Rose Yesha

Did you know millions struggle with the unexpected consequences of stopping antidepressants too quickly, facing long-lasting symptoms?

Reddit is so horrifying bc you can go to a sub for people with health problems and see tons of people desperate for help, strategizing on how to be taken seriously, and then you go to a doctor sub and it's full of professionals talking about hysterical women and blue hair.

Don’t be fooled by this headline. FDA sat on their hands when confronted with data showing suicide risk in children taking antidepressants. This data also originally cited as ‘misinformation’. gainesville.com/story/news/200…

Dr. Andrew Mosholder, an agency epidemiologist, was the man charged with analyzing 22 studies involving 4,250 children and seven drugs. In a 33-page memorandum, he concluded that children given antidepressants were almost twice as likely as those given placebos to become suicidal

Dr. Andrew Mosholder analyzed Paxil’s pediatric trials in June 2003—and then extended it to other antidepressants—reporting that there was a notable suicide-related risk. Dr. Mosholder was barred from presenting these findings at the FDA Advisory Committee’s Feb 2004 session.

Very misleading. In addition — panel member Dr. Gingrich suggested heritable depression as cause for poor outcomes of children born to mothers taking SSRIs. Another “it must be the depression, not the drugs” rigamarole.

In another case, Zoloft (an SSRI manufactured by Pfizer) allegedly caused congenital heart defects and other birth defects when taken during pregnancy. The evidence presented by Plaintiffs was SUBSTANTIAL. -Multiple epidemiological studies -Numerous Animal studies suggesting…

Breaking News: Top Doctors Betray the Public on Antidepressant Withdrawal We grew up trusting top doctors to tell the truth. But it's becoming clearer than ever that many care more about protecting their careers and fitting in with their peers than speaking honestly. Case in…

A video by Alexander who suffers from PSSD from Lexapro. A Warning to All: Antidepressants have Ruined Me and My Life youtu.be/0eHrEnmSZXo Description: “Today I tell the story of how antidepressants ruined my life and caused me to develop PSSD (post-SSRI sexual dysfunction)”

The industry won’t even call it “withdrawal”. They refer to it as medication discontinuation syndrome. I have so many patients that report the very real symptom of brain zaps when coming off of SSRIs.

In case Dr Jauhar is unsure - there are good estimates of this from the Rosenbaum study (11 months exposure) : 66% for paroxetine and 60% for sertraline. (not a good study to look at fluoxetine) biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-…

📢New Study in @BMJMentalHealth: Over Half of Children on Antipsychotics Miss Key Health Checks; Poor Monitoring, Patchy Guidelines Highlight Need for National Standards. @nottmhospitals @UniofNottingham Link: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1/e…

Great meme. Dismissing the impact of antidepressant harm is also a blatant disregard of temporal precedence. Patients who report rapid symptoms post-withdrawal are commonly told they are relapsing or imagining things.

The Age of Deference is Over: It's just no one told psychiatry The medical profession is facing a challenge it doesn’t yet understand: people are no longer waiting to be granted a voice-they’re taking one. Most of you will have seen the firestorm online over the new…

Really, the best meme format

Indeed

“This begs the question why these known multiple antidepressant 'discontinuation-emergent' physical/bodily symptoms came to be incorporated into tools to encourage prescribers to consider Medically Unexplained Syndromes (MUS) and overlook antidepressant withdrawal?”

“He added that it was important for clinicians to ‘reassure’ patients and to manage their expectations about withdrawing from antidepressants.” This proposal includes 1) a lack of informed consent 2) invalidation of AD withdrawal symptoms. More smoke from the Kalfas paper…