Psychiatrist Shares About Tapering Off Multiple Psychiatric Medications
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Swapnil Gupta, MD (she/her) is a psychiatrist working in NYC. Her main interest is in psychiatric deprescribing or the systematic reduction/ cessation of superfluous medications. She has written papers and a book on the topic and hopes to foster transparent, medication-related conversations between practicing psychiatrists, patients, ex-patients, psychiatric survivors and the lay public.
This clip is an excerpt from the following full interview:
• Swapnil Gupta, MD: Dep...
Deprescribing in Psychiatry (book by Swapnil Gupta, et. al.): www.amazon.com/Deprescribing-...
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She is being honest but even most psychiatrists have no idea what harm psychiatric medications do to human beings and also have no idea as to the rate of tapering.
Coming off prozac was a living hell took months to recover. Now I'll on nitriceuti s only and no depression.
Did you taper or cold turkey ?
Sorry but doctors still don’t know unless they have been through it .
I’m a retired firefighter paramedic and I agree with you. I had a high anxiety baseline going back to childhood. After being a firefighter for a long time, I had adverse experiences. I realized that all a person can know about it, without actually experiencing it for themselves, is what they study and see treating others. It’s not the same as having the issue yourself. I think when it comes to mental health issues, many EMS people can’t understand it, so it’s a bunch of book information that goes through one ear and out the other. Once I was able to get through trial and error with medication and counseling, the issues I previously had, made me a better paramedic because I was much more aware of just how much people’s anxiety plays into the emergency they are going through. I remember kneeling down beside a man who was lying on a backboard with an amputated leg, and just reassuring him and explaining what was going to happen, as he was going to be airlifted. I could see him having a little relief from what I was saying to him. I wish for everyone struggling with issues to hang in there. It took me about three years before I finally felt good. Now I’m wanting to wean off meds.
Have commented on here before...that my son is having a hard time tapering off of two psych drugs...a benzo... clonazapam and the other haldal...he has all sorts of withdrawal symptoms from agitation, loosing weight, aggression, doing nothing, won't shower, laughing out loud, no emotions...etc...many symptoms...and it is hard not having any help from doctors...
It is very unfortunate that most psychiatrists have no idea what psychiatric medications does to the patients and are totally useless when it comes to tapering them. Most are just ignorant. But they pretend as if they know everything.
@@Shunya000 True. My son 16 died with paroxetine. Psy did not have a clue what he was doing with the drug
I was taken off two benzos plus an Opioid (clonazepam, Xanax, and Hydrocodone) at a time. Doctors are NEVER supposed to take you off more than one benzo at a time, let alone 2 benzos and an opioid. I was on all 3 for a chronic illness. The Ashton manual describes in detail how to properly taper off these meds. However, doctors tapering patients have never heard of or won't read the manual son's. People are suffering because the doctors don't know what they are doing. I know 3 people that committed suicide during the tapering withdrawal process. I went through it myself and it was barbaric! Your son's withdrawal symptoms are normal. I couldn't shower either and experienced all of the symptoms your son has. The anxiety is over the top. All you can do is be patient and support him. I pray he makes it through. There are so many symptoms post tapering as well. Too many to mention. Oh, and of course no answers for the problems you were taking the medications for, to begin with. Lawmakers are making decisions about people's healthcare in a bubble!
@@vincentschmitt392 truly sorry to hear that. May his soul rest in peace.
Thanks for your thoughts.
I did get some bad withdraw symptoms, than it went away after a week or so but I still have some side effects like brain zaps.
Makes sense
Thanks
Question ❓
Can someone help me in this chat.
I'm titrating off Seroquel. I'm down to 125 mg from 250 mg {2yrs} now}
My question is, if I accidentally took 50 extra milligrams last night. Can I still take my 125mg tonight, and continue with the tapering process, or do I have to start over?
Hi! People accidentally updose once in a while when they're tapering just due to human error. If it's just a one time thing, like in your situation, it's usually no big deal and people just carry on w/ the normal dose the next day. Good luck!
Spoken like a true psychiatrist. She has a point. But for her example of the low dose Benzo we’re those people who came off of it suddenly and were fine on a bunch of other meds? Because if you are on a sedative antidepressant and a sedative antipsychotic especially a more powerful one like Olanzapine that could still get you sleep and mask the more severe symptoms of withdraw or if they are on a sedative hypnotic like ambien those function very similarly to a Benzo and could get you sleep during Benzo withdrawal I also wonder if being on those would maybe slow down or possibly even prevent the brain from starting the healing process after Benzo use. I wonder if she asked herself any of those questions while she was dealing with her patients. Like I said spoken like a true psychiatrist.
Can I just ask, is there a reason why medicating normal is currently unavailable on Amazon prime uk?
Hi! So sorry about this! It will be back on Amazon UK, US and Germany very soon. They had to take it down for a couple of weeks in order to get it up on even more Amazon platforms in other countries. In the meantime, you can still get it on Vimeo: vimeo.com/ondemand/medicatingnormal
@@MedicatingNormal Thank you. I thought it might have been due to the pharmaceutical companies trying to stop if from being shown. I have been damaged by these drugs.
This doctor has no clue