since doctors remain either largely unaware, or unwilling to admit how problematic withdrawal can be, I relied on the internet for advice. In my experience, unless you have been through this process you really are in no place to safely advise others.

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