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Millions stuck on pills that can wreck lives: Years after experts admitted crippling side effects of quitting antidepressants, we reveal doctors are STILL not following these crucial steps to help patients
When Helena Burton stopped taking her antidepressant medication she was gripped by a range of intense symptoms: her face went numb, her brain felt 'like it was being zapped with an electric current' and her entire world seemed unreal. 'I felt like I was going mad,' recalls Helena, 56, a psychotherapist who lives in Essex.
'Coming off the prescribed antidepressant, venlafaxine, after taking it for 15 years felt like there was a bomb going off in my head. But at the same time I was having doctors shout at me that there was no such thing as antidepressant withdrawal.'
