Posted by Bob on March 11, 2008, at 13:32:55
In reply to Re: So confused about where to go next :(, posted by bleauberry on March 10, 2008, at 22:01:27
> Definitely stopping meds cold turkey will mess you up. Even if you were only on them a week, not to mention a month or more. I guess it probably varies from person to person, but for me I have noticed that after stopping a med even after weaning off it carefully, it really takes a solid 3 weeks to 3 months to stabilize at some new baseline. But that baseline is never the same as the one before taking the drugs. The drugs, in my opinion, do change the game, even long after they are gone.
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I'm going to have to agree with the theory that drugs "change the game", but I'm going to include ECT also. I can look back at the many, many drugs I took, and the ECT trials I had and can say that every drug changed things significantly at least for the short term, and some profoundly changed things for the long term, even after discontinuation. That's my experience anyway.
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