alt Hacker NewsThis is an absolute failure on the part of medical science. SSRIs went mainstream in 1988.
By 1992! We knew about withdrawal issues: https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/SSRI_discontinuation_syndr...
Let's be generous and give it until the 2000s for the knowledge to spread and science to validate; and we're still left with 26 years of blundering around without IMO sufficient warning to patients about withdrawal risks.
I would wager some of the doctors who prescribe today were well past a glint in their father's eye when we started to know about this.
Seemingly around the world, physicians are often nepo babies.
In the United States, our physicians are paid by taxes for grad school. The physicians decide the supply with an unelected private org ACGMe.
It really shows that despite the corruption, people will go to great lengths for health.