“A doctor put me on antidepressants about a decade ago. I've spent the last year and a half trying to get off of them. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done,” writes columnist davidlaz.
Meanwhile, roughly 13% of Americans age 12 and over have been
I went through a grieving process for my suddenly kaput pancreas and sought the assistance of a therapist for a few weeks. But it wasn’t depression that drove me to seek help from my endocrinologist. I couldn’t sleep. “Patients who try to stop taking the drugs often say they cannot,” the paper found. “About half who wound down their prescriptions rated the withdrawal as severe. Nearly half who tried to quit could not do so because of these symptoms.”
Moreover, how much is enough? Yes, I liked sleeping better. Yes, I liked that my wife felt I was more pleasant to be around.
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