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Antidepressants can cause severe harms for some - akathisia, suicidal urges, dependence, PSSD. I nearly lost my son to an adverse reaction. I'm trying to understand why informed consent so often doesn't happen, and how this can change.
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I remember discussing here with advocates of lecanemab. Sobering letter from members of EMA scientific advisory group. www.bmj.com/content/389/...

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Death in a Bottle: My 24-Year Battle with Benzodiazepines by Timothy John Snyder I’m not even taking Klonopin because it helps me. I’m taking Klonopin so I don’t go through withdrawal from Klonopin. That’s the trap. www.madinamerica.com/2025/05/deat...

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Half of Those Who Take Antidepressants Are Labeled “Treatment Resistant” Millions of people are trying multiple antidepressant drugs without success, and psychiatry labels them “treatment resistant.” By Peter Simons www.madinamerica.com/2025/04/half...

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We are just standing back and allowing the minds of our young people to be poisoned. It’s not the phone, it’s the content. Social media providers *have* to be made accountable for the content on their platforms. #AntiSocialMedia www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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A ketamine trial published in a major psychiatric journal (accompanied with an extra editorial) changed the primary outcome and did not report on suicidality as outcome, despite this being a main-goal of the study. Summarized the problems on PubPeer. No response yet. pubpeer.com/publications...

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🚨 ICYMI - TI #BestEvidence webinar: Dr. Josh Levin compares #PhysicalActivity to drugs for important clinical outcomes ti.ubc.ca/drugevidence24 #DrugEvidence24 #exercise #MedEd

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma by Lydia Green As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it.

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The story of marketing the biomedical story of depression by the pharmaceutical industry, from the inside www.madinamerica.com/2025/04/in-b...

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Psychiatric Drugs “A Crude Form of Chemical Restraint” Mental health nursing has a key role to play in helping people discontinue the drugs, writes Timothy Wand. By Peter Simons

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ICYMI: Our MOST-VIEWED #Deprescribing webinar ever 👇🏽 Antidepressant withdrawal effects & how to safely 🛑 stop them youtube.com/watch?v=LRr0... ✅ Maudsley approach to deprescribe #antidepressants ✅ Hyperbolic tapering ✅ Distinguishing withdrawal effects

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Peer support practice & the peer workforce in Scotland is growing. To support this, we want to work w/ people, across the country, to co-design a framework that builds understanding of peer support's transformative power & core values & practices. Online event bit.ly/NewsApril2025 #PeerSupportScot

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New research in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals how much retracted studies skew results in meta-analyses, with sometimes significant changes in effect estimates once these studies are excluded. By @isabelleboutron.bsky.social @gcabanac.cpesr.fr et al. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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@dailymail.co.uk coverage of study of antidepressants and sudden cardiac death: 'another shocking example of an adverse effect that's taken too long to come out even though we had good reason to suspect that these drugs are cardiotoxic' www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

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Review of Chemically Imbalanced: 'How can it be that one in 5 of us is ingesting a substance that 1. Purports to treat a disease for which there is no proof 2. Doesn’t do “what it says on the tin” 3. Gives rise to dependence & significant side effects.. www.amazon.co.uk/Chemically-I...

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🚨 TI #BestEvidence webinar: Dr. Josh Levin compares #PhysicalActivity to drugs for important clinical outcomes ti.ubc.ca/drugevidence24 #DrugEvidence24 #exercise #MedEd

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🧠 Psychotropic #polypharmacy is common in those receiving mental health care. Read about attitudes towards #deprescribing in this survey of Australian mental health patients: buff.ly/L8Qxffi @reeve-research.bsky.social

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“In a way, evidence-based medicine has degraded clinical practice. Clinical judgment means independence, it means not following orders, not following guidelines.” Giovanni Fava on the @mad-in-america.bsky.social #podcast www.madinamerica.com/2025/03/psyc...

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Privileged to be hearing a fantastic talk from @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social on Epistemic Injustice and Psychiatric Diagnosis: Who Gets to Be Believed? at our EPIC seminar series epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org

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A new national study shows that while the public favors depth-oriented therapy, most are not receiving it—and cost, access, and tech platforms may be to blame. By Justin Karter

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I am very excited to be talking to Dr Rangan Chatterjee next week about my new book and how we have been misled about the nature of depression and antidepressants. Honoured to be invited to be among so many fascinating guests on the Feel Better, Live More podcast

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'Overdiagnosis leads to overtreatment. Because diagnoses are not inert labels, it can actively create illness and distress.' Diagnostic 'identities' can be 'self-limiting' theconversation.com/are-labels-l...

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On the @mad-in-america.bsky.social #podcast, Robert Whitaker interviews Italian psychiatrist Giovanni Fava. They discuss the value of independent journals and the importance of clinical experience when designing and reporting on studies. #psychology #psychiatry www.madinamerica.com/2025/03/psyc...

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novaramedia.com/2025/02/17/t... #PTMFramework

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I received the excellent book, "Drop the Disorder + Do Something" in the mail today. I want to thank Jo Watson for her ongoing activism and for editing this incredible book. Thanks to the contributors, changemakers, allies, and activists worldwide who contributed chapters to the book

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A TEDxNHS talk by Joe Tudor. "I felt lost and confused when I was told I had a chemical imbalance. My journey since has brought me the things I now value the most in my life." A short but powerful video full of wisdom and humour. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7GN...

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Iatrogenic disability is a HUGE growing issue.... #prescribedharm suffered by millions committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

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🧵Why is mental health disability rising? Here are key reasons rarely discussed in mainstream media: 1/ For decades we've neglected tackling the social determinants of societal distress, relying instead on medicalisation as a superficial ‘fix’ for downstream harms. This has......

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NEW: Weekend News Agents A special ep on one of the most shocking scandal I’ve reported on: the generation of disabled children created by the British state. A responsibility it is still refusing to pay for. The shocking story of Sodium Valproate. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Another failure of the state examined in detail by @lewisgoodall.com and @newsagents.bsky.social A good listen - apart from the chap with the Stoke accent - sorry in advance!

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With nearly half of disabled people living in poverty (& we know that poverty & disability are mutually reinforcing), we should be cutting poverty not disability support (as cutting support will only worsen disability). The proposed cuts are neither humane nor fiscally literate.

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'As soon as one theory is discredited, the advocates of the biological paradigm turn to another, putting forward a new set of ropey, inconclusive and ambiguous studies as putative evidence' (from Chemically Imbalanced). Article by Bruce Levine www.madinamerica.com/2025/03/do-c...

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Neurodivergent capitalism. "How ADHD became a luxury label". For those who can afford it, "a booming industry of psychiatrists and educational psychologists is on hand to provide their child with a diagnosis within a week or two". unherd.com/2024/01/how-...

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When I was a trainee debate was welcome in psychiatry. It is still is among many practising psychiatrists, but the establishment is invested in the biological view of depression (& most mental disorders) and deeply defensive when that is called into question.

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We can all be impulsive, disorganised and unfocussed. Doesn’t mean we all need ADHD drugs.

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