I think about 10 years ago maybe even more than that maybe 15 years ago I had a conversation under a different name on hacker news and I was telling them about my antidepressant withdrawal.

I was downvoted and ridiculed. Told it was just my mental illness and it was all in my head. I even attempted to show the mechanism but people thought that was not enough.

Now I see this. It makes me angry. No one listens to the mentally ill and our experiences.

By the way, this is also true for and drugs that act on receptors. Like most antipsychotics. It’s is even true for GLP1 drugs.

This is a form of addiction that is not see only because the “craving” is absent. It is an addiction which fits not tell you what you are addicted to.

Psychiatry is the worst practice right now. There has been zero progress and even less compassion.