“What can happen is that a lot of people get caught between the adverse effects of taking the drugs and the withdrawal effects from not taking the drugs.” “Now that's a trap.” Some people are able to stop taking SSRIs and other psychiatric medications and experience little to no severe withdrawal effects. But others enter a cycle that the current system often fails to clearly recognize or properly support. A person stops taking their medication, they experience withdrawal symptoms, and those symptoms get interpreted by them or their doctors as proof that they still need the drug. This is why informed choice and transparency about withdrawal have to be standard, not optional. Otherwise people will keep mistaking withdrawal for relapse and getting pulled back into treatment by the effects of stopping itself. @_innercompass @_AndersSorensen