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 are many difficult things about antidepressant withdrawal, but one of the hardest may be not knowing what happens next. The human mind finds uncertainty very challenging.
Michaela WeaverThere can be something uniquely lonely about trying to explain an experience that you barely understand yourself. You know that something has changed. You can feel it, sometimes with an intensity that makes almost everything else difficult to...
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...