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Old Oct 10, 2014, 08:34 AM
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It's important to keep in mind that suddenly discontinuing psychotropics is destabilizing in large part, even sometimes entirely, due to having developed a dependance upon them. The symptoms presented by withdrawal from a psychotropic can be quite like those it was used to treat and even those outside of one's diagnosis.

If deciding to go off meds one needs to be methodical in their discontinuation. This includes a planned taper, having an existing and effective support structure, possessing effective coping mechanisms, and, as in my case, using diet, exercise, and specific supplements and psychotropics whose pharmacology promotes stability both during withdrawal as well as throughout recovery from withdrawal and even as a prophylaxic treatment to possibly mitigate the chances of recurrance.

In my experience, and that of many others one can find cataloged throughout the internet, outright dropping a medication is a sure way to destabilize. Going off of Mirtazapine cold turkey contributed, in a significant albeit unmeasurable extent, to the last six months of my depressive cycling.

It takes time for the brain to adapt, time that can be reduced through a planned withdrawal.

Withdrawal from psychotropics is no small matter and in no way should be decided and performed through the guidance of mere feelings. Seek the advise of your psychiatrist as well as a professional experienced with helping people go through withdrawal (I recently found a neuropsychologists who does) if desiring to discontinue psychotropics.

Anything less than this will endanger ones personal welfare to the unknowable outcome of how one will respond to discontinuation from psychotropic medications.
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