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Antidepressants
Many antidepressants require planned dose reduction because discontinuation symptoms can occur. Relapse and withdrawal can resemble one another. This site will not write a taper.
Discontinuation explainerADHD stimulants
Some therapeutic stimulant regimens can often be ceased differently from antidepressants. Rebound still happens. Non-stimulants are not in this comparison. “ADHD medication can always just be stopped tomorrow” is a sentence this site refuses.
Stimulant cessationA fictional month. Step through it. Then try to name a single cause.
Antidepressant stable
Continue through the weeks. Do not skip to a verdict.
| Method | Answers |
|---|---|
| Personal observation | What happened to this person, and when? |
| Qualitative research | What does the experience feel like, in language people actually use? |
| Survey data | What do groups of people report, with all the biases of who answers? |
| Observational study | What associations appear across records, without random assignment? |
| Clinical trial | Does treatment outperform comparison on average, under trial conditions? |
| Systematic review | What does the trial literature look like when studies are put together? |
| Guideline | What do appointed reviewers currently recommend in practice? |
| Pharmacovigilance | What unusual events are being reported, without a reliable denominator? |
