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·4d ago·2 replies·4

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/opinion/antidepressants-ssris-side-effects-drugs-maha.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3lA._dCu.gzr9Kz0GNuk1&smid=url-s...

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·9d ago·0 replies·1

During my sertraline taper, I repeatedly observed an unexpected pattern: while reducing the dose continuously by approximately 0.5% per day, I experie...

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·15d ago·4 replies·3

 I just want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has spent years collecting, ...

Calculating a taper schedule means deciding how much of a dose to cut, and how often, without triggering withdrawal symptoms. The most common mistake ...

New article written by Adele Framer, founder of Surviving Antidepresssants: https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-future-of-withdrawal-studies

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·27d ago·0 replies·2

An antidepressant taper calculator does one job well: it sizes each dose reduction as a percentage of your *current* dose, usually around 10 percent, ...

If you'd like to participate, click here for more info: https://x.com/ACE_CoalitionEd/status/2077464874561733039

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·1mo ago·0 replies·1

A tapering schedule calculator takes your current dose and works out each reduction as a small percentage of that dose, usually 5 to 10 percent every ...

Most people were not warned that antidepressant withdrawal could be severe, long-lasting, or hard to distinguish from relapse. In a 2019 survey of wit...

***Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2026*** https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/pharmacolo...

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·1mo ago·4 replies·2

How do I assume and precisely cut the pill on these decimals like 9,84 at the forth month? ![image](/api/post-images/03d9f37b-241f-4e86-a193-6d5bcbfc...

The most important questions to ask before starting an antidepressant are simple: how long will I take this, how do I stop it safely, and what happens...

Informed consent for antidepressants means you were told the real risks, benefits, and alternatives before your first prescription, including the fact...

Deprescribing is the planned, supervised reduction or stopping of a medication that is no longer helping, or whose harms now outweigh its benefits. Fo...

Pharmacy compounding for psychiatric tapering means having a specialty pharmacy make your medication in custom strengths and forms your regular pharma...

Informed consent for psychiatric medication means you were told the real risks, including how hard the drug can be to stop, before you ever took the f...

Feeling fair. Been having bouts of insomnia, headache, fatigue, gi upset, emotional blunting, and rage but that's my baseline on this drug.

Hello fellow TC members! Someone on another forum has created a free taper calculator and is looking for feedback. Right now it's a Beta version. ...

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·1mo ago·6 replies·2

The FDA announced a Class II recall on June 15, 2026, for specific lots of duloxetine capsules, a generic for Cymbalta, distributed by Breckenridge Ph...

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·2mo ago·0 replies·1

Serotonergic (SSRIs/SSNRIs) drugs require a *gradual patient acclimation* for common ethical prescribing practices. This means that the initial titrat...

Feeling okay. Been having bouts of nausea, insomnia, anxiety, fatigue, irritability, appetite changes, tinnitus, and visual disturbances.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2026/06/maternal-antidepressant-use-linked-to-abnormal-fetal-brain-development/

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·2mo ago·1 replies·2

https://neurosciencenews.com/antidepressant-withdrawal-30807/

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·2mo ago·7 replies·1

New study published June 1, 2026 on the Mad in America website: https://www.madinamerica.com/2026/06/study-finds-the-majority-of-increases-in-sympto...

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·2mo ago·1 replies·1

Would you agree with the statement of this article? https://betterhealthwhileaging.net/medications-to-avoid-if-worried-about-memory/ It claims there...

The Not Broken Project advocates for a fundamental shift in how Australia understands and treats mental distress — away from a medication-first model,...

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·2mo ago·0 replies·1

https://madincanada.org/2026/05/calling-all-people-living-in-canada-who-have-been-prescribed-an-antidepressant/

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·2mo ago·0 replies·0

For decades, psychiatric drug withdrawal was treated as a quick afterthought. Doctors halved doses, then halved again, then stopped within a few weeks...

Tapering off antidepressants is harder than most people expect, and the conventional approach of cutting doses in large, evenly-spaced steps is a big ...

The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines represent a significant shift in how clinicians and patients think about stopping psychiatric medications. Publi...

The Ashton Manual guide for benzo tapering is the closest thing the benzodiazepine withdrawal field has to a foundational text. Written by Professor C...

Psychiatry prescribes with confidence it has not earned. The chain of assumptions between a drug and its intended effect is longer and shakier than mo...

Not all psychiatric medications are equally difficult to stop. Here is what the evidence says about which drugs cause the most severe withdrawal, and ...

When more than 14% of Australians are taking antidepressants, the instinct inside the system is to frame this as a success story. That framing is not ...