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 WeaverOne of the common and unnerving experiences during antidepressant withdrawal can be not feeling too much, but feeling too little. You may have expected anxiety, low mood, disturbed sleep or some of the physical symptoms associated with withdrawal.
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...