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Suggest Therapy For Depression

I have a friend that took prescription depression meds but wasn t working so stopped taking them after a week and it has been 2 weeks and he has gotten worse and just wondering if there is some type of detox/cleansing he can take to help the process.
posted on Mon, 1 Sep 2014
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Hello
Welcome here.

The antidepressant medications are usually washed out in such long periods of two weeks..

In my opinion, your friends must be having symptoms of depression again which is making him sick.

Instead of detoxification, he might need a restart of antidepressant drugs.

Kindly consult a psychiatrist before his condition worsens.

Thanks.
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Suggest Therapy For Depression

Hello Welcome here. The antidepressant medications are usually washed out in such long periods of two weeks.. In my opinion, your friends must be having symptoms of depression again which is making him sick. Instead of detoxification, he might need a restart of antidepressant drugs. Kindly consult a psychiatrist before his condition worsens. Thanks.