Why, for producing antidepressants that help millions of people? You make SSRIs sound like crack.
Of course it's going to be difficult to stop taking them, the underlying depression is probably still there.
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Fri 21 Oct 2011, 8:37, 1 reply)

SSRIs are worse than crack
the difficulty in getting off the fuckers has nothing to do with underlying depression, it has to do with the fact that they fuck with with your brain's ability to regulate its own chemical and electrical processes.
They are supposed to be for short-term use ONLY, to help the patient get a grip and to be used in conjunction with other forms of therapy - notably, cognitive. Yet we are seeing people who have been on heavy doses of the shit for 10 years+.
Just for shits and giggles, read wiki's list of side-effects, then come back and tell me how awesome they are.
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Fri 21 Oct 2011, 8:54, closed)

Or for more shits and giggles read the side effect list of any medication. I don't need wikipedia, I have a copy of the British National Formulary on my desk.
They're not meant to be used short term.
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Fri 21 Oct 2011, 8:59, closed)

and i have a beer on my desk. what of it?
The four clinical psychologists I have consulted with over the last 6 years involving this case are all wrong, and YOU, internet stranger, are clearly right. I think it's your obsession with eggs that swayed me.
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Fri 21 Oct 2011, 9:57, closed)