first, jodawi, thank you for linking my post. I'm interested in hearing different viewpoints on the subject. my cousin had been taking antidepressants for a while, maybe a year. she'd had trouble coping when she left home and went to college. she was doing alot better recently and her doctor wanted to have her off antidepressants by around january. whatever she'd originally been on was something he couldnt just ween her off. they switched her meds to something he could back her off of slowly. she started having horrible mood swings, fine one minute, extremely depressed the next. less than three weeks after the switch, she's dead. an hour before her suicide, she was doing fine. one of her teachers walked her back to her dorm and they were talking about her plans to spend her junior year in england.. happy things, she was in good spirits. no one told her wild mood swings might be a side effect. I dont think its realistic to expect doctor's to call and check up on all there patients every couple days, but I do think there needs to be better information provided to people about how serious the side effects can be. my experience with antidepressants was such that I thought I was just losing my mind. I didnt realize until I stopped taking them that they were actually responsible. I dont remember reading anywhere that I might find myself feeling worse on them than I did without them. I dont care how big the bottle needs to be, there need to be clearer warnings.
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my cousin had been taking antidepressants for a while, maybe a year. she'd had trouble coping when she left home and went to college. she was doing alot better recently and her doctor wanted to have her off antidepressants by around january. whatever she'd originally been on was something he couldnt just ween her off. they switched her meds to something he could back her off of slowly. she started having horrible mood swings, fine one minute, extremely depressed the next. less than three weeks after the switch, she's dead. an hour before her suicide, she was doing fine. one of her teachers walked her back to her dorm and they were talking about her plans to spend her junior year in england.. happy things, she was in good spirits.
no one told her wild mood swings might be a side effect. I dont think its realistic to expect doctor's to call and check up on all there patients every couple days, but I do think there needs to be better information provided to people about how serious the side effects can be. my experience with antidepressants was such that I thought I was just losing my mind. I didnt realize until I stopped taking them that they were actually responsible. I dont remember reading anywhere that I might find myself feeling worse on them than I did without them. I dont care how big the bottle needs to be, there need to be clearer warnings.