Thank you so much Anders - I'm tapering right now - slowly, as I have read a lot of your work and learned a lot from you. My doctor, however, thinks that my tapering is far too long. But I insist on doing it slowly. My life now is too important to gamble with quick tapering.
You are a light in the darkness. I keep reading your work, I keep pushing each day, I tell about your work to anyone it might be relevant for. Thank you for being a light and a star.
There’s a stark dissonance between the appraisal of these drugs coming on vs off. As you point out, it’s often in crisis that these drugs are started. However, when coming off, this treatment is often treated much more casually by clinicians. It’s like admitting a patient to hospital for a gunshot wound/trauma, but discharging them as if they simply came in for an outpatient procedure. They’re all bandaged up, so the healing process is treated the same. Yet, when there is still healing to be done (which there almost always is, considering the full experience of the nervous system isn’t typically felt on these drugs), how can we say recovery should be so minor for such a fatal wound? Thanks for sparking these ideas! Thinking of how psychiatrists can approach handing off tapering patients to therapists as a sort of “dispatch” and how therapists can do their own “triage” for clients exiting the medical sphere and re-entering “civilian life” as a person in healing….
I am so happy to have found you and just bought your book too. This article describes my lived experiences. After 20 years of being trapped on a horrible SSRI, I am on my 4th attempt to taper and going very slowly this time….thanks to you and finding all of this good information. I feel like I might have a chance this time. I’ve got a long road ahead and that’s ok. I feel heard and understood for the first time….so thank you!!
I have read your book, it’s excellent. And I am still learning more with these messages. I find myself referring back to the bookmarks and everything I have highlighted !
You don’t mention how many weeks between each step down in a taper. I am doing a 4 week step down but would like your opinion . Just bought your book and can’t put it down !!❤️
Thanks for all your hard work Anders. I have your book and Horowitz's and plan on taking years to stop my SSRI after several bouts of withdrawal, (one was severe). Thankfully my doctor is very open minded and willing to help me follow your guidelines to taper, in a way that will work for me, since I have been taking the drug for over 11 years. I left my prior doctor after feeling I wasn't believed when I explained my withdrawal symptoms.
Thank you so much Anders - I'm tapering right now - slowly, as I have read a lot of your work and learned a lot from you. My doctor, however, thinks that my tapering is far too long. But I insist on doing it slowly. My life now is too important to gamble with quick tapering.
You are a light in the darkness. I keep reading your work, I keep pushing each day, I tell about your work to anyone it might be relevant for. Thank you for being a light and a star.
Love your channel. Thank you for finally addressing this terrible epidemic. ❤️
There’s a stark dissonance between the appraisal of these drugs coming on vs off. As you point out, it’s often in crisis that these drugs are started. However, when coming off, this treatment is often treated much more casually by clinicians. It’s like admitting a patient to hospital for a gunshot wound/trauma, but discharging them as if they simply came in for an outpatient procedure. They’re all bandaged up, so the healing process is treated the same. Yet, when there is still healing to be done (which there almost always is, considering the full experience of the nervous system isn’t typically felt on these drugs), how can we say recovery should be so minor for such a fatal wound? Thanks for sparking these ideas! Thinking of how psychiatrists can approach handing off tapering patients to therapists as a sort of “dispatch” and how therapists can do their own “triage” for clients exiting the medical sphere and re-entering “civilian life” as a person in healing….
Thanks a lot for your work. Need to reread your book) Already rated your book on Kindle)
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I’ve just left a book review on Amazon..A pure book of knowledge for us sufferers..First class! We love you Anders!!!
I am so happy to have found you and just bought your book too. This article describes my lived experiences. After 20 years of being trapped on a horrible SSRI, I am on my 4th attempt to taper and going very slowly this time….thanks to you and finding all of this good information. I feel like I might have a chance this time. I’ve got a long road ahead and that’s ok. I feel heard and understood for the first time….so thank you!!
I have read your book, it’s excellent. And I am still learning more with these messages. I find myself referring back to the bookmarks and everything I have highlighted !
You don’t mention how many weeks between each step down in a taper. I am doing a 4 week step down but would like your opinion . Just bought your book and can’t put it down !!❤️
Thanks for all your hard work Anders. I have your book and Horowitz's and plan on taking years to stop my SSRI after several bouts of withdrawal, (one was severe). Thankfully my doctor is very open minded and willing to help me follow your guidelines to taper, in a way that will work for me, since I have been taking the drug for over 11 years. I left my prior doctor after feeling I wasn't believed when I explained my withdrawal symptoms.
Your advice is literally a life saver.
A light in a very dark night.
Thank you.