When we asked you to spread your experiences with stopping antidepressant medications, more than 700 readers replyed. Readers telderly us about the retreatal symptoms they sended and what they set up beneficial or problematic about the medications. We set up many people were given little alertation about the potential side effects from coming off the medications and suffered retreatal effects they portrayd as worse than the initial symptoms that led to the medication being prescribed.
Clinical directlines backd by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) in July now advise a much enumeratelesser, acquireedr approach to antidepressant retreatal than previously adviseed by doctors. While there were readers who said the substances ultimately helped them, and some people portrayd the substances as lifesaving, most people wanted more alertation at the time of prescribing. Here are some of the stories chosen from readers (inpresentant edits have been made for clarity and readability).
