Withdrawing from antipsychotics may require months or even years, and patients need to gradually reduce to very low doses, according to a new analysis led by UCL and King’s College London academics.
The review, published in Schizophrenia Bulletin , is the first-ever scientific paper outlining how exactly antipsychotic medication should be reduced in order to minimize both withdrawal effects and the risk of relapse.
How is coming off meds for schizophrenia going to prevent a relapse? This seems like a pretty bogus theory.
And it’s just a theory , they haven’t conducted any trials.
I should point out Joanna Moncrieff doing similar research in the UK has posted several times on the MIA site . It’s good that service users should be given better advice re coming off meds, but given the bias of some of those involved a degree of caution is advised.
it’s probably why they started me out low too.
well, I mean side effects, not really withdrawal.
They cut me cold turkey with the seroquel after me on it for thirteen years. Worse experience of my life. Fortunately I was in the hospital at the time.
I once tried to reduce from 15mg to 5mg in the span of 6 weeks or so. Things went out of hand…
Don’t see the point in becoming unwell