Antidepressants: Please, PLEASE, do not just abandon your meds!

Despite what you may have read in the furore surrounding Johann Hari's new book, it's very dangerous to stop antidepressants without professional advice

Please, do not just abandon your medication.

If you've been prescribed drugs to treat an illness, suddenly dropping it altogether - for whatever reason - is invariably a very bad move. And this is as true for things like antidepressants as it is for insulin or antibiotics. Antidepressant withdrawal syndrome is a real problem.