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A former music teacher and cellist, Beth used to take medications that left her with terrible tremors and a torturous physical restlessness called akathisia, deepening the agony of a teaching career lost to her struggles.

"Within a couple of days of coming off, it was overwhelming - agitation, anxiety, akathisia, just restlessness, can't sleep, suicidal ideations, all that stuff going on very quickly," Stuart Bryan tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

Mikhaila added that her father experienced akathisia, which is a condition “where the person feels an incredible, endless, irresistible restlessness, bordering on panic, and an inability to sit still.”

Patients who have tolerated a drug in the past may develop akathisia when they start a new course of treatment, experts say.

“We have to be very careful about this and ask, ‘Is it something I’m giving the patient that’s causing this?’” said Dr. Gedzior, who wrote a paper on akathisia.