Inner Compass Initiative
@_innercompass
Helping you make informed choices about all things mental health: diagnoses, drugs, and drug withdrawal
"A growing number of people say antidepressants have left them with debilitating symptoms years, even decades after going off the medications.” —Ari Shapiro, @NPR In response to stories like this, our peer-led support space, the Inner Compass Exchange, is one of the places we’re…
Just to summarise. The JAMA review concluded that there was no significant withdrawal based on its main analysis (figure 2) of 11 studies, 10 of which involved people who took antidepressants for 8-12 weeks before stopping. (1/n)
I love the APA and want it to succeed, but I am not sure that this statement is most representative of the sources they cite. To say "There is no overall evidence that SSRIs are unsafe during pregnancy" They cite Clarke et al. 2023's white paper, which indeed says "Recent…
What if the story you’ve been told about your mind isn’t the whole story? @LauraDelano, founder of Inner Compass, went from full-time psychiatric patient to living the truth: our bodies are wise, our pain makes sense, and we are far more powerful than we’ve been led to believe.
Our founder, @LauraDelano, coined psychiatrization to describe how normal human emotions and behaviors are labeled as disorders, reducing our complexity to diagnoses and leading to harmful treatments. Have you experienced this? How has it impacted you?
Today we submitted a formal correction request to the editors of JAMA Psychiatry @JAMAPsych @dost_ongur in response to the recent Kalfas et al. review, which downplays the risks of antidepressant withdrawal by relying on short-term studies. Our letter outlines the dangerous…
From The Canary “Dr Horowitz [@markhoro] pointed out the similarities to the fossil fuel industry’s denial of the climate crisis and cigarettes. Naomi Oreskes highlighted these in her book, Merchants of Doubt. Oreskes pointed out that when people are defending a commercial…
How long have you taken antidepressants, if prescribed?
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We built @_innercompass to provide information and support for those navigating the scary decision to come off psych drugs. (Among our many resources is our step-by-step, self-directed taper manual that shows exactly how people safely withdraw from all classes of psych meds.)