Angie Peacock, MSW, CPC
@angpeacock1111
Psych Drug Withdrawal Consultant, Patient Advocate, Coach, Combat Veteran, Vanlifer, in the movie @medicatingnorm1 #deprescribing
When clients I work with heal, we DO SOMETHING with the suffering we endured. So proud of Shelly for sponsoring this billboard and putting it on the highway right next to Cleveland Clinic so all their doctors can see the word #AKATHISIA on their way to work. #iatrogenicillness…
Most #medical centers have no #akathisia webpage, so we're glad @ClevelandClinic does. But... "prioritizing physical movement symptoms over profound neuropsychiatric effects risks minimizing the symptoms most associated with medication-induced suicidality" --Wendy Dolin. MISSD's…
Akathisia is “Like living in a scream.” Lisa Loomer’s gripping new play Side Effects May Include… exposes the hidden crisis of akathisia and the deadly cost of uninformed consent. The bold new play is now running at the world-renowned Contemporary American Theater Festival.…
If a cancer patient did not respons positively to chemotherapy, would they be considered "difficult?" No? They maybe the way mental health patients are treated and talked about feeds into the "difficulties."
Sometimes I feel a little foolish saying trauma caused my schizophrenia, but I say it to make people relate the two, to know the extreme trauma is the schizophrenia. “Trauma” also feels insufficient for my adverse childhood experiences, so I say “extreme trauma.” My childhood…
Tomorrow we are coming together as a community to file our individual FDA Medwatch reports to add our experiences with antidepressant withdrawal. Join us: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
In most doctor’s offices, you have 8 minutes. Ready, go!
“Before I can say anything to you, I must know a great deal about you; please tell me what you know about yourself.” S. Freud, On Beginning the Treatment, 1913
X is not good for my mental health. Just stating the obvious.
Thanks to @DrMakaryFDA and @US_FDA for inviting me to speak at the FDA expert panel on SSRIs and pregnancy. Here is the video of my statement- I added a little bonus footage at the beginning for context.
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…
Our BMJ rapid response on the latest antidepressant withdrawal review highlights how it confirms withdrawal effects for SSRIs and SNRIs but underestimates their significance by relaying on sort-term trials and other methodological problems @PloederlM bmj.com/content/390/bm…
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…
Misleading (and usual ad hominem) comment from Prof Howard. There are no RCTs of antidepressants in pregnancy so there is no evidence of harms or benefits from RCTs. Observational studies which control for confounders routinely find the harms mentioned.
Dr Roussos-Ross turned out to be the grown-up on the panel. “Treating depression during pregnancy isn’t a luxury”. Only speaker to appear to understand the literature, the relevance of confounding factors and the absence of RCT evidence for the “harms” raised by other panellists.
If serotonin plays a crucial role in fetal development (which it does) & if SSRIs disrupt the serotonin system (which they do) then the SSRIs must alter fetal development - and the public should be warned. This point was not disputed at yesterday's panel.
The chasm between what the mainstream believes about iatrogenic injury within psychiatry and what the layperson community is experiencing is wide and deep. What will it take for them to see us? Listen to us?
Join us tomorrow at 7 PM EDT for our Tapering Support Circle - Wednesdays II. Come build community and form friendships with others who are in the same period of this journey. Come to only one session or come to all. Must be actively tapering ANY psychiatric drug. Register here:…
There is nothing normal about a news agency downplaying a meeting about safety, especially involving pregnancy and medications.
Iatrogenic suicide- The type of "suicide" experts don´t want to talk about. A huge failure of the post market surveillance system that has enabled unsafe drugs like paroxetine to stay in the market. No data > no harm.
Recorded the Newstalk Daily Podcast with Stephanie McGill Lynch and Ciara Doherty on Jake’s Amendment Jake’s Amendment gives a coroner the option of recording a verdict of iatrogenic suicide if prescribed medication impacted the deceased persons decision to take their own life
NBC News spun the FDA hearing today on SSRIs and pregnancy. Not surprised.