Most people think addiction means a person has severe withdrawal when not taking alcohol or drugs. But withdrawal symptoms ...

In a 1995 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, amid a wave of prescribing for then-recently-approved SSRI antidepressants, physicians Lloyd Frost and Samarthji Lal wrote to warn colleagues ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis has demonstrated that approximately 15% of individuals experience withdrawal symptoms, such as dizziness, headache, nausea, insomnia and irritability, when ...

The moment when a person stops taking their antidepressant is fraught. Not only can patients see their psychiatric symptoms return, but they can experience a wide variety of new symptoms in the days ...

Sudden changes in the dose of antidepressant medications can cause withdrawal symptoms. The symptoms can last several weeks. Antidepressants are useful for treating a variety of mental health ...

When Gina O’Brien decided she no longer needed drugs to quell her anxiety and panic attacks, she followed doctor’s orders by slowly tapering her dose of the antidepressant Paxil. The gradual ...

Ryan Yorke, now 21, started taking Paxil after an out-of-the-blue panic attack his freshman year of high school. At first it worked great. But he gained weight and had other problems -- he started ...