News: Quitting Antidepressants

[TiredHorse]

Antidepressants: is there a better way to quit them?

Millions of us take SSRIs, and most can give them up without too much trouble. So why do a minority suffer severe side-effects?

www.theguardian.com

Does anyone here doubt that the pharmaceutical companies are thrilled it's so difficult to stop purchasing their products?

 

[Divine Trinity]

It's ironic really, we're sold this myth that there's a "chemical imbalance" in the brain. Meaning, we know what the brain should look like, and the patient's is deficient in a certain component. That's not true. (edit: Naturally, of course abnormalities from certain diseases and drug use are noticed because... science jargon.)

So they give out these drugs that allegedly fix this "imbalance" and make everything better, with some minor side-effects (inluding, but not limited to, Sudden Death). After using these drugs for so long, the neurons are restructured to adapt to the SSRIs and stop or greatly reduce serotonin/dopamine production, which causes depression due to a chemical imbalance in the brain from SSRI consumption...

 

[Mr. Hang Man]

It's ironic really, we're sold this myth that there's a "chemical imbalance" in the brain. Meaning, we know what the brain should look like, and the patient's is deficient in a certain component. That's not true. (edit: Naturally, of course abnormalities from certain diseases and drug use are noticed because... science jargon.)

So they give out these drugs that allegedly fix this "imbalance" and make everything better, with some minor side-effects (inluding, but not limited to, Sudden Death). After using these drugs for so long, the neurons are restructured to adapt to the SSRIs and stop or greatly reduce serotonin/dopamine production, which causes depression due to a chemical imbalance in the brain from SSRI consumption...

No wonder I feel worse on antidepressants.

 

[headinghome]

No wonder I feel worse on antidepressants.

fucking poison

 

[Youthanasia]

No wonder I feel worse on antidepressants.

I always hated shrink medication. Stuff supposed to help you sleep makes you a zombie, stuff supposed to heal you from this zombie state will feel like you're on crack

But the worst is getting antidepressants that are also used to treat people that orgasms in 5 seconds. I laugh about it today but it was the most satisfying dunk in the trash bin I had back then.

 

[TiredHorse]

If antidepressants are the "cure," we are well and truly fucked.

 

[TAW122]

Yeah this is a really shitty premise that mental health professionals have. It is at best a myth (that isn't to say that chemical imbalances don't occur in some people), but to frame it as that most (if not all) mentally ill, depressed people have a chemical imbalance is bullshit.

@Divine Trinity Pretty much summarizes up the problem with dependency on these things. This reminds me of a pharmacy teacher in community college (many years ago) once saying that once you start relying on drugs for one problem (or suspected problem), you get side effects for another, and then they get you in cycle of dependency (it's a trap), eventually, you become a 'prescription junkie' so as she said. This, in the long run, fucks up your health and body and then it becomes a never ending cycle of dependency of drugs.

 

[JustLosingMyself]

I went cold Turkey off 10 weeks use of paroxetine 30mg a day in early July 2018.
Nearly a year later and I have yet to recover from it.
I'll stay clear of psychiatric drugs if given a choice

 

[Suicide47]

What was your experience like? I've been on psychiatric drugs since the end of November and look where I am. It's helped my mood a little but not my depression

 

[Kyrok]

They call it "discontinuation syndrome" to make it sound different from withdrawal from addictive drugs. But it is still Pharma pushing drugs that get you hooked.

I know many peopke who started anti-ds but couldn't get off them when they stopped working.

My guess... if they help, it is because your brain becomes no longer as negatively biased after a month or so of increased synaptic serotonin. That is because new nerve growth is triggered. Once established, stop using them. They've done their job and little to nothing to gain after a few months of use.