(Thread) With due respect to others who have contributed to my special edition I consider this one of the most important pieces. bit.ly/2OAa1aH @Altostrata When I was coming off an antidepressant and in dire straits, I could not find any guidance on what was (1/n)
going on or how to navigate out of it from published literature. Without Adele Framer I would not have been able to get off my drugs; indeed I am not sure I would be alive. I have learnt a lot from her and now I am very glad that now other clinicians, patients (2/n)
and researchers will be able to learn from the wisdom she has gained over 15 years and deep study. She tells me she looked and looked for an expert to be able to help her and could not find one. Instead, she was forced to become one herself. (3/n)
I am grateful that she performed the alchemy of turning her suffering into guidance for others.
We should alos ask ourselves why there has been so little interest and expertise in this subject for so long? (4/n)
We should alos ask ourselves why there has been so little interest and expertise in this subject for so long? (4/n)
Why have patients been forced to congregate online to work things out for themselves? If we don’t learn lessons then we are doomed to repeat the same patterns again and again.
She has some very interesting things to say about how to taper slowly, what might happen when (5/n)
She has some very interesting things to say about how to taper slowly, what might happen when (5/n)
people go on and off drugs multiple times, and what a Maine lobster fisherman has in common with a psychiatrist. Many important avenues for further research to try to work out how to more safely take people off psychiatric medications. (6/n)
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