Sneak Peek: Read Chapter One of Crossing Zero - The Art and Science of Coming Off - And Staying Off - Psychiatric drugs. Out in Two Weeks (July 22) open.substack.com/pub/crossingze…

Wow. Just… wow! My book Crossing Zero launched yesterday, and today it hit: 🥇 #1 in Amazon’s Hot New Releases in Psychiatry 🥉 #3 on the Best Seller list in Psychiatry – right behind The Body Keeps the Score and (of course) the DSM practical handhook. I’m blown away. I'm

Antidepressants vs. parachutes? In 2018, the prestigious medical journal BMJ published a sensational study. Researchers set out to test whether parachutes reduce the risk of death when jumping from an aircraft. In other words, is the parachute necessary? The study design was

Need a break from reading? Here’s some video content. Dr. Roger McFillin, @taperclinic, Medicating Normal, Metabolic Mind open.substack.com/pub/crossingze…

Coming to get you, Bessel ;)

For many, the decision to stop taking medication becomes a second crisis. They expect to feel better, but find themselves battling unexpected withdrawal symptoms and a flood of resurfacing emotions, blamed for ‘relapsing’ and told the drug is still necessary to stay well and

How much of your brain’s target receptors are still blocked at “low” doses of antidepressants and antipsychotics? Here’s what receptor occupancy studies show: •Duloxetine 5 mg → up to 44% of receptors blocked •Venlafaxine 2.4 mg → up to 34% of receptors blocked •Sertraline

How to break free from overthinking: A psychologist’s guide to calming the mind (via the mind) We’ve all been there. A thought takes hold - something you said, something you fear, something that might happen - and before you know it, your mind is looping like a broken record.

First, we thought smoking wasn’t harmful. Then, we learned smoking was harmful. And then, we learned we had always known smoking was harmful. Now replace “smoking” with “psychiatric drugs” (and "was" with "were"), and you'll see where psychiatry stands today: Stuck somewhere

They told you antidepressants weren’t dependence-forming drugs. They were wrong. Psychiatry quietly rewrote the definition of “dependence” - excluding its own drugs - and left millions unprepared for withdrawal. Here’s how it happened, and why words matter more than ever.

The Holy Trinity of modern psychiatry reform is forming! Proud to be listed alongside Laura Delano's Unshrunk and Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social's Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines as the "customers-also-buy" suggestions for my book. What a powerhouse trio. Feeling Honoured. And hopeful.

We’ve all done it: stayed in a job that slowly drains us, held on to a toxic relationship that quietly erodes our sense of self, repeated a pattern of behavior that we know is bad for us. And yet we keep doing it. We tell ourselves “it’s not that bad” or “maybe it will get