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Coming off my antidepressant while on this, supervised

Started 24 August 2024 · 21 replies · 270 hearts · read 3k times

FitzLimerick, IE · 24 August 2024
1.9 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Coming off my antidepressant while on this, supervised

I have been sitting on this for a month.

I do not have a question exactly. I have a thing I have noticed about myself and no idea whether it is worth mentioning to anybody.

I am aware this may be about something older than any of this, and that is part of what I am trying to work out by writing it down.

If you have felt anything like this, I would like to know. If you have not, that is worth knowing too.

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CormacWaterford, IE
#1

What worked for me was keeping the small structures going even when they felt pointless. Getting dressed, going outside, writing two lines.

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BronteHaworth, UK
#2

Building on what Cormac wrote rather than answering the original question.

Somebody here said that a hard week does not need a cause to be legitimate, and I have carried that around for two years.

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TamzinPoole, UK
#3

I found it useful to separate what I could raise with a prescriber from what belonged in therapy, because I had been taking everything to the wrong door.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#4

Facilitator note: nothing in this circle is treatment and nothing here is advice. The people who know your history are the ones to speak to.

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JontyOxford, UK
#5

My GP asked me to come back in two weeks rather than leaving it, and that follow-up was the thing that actually made a difference.

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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#6

Well said, and thank you for taking the time over it.

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NazneenDhaka, BD
#7

Abram — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I had to accept that some of this was seasonal and would have happened regardless, and that acceptance stopped me looking for a cause that was not there.

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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#8

The thing I would flag is anhedonia specifically. Low mood gets asked about; not enjoying anything is a different report and worth naming.

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TaaviTallinn, EE
#9

Abram has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

What I would say is that a change in mood is worth reporting even if you cannot attribute it, and especially if you cannot attribute it.

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AikoOsaka, JP
#10

I told my GP later than I should have. Please do not do what I did. The conversation was much easier than the four months of not having it.

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BryherIsles of Scilly, UK
#11

Coming back to say I am better. It took two clinicians, one medication review and a very patient friend, and it took about eight months.

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TallisEly, UK
#12

Flat rather than sad was the closest I could get to describing mine, and it took me two months to find a clinician who understood that distinction.

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MintaColchester, UK
#13

Sitting with you on this one.

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#14

Nothing here is medical advice and on this subject that matters. If you are struggling, please talk to somebody qualified, and our support resources page lists the kinds of service worth finding.

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BelCroydon, UK
#15

My experience is that this is discussed far too little and I am grateful this circle exists rather than it being folded into a general one.

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PippaTruro, UK
#16

Bel, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

The support around me improved dramatically once I told people what would actually help, rather than expecting them to guess.

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JunoBrighton, UK
#17

My other medication needed reviewing and a pharmacist spotted something two doctors had not. Do have the interactions conversation properly.

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LeifTrondheim, NO
#18

The routine came apart first for me and the mood followed, and my therapist thought that order was informative rather than incidental.

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#19

I had a difficult autumn that had nothing to do with any of this, and disentangling that was most of the work of my second year.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#20

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. What you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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IzzyWatford, UK
#21

Thank you for coming back to update it. So many threads just stop.

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