Mark Horowitz Sadly Robert Howard has a different opinion. He knows about the placebo effect but still prescribes? IMHO that’s so much worse! I can’t get my head around it.

The public is convinced that madness is caused more by bad things happening than by genetics or chemical imbalances in the brain. They are in line with the scientific evidence. The psychiatric leaders deliberately ignore it. Download my new book for free: bit.ly/3Cvobip

“Antidepressants induced cardiovascular adverse effects Exploring the correlation between cardiovascular adverse events ….and contributions to death” sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

% of people in UK given ECT coercively, i.e. under the Mental Health Act, increased from the already alarmingly high 42% in 2012 to 57% in 2021. Sarah P. Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Dr Sue Cunliffe (MBchB honours) Mad In The UK Dr Jen Daffin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏳️‍🌈🍉 Lisa Morrison Mind Mad In Ireland bit.ly/3TcQ6fQ

Lucy Johnstone on the new figures for child referrals for anxiety. theguardian.com/society/articl…

The ‘staggering’ rise in childhood anxiety is not a mental health crisis | Letters theguardian.com/society/articl…

"For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful. Psychiatry must embrace new meaning-making frameworks". Wonderful piece by the brilliant Justin Garson 👇 aeon.co/essays/how-the…

“I have been off SSRIs for years but sexual, emotional and cognitive dysfunction still remain” ⁦Wes Streeting MP⁩ at what point do the patient safety mechanisms kick in? How many casualties is too many? antidepressantrisks.org/stolen-lives/r…

The most harmful aspect of psychiatry is not its worldview – that human problems are ‘medical conditions’ – but its authority. The problem is we’ve invested this one narrow perspective on human experience with the boundless authority that we have. *That* is what must be attacked.

Tod🔻 Totally agree – we need a deeper analysis of psychiatry’s social function. Clearly we would not have invested in them the authority that we have unless they were performing some kind of function in maintaining the social status quo.

'pressures from target-driven education, online bullying, poverty and uncertainty about the future' will not be solved by mental health funding. Letters from Lucy Johnstone and others about increasing anxiety among UK children theguardian.com/society/articl…

My response to difficult life events was normal. My distress & despair wasn’t a medical disorder. I didn’t have a chemical imbalance which could be rectified by a medication. I regret sharing my vulnerability with a psychiatrist who pathologized my humanness, which led to injury.

Major Adverse Cardiac Events calculated to occur in between one in 15 and one in 30 ECT patients, & are leading cause of ECT deaths Sarah P. Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Dr Sue Cunliffe (MBchB honours) Lisa Morrison Chris Harrop Mad In The UK Dr Jen Daffin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏳️‍🌈🍉 Life After ECT Patient Uni of East London connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrehp…

Great to be a part of this much needed initiative The Psychotropic Deprescribing Council Psychotropic Deprescribing Council to help educate clinicians and the public about safe deprescribing of psychiatric medications. Congrats to @altostrata and the board for all their hard work.

One of the best designed ECT studies to date confirms rapid and severe memory impairment in two thirds of patients, worse in women and older people. Sarah P. Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ @MadIn_America Mad In The UK Lisa Morrison Dr Sue Cunliffe (MBchB honours) Chris Harrop sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Dr John Read Sarah P. Hancock, MS, CRC ♿ Mad In The UK Lisa Morrison Dr Sue Cunliffe (MBchB honours) Chris Harrop "The pattern of associative memory impairment during ECT appears to occur early, worsen with subs treatment. This study may provide important evidence understanding number effect of ECT sessions on memory impairment & suggest individual factors for predicting ECT memory outcome.

Antidepressant-linked overdose deaths in US have climbed for two decades theguardian.com/science/articl…

Recovery from Psychosis in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Is Possible by Sumit Guha The biggest injustice done to a person with such a diagnosis is to give up on them for the rest of their life. madinamerica.com/2024/09/recove…

The prescription makes the doctor feel better, rather than the patient. Could this be part of why antidepressant use continues to rise despite so little evidence of benefit and increasingly worrying adverse effects (as well as Pharmaceutical influence etc).