I have made a complaint against an NP

[Oldmahubbard]

Not to the State, but to the organization. She is an FNP who comes to work in tight black jeans, lace tee shirt and stilettos.

She is 29 years old, virtually no RN experience, and thinks she knows psychiatry.

She is going to d/c various antipsychotics.

[myoglobin, ASN, BSN, MSN]

On 12/30/2019 at 2:33 PM, Wolfbiologist said:

I have read many many accounts of taking a person off of antidepressants or antianxiety drugs cold turkey. The effects of the withdrawal can be devastating and mimic the original symptoms of the diagnosis. Not "decompensation", the brain is simply learning to control emotions on its own again... naturally. Best to slowly taper off the dosage.

My personal experience with cold turkey zoloft withdrawal gives me firsthand experience. After a couple of months, the withdrawal symptoms subsided and I was entirely fine and in no need of any drugs at all. Would have been better to follow my doctor's advice and ramp the dosage down to zero over a couple months.

Turns out that the doc should never have forced the garbage on me in the first place. She knew of the side effects but was emphatic that the benefit would outweigh the harm. She was wrong.

Zoloft can be an effective medication for many people. However, like many other SSRI's it requires careful titration when being discontinued to minimize discontinuation syndrome. The Carlat report (I believe it was the Oct issue 2019, but I may be wrong on the month) published a new, more gradual protocol for weaning SSRI's (and data about how discontinuation syndrome is more common that typically reported) that might prove useful.

[Wolfbiologist]

Thank you for that information. I have a close relative who has been telling me she doesn't want to take that drug any more. Assuming her doc thinks stopping is a good idea, she'll be stopping. I will find the articles you refer to for her. Knowing my cousin, she'll bring them to her appointment with her doc.