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This is an absolute failure on the part of medical science. SSRIs went mainstream in 1988. By 1992! We knew about withdrawal issues: https://www.wikidoc.org/in
by florkbork 22d ago
This is an absolute failure on the part of medical science. SSRIs went mainstream in 1988.
By 1992! We knew about withdrawal issues: https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/SSRI_discontinuation_syndrome https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/SSRI_discontinuation_syndr...
Let's be generous and give it until the 2000s for the knowledge to spread and science to validate; and we're still left with 26 years of blundering around without IMO sufficient warning to patients about withdrawal risks.
I would wager some of the doctors who prescribe today were well past a glint in their father's eye when we started to know about this.
- whatsThisBtn4 22d agoSeemingly around the world, physicians are often nepo babies. In the United States, our physicians are paid by taxes for grad school. The physicians decide the supply with an unelected private org ACGMe. It really shows that despite the corruption, people will go to great lengths for health.
- forestrywat 21d agoMy physician told me withdrawal was hard, and laid out all the negative side effects. Searching for them online was pretty trivial too. The pharmacist also spoke to me when I picked up the first bottle, and the pamphlet I received with the medicine also had information about it. At some point, we have to trust that even if one or two of those fail, the information is readily available and issued four times before you start.