BASED PSYCHIATRIST
@BasedPsychMD
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Building TaperMeds - The AI Deprescribing Platform Medical Doctor. Ungovernable.
Joined February 2025
Every doctor is a tapering expert, with TaperMeds. An AI platform that generates evidence-based taper plans in seconds. Built on Ashton. Built on Maudsley. Built for real patients. https://t.co/fuUxtivKzW Demo below ↓
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https://t.co/rH0skDu7zV Check it out and let me know how we can improve.
tapermeds.com
Plan, track, and document psychiatric medication tapering with reminders, symptom logs, and safe pace guidance.
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One of the clinicians using TaperMeds told us the hardest part of deprescribing wasn’t the taper. It was explaining why deprescribing matters in the first place. So we built a patient education platform to do that work upstream. Link below.
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To be able to positively impact another human life is the greatest accomplishment. This is what motivates me.
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Substack saw it first. Subscribe! https://t.co/M4hJxAv23J
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New essay “Medicated for Life” is out now! A look at how the “lifelong medication” narrative was constructed; and how it quietly turned psychiatric patients into permanent consumers. Link below 👇
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Posting an essay on the trick that turned psychiatric patients into lifelong medication consumers — and why the hardest part of deprescribing isn’t withdrawal, but belief. Stay tuned!
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When you talk about the risks of commonly used interventions like I do with psych drugs, birth control, Botox: People assume you're telling them NOT to use those things. But it's actually quite the contrary. I'm simply sharing the clinical REALITY. Some people have a disease
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NEW SURGERY DROPPED im getting experimental pelvis widening in March. Doctor is doing cadaver test runs, and will do his first live patient in February. Makes your hips wider in a way that looks and feels natural, no implants.
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The paradox of contemporary psychiatric care: The moment a clinician proposes deprescribing, they are not just asking the patient to reduce a dose. But asking them to abandon their worldview. The one where their identity is entrenched in their medications. Dropping an
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Psychiatry created a culture where dose increases feel like “healthcare.”
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The majority of academia in medicine is just jockeying for a job with big pharma.
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If your doctor isnt laser focused on avoiding iatrogenic harm theyre probably gonna screw you over.
@BasedPsychMD Talked to a urologist I met through my network, turns out to be an advisor for Hims. He was the director of sexual medicine at a major university serving as an advisor for a company responsible for knowingly destroying young men and women’s sexuality , imagine that
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I find it funny how we need X accounts to disclose conflicts of interest. All I listen to all day is “ethics” in medicine and how ethical everyone is. And then we get this shit, as if the people in question are unaware their affiliations are important.
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Im thinking of making a map where people can find the nearest deprescribing clinic near them. Would this be helpful?
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Have a feeling that meddling with natural selection will have consequences... idk tho
Guy selling height screening for embryos can't answer what if his parents did the same
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Every antidepressant works beautifully on paper. Then it meets a human...
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My goal is to deprescribe 1 million people before I die.
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The next update for TaperMeds is improved logic for the pacing of tapering. Getting closer to automating the full deprescribing process...
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