<p>This week, we talk with Nora who relates how she was prescribed an antidepressant which caused immediate adverse effects. She tells us that even 2 years later she still struggles with physical, emotional and psychological effects.</p>
<p>#antidepressants #antipsychotics #benzodiazepines #withdrawal #tapering #mental health</p>

Doctor Lucy Johnstone on how the underlying causes of emotional distress are often unexplored, and why that might be

Let’s Talk Withdrawal was started with a simple aim, to share lived experience accounts of psychiatric drug withdrawal and to provide interviews with experts in the field. Psychiatric drug withdrawal remains a largely hidden, seldom discussed issue, yet affects countless people. We aim to add to the discussion and debate. Our interviews include people with experience of taking and coming off antidepressants, antipsychotics and benzodiazepines.

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Kevin P Miller talks about his documentary films Generation Rx and Letters From Generation Rx which tell the powerful stories of families harmed by psychiatric medications

Nora talks about her extreme adverse reaction to an antidepressant which started almost immediately and left her with physical and psychological problems