It’s not a new discovery or a particularly ground breaking thought. In fact it ought to be obvious to anyone that going cold turkey off your brain altering drugs is a terrible idea.
Also they should be used to make sure the person makes whatever lifestyle choices they are able. You need a good diet, exercise, sunlight, vitamin d, time in green spaces etc to be healthy.
Edit
Gj on all the strawmanning folks.
Note all the people thinking I said this was a cure lmao.
Edit 2
Round of applause for all the shame deletes for the people realising they didnt read.
This has been known in psychiatry circles for 20+ years. It took many thousands of patients [complaining] of significant (debilitating) withdrawal effects before the big pharma and GPs acknowledged it.
>It comes after NHS Digital data from 2021 showed that 57% of people from mixed, Black, Black British, Asian or Asian British family backgrounds completed a course of treatment for depression compared with 64% of people from a white family background.
Oh great! Let’s once again cause immense harm by looking at everything through the narrow lense of race, rather than from the angle of income and education levels.
Black or white, the factors that come into play which affect how well you take your medication will not be dictated by ethnicity.
This isn’t new information is it? I’ve been on antidepressants for years and have always been told this by my doctor.
When I was on antidepressants the GP just wrote them for a few months and then just stopped and then never bothered to write a new one, so I stopped overnight. Was great fun.
I wonder if post ssri sexual dysfunction will be the next big scandal.
I came off citalopram a few months ago and still have no hint of a sex drive and still got inorgasmia
I see some minor rumblings about it online but it really isn’t widely discussed
It doesn’t hugely bother me but I wonder if it will ever come back as some are years off the meds and counting
Edit, I don’t doubt that citalopram saved my life and kept me stable for many years so I see it as worth it but then I’ve never been a very sexual person
I took anti-depressants for 3 years – they were ghastly. One day I woke up and decided to never take them again, I wanted to *feel* something, anything: good or bad.
Personally, I had no bad reaction, I just stopped taking them. Best decision of my life. and clearly I was lucky.
I understand from others though that coming off them was horrific and took months and months.
I went cold turkey on paroxetine and thought i might get murdered when left home alone that I had to call the police iwas that afraid . 😶 even though i rationally knew iwas fine and the probability of beig a random target of murder was low it’s like the subconscious pet fo me hung up on the 0.1% and iwas in full fight or flight mode and mad hysterical while knowing it was nonsense
I came off fluoxetine in december
Taking a month to taper 30mg to 10mg to 0
Brain zaps when moving eyes in the evening still occuring but i won’t go back on them
I was told this by my doctor and every online source said the same thing. Is this supposed to be news?
oh, i thought they were finally going to phase out these poison pills entirely but it’s just repeating what everybody already knows about quitting them.
ssris are no more effective than placebo in trials and most people just have horrible side effects. the entire thing is a big pharma racket. there’s emerging evidence that they cause permanent brain damage too. if you’re depressed, go to therapy, don’t let the doctor shill you this crap
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Hang on, what? Why is this a headline?
It’s not a new discovery or a particularly ground breaking thought. In fact it ought to be obvious to anyone that going cold turkey off your brain altering drugs is a terrible idea.
Also they should be used to make sure the person makes whatever lifestyle choices they are able. You need a good diet, exercise, sunlight, vitamin d, time in green spaces etc to be healthy.
Edit
Gj on all the strawmanning folks.
Note all the people thinking I said this was a cure lmao.
Edit 2
Round of applause for all the shame deletes for the people realising they didnt read.
This has been known in psychiatry circles for 20+ years. It took many thousands of patients [complaining] of significant (debilitating) withdrawal effects before the big pharma and GPs acknowledged it.
>It comes after NHS Digital data from 2021 showed that 57% of people from mixed, Black, Black British, Asian or Asian British family backgrounds completed a course of treatment for depression compared with 64% of people from a white family background.
Oh great! Let’s once again cause immense harm by looking at everything through the narrow lense of race, rather than from the angle of income and education levels.
Black or white, the factors that come into play which affect how well you take your medication will not be dictated by ethnicity.
This isn’t new information is it? I’ve been on antidepressants for years and have always been told this by my doctor.
When I was on antidepressants the GP just wrote them for a few months and then just stopped and then never bothered to write a new one, so I stopped overnight. Was great fun.
I wonder if post ssri sexual dysfunction will be the next big scandal.
I came off citalopram a few months ago and still have no hint of a sex drive and still got inorgasmia
I see some minor rumblings about it online but it really isn’t widely discussed
It doesn’t hugely bother me but I wonder if it will ever come back as some are years off the meds and counting
Edit, I don’t doubt that citalopram saved my life and kept me stable for many years so I see it as worth it but then I’ve never been a very sexual person
I took anti-depressants for 3 years – they were ghastly. One day I woke up and decided to never take them again, I wanted to *feel* something, anything: good or bad.
Personally, I had no bad reaction, I just stopped taking them. Best decision of my life. and clearly I was lucky.
I understand from others though that coming off them was horrific and took months and months.
I went cold turkey on paroxetine and thought i might get murdered when left home alone that I had to call the police iwas that afraid . 😶 even though i rationally knew iwas fine and the probability of beig a random target of murder was low it’s like the subconscious pet fo me hung up on the 0.1% and iwas in full fight or flight mode and mad hysterical while knowing it was nonsense
I came off fluoxetine in december
Taking a month to taper 30mg to 10mg to 0
Brain zaps when moving eyes in the evening still occuring but i won’t go back on them
I was told this by my doctor and every online source said the same thing. Is this supposed to be news?
oh, i thought they were finally going to phase out these poison pills entirely but it’s just repeating what everybody already knows about quitting them.
ssris are no more effective than placebo in trials and most people just have horrible side effects. the entire thing is a big pharma racket. there’s emerging evidence that they cause permanent brain damage too. if you’re depressed, go to therapy, don’t let the doctor shill you this crap