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I wonder how much of Sarah's issues were a "nocebo" response, thinking that withdrawal would be bad. If so it might help if doctors and pharmacies provided a "g
by jdavis703 10y ago
I wonder how much of Sarah's issues were a "nocebo" response, thinking that withdrawal would be bad. If so it might help if doctors and pharmacies provided a "guided reduction" (e.g. you get 19mg one week, 18mg the next etc). People might feel better just thinking that an "expert" has designed this program.
- askvictor 10y agoI don't know about Seroxat, but I've experienced undeniable symptoms withdrawing from antidepressants: "brain zaps" that I had no idea about until I started experiencing them, then found other people who had written of experiencing them as well. Additionally to those, I had a weird whooshing sound that I would hear whenever I moved my eyes to the top left. Took me a while to figure out the pattern/trigger (seemed random at first, and I thought I had something stuck in my ear). Actually kind of fascinating, if scary. That was on top of the nausea etc. And this was a 'guided' withdrawl (under medical direction). I don't discount that there might be a placebo/nocebo response in the side-effects (both onset and withdrawl) as well (as with any medication)