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2. Don’t go ‘cold turkey’ when coming off antidepressants ...

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   “The way it should be done has to be down to the individual and their healthcare professional, to agree a way which it can work and only when side-effects can be safely managed.

3. The risky mix of antidepressants and college life

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   Antidepressants can greatly magnify the effects of alcohol, creating more central nervous system depression, increasing sedation and further impairing your judgment, reaction times and coordination.

4. Switching Antidepressants: Safety, Side Effects & Other ... - AOL

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   Sexual side effects. Some antidepressants, including commonly prescribed ones from the class known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), can cause sexual side effects such as ...

5. Deprescribing - Wikipedia

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   Deprescribing can improve adherence, cost, and health outcomes but may have adverse drug withdrawal effects. More specifically, deprescribing is the planned and supervised process of intentionally stopping a medication or reducing its dose to improve the person's health or reduce the risk of adverse side effects. Deprescribing is usually done ...

6. Management of depression - Wikipedia

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   On the other hand, significantly more patients drop off from the antidepressant treatment than from psychotherapy, likely because of the side effects of antidepressants. [106] Successful psychotherapy appears to prevent the recurrence of depression even after it has been terminated or replaced by occasional "booster" sessions.

7. Drug withdrawal - Wikipedia

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   The stopping of antidepressants for example, can lead to antidepressant discontinuation syndrome. With careful physician attention, however, medication prioritization and discontinuation can decrease costs, simplify prescription regimens, decrease risks of adverse drug events and poly-pharmacy, focus therapies where they are most effective, and ...

8. Escitalopram (Lexapro): Everything You Need to Know Before ...

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   In general, large-scale studies do tend to show that long-term use of antidepressants is associated with weight gain side effects. However, study data on escitalopram and weight changes is very ...

9. Tapering (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   Along with sharing tapering tips, members of the groups discuss the risks of prescription cascade, where withdrawal symptoms or the side effects of a psychotropic medication result in further medication, and the risk of neurobiological "kindling" effects where repeated unsuccessful withdrawal attempts yield progressively poor results upon drug ...