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Living with iatrogenic harm from ssri's and the consequences since 2013...
By the way don't let psychiatry get away with using it's sanitizing language and terminology. It's 'withdrawal' not 'discontinuation syndrome.' x.com/JAMAPsych/stat…
Systematic review and meta-analysis: Stopping antidepressants leads to slight symptom increases compared to placebo, but these symptoms are not clinically significant and do not include mood changes. ja.ma/4lNdBIu
When raising awareness about PSSD we need to mention that some patients not "only" lost their sexuality but their entire emotional range. PSSD is a spectrum and it can be so severe that absolute every aspect of life is ruined when you are unable to FEEL.
This paper helps to explain the neurobiology of physical dependence, although I'm not sure it is known exactly why some people experience severe withdrawal while others don't: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC99…
I no longer see a difference between outright explicit denials of harm and implicit denials of harms that are concealed within the significant obfuscation games that psychiatry plays.
I think it’s safe to say we’ve reached peak irony when a pharma executive ‘suddenly’ develops concerns about financial conflicts of interest on an FDA panel after decades of industry influence on the agency….
I don't know how the new FDA claims "gold-standard science" when they recruit a panelist to inform the public about antidepressants who has a business that will see higher revenues if they can bring on more customers if potential customers can be convinced by the panelists that…
Most people can discern pretty honestly between drug effects, withdrawal and human emotions with recreational substances. It's only psychiatry's loose pathologizing of human emotions and obfuscation of drug effects that have made this needlessly complex.
Psychiatry isn't practical because honestly and accurately presenting the tradeoffs of ssri's would require it to drop the sophisticated notions around drugs. Letting go of the idea that there is some sophisticated science behind the drugs would bruise the ego of the profession.
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.
Psychiatry: Scientifically building off decades of sophisticated nuanced understandings like "Chemical balance...oops not anymore/Shut up, they work!/Don't see any negative effects!"
SSRIs don’t “treat” depression. They hijack your brain. Sure, you might not feel sad anymore—but you might not feel anything AT ALL. Up to 60% of SSRI users describe their lives as colorless or even “zombie-like.” The worst part? Many former SSRI users say that their…
Complete nonsense. SSRIs DO cause physiological dependence through neuroadaptation. And SSRIs do cause tolerance (SSRI tachyphylaxis). When the drug is removed, the brain must readjust to its absence, often resulting in significant withdrawal symptoms. It absolutely can be life…
"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…
With scientism so prevalent in psychiatry what the science says is almost irrelevant as long as you can look like you are doing something that you call science and you can b***sh*t in a way that convinces others.
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…
Reminder that ssri's exhibit a bizarre withdrawal symptom (brain zaps) and that psychiatry does not have a biological understanding of it(nor has it even bothered to understand it). It's all "safe"...it you have a willful ignorance of the actual emergent effects of the drugs.
Withdrawal isn't an issue for these things you should not quit cold turkey. - Psychiatry
Whatever benefit of the doubt I had left for psychiatry is quickly evaporating. x.com/rogersmcintyre…
Interesting report on antidepressant discontinuation syndrome …agree the mood exacerbation likely reflects underlying mood disorder pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40632531/
I woke up one morning and instantly knew something has gone terribly wrong, something's wrong with my body, and I quickly realized I'd lost all sexual sensation in my body... -Emily Grey, co-founder of the Canadian Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction Society buff.ly/yLVvBzf
"A growing number of people say antidepressants have left them with debilitating symptoms years, even decades after going off the medications. Increasingly, these people are gathering online and pushing for recognition and research. Emily Corwin with APM Reports has the story. "…