People suffer withdrawal from antidepressants. Psychiatry prefers the term "relapse" because this means more drug consumption.

Patient Safety Commissioner If it the MHRA fail to spot injuries caused by SSRIs despite millions of prescriptions over 30yrs: what's to celebrate? How can we have any reassurance that newer, less commonly-used drugs are safe? MHRA staff should be resigning en masse due to their collective incompetence.

Maybe we need a Red Card scheme where we can report Drs who lazily tell us that iatrogenic injuries are 'impossible'.

David Healy cites Kevin Bennett as playing a key role in bringing awareness of #PSSD to the attention of academics. He & other sufferers "could reliably date their condition to the early 1990s." dailym.ai/2nXGSTO Within days of taking the drug he was "totally impotent."

Dr. Mark Horowitz: Antidepressant Withdrawal youtu.be/LRr09mvMEAU?si… "The guidelines were influenced by papers published by drug manufacturers in the 1990s and 2000s and these papers focused almost exclusively on people who had been on antidepressants for 8-12 weeks."

Why Don't Psychiatrists Notice When Patients Experience Medication Side Effects? psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/char… "The average number of side effects reported by patients on the TSES was 20 times (!) higher than the number recorded by psychiatrists." Nothing has changed!

Thanks Judith and the many others on all five continents, with multiple perspectives, for helping to disseminate the research. Far from perfect but will give a voice to hundreds of ECT recipients and their families and friends. ectsurvey.com

Alyne Duthie John Elsey Expose big pharma Antidepressants are wrecking lives JD Lou Lou🥄 Bear rosie Hanna_PSSD PSSD London Terrible Quality Memes Agree-wrong question. Another reason why doctors fail to warn patients of ADEs - is they have been pharma-educated to ignore them: “We’re in sort of a bad situation now where the people in control of prescribing drugs know the least about the drugs,’ washingtonpost.com/national/healt…

The evidence for ECT is actually quite bad, so Tom might want to Google that before he starts going on about "representative samples" and "external validity". Sample sizes in the dozens, mostly biased observations of short-term symptoms and don't report adverse events.

Expose big pharma Dr John Read PSSDestroyed rosie Hanna_PSSD Fiona French, freedom is bliss Ken Jaques (Jakes) 🇨🇦 💜 🦁🦉 Dan Johnson Harriet Vogt JD Antidepressants are wrecking lives Terrible Quality Memes Yes. Jonathan is a mediocre psychologist who hasn't done anything but agree with the status quo. John Read has criticized the establishment and is among the most cited 1% in his field.

2%. But thanks for your support.

John Elsey PSSD London Antidepressants are wrecking lives JD Lou Lou🥄 Bear Alyne Duthie rosie Hanna_PSSD Harriet Vogt Terrible Quality Memes They didn’t even require small print warnings for PSSD anywhere until 2019. Psychiatrists don’t warn patients about all side effects/harms, because then no one would be willing to take the drugs. x.com/PSSDNetwork/st…

If side effects fall in the forest, do they make a sound? ...compared patients report on a scale of 31 different side effects (Toronto Side Effects Scale) with info recorded by the treating psychiatrist. The main finding: A stunning disconnect between psychiatrists and patients.

Corrupted patient organisations: In 2022, drug firms poured €110 million into groups in the EU, Norway, Switzerland and the UK bit.ly/3BjzE7l. The Psychiatry Foundation in Denmark refuses to tell who their funders are. It stinks. Earlier, Lundbeck was a donor.

'SOLD OUT': The International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists holeousia.com/2024/09/18/sol…

Interesting to see that so many adverts for drugs at the recent Royal College of Psychiatrists UK conference were for ADHD drugs holeousia.com/2024/09/18/sol…

Just turned this up - from May 2019! Alyne Duthie piece in here too facebook.com/share/p/g1eUC5…

Alyne Duthie I have heard many ppl suffering excfruciating brain pressure due to Venlafaxine withdrawal. Ann Kelly for example (she was never on benzos) heraldscotland.com/news/15700229.…

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