The FDA has belatedly added serious new warnings to gabapentinoids like gabapentin (Neurontin) & pregabalin (Lyrica): Withdrawal may cause suicidal thoughts, agitation, confusion, insomnia, psychosis. These symptoms match akathisia and can lead to self-harm, violence, or suicide. Tragically, akathisia is often missed, mistreated or misdiagnosed as anxiety or mental illness. Read more at http://The FDA has belatedly added serious new warnings to gabapentinoids like gabapentin (Neurontin) & pregabalin (Lyrica): Withdrawal may cause suicidal thoughts, agitation, confusion, insomnia, psychosis. These symptoms match akathisia and can lead to self-harm, violence, or suicide. Tragically, akathisia is often missed, mistreated or misdiagnosed as anxiety or mental illness.

Prozac was marketed as a wonder drug fourty years ago–but millions of people who were harmed by the drug wonder why they were never warned of its serious and sometimes fatal effects. Today’s New York Times has an article about Prozac withdrawal, one of many adverse effects that prescribers and uninformed consumers still know little about. See https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/opinion/antidepressants-withdrawal-rfk.html.