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Originally Posted by zinco14532323
Vital- I would suggest using the below link for antidepressant withdrawal. The link you used is a blog and specific to Celexa. I know I used it but that was because it was Celexa specific in that case.
Going Off Antidepressants - Harvard Health Publications
I would also suggest the below link for those wishing to be educated on psyche meds.
NIMH · Mental Health Medications
Whether you want to believe me or not Peter Breggin has a goal of getting rid of all psyche meds period. No one should take them ever in his view. He has tactics he uses to try to achieve that goal. We probably agree that this is not responsible evidence based medicine.
I think everyone who may want to take or does take them should be thoroughly educated on them but not by that source. |
zinco,
I kind of believe you that you want to be scientific about this, but so far, I don't think it's really working. You have made a bunch of claims about what Dr. Breggin has said and you claim that these statements are false, but you haven't provided a single reference for any of them. How can you be sure he made all those statements and not know where any of them came from? Even more importantly, how do you know he is wrong?
I still have to track down and read one of his books and talk to people around Boston, but I gather that Dr. Breggin's conclusions are basically that psychoactive drugs in general do more harm than good. Maybe that's true, maybe that's not true. I certainly don't know. However, IF that is true, it is very important for people to know about. That's why I feel obliged to point out that these claims exist. If someone asked me further, I would just suggest reading further and bringing it up with that person's MD.
There are so many people who arrive at this site with the assumption that if you are seriously depressed, the thing to do, of course, is to take an anti-depressant. It's just a question of which one. I am concerned that this may be a BIG mistake and that people may come to this site and get this view reinforced. For instance, if someone arrives at this site and says, essentially,
"I'm seriously depressed. Which anti-depressant should I ask for?"
I think that it is really irresponsible to then discuss the pros and cons of various antidepressants.
- vital