Dr. Rishi
@thatguyChan99
I'm Batman. your neighbourhood Attending Psychologist. Views are my own and not of my employers, Retweet ≠ Endorsement.
Response rates in psychiatric drug trials are statistical hocus pocus that spins straw (no clinically relevant effect) into gold (large effect, a hoax). bit.ly/40MSlKA. @brokenmedics, @SecKennedy, @martinkulldorff, @DrJBhattacharya, @MartyMakary, @cdcgov, @WHO, @NIH
On the illusions of antidepressant research 'If we break a leg, we would not be satisfied with a treatment that reduces the pain so little that we cannot feel the difference from placebo, while the leg is still broken'
Response rates in psychiatric drug trials are statistical hocus pocus that spins straw (no clinically relevant effect) into gold (large effect, a hoax). bit.ly/40MSlKA. @brokenmedics, @SecKennedy, @martinkulldorff, @DrJBhattacharya, @MartyMakary, @cdcgov, @WHO, @NIH
The most dangerous people in psychiatry aren't the small minority of pharma-funded 'Key Opinion Leaders', but the huge majority who uncritically defer to them.
🔥LEAKED: Internal pharmaceutical strategy meeting The night before the FDA panel on SSRIs in pregnancy. What they said behind closed doors will SHOCK you. Their playbook for manipulating pregnant women just got exposed. I was on the FDA panel. This "leaked transcript" reveals…
For decades we sat back and let the psych/pharma alliance pathologise every species of emotional discontent. This helped fuel a public health crisis of rising harms & social confusion…. We’re now scrambling to row the ideology back. What a mess….. thetimes.com/uk/education/a…
"If you want to increase suffering, you fundamentally get people to battle their own internal experiences. You learn not to trust your emotions, you judge them as symptoms." We are facing an epidemic of iatrogenic harm. Manufacturing a disease to sell more drugs. There are better…
🧵1/4 JAMA Psychiatry appears more concerned with petri dishes than real people harmed by antidepressant withdrawal. They’ve denied our request to correct the misleading Kalfas et al. review—a request that was grounded in both the real-world experiences of hundreds of thousands…
Yesterday at the FDA panel discussion I stated many women feel coerced into taking an SSRI. Are not provided informed consent. Are misled into understanding the nature/etiology of their condition. If you disagree with me... read these comments. No more bystanders
For those prescribed an SSRI? Was it inferred that you had a brain illness? A “genetic” condition? Were you informed that SSRI’s have never outperformed non pharmacological interventions? Given the potential for harm and known adverse health effects… were you provided adequate…
I’m not anti-pharma. I am pro-pharma. I just don’t like bad science. Not liking bad science is pro-pharma. Pro-real-pharma.
Psychiatry errs because it fails to grasp how incredibly well-designed the human mind really is. Depression, anxiety, even psychosis are signals that carry invaluable information about what’s going wrong in life - yet we idiotically treat them as “symptoms” to be “managed.”
This is a serious problem. Psychotherapists have to provide a better product that is useful and compelling to men. Part of this is recognizing that some men are looking for something different in therapy; they often have different needs, desire, goals. It reminds me somewhat…
Research found that dropout rates for men in therapy is around 44.8%. Why are so many leaving treatment? Many say the format and framing of the sessions didn’t align with what they need. We have to have more male-led and male-focused therapy solutions! Ideas?
I think some psychiatrists are upset by the word 'withdrawal' because it brings up questions about the nature of the drugs prescribed. Euphemisms or neologistic word salads help to conceal these issues and to reassure. But we should be truthful with patients
Following the shock of last week, some psychiatrists on soical media are now literally creating new concepts as alternatives to the hated 'withdrawal' - the lastest is "Post discontinuation neuroadaptive dysregulation" (or PDND). Let's vote. Should this be included in DSM 6
Further parts of civil society attuned to this issue are calling for a correction from the journal to ammend the public record that might cause unnecessary harm
Modern psychiatry: numb the symptoms, pathologize the protest, when they stop complaining call it recovery.
I wouldn't compare real medicine that deals with a broken leg to mental illness because a broken leg is diagnosed by x-ray whereas mental illness doesn't have any biological tests and mainly deals with societal problems.
Good to see Dr Jauhar's awareness of the general irrelevance of short term, drug company conducted studies in understanding the public health issue of high risk of withdrawal for millions of long-term users. Hope these measured thoughts will be in paper as well.
I do not have the ability to predict the future. Apparently some do. Reasonable point regarding length of studies. Happy to address this. I do not presume my work has relevance to anyone – that is their decision, not mine. Shanti.
We've now seen a preview of the forthcoming antidepressant withdrawal paper. It's shocking. On the basis of a few short-term company trials (mostly 8 weeks) the authors conclude that antidepressant withdrawal hardly exists! God help us if the media report this junk uncritically😳
Sameer Jauhar’s pharma-backed paper dismissing antidepressant withdrawal based on short-term trials is academic gaslighting. This isn’t just junk science. It’s a slap in the face to millions who’ve suffered. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
We've now seen a preview of the forthcoming antidepressant withdrawal paper. It's shocking. On the basis of a few short-term company trials (mostly 8 weeks) the authors conclude that antidepressant withdrawal hardly exists! God help us if the media report this junk uncritically😳
According to @markhoro, @sameerjauhar will publish an article tomorrow calling for antidepressant withdrawal to be deemphasised in clinical guidelines. This is a huge gut punch for those of us in the prescribed harm community who are trying to raise awareness about the risks of…