Stutters, sex problems and terrifying memory lapses: Doctors warn how antidepressants can change ‘brain chemistry’… and the problems really start when you try to quit them
Many people who stop depression pills suffer from withdrawal and other adverse effects they didn’t learn about at the time of prescribing. Their physical and mental health declined from iatrogenesis—not from an underlying condition.
“I felt so tired all the time, as well as sick, dizzy and just out of it. I had to keep working, but by the time I got home in the evening I was flat on my bed,” said Julie Hiener, who tried to withdraw from citalopram.
A few months later, Julie started suffering memory lapses. “I’d be driving through town, and I’d suddenly think: “How did I get here?”
