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The easy way to withraw from anti-depressants

Posted by Arthur Gibson on September 7, 2004, at 18:36:35

I don’t understand why people have such a hard time coming off anti-depressant medication.

PROZAC is child play to withdraw from, as it stays working for weeks and it “tapers” itself away. But the problem with PROZAC is that it is about the slowest medication to start working at the start of your illness. Therefore it seems to me that the answer is to take a quick acting, strong anti-depressant at the start of your treatment and a few weeks after it starts to have effect, switch to PROZAC for the remainder of your treatment. PROZAC gets into the system quickly and once another medication has taken hold, PROZAC works virtually immediately, so what’s the problem?

But I don’t recommend PROZAC at the start of treatment, it is way too slow. You could be looking at 12 weeks for the first noticeable effects.

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