A “deprescribing” movement is building up in the psychiatry field, aimed at helping patients reduce or stop their medications ...

Antidepressant discontinuation actually conferred a slightly lower risk for psychiatric-related hospitalizations by 1.5 years postpartum. Discontinuing antidepressants like selective serotonin ...

A new review of antidepressant withdrawal effects—written by academics, many of whom have close ties to drug manufacturers—risks underestimating the potential harms to long-term antidepressant users ...

Around one in six people who stop antidepressants will experience withdrawal symptoms as a direct result of the medicine – lower than previous estimates, according to the largest study of its kind. A ...

Antidepressants are one of the most commonly taken medicines in the UK – and also among the most controversial. A common concern for users is that they will get “hooked” on the pills because stopping ...

A shift in scientific consensus can be difficult to pinpoint, much less measure accurately, but its causes and effects are still important to assess. That is especially true of Antidepressant ...

“Today, the existence of symptoms emerging after antidepressant discontinuation or dose-reduction is no longer questioned,” write Jonathan Henssler and colleagues at Cologne, Berlin, Freiburg, and ...

In an article on antidepressant withdrawal published online April 7, The New York Times invited readers to describe their experiences coming off the drugs. More than 8,800 people responded — teenagers ...