TaperCommunityThis section is for sharing research, news, and media related to antidepressant and psychiatric drug withdrawal. To kick it off, here are the sources ...
SSRIs and SSNRIs are contagious. They act recursively on populations due to their ability to activate social praise in a patient’s internal psychology...
Feeling very bad. Been having bouts of nausea, anxiety, insomnia, headache, irritability, fatigue, crying spells, muscle aches, gi upset, and sweating...
For decades, psychiatric drug withdrawal was treated as a quick afterthought. Doctors halved doses, then halved again, then stopped within a few weeks...
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/mental-health/have-you-taken-antidepressants-tell-us-about-your-experience/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=o...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178125001453?__cf_chl_tk=3SbNRAej4wHfQZ4Y6l6S1LL69o_XdTnqMSG8Y7bQNws-1778184953-1.0.1.1-sCT2Asi...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/health/rfk-jr-overprescribing-psychiatric-drugs-wellness
Tapering off antidepressants is harder than most people expect, and the conventional approach of cutting doses in large, evenly-spaced steps is a big ...
A must-read article written by Adele Framer (Altostrata), the founder of Surviving Antidepressants: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20...
A thought-provoking article from the Mad in America website. https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/01/psychological-injury-model/
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines represent a significant shift in how clinicians and patients think about stopping psychiatric medications. Publi...
Very true... Paroxetine is the strongest inhibitor of serotonin reuptake than any other antidepressant. This makes it a high risk medication when comb...
I am wondering if anyone else has experienced several episodes of high serotonin? After nearly dying from the last episode in February, my husband an...
A new site called Prescribed Harm has been created to bring attention to the harm that prescription drugs have caused. If you'd like to share your ow...
The Ashton Manual guide for benzo tapering is the closest thing the benzodiazepine withdrawal field has to a foundational text. Written by Professor C...
https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/hidden-epidemic-she-was-7-when-doctors-prescribed-ritalin-by-age-20-shed-taken-14-different-psychotropic-drugs/
Psychiatry prescribes with confidence it has not earned. The chain of assumptions between a drug and its intended effect is longer and shakier than mo...
https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/why-ssri-tapering-gets-harder-at-lower-doses-the-role-of-serotonin-transporter-occupancy
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-antidepressant-common-thought-account-term.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ4F_ZF3u9M
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ssri-antidepressant-withdrawal/
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/higher-risk-of-withdrawal-syndrome-linked-to-some-common-antidepressants-study-finds/
https://brownstone.org/articles/exposing-the-lie-that-antidepressant-withdrawal-symptoms-are-mild-and-short-lived/
https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/why-is-antidepressant-withdrawal-so-hard
Not all psychiatric medications are equally difficult to stop. Here is what the evidence says about which drugs cause the most severe withdrawal, and ...
When more than 14% of Australians are taking antidepressants, the instinct inside the system is to frame this as a success story. That framing is not ...
