Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭

Hi folks, I'm very proud to say that my book, Sedated, is released today! I've done everything within my power to write a book worthy of your time - one that illuminates via interviews, stories & research why our mental health sector is broken & how we may put it right again. 1/5

In this current era, we are far more interested in altering the particular individual who is driven into pain & suffering, than in collectively altering the social realities that have driven them there.

-Serotonin plays a crucial role in fetal development & SSRIs disrupt the serotonin system. -SSRI use in pregnancy has been associated with miscarriage, birth defects, preterm birth, postpartum hemorrhage, NICU admission, & other issues. -SSRIs alter fetal brain development, with…

Around 30% of babies exposed to SSRIs/SNRIs in the third trimester of the mother's pregnancy experience withdrawal. Psychiatry uses the euphemism 'NAS' to refer to this withdrawal. The long-term effects of prolonged exposure "have yet to be determined" jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Two reasons mental health disability is rising: Failure to tackle social determinants of rising societal distress over 3 decades; & overreliance on an overly-medicalised MH ideology, leading poor outcomes, iatrogentic harm & chronic under-investment in psycho-social alternatives.

For decades we sat back and let the psych/pharma alliance pathologise every species of emotional discontent. This helped fuel a public health crisis of rising harms & social confusion…. We’re now scrambling to row the ideology back. What a mess….. thetimes.com/uk/education/a…

A decade ago, when we warned about the harms of over-medicalisation, no one in power paid attention. Now they do, as the results are impossible to ignore as an entire generation suffers the personal & ideological harms of their distress being unduly pathologised & medicated...

Remember the 2024 Henssler review claiming only 1 in 6 have antidepressant withdrawal symptoms & 1 in 30 severe symptoms? Here we show it was based on highly unreliable data & can't be used to estimate withdrawal effects 1/n @JohnRead @markhoro @JDaviesPhD cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Excellent new book about psych-drug withdrawal published today….by @_AndersSorensen amazon.com/dp/B0FFBDCGP7

Remember the Henssler review on antidepressant withdrawal, which, once again, mainly focused on short-term trials? - well, here is a powerful rebuttal of that review, led by @joannamoncrieff & published today 👇 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

"Babies whose mothers are taking [antidepressants] will be used to having the medication in their systems before they are born. When they are born this supply is cut, and some babies can have symptoms of withdrawal." We don't talk about this nearly enough. hey.nhs.uk/patient-leafle…

Amen to this! In my forthcoming book, I hypothesize that the mind is a software entity constructed of data code in nucleic acids. I recommend the application of software patches of data to reconcile software issues that manifest as psychic pain, such as depression. I call these…

'Depression' isn't against you. It rather *works* against you when you fail to engage with it constructively - asking what realisation or change it's demanding, or what it's protesting against. It's only by working with depression (not against it) that you will get through it.

The BMJ has altered it's original news piece on the recent antidepressant withdrawal study, "to clarify the study’s limitations and to add comments from James Davies" as the editor says.... - We all appreciate this critical amendment 👇 bmj.com/content/390/bm…