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... in response to SSRI addiction is a myth
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    ben ben New Zealand says:
    October 1, 2011 at 8:46 AM

    This seems oddly familiar to the denial about benzo addiction.
    The comment that people do not forge prescriptions to get fluoxetine is emotive and irrelevant seeing as it is not uncommon in the USA to get 1 year prescriptions. Why bother forging prescriptions when SSRI,s are handed out like candy.

    Also the notion that people do not lie in bed craving an antidepressant is not true in my own experience. Withdrawing from venlafaxine i certainly craved the drug whilst withdrawing and relapsed numerous times.

    Registering with multiple GPs only makes sense when they seek to curtail your use of the drug. Which they dont, making it another invalid point.

    Turning up to the A&E department to get more supplies again makes no sense as long term prescriptions are readily available from your GP.

    Antidepressants do not have clear benefits either just ask Irving Kirsch, Peter Breggin, Robert Whitaker to name a few.
    It would have been nice to see some better reasoned arguments rather than emotive rhetoric.

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