How to discontinue Olanzapine (link)

It's your brain. You should learn to take care of it, and not allow Big Pharma to screw with it. SEE: http://www.antipsychiatry.org/ M. You Have Been Warned! FROM WIKIPEDIA: Discontinuation The British National Formulary recommends a gradual withdrawal when discontinuing antipsychotics to avoid acute withdrawal syndrome or rapid relapse.[63] Symptoms of withdrawal commonly include nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite.[64] Other symptoms may include restlessness, increased sweating, and trouble sleeping.[64] Less commonly, vertigo, numbness, or muscle pains may occur.[64] Symptoms generally resolve after a short time.[64] Tentative evidence indicates that discontinuation of antipsychotics can result in psychosis, as a temporary withdrawal symptom.[65] It may also result in reoccurrence of the condition that is being treated.[66] Rarely, tardive dyskinesia can occur when the medication is stopped.[64] SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olanzapine ABOUT WHY YOU SHOULDN'T BE TAKING THOSE DRUGS, SEE: Your Drug May Be Your Problem, Revised Edition: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications Da Capo Lifelong Books, Hachette Book Group, Cambridge, MA, 2007 Peter Roger Breggin, David Cohen, Cohen, David Description: From Ativan to Zoloft, Effexor to Prozac, the dangers of psychiatric medication and guidance on how to safely stop taking them When first published in 1999, Your Drug May Be Your Problem was ahead of its time. The only book to provide an uncensored description of the dangers involved in taking every kind of psychiatric medication, it was also the first and only book to explain how to safely stop taking them. In the time elapsed, there have been numerous studies suggesting or proving the dangers of some psychiatric medications and even the FDA now acknowledges the problems; more studies are under way to determine their long-term and withdrawal effects. In the meantime, this book continues to be ever relevant and helpful. Fully updated to include study results and new medications that have come to market, Your Drug May Be Your Problem will help countless readers exert control over their own psychiatric treatment. CONTENTS: Title Page 10 Copyright Page 11 A Warning Concerning the Use of Psychiatric Drugs 14 Introductions to the New Edition: Scientific Confirmations of the First Edition 15 The FDA Finally Recognizes Antidepressant-Induced Suicidality 15 Confirming Over-Stimulation 16 Antidepressant-Induced Suicidality in Adults 17 The FDA Resists the Facts 18 Antidepressant Withdrawal Acknowledged 19 Do Antidepressants Have Any Positive Effects? 20 New FDA Disclosures about Stimulant Drugs for Treating ADHD in Children 20 A New Concept: Spellbound by Psychiatric Drugs 22 The Internet and Drug Information 24 The Drug Industry Exposed and Re-Exposed 25 Drugs for Schizophrenia, Depression, and Bipolar Disorder—A Bust 25 Medications and Prescribers Out of Control 27 Conclusion 28 Introduction: What Is Your Ultimate Resource? 29 Our Final Resort 29 Resort to Drugs 29 Seeking Relief 30 What Suffering Tells Us 30 The New Ultimate Resource 31 What Do We Really Know About How Our Brains Work? 32 The Science Behind Psychiatric Drugs 32 Are There Biochemical Imbalances? 33 What Do We Really Know About Psychiatric Drugs and the Brain? 34 What If We Treated Our Computers the Way We Treat the Brain? 35 What This Viewpoint Does to Us 36 Herbal and “Natural” Remedies 36 1: Psychiatric Drugs— Much Easier to Start Than to Stop 39 A Few Minutes That Can Become a Lifetime 39 Reasons to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs 40 How This Book Can Help 47 More Reasons to Stop Taking Drugs 48 If Someone You Care About Is Taking Psychiatric Drugs 49 An Independent Decision 50 2: The Limits of Psychiatric Drugs 52 How We Learn What Drugs Do 53 How Current Drugs Affect Animals and People 53 Can We Test for Biochemical Imbalances? 53 Causing, Not Curing, Biochemical Imbalances 54 More Flaws in the Myth of Biochemical Imbalances 55 Anesthesia of the Soul 56 What Does “Improvement” Mean in the Context of Psychiatric Drugs? 56 The Limits of Psychiatric Drugs in General 57 Conclusion 60 3: Your Drug May Be Your Problem— But You May Be the Last to Know 62 The Variability of Individual Responses to Drugs 62 “Creeping” Adverse Effects 63 The Risk of Permanent Brain Dysfunction Caused by Psychiatric Drugs 64 Physicians Urge Long-Term Use Without Justification 65 The Special Danger of Psychiatric Drugs 67 Adverse Effects on How You Think, Feel, and Act 68 You May Be the Last to Know 73 4: Adverse Effects of Specific Psychiatric Drugs 75 Growing Recognition of the Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs 75 Drug-Induced Toxic Psychosis and Toxic Delirium 76 Drug-Induced Mania 77 Children at Grave Risk for Antidepressant-Induced Mania 77 Estimated Rates for Drug-Induced Mental and Neurological Disorders 