{"id":31372,"date":"2025-07-09T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31372"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:25:44","slug":"new-research-questions-severity-of-withdrawal-from-antidepressants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31372","title":{"rendered":"New Research Questions Severity of Withdrawal From Antidepressants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warnings about withdrawal from antidepressants have rippled through society in recent years. A new study claims they are overblown.<\/p>\n

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Few practices in mental health are debated more than the long-term use of antidepressant medications, which are prescribed to roughly one in nine adults<\/a> in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

A reassessment began in 2019, when two British researchers published a study<\/a> that found that 56 percent of patients suffered from withdrawal symptoms<\/a> when they stopped antidepressant medications and that 46 percent of those described their symptoms as severe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The findings made headlines in Britain and had a powerful ripple effect, forcing changes to psychiatric training and prescribing guidelines<\/a>. And they fed a growing grass-roots movement<\/a> calling to rein in the prescription of psychotropic drugs that has, in recent months, gained new influence in the United States with the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.<\/p>\n

A new study<\/a>, published on Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, makes the case that these warnings were overblown. The authors of the new paper found that a week after quitting antidepressants, patients reported symptoms like dizziness, nausea and vertigo, but that they remained, on average, \u201cbelow the threshold for clinically significant\u201d withdrawal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Sameer Jauhar, one of the authors, said the new analysis should reassure both patients and prescribers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe messaging that came out in 2019 was all antidepressants can cause this and this can happen in this proportion of people, and that just doesn\u2019t survive any scientific scrutiny,\u201d said Dr. Jauhar, a professor of psychiatry at Imperial College London.<\/p>\n

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Warnings about withdrawal from antidepressants have rippled through society in recent years. A new study claims they are overblown.Few practices in mental health are debated more than the long-term use of antidepressant medications, which are prescribed to roughly one in nine adults in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.A reassessment began in 2019, when two British researchers published a study that found that 56 percent of patients suffered from withdrawal symptoms when they stopped antidepressant medications and that 46 percent of those described their symptoms as severe.The findings made headlines in Britain and had a powerful ripple effect, forcing changes to psychiatric training and prescribing guidelines. And they fed a growing grass-roots movement calling to rein in the prescription of psychotropic drugs that has, in recent months, gained new influence in the United States with the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.A new study, published on Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, makes the case that these warnings were overblown. The authors of the new paper found that a week after quitting antidepressants, patients reported symptoms like dizziness, nausea and vertigo, but that they remained, on average, \u201cbelow the threshold for clinically significant\u201d withdrawal.Dr. Sameer Jauhar, one of the authors, said the new analysis should reassure both patients and prescribers.\u201cThe messaging that came out in 2019 was all antidepressants can cause this and this can happen in this proportion of people, and that just doesn\u2019t survive any scientific scrutiny,\u201d said Dr. Jauhar, a professor of psychiatry at Imperial College London.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31374,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31375,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31372\/revisions\/31375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}