The 'patient voice': patients who experience antidepressant withdrawal symptoms are often dismissed, or misdiagnosed with relapse, or a new medical condition (November 2020)

Summary

Stopping antidepressants commonly causes withdrawal symptoms, which can be severe and long-lasting. This paper, published in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, outlines the themes emerging from 158 respondents to an open invitation to describe the experience of prescribed psychotropic medication withdrawal for petitions sent to British parliaments.