antidepressant withdrawal

5 min read 2022-05-28 17:00:51

A Different Psychiatry Is Needed for Discontinuing Antidepressants

A primary care physician looked for my advice. He had self-prescribed paroxetine 20 mg/day at a time when he was going through a painful divorce. He

2 min read 2022-05-02 17:00:02

In a new article in BJPsych Advances, researchers Mark Horowitz and David Taylor provide advice on how to tell the difference between antidepressant

3 min read 2022-02-15 18:00:40

A new article published in the Community Mental Health Journal documents service users’ challenges when choosing to discontinue their psychiatric

3 min read 2022-02-15 18:00:40

A new article published in the Community Mental Health Journal documents service users’ challenges when choosing to discontinue their psychiatric

7 min read 2021-12-24 01:00:01

I start this blog with an apology. There may be people reading who, like myself, look back with frustration and despair that they cannot change the

2 min read 2021-11-08 18:00:37

A recent study in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) appeared to find that people who stopped using antidepressant drugs were more likely to

21 min read 2021-11-03 17:00:42

In this podcast, we hear from the renowned clinician and researcher Dr. Giovanni Fava. Dr. Fava is a psychiatrist and professor of clinical

2 min read 2021-10-25 17:00:05

In a new article in European Neuropsychopharmacology, researchers Mark Horowitz and David Taylor provide guidance for tapering psychiatric drugs,

3 min read 2021-02-15 18:00:38

Researchers have conducted the most extensive study to date on long-term withdrawal experiences after discontinuing antidepressants, a phenomenon

3 min read 2021-01-18 18:00:55

Doctors are often reluctant to help patients discontinue psychiatric medication and sometimes dismiss patients’ worries by claiming that withdrawal

4 min read 2020-12-15 18:00:53

Although severe withdrawal symptoms have been documented for over 30 years, guidance for doctors has generally dismissed these claims and suggested

15 min read 2020-12-13 18:00:57

They Had No Idea What They’d Done to Me “My life was very, very good.” That’s how Michael sums up how things were for him—prior to his

4 min read 2020-12-05 18:00:29

Ever since Mad in America was founded in 2012, articles that have focused on psychiatric drug withdrawal have proven to be popular with our readers.

14 min read 2020-11-01 18:00:00

Adele Framer, also known by her online handle Altostrata, is the founder of SurvivingAntidepressants.org, a critical and comprehensive peer-support

9 min read 2020-10-29 00:00:19

Shutterstock “If you teach a psychiatric resident that symptoms that occur during tapering cannot be due to withdrawal,” Dr. Giovanni Fava, a