- Deprescribing Medications for Mental Health in Australia
Safe Ways to Get Off Mental Health Medications: A Compassionate Guide to Exploring Your Options
Our mission is to provide clear, evidence-based information and practical guidance on mental health and medications.
Sharing reliable resources to support informed decisions.
Ultimately these medications are to help YOUR life. Find out what works for YOU!
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NEVER stop your medication without discussing it with your treating doctor.
NEVER stop your medication without a plan, and support along the way.
Medication is your choice.
Use it wisely.
This site is exclusively about mental health / psychotropic medications, like…
Antidepressants – with 1 in 6 Australians on antidepressants, this is the main medication we discuss on this site.
Benzodiazepines – this is the next most commonly used prescription mental health medication.
Z-drugs – Zopiclone and Zolpidem. These are the most common form of alternative sleeping medication that doctors prescribe.
Interested in some other mental health medication? Let us know!
Some people can cut down and stop their medication, and not have withdrawal symptoms and never relapse back to their original problems that had them go on the medication in the first place.
But it is important to watch for withdrawal symptoms. Do you know what they could be?
And you also don’t want to relapse either. Are you ready to take on life drug-free?
There is still a lot we don’t know about this developing area of medicine, but more and more, there are authoritative, evidence-based, and practical resources that you can tap into.
There is a decision to start mental health medication.
There is also a decision to stop mental health medication.
Both those decisions deserve the same level of care and consideration.
We don’t have all the answers.
There is still much that needs to be discovered and understood in this area.
But we want to help you with self-management, and your ability to make informed choices that give you the best possible ways to decide for yourself.
