{"id":3059,"date":"2024-07-03T10:54:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T07:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2024-07-03T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T07:55:37","slug":"the-myth-that-antidepressants-are-addictive-has-been-debunked-they-are-a-vital-tool-in-psychiatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/the-myth-that-antidepressants-are-addictive-has-been-debunked-they-are-a-vital-tool-in-psychiatry\/","title":{"rendered":"The myth that antidepressants are addictive has been debunked \u2013 they are a vital tool in psychiatry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been prescribing antidepressants since 1991. Like most medications, they are imperfect tools: they have side-effects and don\u2019t work for everybody. Some patients report negative effects, or that their depression does not improve, and they may require changing to a different antidepressant. For those they do help, antidepressants undoubtedly improve depression and reduce the risk of suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the whole article by the original source through the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/amp.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/jun\/08\/antidepressants-addictive-has-been-debunked-psychiatry-depression-withhdrawal-symptoms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/amp.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/jun\/08\/antidepressants-addictive-has-been-debunked-psychiatry-depression-withhdrawal-symptoms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been prescribing antidepressants since 1991. Like most medications, they are imperfect tools: they have side-effects and don\u2019t work for everybody. Some patients report negative effects, or that their depression does not improve, and they may require changing to a different antidepressant. For those they do help, antidepressants undoubtedly improve depression and reduce the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[146,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antidepressants-el","category-depression-el","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3500.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87S9d-Nl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}