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The NHS is here to help. Feelings of anxiety and depression can affect us all. If you need help with your mental health, you can refer yourself, or your GP can refer you.
Don’t stop your current antidepressant or adjust your dosage without professional guidance. This could cause you to experience antidepressant withdrawal symptoms or a relapse of your depression ...
In medicine, tapering is the practice of gradually reducing the dosage of a medication to reduce or discontinue it. Generally, tapering is done is to avoid or minimize withdrawal symptoms that arise from neurobiological adaptation to the drug.
Recent research (Nixon & Vendelø, 2016) shows that General Practitioners (GPs) who actively consider discontinuation, are reluctant to do so, as they experience that the safest decision is to continue prescriptions, rather than discontinue them. In part this is due to the ambiguity about the appropriateness of discontinuing medication.
The product information provided by drug companies provides much information on how to start medications and what to expect when using them. However, it provides little information on when and how to stop medications. [21] Research into deprescribing is accumulating, with two papers showing a rapid acceleration in using the word since 2015. [8] [3]
The analysis also found that severe discontinuation symptoms, which might cause patients to drop out of a study or resume taking antidepressants, occurred in about 3% — or one in 35 — of those ...
Approximately 15–50% of people who suddenly stop an antidepressant develop antidepressant discontinuation syndrome. [7] [2] [3] [4] The condition is generally not serious, [2] though about half of people with symptoms describe them as severe. [4] Many restart antidepressants due to the severity of the symptoms. [4]
Antidepressants are most commonly prescribed for people who have major depressive disorder (MDD). MDD is described as feeling depressed, moody or sad all, every day, for at least two weeks.