Prescription Pitfall: A Personal Struggle with Psychiatry and Spousal Influence

Unveiling the Hidden Struggles of Deprescription Amidst Professional and Personal Pressure

In this short introspective piece I describe how I found myself in an unexpected struggle, wrestling with the intertwined influences of my psychiatrist and spouse. The battleground was my deprescription plan, challenged by a firm insistence on a 5mg dose of aripiprazole. This psychiatrist-spouse alliance, founded on a professional opinion presented as t…