Dr John Read
@ReadReadj
Professor, Clinical Psychology, University of East London. Chair, International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal http://www.iipdw.org. Opinions my own
Grossly Flawed Paper Denies that Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects are “Clinically Meaningful” - Mad In America madinamerica.com/2025/07/grossl… @markhoro @Institute_PDW @joannamoncrieff @MITUKteam @PloederlM @HengartnerMP @MichelleFunk3 @MedicatingNorm1
It is worrying that leading psychiatrists have quoted the Henssler review regardless of these limitations (and the more recent Kalfas review) to reassure the public and called on the Royal College of Psychiatrists to weaken its advice on stopping antidepressants 10/n
The spin is unreal. I have been involved since 2003 helping to get black box suicide warning on antidepressants. The public are the ones who have long been misled about antidepressants help fix “chemical imbalances” without being told the dangers or potential harms. Shame on…
NBC misrepresented the FDA panel discussion on SSRIs in pregnancy—experts discussing risks to developing babies from these brain-altering chemicals. Shame on @ariabendix They quoted me as dismissing women's depression as just "experiencing emotions more intensely" attempting to…
This syndrome occur in a third of newborns of mothers who have taken SSRIs or SNRIs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34336063/
Here are the symptoms of "antidepressant discontinuation syndrome" in newborns, according to the FDA: "respiratory distress, cyanosis, apnea, seizures, temperature instability, feeding difficulty, vomiting, hypoglycemia, hyperreflexia..." Sound mild? pi.lilly.com/ca/prozac-ca-p…
"In the real world, antidepressants are dished out to people who are not depressed e.g have transient anxiety over jobs, relationships, exams etc. The majority of pregnant people taking SSRIs should not have been supplied them in the first place," davidhealy.org/fda-panel-ssri…
We will continue to report our SSRI experiences to @US_FDA until they do something about it. Join us Saturday to file our Medwatch reports as a group: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Part 2- FDA panel hearing. If you want to increase the amount of people who identify with depression and anxiety... if you want to increase suffering- You get people to battle their own internal experience. Fear their emotions, thoughts. Distrust their own emotions. Call them…
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It's important to keep this @NBCNewsHealth article in context. Pharmaceutical companies spent $3.4 billion on linear TV ads in the first eight months of 2024, with 48% of household TV ad impressions split among major networks including NBC. Specific to NBC, top programs like *NBC…
Pathetic to see the psychiatry apologists attacking the presenters on the FDA panel for being 'financially conflicted.' No, they are doing their job, and publishing books. The apologists ignore the billions of dollars that Big Pharma has funneled into psychiatry, corrupting…
Any system that requires only short-term company-funded trials to prove benefit, but demands catastrophic, undeniable harm-plus political pressure and smoking-gun evidence of corporate wrongdoing-to acknowledge risk, is a system built to harm people at scale...
As with the Kalfas review, we conclude the 'review does not provide good grounds to make reliable judgments about withdrawal' and can potentially mislead doctors and the public 11/n
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…
Prof H is very good at witticisms. But seems less strong on the role of serotonin and other neurotransmitters in developmental neurobiology.
There’s a particular kind of colleague from whom an insult can be regarded as something of a compliment.
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Notice how uncritical pro-psychiatry thinkers simply resort to personal attacks like calling their opponents Scientologists and anti-vaxxers. That's because they are afraid to address the fact that the mass prescription practices are causing more harm than good.
When you are that beholden to Pharma it gives them a lot of power. I wonder what NBC would do if they were told all drug ads would be pulled if they ran a critical story?
Here are the symptoms of "antidepressant discontinuation syndrome" in newborns, according to the FDA: "respiratory distress, cyanosis, apnea, seizures, temperature instability, feeding difficulty, vomiting, hypoglycemia, hyperreflexia..." Sound mild? pi.lilly.com/ca/prozac-ca-p…
Today’s panel questioned the narratives we’ve all been sold on known v unknown and risks v benefits of SSRIs in pregnancy but also more generally. Incredible discussion. And I even got my question answered.
LIVESTREAMING NOW: FDA Expert Panel on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and Pregnancy
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
Out today by Anders Sørensen. An informative guide to coming off psychiatric drugs. Provides detailed help on reducing medication and on how to manage rebounding emotions amazon.co.uk/Crossing-Zero-…