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Antidepressant Withdrawal

A Functional Medicine Approach to Antidepressant Withdrawal Second generation antidepressant medications, including fluoxetine (Prozac), citalopram (Celexa), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft) and venlafaxine (Effexor) are widely…

James Greenblatt, MD05/11/2024

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Anxiety Depression

Quitting Antidepressants: Why Is It Called Discontinuation Syndrome?

Decades of reporting by patients, small studies, and large surveys have shown that antidepressant withdrawal is indeed a real risk factor for taking the medicine,…

James Greenblatt, MD11/11/2022

Anxiety Depression

Are SSRI Antidepressants the New Valium?

For nearly a century, the American pharmaceutical industry has been at the leading edge of creating new lifesaving medications for patients all around the world.…

James Greenblatt, MD11/04/2022

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Anxiety Depression

A Brief History of Antidepressants and SSRIs

Depression has been around since the first days of humankind. For centuries, if not millennia, doctors and physicians treated “melancholia” as simply a depressed mood,…

James Greenblatt, MD11/01/2022

Anxiety Depression

The Problem With Current Treatment Approaches for SSRI Withdrawal

More than 37 million adults in America are currently taking antidepressants. These rates have more than tripled since 2000, an astoundingly high number for any…

James Greenblatt, MD10/29/2022

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Antidepressant Withdrawal

Quitting Antidepressants: Why Is It Called Discontinuation Syndrome?

Are SSRI Antidepressants the New Valium?

A Brief History of Antidepressants and SSRIs

The Problem With Current Treatment Approaches for SSRI Withdrawal

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