78 Adverse Effects Caused by Specific Psychiatric Drugs 79 Tardive Dyskinesia Caused by Antipsychotics 92 Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome 93 Antipsychotic Withdrawal Psychoses 94 Other Harmful Antipsychotic Effects 94 Medications Used to Treat Drug-Induced Abnormal Movements 96 Psychiatric Drugs During Pregnancy and Nursing 97 5: Personal and Psychological Reasons for Not Using Psychiatric Drugs 99 A Natural Aversion to Taking Mood-Altering Drugs 99 Other Common Concerns About Taking Psychiatric Drugs 99 Convincing You That You’re “Mentally Ill” 100 Defining Intense or Painful Emotions as Illness 102 How Psychiatry Takes Advantage 103 Good Therapy Versus Psychiatric Diagnosis and Medication 104 Maintaining Your Mental Faculties 104 Being in Touch with Your Feelings 105 The Placebo Effect 106 Psychological Dependence on Drugs, Doctors, and Medical Solutions to Personal Problems 107 Learning to Live Without Drugs 107 6: Why Doctors Tell Their Patients So Little 109 Encouraged Not to Tell 109 Where Was the FDA? 110 Getting Information to You 112 FDA Approval Does Not Mean That a Drug Is Safe or Even Highly Effective 112 Whose Risk and Whose Benefit? 113 Serious Dangers Can Surface for the First Time After Years of Use 114 Recognizing the Limits of FDA Approval 115 How Adverse Effects Go Unreported 116 No Guarantee of Long-Term Safety 117 The Media 117 What Do Doctors Know? 118 Doctors’ Attitudes Toward Informing Patients 118 7: Plan Your Drug Withdrawal 120 Decide for Yourself 120 Try to Get Help from an Experienced Clinician 122 How May a Clinician Help? 122 Informing Your Doctor of Your Intentions 123 Stay in Charge of the Withdrawal 124 The Best and the Worst to Expect from Your Doctor 125 Set Up a Support Network 126 How a Friend Can Help 127 Support Networks on the Internet 128 Know What Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs Might Entail 130 Anticipate Withdrawal Reactions 131 Understand What Influences the Ease of Withdrawal 131 Facing the Fear of Withdrawal 137 8: How to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs 138 Gradual Withdrawal Is Its Own Protection 138 Why Gradual Withdrawal Is Better Than Sudden Withdrawal 139 Remove Drugs One at a Time 140 Which Drug Should Be Stopped First? 141 Special Considerations During Withdrawal 141 How Fast Should You Withdraw? 142 How to Divide Individual Doses 144 9: Withdrawal Reactions from Psychiatric Drugs 146 Beware Illicit Use 146 Your Doctor May Not Know 146 When Am I Having a Withdrawal Reaction? 147 Denial of Withdrawal Reactions 148 Defining Physical Dependence 149 Withdrawal Reactions Can Cause “Significant Distress” 150 “Withdrawal” or “Discontinuation”? 151 Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Reactions 152 Antidepressant Withdrawal Reactions 154 Atypical Antidepressant Withdrawal Reactions 160 Stimulant Withdrawal Reactions 160 Lithium and Anticonvulsant Withdrawal Reactions 162 Antipsychotic or Neuroleptic Withdrawal Reactions 164 Antiparkinsonian Withdrawal Reactions 171 How Gradual Is “Gradual Withdrawal”? 172 Overview of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Reactions 173 10: Withdrawing Your Child from Psychiatric Drugs 175 Special Precautions 175 Your Child’s Previous Experience with Withdrawal 176 Rebound and Withdrawal Effects 176 Identifying the Source of Potential Problems 177 Focusing on Problems in the Family 177 Withdrawing from Multiple Drugs or Multiple Daily Doses 183 When to Start Withdrawal 183 11: Understanding Your Therapist’s Fears About Nonuse of Drugs 185 When Your Therapist Says You Need Drugs 185 Therapists Are People, Too 185 So Many Kinds of Therapy 186 What to Do When the Therapy Is Failing 187 What Do We Have Faith In? 188 Therapists Are Losing Faith in Themselves 189 The Exaggerated Fear of Lawsuits 189 Faith in Ourselves Versus Faith in Medication 190 Understanding Your Therapist’s Fears 190 Personalities and Power 192 12: Guidelines for Therapists Who Do Not Advocate the Use of Psychiatric Drugs 195 Suggested Guidelines 195 Stand Up and Be Counted 198 13: Psychological Principles for Helping Yourself and Others Without Resort to Psychiatric Medications 199 Appendix A: Psychiatric Medications in Common Use 206 I: Antidepressants1 206 II: Stimulants 206 III: Tranquilizers and Sleeping Pills6 207 IV: Antipsychotic Drugs (Neuroleptics) 207 V. Lithium and Other Drugs Used as “Mood Stabilizers” 208 Appendix B: About the Authors 210 Appendix C: The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology 212 Appendix D: The Alliance for Human Research Protection 214 Notes 215 New Introduction by Peter Breggin 215 New Introduction by David Cohen 216 DOWNLOAD HERE: https://annas-archive.org/search?index=&page=1&q=Your+Drug+May+Be+Your+Problem+2007&display=&sort= (https site) https://annas-archive.org/search?index=&page=1&q=Your+Drug+May+Be+Your+Problem+2007&display=&sort= [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst]