Tapering Withdrawal Necessary From Anti Depressants

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Taper off very, very slowly.

 

Dropping " cold turkey " off any medication, most especially mind altering

medications, can often be MORE DANGEROUS than staying on the drugs.

 

The most dangerous and most common mistake someone coming off the SSRI

antidepressants makes is coming off these drugs too rapidly. Tapering off very,

very, VERY SLOWLY--OVER MONTHS (and for long-term users—a year or more), NOT

JUST WEEKS!—has proven the safest and most effective method of withdrawal from

this type of medication. Thus the body is given the time it needs to readjust

its own chemical levels. Patients must be warned to come very slowly off these

drugs by shaving minuscule amounts off their pills each day, as opposed to

cutting them in half or taking a pill every other day.

 

This cannot be stressed strongly enough! This information on EXTREMELY gradual

withdrawal is the most critical piece of information that someone facing

withdrawal from these drugs needs to have.

 

A REMINDER: IT IS EASIER TO GET DOWN OFF A MOUNTAINTOP ONE GUARDED STEP AT A

TIME THAN TO JUMP FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM.

 

No matter how few or how many side effects you have had on these

antidepressants, withdrawal is a whole new world. The worst part of rapid

withdrawal does not hit for several months AFTER you quit. So even if you think

you are doing okay you quickly find that it becomes much worse.

 

If you do not come off correctly and rebuild your body as you do, you risk:

 

Creating bouts of overwhelming depression

Producing a MUCH longer withdrawal and recovery period than if you had come

off slowly

Overwhelming fatigue causing you to be unable to continue daily tasks or

costing your job

Having a psychotic break brought on by the terrible insomnia from the rapid

withdrawal, and then being locked in a psychiatric ward

Ending up going back on the drugs (each period on the drugs tends to be more

dangerous and problematic than the previous time you were on the drugs) and

having more drugs added to calm the withdrawal effects

Seizures and other life threatening physical reactions

Violent outbursts or rages

 

To order Dr. Tracy's book or audio cassette tape, " Help, I Can't Get Off My

Antidepressant, "

 

Although the book contains massive amounts of information you can find nowhere

else on these drugs, it does not have the extensive amount of information

contained in the tape on withdrawal. The tape contains newer and updated

information on safe withdrawal from these drugs. The tape details over an hour

and a half the safest ways found over the last ten years to withdraw from

antidepressants. It also lists many alternative treatments that can assist you

in getting though the withdrawal. And it contains information on how to rebuild

your health after you have had it destroyed by the drugs so that you never end

up on these drugs again. The tape is very inexpensive and will save you

thousands in medical bills which you will spend trying to do it on your own.

Many have lamented that they wished they would have had the information on this

tape before attempting withdrawal.

 

This is a tape doctors can also benefit from when attempting to withdraw their

patients from these drugs that the World Health Organization has now told us are

addictive and produce withdrawal.

 

 

 

 

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