{"id":217762,"date":"2025-07-13T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/largest-review-of-antidepressants-to-date-finds-most-people-do-not-experience-severe-withdrawal"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:17:30","slug":"largest-review-of-antidepressants-to-date-finds-most-people-do-not-experience-severe-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/largest-review-of-antidepressants-to-date-finds-most-people-do-not-experience-severe-withdrawal","title":{"rendered":"Largest review of antidepressants to date finds most people do not experience severe withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/largest-review-of-antidepressants-to-date-finds-most-people-do-not-experience-severe-withdrawal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The largest review of \u201cgold standard\u201d antidepressant withdrawal studies to date has identified the type and incidence of symptoms experienced by people discontinuing antidepressants, finding most people do not experience severe withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncidence and Nature of Antidepressant Discontinuation Symptoms, A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis\u201d was published in JAMA Psychiatry.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/systematic+review\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">systematic review<\/a> and meta-analysis of previous randomized controlled trials relating to antidepressant withdrawal, a team of researchers led by Imperial College London and King\u2019s College London concluded that, while participants who stopped antidepressants did experience an average of one more symptom than those who continued or were taking placebos, this was not enough to be judged as significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest review of \u201cgold standard\u201d antidepressant withdrawal studies to date has identified the type and incidence of symptoms experienced by people discontinuing antidepressants, finding most people do not experience severe withdrawal. \u201cIncidence and Nature of Antidepressant Discontinuation Symptoms, A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis\u201d was published in JAMA Psychiatry. In a systematic review and meta-analysis [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}