Transitions in depression: if, how, and when depressive symptoms return during and after discontinuing antidepressants.
Arnout C SmitEvelien SnippeLaura F BringmannH J Rogier HoendersMarieke WichersPublished in: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation (2022)
Meaningful change is common in patients discontinuing antidepressants, and there is substantial heterogeneity in how and when these changes occur. Depressive symptom change at the macro-level is not the same as depressive symptom change at the micro-level.