The dangers of antidepressant withdrawal and how to overcome them

Mark Horowitz, Associate Professor of Psychiatry,  did his PhD in how antidepressants work and prescribed psychiatric drugs to his patients regularly as part of clinical practice. However, when he faces a near-fatal experience coming off his own drugs he is forced to re-think what he has been taught about these drugs and how they work. Since then his career has pivoted to trying to educate his colleagues about the harms of these drugs, including withdrawal. This has led to him writing the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines, endorsed by the Royal Australian College of GPs to bring evidence-based guidance to clinicians helping others to stop taking psychiatric drugs.