These articles explore the many ways antidepressant withdrawal can affect thoughts, emotions, physical health, identity, relationships and everyday life.
Drawing on research, lived experience and compassion, they are written to help people better understand withdrawal, feel less alone and navigate the journey with greater confidence and hope.
Michaela WeaverThere can be something particularly unsettling about looking at someone you know deeply and feeling that, somehow, you no longer quite recognise them. They are still there. They look the same. They may still be going to work, making a cup of tea, wa
Michaela WeaverSomething feels different, and you may not know what to believe. Perhaps you are reacting to things in ways that surprise you. People you once wanted close now feel difficult to be around. Things that mattered deeply may suddenly feel distant...
Michaela WeaverWhen most people hear the words antidepressant withdrawal, they imagine something relatively straightforward. For many people is is not that straightforward. Antidepressants are now among the most widely used medications in the world.