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2. Don’t go ‘cold turkey’ when coming off antidepressants ...

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   Adults taking antidepressants who want to come off their medication should not go cold turkey and should instead use a “staged” approach, experts have said. ... whether it is right to stop ...

3. Mysterious 'Brain Zaps' Are Being Reported By Lexapro ... - AOL

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   Symptoms are most likely to occur when you stop taking an antidepressant cold turkey (which, by the way, isn’t advised)—or in cases where you’re in the process of tapering off. Discontinuing ...

4. Drug withdrawal - Wikipedia

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   The term "cold turkey" is used to describe the sudden cessation of use of a substance and the ensuing physiologic manifestations. The symptoms from withdrawal may be even more dramatic when the drug has masked prolonged malnutrition , disease, chronic pain , infections (common in intravenous drug use), or sleep deprivation , conditions that ...

5. Barbiturate - Wikipedia

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   Attempting to quit "cold turkey" may result in neurological damage due to excitotoxicity, severe physical injuries received during convulsions, and even death resulting from arrhythmias during grande Mal seizures, paralleling death caused by delirium tremens. [citation needed]

6. Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Approximately 15–50% of people who suddenly stop an antidepressant develop antidepressant discontinuation syndrome. [7] [2] [3] [4] The condition is generally not serious, [2] though about half of people with symptoms describe them as severe. [4] Many restart antidepressants due to the severity of the symptoms. [4]

7. ‘This Weight Loss Drug Helped My Mental Health Way ... - AOL

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   Due to the high cost, I stopped taking the medication cold turkey. I didn’t have any adverse physical side effects after stopping, but the food noise came back immediately.