Medicating Normal Video Clip, Aug/23: Psychiatrist Taking Antidepressants Says Withdrawal is NOT Mild or Brief

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This information appears below the video clip. It's an interview with Dr. Mark Horowitz, a psychiatrist who is researching the withdrawal effects of antidepressants while going through it himself. He speaks of his own experiences here.

 

This clip is an excerpt from the following full video:   https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon.png • Mark Horowitz, MBBS, PhD: Researching...  

Guest Bio: Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist and researcher who has a Ph.D. from King’s College London on the neurobiology of depression and the action of antidepressants. He also, for many years, took the drugs he prescribed. When he tried to come off them, he had a quick and sharp education into the world of withdrawal and the lack of knowledge in the medical field about this topic. Since then, he has tried to bring more awareness to the topic of safe de-prescribing of psychotropic drugs through his academic work, including articles published on how to safely taper antidepressants and antipsychotics, and work with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK on developing their guidance for patients stopping antidepressants. He is currently the clinical research fellow on the RADAR trial in London, looking at the effect of gradually tapering people with schizophrenia off their antipsychotics.