We're suing the FDA.

For 6 years now, they are refusing to act on warning labels for antidepressants.

These antidepressants may cause permanent sexual dysfunction.

Hey FDA: Do your job!

'As an addiction psychiatrist, I provide leading edge scientifically informed psychotherapy with streamlined medications treatment for substance use disorders.' - Sean X. Luo, M.D., Ph.D

Also Sean X. Luo

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This week, the FDA has been sued by Public Citizen for failing to act on claims that SSRI antidepressants can potentially cause severe sexual numbing & permanent sexual damage - (ie. Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction [PSSD]). Why has the FDA failed to act...?
citizen.org/news/fda-sued-….

Anyone know the exact date in history when every type of human suffering came to be NOT considered Real or Valid UNTIL it was diagnosed a medical illness?? I’m writing a blog on the history of the mental health system & just cannot pin that one particular date down. 🧐

Demedicalizing Depression: An Interview with Milutin Kostić

Justin Karter interviews Milutin Kostić on the fundamental flaws in #depression research and its neglect of human complexity.

Milutin Kostić Justin Karter
#psychiatry #psychology #podcast
madinamerica.com/2024/05/demedi…

If you want to check the maths, the rules we applied were:
✨Must have one or more of 1, 2a, or 2b
✨Must have five or more distinct 'parent' numbers
✨Can't include 3a w/ 3b, 3c w/ 3d, 4a w/ 4b, 5a w/ 5b, 9b w/ 9c, or 9b w/ 9d
✨9d must be with 9c (but 9c can occur without 9d)

There are 60,479,984(!!) ways MDD symptoms can be combined that result in two people who have no symptoms in common receiving an MDD diagnosis.

For example, A) low mood, weight gain, hypersomnia, fatigue, guilt vs. B) anhedonia, low appetite, insomnia, agitation, indecisiveness.

…idsandtaperingstrips.eventbrite.co.uk/?aff=X Join us for a practical webinar on the what, why and how of smaller-dose formulations in psychiatric drug withdrawal -- Liquids & Tapering Strips, Friday 28th June. Speakers Peter Groot Sarah Jones in conversation with Mark Horowitz

1. Radoslaw Stupak and I just wrote to Frontiers Psychiatry to clarify the undeclared conflicts of interest in this paper. Two authors work in a ketamine clinic and the senior author has/had several COIs with Janssen. It is not possible to submit a letter, unfortunately.

Yet more invaluable information about withdrawal from antidepressants by ⁦Mark Horowitz⁩
Thank you Mark for ALL you do to correct the misinformation promoted by drug companies and, until recently, regurgitated by ⁦Royal College of Psychiatrists⁩ ti.ubc.ca/wordpress/wp-c…

Wunderink: Antipsychotics Can Be Tapered Safely Without Increasing Relapse Risk

Tapering #antipsychotics slowly and with supported decision-making may improve care for patients with #psychosis

By Peter Simons

#psychiatry #mentalhealth
madinamerica.com/2024/05/wunder…

“The evidence is overwhelming that the way we’ve gone about trying to understand and solve mental health problems for the last 30 years has failed. We’ve not managed to improve mental health outcomes in that period, despite billions spent.”
express.co.uk/news/uk/190069…

A group of MPs have called for a radical overhaul of how poor #mentalhealth is managed in the UK to move away from its “overreliance on psychiatric drugs”
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

This is safety for psychiatrists. It was also the conclusion of the authors. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38703743/ Beverley Thomson

Thank you so much Mark Horowitz for doing this work.

It can't have been easy sticking your head above the parapet to produce these guidelines, but it adds a level of credibility and support to patients that need it where only ad-hoc and peer guidelines existed before.

Big love.

A group of MPs have called for a radical overhaul of the way poor mental health is managed in the UK to move away from its “overreliance on psychiatric drugs.”

Great talking to psychiatrists at Hartford Healthcare about psychiatric drug withdrawal effects and safe tapering, recording here: vimeo.com/947125366

‘Shifting the balance towards social interventions: Why the UN and WHO are calling for Mental Health Reform’
Webinar recording now available youtu.be/IjTU196u28k
Dainius Pūras Michelle Funk Norman Lamb Lord Nigel Crisp Danny Kruger Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭

Conscious Clinician Collective
⁦Mark Horowitz⁩ ⁦Dr Joanna Moncrieff⁩ ⁦Angie Peacock, MSW, CPC (ICF)⁩ Doc Malik Podcast⁩ ⁦Dr Aseem Malhotra⁩ ⁦Dr John Read⁩ thecccollective.org

Response and remission rates in usual care are low, with the large majority of patients not responding or remitting, and the outcomes have probably not improved over time. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…