The ‘patient voice’: patients who experience antidepressant withdrawal symptoms are often dismissed, or misdiagnosed with relapse, or a new medical condition

Background: Stopping antidepressants commonly causes withdrawal symptoms, which can be severe and long-lasting. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance has been recently updated to reflect this; however, for many years withdrawal (discontinuation) symptoms were characterise...

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Main Authors: Anne Guy, Marion Brown, Stevie Lewis, Mark Horowitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-11-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2045125320967183