Alyne Duthie

jech.bmj.com/content/57/12/… 'Depression, infection, disability, dysfunction, & other specific iatrogenic diseases now cause more suffering than all accidents from traffic or industry.. so-called health-profs have an indirect sickening power - a structurally health-denying effect.'

Zuranolone has a benzodiazepine-like profile of effects. Thankfully it is only given for 2 weeks, but as this piece highlights, the sedation it causes it not likely to be helpful or safe while caring for a baby nytimes.com/2025/07/22/hea…

"Some babies born to mothers taking SSRIs may develop symptoms such as jitteriness, irritability or difficulty eating or sleeping that resolve quickly — what’s known as “neonatal adaptation syndrome.” A new nadir in iatrogenic harm obfuscation? rxisk.org/unsafe-safety-…

Clips from today's FDA panel discussion on SSRI's for pregnant women. We are fundamentally misleading people about the nature of depression. I asked for transparency. Honesty. We have medicalized all aspects of the human experience to push drugs & the consequences have been…

thecritic.co.uk/it-is-right-to… I've long wondered about the lack of empathy and concern shown towards harmed patients in psychiatry. Are the many disabling effects of drugs and electroshock expected to be gratefully endured because clinicians see themselves in the saviour role?

The Truth About Pills And Pregnancy youtube.com/watch?v=BMAEJ1… A tragedy like Thalidomide was never supposed to happen again..until it happened with Sodium Valproate, Primodos, and the SSRIs. Harmed by Citalopram, David spent the first 8 months of his life in and out of hospital.

ICYMI: Highlights from yesterday’s expert panel on SSRIs and pregnancy. “Serotonin may play a crucial role in the development of the organs of a baby in utero, specifically the heart, brain, and even the gut. SSRIs have also been implicated in different studies to be involved in…

Just had an interesting chat with ChatGPT re BIND. Responses were certainly far more helpful than my own doctors. It would certainly be a great support.

So diagnosed by a PHQ9 like screener, and then there's this blooper. Even though nobody believes in the mythical chemical imbalance any more, somehow it's still all over the Internet.

"... it is now almost impossible to find independent articles from academic physicians with no links to industry that will sound a note of caution about prescribing antidepressants to women of child-bearing years." (2009) And so it remains to this day. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) settled approximately 800 Paxil birth defect cases. Some of these defects resulted in mothers having to abort. This is publicly available information. Why is there a debate about whether it's safe or not to take SSRIs during pregnancy?

Did you know a jury found pharma LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE for a man murdering his family? Donald Schell was prescribed Paxil. Just 48 hours later, he killed his wife, daughter, and granddaughter, then took his own life. The court ruled the DRUG was to blame. What happened next?…

🧵1/4 JAMA Psychiatry appears more concerned with petri dishes than real people harmed by antidepressant withdrawal. They’ve denied our request to correct the misleading Kalfas et al. review—a request that was grounded in both the real-world experiences of hundreds of thousands…

This article reads less like health journalism and more like a pharma-sponsored hit piece, framed to protect their interests over the public’s. In a blatant act of narrative control, the author sidesteps the facts and twists the story—vilifying credible voices and casting doubt…

4/4 We’re now inviting the community to speak out. Let JAMA and the media know how you feel about the review and their decision to ignore the voices of those harmed. We’ve made it easy. Use this email template to contact editors and journalists: bit.ly/EMAILJAMA

If you want to know how drug companies cover-up the dangers of taking SSRIs during pregnancy, then look no further than 'Ryan, Glaxo's Non-Viable Fetus - Part I' Part 2 is at the end of the post. I know what the outcome was, but I will take it to the grave.…

A systematic review into the incidence, severity and duration of antid... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Our 2019 review which the minimisers of antidepressant withdrawal effects are still trying to discredit. Their efforts keep being exposed as flawed, biased & dangerously misleading

The FDA panel yesterday was so important The “ triple boarded “ doctor from U of Fl didn’t dispute the fact that SSRIs cross the placenta and into the fetus brain and other organs that require serotonin Yet she kept insisting they were safe in pregnancy. I relistened and…

Dr. Andrew Mosholder, an agency epidemiologist, was the man charged with analyzing 22 studies involving 4,250 children and seven drugs. In a 33-page memorandum, he concluded that children given antidepressants were almost twice as likely as those given placebos to become suicidal

Both of my children had withdrawal. Of course I didn’t recognise it for what it was at the time. And both have ongoing effects. They’re more adults Zero information given.

In universities, you don’t get canceled for being wrong. You get canceled for being right at the wrong time.