Posted by SLS on January 10, 2014, at 10:20:00
In reply to Re: Suicide Attempt Addition, posted by Danielj on January 10, 2014, at 10:08:46
> Just remembered this. He has been taking Zoloft as an anti anxiety med for several years, but he was hospitalized late this summer and was switched to Prozac. 2 months he got his regular PDOC to put him back on Zoloft. Too Bad!
When something is working to treat a chronic or recurrent psychiatric condition, leave it alone.
Someone can take an antidepresant drug for years and elect to discontinue it with the expectation that it can be restarted if necessary with no loss of efficacy and without new side effects. Often, this is not the case. Exposure to a SSRI drug can ultimately produce resistance to that drug. However, one may choose another SSRI and recapture a therapeutic response to treatment.
I hope you and your son can work through this together. It is important for him to know that he has a biological illness and that a biological intervention can make it better or worse. The suicidal state was fabricated by a drug and was not his fault.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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