Are there any other methods to help coming off of antidepressants?

Try to go out with your friends.talk to them.it might help you

Perhaps the fact that you don't have time/are unable to sit a do a 30 minute session of yoga is contributing to her lack of emotional control. Sometimes taking time to slow down helps.

That being said, try increasing the amount of Omega3 Fatty Acids (fish), B Complex, and vitamin D. Try to eat a healthy well balanced diet and avoid sugar spikes. Eat healthy can make you feel better

Check out the link below. It has some things that you guys can do.

Coming off an anti-depressant is a personal, internal battle. It's like running up a mountain, and the "running up the mountain" is the key element to recovery.

She has to do the running, she has to overcome the dependence by developing inner strength. You can figuratively give her a glass of water now and then, but she has to do all running on her own.

When you are intrusive in this inner process, it's like replacing the ground under her feet with a treadmill. She has to overcome you and the mountain.

Be compassionate, be present, and be aware she has to do this part on her own.

View: SSRI WITHDRAWALS - ANTIDEPRESSANT DISCONTINUATION SYNDROME, in section 1, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris

Check out: http://www.theroadback.org/workbook.htm

One option is to go on Prozac for a while, then, when stabilised, pre-taper, and slowly wean off, taking Perika, or Kira brands of St. John's wort when below 50% weaning dosage.

A previous answer follows: See section 2, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris on page R first. Use the 7 core treatments, and consider taking either St. John's wort, one of the top 2 NATURAL PRODUCTS, or one of the OTHER supplements, such as inositol, or SAMe, but it is unwise to use any of the latter with antidepressants, without medical advice, particularly the wort (serotonin syndrome risk).

Choose to be optimistic, and maintain a positive attitude. Also see, as applicable, young women's depression, page V: WOMEN TO WOMEN, teen depression, male depression, and eventually the rest of section 2. Take the depression quiz on page J, in section 2, at ezy build, and if positive, print, and take to your doctor, to eliminate medical causes.

Read: "Lift your mood now." by John D Preston, Psy.D. 2001, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., 5674 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland. CA (short, 5 - 10 mn. chapters; easily immediately implemented), & "Feeling Good - the new mood therapy" by David D. Burns, from your bookstore, or Amazon.com (read next; skip parts which don't apply; read them later; it's VERY comprehensive).

It's great news that your girlfriend has started to wean herself off anti-depressants. Some anti-depressants are less-addictive : for instance,

if your girlfriend has taken tricyclic antidepressants such as imipramine or desipramine, they are easier to avoid, gradually. But if

she has been on highly-addictive benzodiazepines like alprazolam,

or potentially-deadly drugs like lithium-carbonate, her de-addiction is going to be pretty-tough.

I am very-happy to know such guys as you. You - who truly care for your girl. But all the three of us : your friend, you and I - are

no match for a clever and experienced mind-mender ( a shrink ).

She needs one. Remember, please : a majority of all the

psychiatric drugs need to be reduced gradually, not abruptly.

Your girlfriend is lucky that she has you as her special one.

Your devotion to her shows that you are, indeed, a rare type of boyfriend : you care for her fully ( brain and body ), unlike most boy-

freinds who care solely for the second part.

Great, now are you only going to read this, or act now ?

Please call her / your psychologist.

Note : I admit this is subjective, but I look down on yoga and

meditation. Frankly, they are useless for de-addictions. In your girl-

friend's case, she needs neither a meditation, nor a medication (unless the shrink recommends it ).

You are completely-noble and normal. Please make your girl-

friend like you.

Best-of-togetherness to both of you.

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