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Today I am 5 years off benzos. I’m not celebrating. I’m surviving. Taken as prescribed. Told it was safe. I was tortured alive as my CNS failed while the medical field was useless and condescending. I lost everything. Most healing came this past year. Unexpected. I am still here.

Evidence on antidepressant withdrawal: an appraisal and reanalysis of a recent systematic review | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3TZLBFv

Hey @grok who was the most famous person to block me?

What can we do when the most powerful psychiatric organization in the country deliberately misleads the public?

Good to talk to Dr Scher about the recent misrepresentations by the Kalfas/Jauhar review

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.

"No overall evidence" so bizarre and wrong. The risks of cardiac malformations are already in US labels

Is speaking publicly about recovery from a serious mental illness dangerous? What happened to hope and possibility... along with science and innovation?

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…

Ah! The 'chemical imbalance' story again, which psychiatrists try and say was never a thing patients were told. Funny that. Here it is (again) in black and white. Also this from Cleveland Clinic. But no one ever said it, nope! my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disease…

Hey @grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile? doesn’t need to be a mutual, don’t tag them, just say who it was.

Here’s yet another example of the American Psychiatric Association misleading the public.

A pharmacist put this label on my family member's bottle of citalopram in 2023. Doctors should be discussing these risks with patients. Instead we get nonsense from the APA.

-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…

There's lots of evidence of where SSRIs can be unsafe in pregnancy - what is the APA talking about.... For starters, here's NHS guidance: "SSRIs aren’t usually recommended during pregnancy, especially during the first 3 months. This is because there may be a risk to the baby".

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…

Are physicians still trained to tell their depressed patients that they have a chemical imbalance? Here's a recent flashcard preparing medical students for the USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination). Their answer is (C). The problem is...

Most lazy doctors like this guy are not actually capable of defending the way they practice medicine, have little knowledge of deprescribing or withdrawal syndromes, and would get absolutely stomped in a debate with anyone remotely knowledgeable (like Mark H).

You grow up Susin.

Anthropologists have shown that in many societies around the globe what we call ‘post natal depression’ isn’t a thing, as the community relies around the new mother in multiple supportive ways. Medicalisation exonerates our society’s relative lack of community care…