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Where you are right now · Coping, mostly
Never come off an antidepressant on your own. The taper belongs to the prescriber, and for some drugs it needs to be slower and longer than people expect.
The moment to raise this is before anybody acts, not afterwards. If a client is feeling better and starting to think about stopping, that thought is…
Some antidepressants take weeks to build up and weeks to clear, so both the improvement and the aftermath run on a slower clock than you would expect.
Fluoxetine is the usual example. It and the substance it turns into stay around a long time, which means a fair trial is counted in weeks and…
Raising a dose does not simply raise the benefit. It raises everything the drug does, including the parts nobody was asking for.
As the amount climbs, a medicine begins touching things it barely touched before, which is why new side effects can appear at a higher dose of…
Coming off an antidepressant is a piece of work in itself. Plan it slowly with the prescriber rather than stopping on the day you feel well.
Some, venlafaxine especially, leave the body fast enough that a missed dose is felt within a day: dizziness, strange electrical sensations, a mood…
There is more about low mood and hard feelings than the practices: the low mood and hard feelings area has the themes and the courses too.