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My heart and sympathy goes out to anybody who's on antidepressants and is trying to get off. From what I've seen and heard, it is just an incredibly painful and

My heart and sympathy goes out to anybody who's on antidepressants and is trying to get off. From what I've seen and heard, it is just an incredibly painful and unpleasant experience, compounded by the fact that you need to be constantly negotiating with your insurance to cover the changing prescriptions as your dosage lowers. The withdrawal symptoms can be incredibly oppressive and disruptive. I wish there was more research into this, because I think it could help a lot of people.

rincebrain 9y ago
It varies wildly by person, even moreso possibly than antidepressant efficacy. I've been...fortunate, if you can call it that, that while I've taken a great many antidepressants and other psychiatric medications, the worst side effects I've ever faced from stopping have been screwed up sleep/wake cycles, irritability, and a few days of headache. I've had friends and family members who have had much worse, and I've had to carefully consider it each and every time, because we lack any kind of monitoring or ways of informing us how bad it might be.
- Fnoord 9y ago
  > the worst side effects I've ever faced from stopping have been screwed up sleep/wake cycles, irritability, and a few days of headache I wonder if that's worse than a newborn.
  - wolco 9y ago
    Much worse, something that can't be compared. Anyone would prefer a newborn which is an external person that you provide care and watch grow. Sure it will keep you up but it also provides emotions to help fuel you past those weak moments. When you are internally off where you can't sleep the affect is different.
    - Fnoord 9y ago
      I had a severe psychosis in my life which took approx 2 months to recover from. In the beginning, I could not sleep and felt like I was fully awake when I slept. I couldn't sleep either, though I wanted to so badly, and my emotions were virtually non-existent (the lack of self-pity was fun though). It occurred a while after I was off SSRIs (Citalopram) but not right after. Newborn creates hormones, sure, but needs constant attention and requires high maintenance. There's no voluntary break. Ours needs to eat every 3 hrs. Can set my clock to it, and can't sleep right after feeding (she's gotta sleep first, or go through intestine pain). I know it isn't the end of the world, and given the psychosis I been through worse, but this is flat out rough [for me]. I wish I'd get positive emotions during weak moments. I mean, if I'd have that, they wouldn't be weak moments. After one hour of crying and trying to solve in every way I can think of I become desperate and feel lost. Its those moments I need to control myself and realise it isn't about me; its about her, our newborn. She's the one who's suffering, and doesn't know better. I wonder if it helps to cry with her.

rincebrain 9y ago

It varies wildly by person, even moreso possibly than antidepressant efficacy. I've been...fortunate, if you can call it that, that while I've taken a great many antidepressants and other psychiatric medications, the worst side effects I've ever faced from stopping have been screwed up sleep/wake cycles, irritability, and a few days of headache. I've had friends and family members who have had much worse, and I've had to carefully consider it each and every time, because we lack any kind of monitoring or ways of informing us how bad it might be.

Fnoord 9y ago
> the worst side effects I've ever faced from stopping have been screwed up sleep/wake cycles, irritability, and a few days of headache I wonder if that's worse than a newborn.
- wolco 9y ago
  Much worse, something that can't be compared. Anyone would prefer a newborn which is an external person that you provide care and watch grow. Sure it will keep you up but it also provides emotions to help fuel you past those weak moments. When you are internally off where you can't sleep the affect is different.
  - Fnoord 9y ago
    I had a severe psychosis in my life which took approx 2 months to recover from. In the beginning, I could not sleep and felt like I was fully awake when I slept. I couldn't sleep either, though I wanted to so badly, and my emotions were virtually non-existent (the lack of self-pity was fun though). It occurred a while after I was off SSRIs (Citalopram) but not right after. Newborn creates hormones, sure, but needs constant attention and requires high maintenance. There's no voluntary break. Ours needs to eat every 3 hrs. Can set my clock to it, and can't sleep right after feeding (she's gotta sleep first, or go through intestine pain). I know it isn't the end of the world, and given the psychosis I been through worse, but this is flat out rough [for me]. I wish I'd get positive emotions during weak moments. I mean, if I'd have that, they wouldn't be weak moments. After one hour of crying and trying to solve in every way I can think of I become desperate and feel lost. Its those moments I need to control myself and realise it isn't about me; its about her, our newborn. She's the one who's suffering, and doesn't know better. I wonder if it helps to cry with her.