Antidepressant Safety plan
It is important to have a Safety Plan in place with your SAFE Advocate. Preparing now can save your future self. We have learned that some of the drug induced symptoms hurt the ones you are closest to. You may find yourself engaging in risky behaviors you would never think to do unmedicated. As one advocate said, the trouble with antidepressants, is once you’re on them, you don’t realize how you’re behaving. A few examples from past medicated : Affairs with people they would never have a relationship with, the urge to drink increases endangering your welfare and those around you. This is why it’s important to have a SAFE Advocate who can help you so you don’t lose everything that is important to you.
It is important to know that SSRI/SNRI Antidepressants are designed to alter your brain chemistry, for some that can mean calming but for many it means a numbness of emotions from head to toe. Discuss these symptoms with your SAFE Advocate.
