The Antidepressant Solution

Preface

As I wrote this book in 2004, doctors and the public experienced an upheaval in their view of the safety of today's popular antidepressants because the Food and Drug Administration issued a pair of warnings that have been startling to many: Antidepressants may make patients suicidal. In the initial March 2004 warning, the FDA asserted that "adult and pediatric patients" on antidepressants can develop a range of side effects that may make them suicidal, including "anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, impulsivity, akathisia (severe restlessness), hypomania, and mania." The FDA warned that patients may be vulnerable to this lethal side effect "especially at the beginning of therapy or when the dose either increases or decreases," that is, whenever the dose changes. Since decreasing the dose of an antidepressant may make patients suicidal, the warning is directly relevant to the subject of this book: how to taper off antidepressants ... read full excerpt from The Antidepressant Solution: A Step-By-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and "Addiction" ebook