Antidepressant Withdrawal

If you have tried to get off an antidepressant in the past, you very well know the withdrawal can be brutal. The thought of even trying again may feel overwhelming. We understand, and our program is designed to help you feel well; reduce the common daytime anxiety and insomnia, fatigue and head symptoms that usually run hand-in-hand with antidepressant withdrawal.

Since 1999, The Road Back has helped over 40,000 people, just like you, become drug free. You can make it. Read one of our success stories from a person that just started the program below.

“I made the mistake and quit my antidepressant cold turkey. The side effects were nausea, constant headache, anxiety, no sleep, that brain zap and a whirling in my head. James, your assistance, and guiding me through the first days have made all the difference. Nausea is gone, headache is gone, brain zaps quit within one hour like you said, and the remaining side effects are so small I can deal with them. I do not know how I can ever repay you for saving my life. Unless someone has been through this, they may not know what I am talking about.”

The above story is what The Road Back Program is about. Getting you to feel better again, sleeping, daytime anxiety diminished and most or all other side effects eliminated.

Reducing the antidepressant is actually the easy part of the program. A systematic and slow reduction of the antidepressant is required to avoid withdrawal.

Many of you coming to our site are already in withdrawal and reading is difficult. You can click chapter number 14 located on the right side of this page for answers or call us toll free at 1-866-892-0238 or send us an e-mail to info@theroadback.org and we can guide you through what needs to be done.

You do not have to purchase a book to start our program All chapters of the bestselling book, How to Get Off Psychiatric Drugs Safely, 2010 Edition, are located on the right side of this web site. We suggest you start with A Note From James Harper, Founder, The Road Back, and proceed through the chapters. This is a time not to rush, but to educate yourself as much as possible, decide on the method you will use and then proceed.

You may have found other antidepressant withdrawal programs that seem similar to The Road Back. Since 1999, our founder James Harper has trained hundreds of healthcare providers and some have made a little change to this program and relabeled it in their own name. These other programs are not causing harm, but they are still using the withdrawal methods taught between 1999 and 2005 and there are much better successes with the new discoveries since those early years.

Here is what one psychiatrist has to say about The Road Back Program

"Here is an essential handbook on how to safely and more easily wean yourself (under medical supervision) off the heavily over-prescribed psychotropic medications. I have used the program with my patients and it works!” Hyla Cass M.D. Author of Supplement Your Prescription

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