No. What patients call addiction is usually withdrawal. If you take antidepressants for more than one week, and then stop abruptly, in about 20-30% of cases very unpleasant symptoms can occur, and if you start taking the medicine again, they will disappear. Most often, with a withdrawal syndrome, a person develops fatigue, a headache, nausea and “shaking,” but many other symptoms can arise: from a runny nose to irritability. In a week or two, all this should go. However, this is not an addiction: if you reduce the dosage gradually, over the course of several weeks, then everything will be fine and there will be no acute desire at all costs to take the drug again. It will not work with heroin or alcohol: they cause a real addiction.According to the psychiatrist, a feeling of dependence on antidepressants also arises because during the course a person feels good, and after withdrawal, symptoms of depression that he has already forgotten can return. This is often perceived not as a s...