1. No evidence suggests they are life-saving. Controlled studies in children and adults indicate detrimental effects. 2. For half of SSRI users, emotional numbing, their main clinical effect, may be beneficial; others find it counterproductive.

He's not wrong...

Exactly right

Yes. I've been the recipient of Tyler Black's dogmatic "wisdom" myself.

Some MH professionals are just so full of themselves that they can’t accept our recoveries from schizophrenia because they played no role in our personal transformations. We are not weak, nor do we lack character. Life dealt us a bad hand, and instead of cowering to the

Andrew Kaufman MD You're talking about psychiatry and not real medicine. There are no medical tests in psychiatry 👀

I recommend following Writer - Tracey Higgins if you are truly interested in understanding "schizophrenia".This post illustrates how thinking & feeling processes in childhood adapt to a hostile environment. The pathway towards the experiences/behaviours called "schizophrenia" has begun.

I have no expertise in vaccines but an injury is what happens when it persists for periods after the removal of the agent that caused it. A side effect is what happens while the agent is still there. Persisting symptoms after removal of ADs clearly invite the term 'injury'

According to Robbie, an ageing psychiatrist, people are shamelessly peddling antidepressant withdrawal for profit. A disgusting and despicable claim. This vile, shameful tweet reeks of arrogance and ignorance.

Most therapists are scared to admit it, but SSRIs can undermine the therapeutic process (& often do). By blunting emotions, they can dial down the very signals & experiences therapy depends upon to work; creating a form of dissociation that less enables than disrupts healing.

This is nonsense, utter wishful thinking. Psychiatrists have been saying this x 70 years, and no change. Such delusional thinking keeps the believers-most psychiatrists-enthused, when there is little within current reality for them to be enthused about. They can read the future.

I hope someone is keeping records of these posts - they will be very illustrative of a certain sort of thinking at a certain moment in history. Fascinating stuff. I think you are supposed to take snapshots rather than re-posting but I am not a pro like Dr Rege.

Of course emotional numbing from SSRIs do not typically compliment psychotherapy, as you know. Another dreadful case of a defender of the psychiatric faith believing his much-preferred narrative and pushing it upon a trusting public as "fact". Shocking - yet again.

Very, very important thread. All involved in mental health care ought be aware. Well summarised by Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭

totally correct

People diagnosed with schizophrenia are not schizophrenics. Why are many MH professionals using the word schizophrenic? It is dehumanizing, as though these people who experience great suffering are not even human beings. Stigma from within the MH system.

Remarkable that this study is still being touted as evidence in support of medication for depression. Even the author, was moved to describe the added value of antidepressants over placebo as ‘trivial’.

Yes - but - some things went in the "right" direction - drug company profits; doctors' - psychiatrists and GPs - salaries and status, being two of many such examples.

Another psychiatrist I have never heard of or interacted with who has blocked me. The professional equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears, and these people are prescribing life-altering drugs.