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Originally Posted by Rohag
Antidepressants have done little or nothing for me.
After a recent failed trial of something novel, my current psychiatrist has taken me off all antidepressant medications, although I remain on a benzodiazepine.
It will be interesting to see how I do without any antidepressants.
I suspect significant institutional pressure exists for mental health practitioners to keep those with formal depression diagnoses on some sort of medication.
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This is interesting, Rohag.
I've made several attempts to go off my antidepressant over the years, tapering off at the proper levels, etc., all of which have failed miserably. My last attempt was about a year ago, wherein I decided that I might be able to do fine with just mindfulness. Tapered off properly. Crashed. I don't believe I'll ever try again because I've come to think that there is after all a physiological component to my depression which I have to address in order to function.
When I finally went back on a low dose of my medication (Prozac) after a mighty argument with myself about being a "quitter", I felt better immediately.
I've really come to believe everyone's situation and physiology is different.
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