Antidepressant Side Effects Reported to Australia’s Drug Regulatory Agency
This page has the side effects reported for antidepressant drugs to Australia’s drug regulatory agency, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
CCHR has previously obtained the adverse drug reaction reports (ADRs – named Public Case Details) of various classes of psychiatric drugs several times. CCHR provides them here as a service to the public and in the interests of full transparency as they are no longer available from the TGA.
Exactly what these files of side effects are and how to use them is on the Side Effects page on this link: https://cchr.org.au/side-effects/
Warning: The information enclosed in these documents is not intended to supplement medical advice or be used to guide medical/therapeutic decisions. These Adverse Drug Reports are not medical histories.
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No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the advice and assistance of a competent medical doctor due to withdrawal syndrome (worsening of symptoms ― new ―not before experienced symptoms). The TGA has issued warnings concerning withdrawal syndrome.
2007 Antidepressants
- Side effects reported for children aged 0 to 9 break up.
- Side effects reported for children aged 10 to 19 break up.
Medicine Summaries
TGA explanatory notes regarding how to read 2007 summaries.
Click on each drug below to view the medicine summary for each drug listed.
- Amitriptyline: View here
- Citalopram: View here
- Clomipramine: View here
- Dothiepin: View here ( note it has since been renamed to dosulepin)
- Doxepin: View here
- Escitalopram: View here
- Fluoxetine: View here
- Fluvoxamine: View here
- Imipramine: View here
- Mianserin: View here
- Mirtazapine: View here
- Moclobemide: View here
- Nortriptyline: View here
- Paroxetine: View here
- Phenelzine: View here
- Sertraline: View here
- Tranylcypromine: View here
- Trimipramine: View here
- Venlafaxine: View here
Adverse Drug Reactions – Public Case Details
Click on each drug below to view the individual adverse drug reactions for each drug listed.
- Amitriptyline: View File 1, View File 2
- Citalopram: View here
- Clomipramine: View File 1, View File 2
- Dothiepin: View File 1, View File 2 ( note it has since been renamed to dosulepin )
- Doxepin: View File 1, View File 2
- Fluoxetine: View File 1, View File 2
- Fluvoxamine: View Here
- Imipramine: View File 1, View File 2
- Mianserin: View File 1, View File 2
- Mirtazapine: View here
- Moclobemide: View File 1, View File 2
- Nortriptyline: View File 1, View File 2
- Paroxetine: View File 1, View File 2
- Phenelzine: View File 1, View File2
- Sertraline: View File 1, View File 2, View File 3, View File 4, View File 5, View File 6, View File 7
- Tranylcypromine: View File 1, View File 2
- Trimipramine: View File 1, View File 2
- Venlafaxine: View File 1, View File 2
2007 – 2009 Antidepressants
- Side effects reported for children aged 0 to 9 break up.
- Side effects reported for children aged 10 to 19 break up.
Medicine Summaries
TGA explanatory notes regarding how to read 2009 summaries.
Click on each drug below to view the medicine summary for each drug listed.
- Amitriptyline: View here
- Citalopram: View here
- Clomipramine: View here
- Desvenlafaxine: View here
- Dothiepin: View here ( note it has since been renamed to dosulepin )
- Doxepin: View here
- Duloxetine: View here
- Escitalopram: View here
- Fluoxetine: View here
- Fluvoxamine: View here
- Imipramine: View here
- Mianserin: View here
- Mirtazapine: View here
- Moclobemide: View here
- Nortriptyline: View here
- Paroxetine: View here
- Phenelzine: View here
- Reboxetine: View here
- Sertraline: View here
- Tranylcypromine: View here
- Trimipramine: View here
- Venlafaxine: View here
Adverse Drug Reactions – Public Case Details
Click on each drug below to view the individual adverse drug reactions for each drug listed.
- Amitriptyline: View here
- Citalopram: View here (citalopram was provided by the TGA with other drugs in the same file)
- Clomipramine: View here
- Desvenlafaxine: View here
- Dothiepin: View here ( note it has since been renamed to dosulepin )
- Doxepin: View here
- Duloxetine: View here
- Escitalopram: View here
- Fluoxetine: View here
- Fluvoxamine: View here
- Imipramine: View here (imipramine was proved by the TGA with another drug in the same file)
- Mianserin: View here
- Mirtazapine: View here
- Moclobemide: View here
- Nortriptyline: View here
- Paroxetine: View here
- Phenelzine: View here
- Reboxetine: View here
- Sertraline: View here
- Tranylcypromine: View here
- Venlafaxine: View here (venlafaxine was proved by the TGA with another drug in the same file)
2011 Antidepressants
- Side effects reported for children aged 0 to 9 break up.
- Side effects reported for children aged 10 to 19 break up.
Medicine Summaries
Click on each drug below to view the medicine summary for each drug listed.
- Amitriptyline: View here
- Citalopram: View here
- Clomipramine: View here
- Desvenlafaxine: View here
- Dothiepin: View here ( note it has since been renamed to dosulepin )
- Doxepin: View here
- Duloxetine: View here
- Escitalopram: View here
- Fluoxetine: View here
- Fluvoxamine: View here
- Imipramine: View here
- Mianserin: View here
- Mirtazapine: View here
- Moclobemide: View here
- Nortriptyline: View here
- Paroxetine: View here
- Phenelzine: View here
- Reboxetine: View here
- Sertraline: View here
- Tranylcypromine: View here
- Trimipramine: View here
- Venlafaxine: View here