The Surviving Antidepressants website tells people to taper and thinks they have some magical formula for doing so that will result in everyone being able to get off of the stuff and eventually being all better. My life has been largely reduced to watching others get on with their lives rather like observing the world from inside a fishbowl. BUT I have definitely suffered dreadful withdrawal on attempted discontinuation of strong Neuroleptics.
Withdrawal from antidepressant drugs can be a significant challenge and needs to be approached carefully, with understanding and a shared decision-making approach.
The well-known website Surviving Antidepressants has provided peer tapering support for many years. They made no difference to my mood whatsoever and coming off them was no problem either. Denial and minimisation of withdrawal make it even more difficult for those suffering to access help, support or seek understanding. The All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence announced the release of This is significant because the reality of psychiatric drug withdrawal is rarely acknowledged in most mainstream mental health and medical circles, despite many years of growing anecdotal reports from online withdrawal communities such as In the past year, the authors report, antidepressant drugs were prescribed to 7 million people in England, and 37 million people in the United States – meaning that at any time, countless millions of these people could be trying to get off these drugs and experiencing withdrawal symptoms.
Surviving Antidepressants - Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal July 13 at 9:29 PM SurvivingAntidepressants.org presents Medicating Normal Aug. 22, 202 ... 0, 1 p.m. EST SurvivingAntidepressants.org has the honor of sponsoring this presentation of an excellent film, Medicating Normal. Patients need to slowly taper off their drug(s) over a period of many months even years. The Content on the Website neither constitutes nor should be interpreted as the professional medical or clinical advice of a physician, pharmacist, therapist, counselor, prescriber of psychiatric medication, or any other kind of licensed practitioner I started my antidepressant taper on May 12, 2017. or.
Forgot account? These include:© 2019 Inner Compass Initiative, Inc. All Rights ReservedInner Compass Initiative, The Withdrawal Project, ICI Connect, and TWP Connect (collectively, the “Website”) are a web-based online information-sharing and connecting platform which seeks to provide opportunities for likeminded people to find each other, and to facilitate the sharing of information that improves the general public’s understanding of psychiatric drug withdrawal and of “mental health” diagnoses and treatments generally. Not Now. Big news yesterday out of the United Kingdom! By using this Website, you acknowledge and agree to our Unless expressly stated otherwise, the authors, bloggers, and/or editors of the Website are laypeople who have direct personal experience taking, reducing, or tapering off psychiatric medication and/or supporting someone else who has taken, reduced, or tapered off psychiatric medication. However I did ultimately get off them and learn to accommodate my reactive “Anxiety”.Thank you for sharing this James. James Moore has experienced the psychiatric system and psychiatric drugs firsthand following a stress-related breakdown. You are possibly unqualified to decide your relative need for the medication, which is a dangerous factor. I wake in the morning feeling utterly exhausted and so fatigued that I can’t think straight, and the day generally goes downhill from that point.My own mental health challenges were awful for myself and my family.
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This has been a reference source for me. Surviving Antidepressants.Volunteer-led peer-support for tapering off psychiatric drugs and for withdrawal syndrome and tips about coping with symptoms. There is a lot that is unexplained about the tapering experience.
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