Yes. Unfortunately, traditional medicine, including psychiatry hasn't evolved much over the last 50 years. I'm looking more, and more to functional and integrative medicine. Has your daughter had any genetic tests? Specifically, COMT, AHCY, and MTHFR? These can play a big role if mutated.

I'm so sorry to hear that. My mantra when it comes to any healthcare professional's advice is, "trust but verify." Based on my own experience, we can usually find more in-depth information than they have. This is the most conservative approach I was able to find: www.survivingantidepressants.org

I am now completely off my psychiatric meds, and I experienced zero side effects doing it this way. It took much longer than what the psychiatrist recommended, but better safe than sorry, in my opinion.

My method involved ordering a highly precise milligram scale and opening my capsules up to customize my doses to precisely 10% lower than the previous dose and do that each month. This approach requires great care, precision, and math, but definitely more conservative than abrupt step-downs.

I self-tapered by reducing my dose 10% each month and monitoring my response. My psychiatrist was against this as she could only recommend tapering in the doses the medications came in, which, in my opinion, might have been too abrupt. She actually fought me on my more conservative approach.

...and how does this help?

Spot on, Sal. When the truth started coming out about the dangers of smoking, and the tobacco industry saw the handwriting on the wall, they decided to buy big food and apply the even more addictive tactics and engineering. Even better for them because you can quit smoking, but you can't quit eating

We must all boldly go George, boldly go.