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Clinical Psychologist, Psychologist
I am a Clinical Psychologist and not able to advise on medication specifically but wonder what your diagnosis is and whether you are having psychological therapy if medication is not addressing your symptoms. Whether your psychiatrist is right or not, it is important that you have a positive relationship with him; this means that you should be able to voice your concerns and ask questions about your treatment. He should do his best to provide you with the information that you need to make informed choices, after all it is your body and mind he is treating.
Mariela Occelli - Clinical Psychologist
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Like Mariela I am not a medical professional so I can not offer you clinical advice.
But…
A few years ago my psychiatrist and I decided that I should swap from one (for me, completely useless) anti-depressant to another (for me, great) one.
His very strong recommendation was that I should spend some time as a voluntary patient in a private psychiatric hospital so I could be monitored while tapering off the first one and adapting to the second. I did that and it worked well.
When I asked him “Why should I go IP?” he said that going cold turkey on any psych med is a *really* bad idea - it can often have *very* unpredictable outcomes - slowly tapering off under medical supervision is rhe way to go.
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