<p>This week, Megan talks about her experience with anxiety and insomnia and how that led to her being prescribed an antidepressant. She also talks about her two failed attempts to withdraw and how that meant she approached her tapering more carefully to ensure that she could minimise the withdrawal effects.</p>
<p>#antidepressants #antipsychotics #benzodiazepines #withdrawal #tapering #mental health</p>

Doctor Joanna Moncrieff on psychiatric drug mechanisms of action, antidepressant/antipsychotic withdrawal and the RADAR study

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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Let's Talk Withdrawal

Robert Whitaker talks about the astonishing rise in mental ill health despite the availability of psychiatric drugs

Megan talks about how she came into contact with psychiatric medications and how she approached her antidepressant withdrawal after two failed attempts