Plea For More Understanding Around Antidepressant Withdrawal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.พ. 2024
- Over 3 million Australians take antidepressants daily, but the experience of trying to stop taking them can be terrifying.
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as a GP I am certainly aware of people having terrible troubles trying to get off antidepressants too quickly. Too easily started and too many people left on these drugs indefinitely.
Please continue to speak out.
We appreciate your acknowledgment. At the least, it is life-altering for some and devastating for others. I’m in month 18 of protracted withdrawal and this has been the worst experience of my life.
GETING OFF THEN SLOWLY AND SUPPOSEDLY SAFELY, HAS BEEN HORRENDOUS ! AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON FRIKKEN BENZO'S. MY G*D. HELL ON FRIKKEN EARTH, THESE MIS PRESCRIBED BL**D PSYCH DRUGS GETTING DISHED OUT LIKE LOLLIES. PEOPLE GETTING TOLD YOU HAVE TO STAY ON THEM THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, YEAH DON;T CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE OR GET SUPPORT +++ YOU NEED, JUST TAKE THIS PILL TO MAKE YOU A FUNCTIONING ZOMBIE. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
My specialist in Hobart, took me off diaz 20mg, after 26 years, in just 24 days. I'm over 6 months off now. I didn't know suffering like this even existed and still pray that I eventually recover. On the up side, I haven't had one day of depression or anxiety since stopping and I definitely don't have BPD2. This whole process has been like being tortured inside my own body 💔
I coach people who are in withdrawal. Most have doctors who don't believe them. My story was featured in a film about this called "Medicating Normal." My channel brings interviews with people trying to bring awareness to this, and survivors who have healed from this.
Oh my goodness this is me. It’s been over a year and I’m in so much pain and it’s horrific
Dr's haven't got a clue !! I'm 14 weeks off Valium after 26 years, a rapid hospital detox. It has been 4 months of living hell and I'm still suffering so much. Agonising nerve and body pain, balance and cognitive issues, golf ball sized swelling on various parts of my body, chemical terror, mini seizures, depersonalisation, insomnia, aphasia, internal akathisia, vertigo, postural hypotension...it is like being in the pits of HELL 😢
I wasn’t given a taper
It’s devastating
Well done - keep going. You're better off without the Valium. I really hope it gets better for you from here.
@@traceyholt8223 thankyou !!! I haven't had one day of depression since stopping the Valium and no actual anxiety. I took a tablet for 26 years, that I didn't even need. It has almost destroyed my life but it hasn't !!
THEY HABE NO CLUE WHAT SO EVER NOR DO PSYCHIATRISTS. ABT TAPERING OFF AND WITHDRAWAL. NOT GOOD ENOUGH. ACTUALLY APPALLING.
It is very paradoxical to contact your doctor when you want to wean off these drugs, when the doctors obviously don't have a clue, what they are doing with it..😳...and they really don't know what terrible harm they are complicit in doing to people....
SAME, I HAVE BEEN SIX MONTHS OFF ZOLOFT AND STILL LIVING IN HELL!
I’m 18 months into a protracted withdrawal from a rapid taper off a long-term SSRI. Great video, I hope to see more.
I was placed on antidepressants 10 years ago when diagnosed with severe work related PTS. I want to know if there are any negative effects with staying on them? I was told there were not. Now I wonder.
Thank you.
Thank you thank you for sharing truth around the biggest marketing scam! People need to know the truth about ssri wd!
I have had a similar situation, where coming down off the amount of anti-depressants felt like going cold turkey off an addictive drug. The "brain zaps", I can "sonic booms", where it feels like a sound wave booming out of the center of your brain. I'm currently on the lowest dose of 2 of my anti-depressants and hoping to be off them completely. The sleeping tablets however are another thing that I just can't do without. Going without them means having no sleep for days and feeling like a zombie. This has been going on for 13 years now. The Doctors never recommended coming off them, that was my choice to come off them with their advice and instruction on how to do so.
We need a solution for antidepressant withdrawal and benzo withdrawal
The slower taper that the so called British Guidelines advocate are still not widely known here or publicised! The NHS website doesn’t mention this for example… Doctors and Psychiatrists to tell them!
Thank you for raising awereness
Unfortunately this is going to be more and more common especially since the global pandemic when loads of people were most likely put on antidepressant drugs. The truth is already known but not globally known or taught YET.
The first guy thatcspoke after the segment isn't right, many psychiatrists don't even know about this problem and dismiss it etc. I asked one some weighted questions last year and got the ignorant answers i expected.
Contact me. This is horrendous.
Once it's happened to you you have a habit of not sympathizing with prescribers.