Stopping Antidepressants Safely: What Is Deprescribing and How Is It Done?

Stopping Antidepressants Safely: What Is Deprescribing and How Is It Done?

Up to 70% of patients with depression and anxiety in India are co-prescribed a benzodiazepine. Yet very little clinical attention goes to how and when to stop psychiatric medications. A psychiatrist explains what deprescribing is, why stopping antidepressants like venlafaxine is genuinely difficult, and how hyperbolic tapering changes outcomes.

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Serotonergic Psychedelics as Antidepressants: What the Evidence Actually Shows

Serotonergic Psychedelics as Antidepressants: What the Evidence Actually Shows

Psilocybin has re-entered psychiatric research with serious RCT data behind it. A psychiatrist reviews what the evidence actually shows — the neurobiology, the clinical trials, why some effect sizes are inflated, and why this is neither a miracle treatment nor a fringe idea.

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