Antidepressant withdrawal and online support. We keep getting told that psychiatrists have never seen antidepressant withdrawal or that it is at best minimal. Online tells a different story. There are currently over 100,000 people in Facebook support groups desperately trying

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7/ At the very least, the public deserves some clarity. Who really wrote the JAMA Psychiatry review? Who wrote the conclusions and recommendations?.And why the lack of transparency around authorship on such a consequential and controversial topic?.

6/ This ambiguity around authorship undermines trust. It risks giving the impression that the scientific review is a PR manoeuvre that 'credibility launders' bold, policy-relevant claims through an unfamiliar name.

5/ Could this be a case of reputational distancing?.By placing a junior assistant as first author, the paper appears more "neutral" and so less visibly tied to establishment figures with known biases. But in doing so, it obscures who actually shaped its conclusions.

4/ Which raises a question:.Why would a paper likely driven by senior academics be fronted by a junior researcher with no significant track record and minimal public engagement?.

3/ Meanwhile, the senior author listed is a well-known psychiatrist with longstanding ties to establishment psychiatry and a track record of minimising antidepressant withdrawal harms.

2/ The first author, Michail Kalfas, is listed as a research assistant and appears to be the only co-author without a PhD. It’s highly unusual for someone so junior to lead a major, controversial review making sweeping claims that could shape clinical guidelines- especially in.

RT @ACE_CoalitionEd: Today we submitted a formal correction request to the editors of JAMA Psychiatry @JAMAPsych @dost_ongur in response to….

‘ChatGPT thinks I’m right’ is the new ‘my mom thinks I’m cool’. You heard it here first.

RT @markhoro: The review by Kalfas on antidepressant withdrawal in JAMA Psychiatry will mislead as it is based largely on people who have t….

RT @markhoro: People have been reasonably asking are there any high-quality studies of wirthdrawal from longer term use. Rosenbaum (1998) i….

RT @markhoro: Dr Jauhar concedes here that short term studies do not have relevance to longer term users. In fact he does not presume that….

What goes unacknowledged here is that without the Davies and Read paper, the issue of antidepressant withdrawal might still be sidelined entirely-despite these drugs being on the market for nearly four decades. Their work was a turning point and forced the conversation into the.

Despite all the pious talk about “letting the evidence speak for itself” and just “reflecting what the science says,” the real goal of the Kalfas paper was always to generate this headline-and push it far and wide. "Most people have no severe withdrawal from antidepressants,

I suppose I should tell the people I know - disabled, suicidal, and abandoned after psych drug harm - that their pain is just a distraction from the real root causes, and that they should wait for the revolution. I’m sure that’ll be comforting for them. .

The Age of Deference is Over: It's just no one told psychiatry. The medical profession is facing a challenge it doesn’t yet understand: people are no longer waiting to be granted a voice-they’re taking one. Most of you will have seen the firestorm online over the new.

RT @PSSD_Info: Podcast from @CANADALAND on PSSD feat. @EmilyGreyPSSD & @DrDavidHealy: ."I woke up one morning and instantly knew something….

RT @coopercdavis: “As a physician specializing in elderly care, I found Laura Delano’s descriptions uncomfortably familiar. During my resid….

We’re not yelling at the driver for checking the brakes at 10mph. We’re yelling because they told millions it was safe to hit the freeway based on that - and now there’s a multi-car pileup. We don’t need more 10mph spin tests. We need research that reflects real-world use -.

Since minimising the prevalence and severity of antidepressant withdrawal is back in fashion, I revisited testimonies submitted to the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence. They reveal the reality behind the euphemisms and the statistics. These are.