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I could not agree with you more: Both my partner and I have been on SSRIs / SNRIs before for LIMITED DURATION (3-12 mo). We would not have a healthy, happy, fu

I could not agree with you more: Both my partner and I have been on SSRIs / SNRIs before for LIMITED DURATION (3-12 mo). We would not have a healthy, happy, functional family without these types of interventions available. I found (I suspect like you) that having an psychiatrist - an MD, who can provide both cognitive/behavioral and pharmacological interventions - is the key.

jdietrich 9y ago
>I could not agree with you more: Both my partner and I have been on SSRIs / SNRIs before for LIMITED DURATION. Probably over 10 times between the two of us. You might want to consider maintenance therapy. The actual evidence for severe discontinuation effects is quite limited, but we have fairly strong evidence that maintenance therapy significantly reduces the rate of relapse. It's natural to want to avoid taking drugs indefinitely, but it's often a better option than a long-term cycle of depression, treatment, discontinuation and relapse. I suspect that a substantial proportion of people mistakenly believe that they're "addicted" to anti-depressants, when really they're just receiving an effective treatment for a chronic condition. They feel worse when they stop taking the pills, because the pills are doing what they're supposed to do.