The best strategy for stopping antidepressants is for patients to slowly taper off their medication while also receiving psychological support, researchers have concluded.1 The Italian research team’s ...

Antidepressant use continues to climb across the UK, with experts divided over long-term benefits, withdrawal risks, and how ...

The moment when a person stops taking their antidepressant is fraught. Not only can patients see their psychiatric symptoms return, but they can experience a wide variety of new symptoms in the days ...

The best way to get off of antidepressants is gradually over months, with the support of a therapist, a new research review shows.

Source: Oxford University Press, with permission. “There is currently no place,” writes Giovanni Fava in his recently published Discontinuing Antidepressant Medications (Oxford, 2021), “for providing ...

In an article on antidepressant withdrawal published online April 7, The New York Times invited readers to describe their experiences coming off the drugs. More than 8,800 people responded — teenagers ...

Dealing with depression can feel overwhelming, whether you’re deep in a two-week funk or have been enduring it for years. And while depression is a mental health condition that looks different for ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been sworn in as the US health and human services secretary, despite saying a few things that raised eyebrows during his confirmation hearing. One of those things was the ...

Victoria Toline would hunch over the kitchen table, steady her hands and draw a bead of liquid from a vial with a small dropper. It was a delicate operation that had become a daily routine — ...