How were you referred to this site?

[Armorall]

I was watching Michael Priebe (The Lovely Grind) while I was going through withdrawal, and someone in the comments had asked him if he was willing to write a success story for Surviving Antidepressants. Then I looked up the site. I don't think it comes up very high in search results, which is sad, I wish I had found it sooner than I did. 

[Phoenixmama]

@Armorall i would like to read it 

[Armorall]

@Phoenixmama Unfortunately, even though someone asked him to do it, he did not. The question just made me aware of the existence of SA, but it wasn't because he then complied. He does detail his process in a Lovely Grind video though, it was one that I actually wrote down many of the words to, since I was hurting in WD and needed some relief. I had it on my wall for a long time. Just the bit about the further away you are from your quit/taper start date, the better it will become even if you can't tell at first. And his major changes happened within the 18-24th month mark, which ended up being my "turn the corner" zone as well. 

 

[PsychologicalSafe15]

Someone suggested me in reddit.

[MyDarkNight]

I found this site via a YouTube video panel discussion on IIPDW.  I am AMAZED at how easily doctors prescribe antidepressants without informing about what long-term use can do to your life!

 

They don’t tell you how common sexual dysfunction is, and worse, how scary & hard it is to stop taking them.

 

I’m looking for support as I navigate COVID19, my own refusal of the vax, even though I’ve never been anti-vax before now.  The poor leadership added to my suspicions about big PHARMA & a very BIG distrust of any medications & doctors that want to keep me medicated.

 

I am a recovering cocaine addict. I got involved in 12-step groups in 1984 & have been free of coke since 1/5/85.

I started antidepressants & adhd meds under the care of my GP in the 90’s to deal with attention issues & menopausal symptoms.

 

Those meds quit working & I sought psychiatric care about 5 years ago. I was switched from fluoxetine & adderall to Lexapro & Vyvanse.  Last November I had a psychotic episode and was inpatient for 2 weeks, where my meds were changed abruptly. The ARNP I was working with told me it was a drug induced mania & he had “seen it coming” but NEVER TOLD ME!  So I came out of that episode knowing that I had to find myself again & I could not do that until I got off of the drugs.  I believe they created the basket case that I became!

 

so now I am emerging from a long detox & dark night of the soul & believe that psychiatric labels & drugs have done more harm than good in my life.

 

Thanks for creating this site!

 

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[TinyDancer]

I found this site through this research article:

 

Protracted withdrawal syndrome after stopping antidepressants: a descriptive quantitative analysis of consumer narratives from a large internet forum

 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2045125320980573?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub 0pubmed

[Frogie]

I was referred through a desperate google search on how to stop lexapro the correct way!

[Moonpie]

Like Frogie. A desperate Google search for help tapering.

[ChessieCat]

I thought I had already posted in this topic but I've just checked and I haven't.

 

I also found SA through an internet search.

 

Just before reducing my Pristiq 100mg to 50mg I had been searching for Pristiq side effects (trying to work out why I had the different issues I had, which turned out to be mild serotonin syndrome), which unfortunately did not bring up SA.  Because Pristiq is only available in 50mg and 100mg in Australia (our drug authority has not authorised 25mg here grrr) and because of the serotonin toxicity I needed to reduce quickly.

 

Once I got really bad withdrawal symptoms after the above reduction, I started searching for Pristiq withdrawal symptoms instead and SA come up in one of the first few results on the page.

 

The ironic thing about me getting bad withdrawals is that if I had had no issues, or only minor ones, going from 100mg to 50mg I would not have found SA and I might still be on Pristiq.

 

Six years after joining I am at 0mg!!!  And all thanks to SA.

[Happy2Heal]

 I thought I had posted here too but I guess not

 

I found this site thru a desperate google search when I was already suffering terribly in WD and my PCP was trying to get me to take some drug, clonadine (sp) I think?
she was rxing it for severe insomnia and to help with what she thought were my PTSD symptoms

I wanted to know what the side effects of that drug might be, and somehow a link popped up to SA that mentioned it.

 

it was like a bolt of electricity went thru me when I saw that this forum was for ppl getting off antidepressants, because I had just been arguing with the dr that what I was going thru HAD TO BE from coming off the lexapro too quickly

 

she laughed at me (something she did often, I realize now looking back- why did I put up with that kind of disrespect??) 

 

anyway............ that's how I found SA 

that was in early Dec of 2015

 

this forum saved my life and my sanity.

I will be forever grateful.

 

 

[ThatOneGirlStitch]

I don't remember. I was in such a haze at that point. Depression, trying to fight off good intentions of family and friends to get ketamine and more meds. I came from the anhedonia reddit page to a site that were worried about pssd a lot. (It did't fit the bill either) Then this one, and it slowly clicked that "Oh my god, this is whats happening to me.

[UserMan1775]

I found the website through googling the recent symptoms I have been having and it popped up in a search result

[Moxie]

I was a moderator on the Lyrica Survivors FB site up until the switch to here.