It was the news that many had been waiting for. Earlier this month, world-renowned medical journal The Lancet published a study that ‘proved’ antidepressants were not as risky as feared.
Reports prior to this suggested as many as half of patients suffered debilitating withdrawal symptoms when trying to stop taking the pills, including dizziness, headaches, nausea, insomnia and bizarre electric-shock-like ‘brain zaps’.
But the new research claimed that just one in six patients suffered this, while only one in 35