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Study shows that mice exposed to SSRIs in utero showed 'reduced motivation, increased anxiety-like behavior, impaired fear extinction, and increased depressive-like behaviors in adulthood' nature.com/articles/s4146…

Isn't that how we get? • Benzo for insomnia • SSRI for mood • Bupropion for concentration • Mirtazapin efor appetite • SGA for irritability • Stimulant for energy etc... I am sympathetic to the idea of seeing patients as more than a simple diagnostic label, but emphasizing

Proving again that you could create a diagram of anything and make it look sciencey.

Every single box is purely theoretical in this pretty diagram. Nobody knows what's really going on. IMO, medical journals should stop publishing unfounded fantasies, but "neuroscience" has gone so far in this direction, its journals would be nearly empty.

Need something to read this weekend? The entire May issue of Psychiatric Times is now live on our website. Read it here: psychiatrictimes.com/journals/psych…

Article: “Evaluating the Risk of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Women Taking Common Antidepressants” Article Link: consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/evaluating-the…

Try locating that in the brain.

Psychiatry’s greatest challenge is grappling with the fact that mental health—like diabetes and hypertension—is shaped by our choices. Yet decades of pharmaceutical programming have convinced us we’re helpless against these brain disorders and that saying otherwise is ‘stigma.’

A friend tell a story. A man remembers his mother baked him chocolate chip cookies when he was a small child. One day, he noticed the chocolate chips were always arranged in the same perfect geometric pattern. And in that moment, he realized the cookies had never been about him*

Getting people who are terrified of Alzheimer's onto daily drugs to supposedly prevent the brain deterioration many years later is pharma's current aspirational pot of gold. Ideally, people would start on the drugs in their 40s or 50s and take them until they die.

Amitriptyline (Elavil) - How a planted book and a blues record helped create the most popular TCA Amitriptyline, an older tricyclic antidepressant (TCA, brand name Elavil), is similar to SNRIs like venlafaxine, affecting serotonin and norepinephrine. TCAs also impact alpha-1

"We’d like to hear from people who have experienced involuntary mental health treatment, know someone who has been involuntarily committed, or have worked in the system." If you've been involuntarily committed, let the Seattle Times hear from you. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/m…

As a product of the troubled teen industry, I get the urge to shut these places down. The place I was put worked on the premise that your problem was disobedience. Restraints and seclusion were routinely used as punishment. The goal was humiliation and everyone was drugged (1/5)

Very helpful guide to submitting your experience of withdrawal from antidepressants to the FDA to help get this issue recognised.

Among 2 nationwide US cohorts of adults who filled an antipsychotic medications (APMs) prescription after hospitalization, discontinuing APMs was associated with lowered risk of rehospitalization and all-cause mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

"It is a way of reclaiming the right to be understood through a nonpathologizing, rehumanized lens rather than as a pathologically afflicted, disordered patient."

My interview with Morgan from the Antidepressant Coalition for Education is now up on YouTube! You can watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=TF9wM9… #healing #community #antidpressantwithdrawal #benzowithdrawal

Anything can relieve depression for some people. I hope to see the day when a psychiatrist offers a nice home-cooked paella as treatment

Being deprived of sleep can convert anyone to feeling terrible, physically and psychologically

A welcome observation from Dr. Fabiano