From Mad in the Netherlands: When I was 18, I went to a psychologist because I was stuck in a number of areas. During the – in retrospect inappropriate – treatment I felt worse and she then recommended antidepressants. The first time I asked the GP for this, I was not given them, but when I asked again a few months later, he said that there was a new type, the SSRIs, that had few side effects, and that he could therefore prescribe them to a young person. At the time (1996) he could not have known any better. I was given paroxetine. This was the beginning of a long history with psychotropic drugs – which now covers 29 years – in which so many bad things have happened that I am writing a whole book about it. It would go too far to include all of that here. That is why I will focus in this article on the withdrawal from them.
Read the full article here and the English translation here.
Did you CT or taper?
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