Here you will learn there is so much to learn. It takes time to put the picture all together.
Stopping an antidepressant very quickly or immediately. It’s dangerous and does trauma to the brain. Doctors are known to “taper” over a 2 week period. Based on how long the loved one has been taking an antidepressant helps decide how long it will take to get off of them. The key is to go slowly unless it’s been a short amount of time, such as a couple of weeks.
This is the medical term doctors use. When you have the withdrawal symptoms, they are likely to tell your loved one they have treatment resistant depression.
Removing the antidepressants from the brain very slowly. Dr. Horowitz is a professional at this and has lot of guidanace at www.Outro.com
In the world of antidepressants, half-life refers to the amount of time it takes for the concentration of the drug in your bloodstream to decrease by half. It’s a key factor in how long a drug stays active in your body and how withdrawal or tapering should be handled.
- Money- Big Pharma saw a chance to make $$$, an industry was born
- People trusted their doctors who were trained by Big Pharma
- Patients didn’t ask questions-because they didn’t know.
- The diagnosis for depression was changed
- People were taught emotions equaled you must be numbed.
- People stopped doing the hard work and working on themselves
- Mental health became the buzzword- no one stopped to ask if was the ANTIDEPRESSANTS causing the changes in personality, relationships, actions.
- Depression is not a chemical imbalance in the brain.
- Serotonin is not measured before starting a drug that alters your serotonin.
- Serotonin excess? Serotonin Syndrome? I was told by a local pharmacist Serotonin Syndrome doesn’t exist. I witnessed and survived it. it’s real and ask the thousands recovering from it.
- Informed Consent does not exist.
Depression is not a chemical imbalance in the brain. Big Pharma ran with this lie and made millions.
There were never long terms tests completed.
They persist with this lie. Soon they will come up with more lies and send out their marketing team to come up with fun ways to dispute the truth.
Source: Moncrieff, J., Cooper, R. E., Stockmann, T., Amendola, S., Hengartner, M. P., & Horowitz, M. A. (2022). The serotonin theory of depression: A systematic umbrella review of the evidence. Molecular Psychiatry
Doctors you can follow to learn how.
Facebook Support groups
Doctors who do consultations for the best way to taper.
In general if you want to HYPERBOLIC taper- you want to do it with your drug curve. 3 mg of zoloft has 20% occupancy in the brain. If you take that away rapidly, there is a very good chance you will have long term lasting effects and a few months/years of hell.
Taper 3%-5% of your current dose over 3-4 weeks, stabilize and repeat. Your brain is used to it’s “candy” and will work to stablize to create homeostasis, no matter what you do. A smaller amount isn’t quite as noticeable. You will probably still have brain zaps and unpleasant affects, but hopefully you can continue on with your daily activities of life.
Your may find your doctor may refuse to help you taper and say you can be off the drugs in 2 to 3 weeks. Please listen to the voices of thousands, save your life, your children’s lives, your spouse and go slowly. Marriages destroyed by antidepressants has almost 5,000 on there of both the medicated and the unmedicated. One thing everyone has in common is heartbreak, realization, regret and a knowledge in some way that antidepressants have changed their lives.
Treatment resistant depression- is often misdiagnosed when it’s the drug induced symptoms!
Bipolar disorder-misdiagnosed when it’s the drug induced symptoms
Cheating, affairs, gambling can happen when the delicate balance in the brain is disrupted and chemically altered. Increase of serotonin suppresses dopamine and testosterone. It’s a recipe for disaster. These are not theories, these are facts. Facts doctors and psychiatrists did not warn about.
if we can figure this out, why can’t the doctor$?
Every thing you put in your body matters. Cold medicine can have a nasty side affect including delusions and psychosis. Your doctor may forget to tell you about that.
What is it and why isn’t a patient told?
Informed consent is sharing the truth about what an antidepressant can do for you, both the positive and negative. The pros and the cons. The results of the long term studies ( there aren’t any). It’s answering the questions the patient doesn’t know to ask.
- How will this drug change my life?
- Will it affect my relationships? How?
- Will I feel numb? From my head to my toes- and everything in between (PMDD)
- Will there be long term affects?
- Will I be exhausted?
- Will my interpretation of how others feel about me change?
- Will my interpretation of how I feel about myself change?
- Will increasing serotonin alter my brain chemistry? ( yes)
- Is it safe?
- It is addictive?
- Will I become suicidal?
- Will I be irritated?
- What’s the long term plan?
- What are the physical symptoms?
- What are the emotional drug induced symptoms?
- What would your plan be to get me off of them?
- Will they deplete my minerals?
- Will it alter my testosterone levels?
- Will I be a zombie?
- Will I know I’m a zombie?
- Will I do things I would never do?
- Will this drug mix with my _____?
- Will I get insomnia?
- Will there be lasting long term affects- brain, heart, lungs, kidneys?
- Will I be left in fight or flight? For how long?
- Will I be self aware of the destruction I could cause?
- Please read the FDA phamplet, It is there for a reason and every single one of the possible side affects can happen. Every single one.
- How long will it take for this drug to take over my life?
- What’s the occupancy
If the doctor or psychiatrist gives a few answers and accuses you of being dr google. .. then ask why there are hundreds of thousands on social media searching for answers on why there life, personality, health have all changed.
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