Today I am 5 years off benzos. I’m not celebrating. I’m surviving. Taken as prescribed. Told it was safe. I was tortured alive as my CNS failed while the medical field was useless and condescending. I lost everything. Most healing came this past year. Unexpected. I am still here.

RT @MECFScomrade: “Stop making your illness your whole identity” What identity? Idgaf about your opinion of me, you’ve never had to slowly….

RT @atomicaceso: @justin_garson Diagnosis reveal cakes are becoming a thing.

RT @NTFabiano: Antidepressant efficacy is inflated by the cumulative impact of publication bias, outcome reporting bias, spin, and citation….

RT @justin_garson: One of the weirdest generational shifts I’ve witnessed: we used to avoid mental illness diagnoses like the plague. Now w….

RT @BasedPsychMD: Antidepressant trials exclude suicidal patients. Then claim to reduce suicide.

RT @stimimi: In mental health ideology, we have now long surpassed in mythology the phrenologists of the Victorian era and the quackery of….

RT @JDaviesPhD: The push to frame protracted antidepressnt withdrawal as 'Functional Neurological Disorder' (FND) is yet another attempt to….

RT @atomicaceso: @benzosarebad @dsowens17 @Oedi_puss @RecoveryDoctor @awaisaftab @markhoro Few prescribers have a clear understanding of be….

RT @BZInfoCoalition: Today BIC turns 9! Thank you for standing with us!

RT @PGtzsche1: Withdrawal effects after antidepressants are common and often severe. Moncrieff dissects a highly flawed Lancet Psychiatry r….

RT @psychgeist52: Very relevant to some of our psychiatric collegues on here.

RT @markhoro: I can't compete with Dr Rege's facility for emoticons. But nothing he has said detracts from the fact that characteristic wit….

RT @JDaviesPhD: SSRIs don't treat the causes of emotional distress, since they can't erase trauma, improve your job, better your relationsh….

RT @markhoro: I don’t mean to single out Dr Aftab but this response is generally illustrative of the intellectual backflips required to den….

RT @markhoro: Probably nothing. 250,000 people on peer support sites (14k on this one) for antidepressant withdrawal, all there with sympto….

RT @WSJ: After cycling through a dizzying array of psychiatric medications, Scott Griffin found himself with the barrel of a gun in his mou….

RT @joannamoncrieff: Recent reviews attempt to minimise the problem of antidepressant withdrawal by focusing on flawed data and short-term….

RT @markhoro: "Maybe admitting that a widely used treatment, like antidepressants, has messed up thousands of lives is too much to contempl….

RT @HenryRunamucker: "More antidepressants --> more depression". Actually, there is plenty of evidence for what Makary says. "More treatme….

RT @DrMcFillin: This is such a dangerous post to believe the only way a mother can protect her baby is through a drug. Who is fear mongerin….