How to Stop Using Antidepressants and Understanding the Flaws With The Standard Medical Advice

ByPrimary Researcher

Executive Summary

  • Getting off of antidepressants is a significant challenge but also very important.
  • In this article, we cover how to get off of antidepressants.

Introduction

If you have read other articles on this site, you know that we recommend not taking antidepressants. And that one of the problems with antidepressants is that they change brain chemistry to be abnormal, which also makes them addictive.

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Blocking or Dissuading Patients from Getting Off of Antidepressants

The first problem is that while there are few long-term studies on antidepressant use, those on antidepressants are normally dissuaded from getting off them. In the example of a patient’s poor reaction to an antidepressant, the first response is the following from the prescribing MD.

  1. We are increasing the dosage without evidence that a higher dosage is superior to the initial lower dosage.
  2. I am changing to a different antidepressant.

And since these changes take up to a month or more to have their effect felt, this pushes out when the patient finally gets off their antidepressant.

The problem is found in this quote from HealthLine (which has the standard antidepressant bias as they are funded by pharma companies, which they do not disclose to their readers).

Medical Establishment Advice #1: Talk to a Healthcare Provider First?

If you’re thinking of getting off your antidepressant, there could be benefits to you. To ensure these benefits outweigh the drawbacks, it’s important to talk with a healthcare provider before stopping your antidepressant use.

This sounds quite reasonable, doesn’t it?

However, the problem with this advice is that this puts the patient into contact with a person — the prescribing MD who favors antidepressants, who has pharma reps visiting them weekly and promoting them to prescribe more antidepressants, etc.. This means that there is a good likelihood that the prescribing MD will try to get the patient interested in getting off antidepressants to switch to another antidepressant. And this leads to the next problem.

Medical Establishment Advice #2: Switch to Another Antidepressant Instead of Getting Off of Antidepressants?

The following quotes are from Medical News Today, another website representing the medical establishment.

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