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As a teenager, when I was first prescribed the SSRI, paroxetine, I was told "you may feel worse for the first few weeks of starting it but that's a sign it's working".
So when within days of starting I found I couldn't stay still and was pacing round the house with agitating
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@dopegirlfresh
This so so much. I hated this pressure! I didn't know what I wanted for dinner the next day*, let alone what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
*still don't
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@SoVeryBritish
Other official uses of “right”:
-Getting up to make tea
-Getting up to go to the toilet
-Stopping browsing social media to do work
-First person who gets up in office to reluctantly go to meeting (everyone sort of then shuffles in behind)
-Said before “s’pose I better ring ...”
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@SoVeryBritish
Garages: the home of crap you bought for ideas that seemed great at the time- ideas so great that the weekend you first had them you got distracted by reading an old takeaway menu on the garage floor then going inside to order a curry to never think of your idea ever again.
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@NoContextBrits
JUST IN: Notts Police Release Shocking New Footage Of Man Wanted For Armed Robbery, Warns Locals To Not Approach These Dangerous Pixels
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@finding_hope_2
I had to talk about my 'toolbox' so much I started to wonder if I'd mistakenly signed up for a B&Q training programme
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@girlziplocked
Have you read this? It's along the same lines of what you're saying and reflects many of the replies you're getting here, such as the spot-on 'being a janitor for capitalism' line in
@DemonBob_Badman
's reply
Hi folks, I'm very proud to say that my book, Sedated, is released today! I've done everything within my power to write a book worthy of your time - one that illuminates via interviews, stories & research why our mental health sector is broken & how we may put it right again. 1/5
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1/45 THREAD: I try to respect paywalls, but nobody should pay to read this – what amounts to little more than an advertorial for antidepressants from the NYT, out today (25 April 2024) – link at end of thread.
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1/4 Have you ever had a bad reaction to something a psychiatrist prescribed to then have that reaction misdiagnosed as a new psychiatric condition (that results in a new prescription and logs that new diagnosis on your records to get stuck there for life)? As in...
Psychiatrist:
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@ahmedhankir
I don't understand the pushback for this, it doesn't/shouldn't take rocket science to explain smth that's obv thru all human history
(But poverty as biggest factor does put more onus on govt so maybe that's why it's always about individual's illness rather than society's illness)
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@DrJessTaylor
Reminds me of
Patient 'refused' treatment
Vs
Patient 'declined' treatment
Small wording change, big difference in how the patient is perceived ime
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1/3 This woman lost her eye because doctors wrote off her symptoms as "anxiety".
That's because psychiatry's diagnoses are so woolly and so arbitrary they're a dumping ground for every human ailment and experience. Especially women's.
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This 👇
Therapy can only do so much if you’re not able to get your basic needs met. Mental health is affordable housing. Mental health is free healthcare. Mental health is free education. Mental health is food security. Mental health is financial stability. Therapy can’t fix the system.
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Psychiatrists: don't use social media for health advice
Also psychiatrists: no such thing as antidepressant withdrawal– accept me calling your brain being fried with zaps a return of your MDD, or you can have a new diagnosis of OCD / GAD / ADHD / BD / BPD etc
Patients:
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You are more likely to get sexual dysfunction from antidepressants than get relief from your depression that's in any way superior to taking a sugar pill.
To explain...
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1/13 One of the many uniquely sh1tty things about antidepressant withdrawal is not just how awful the symptoms are, but how out-of-this-world they are, too.
Important piece today by
@amyfentonjourno
touches on this:
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Someone found a use for the DSM that's less harmful than its official use
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A question...
Diagnoses aside- and in 15 words or less- what's the back story for why you were first prescribed an antidepressant (or psych drug)?
I go first with image below. No need to do it as image but by all means do if you want.
(Obv don't answer if it's too personal)
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" “Antidepressants change the brain and the normal state of the mind: the thinking processes, emotions and sensations,” says the psychiatrist Dr Joanna Moncrieff "
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@NoContextBrits
To the people who moan about these being in a box Celebrations: please send them to me
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1/3 THREAD: 'Paris Hilton to Congress: “I was force fed medications and sexually abused” '
If this is how the rich and powerful are treated, what hope is there for the rest of us when seeking help?
NB. WHAT SHE DESCRIBES IS *NOT* UNUSUAL. See thread for more examples.
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@Rebecca99LT
I'm a patient who was prescribed paroxetine as a teen for being bullied at school for being a 'nerd', which was misdiagnosed as an illness. The paroxetine nearly killed me (akathisia) both in starting it, then trying to stop it. (I know there will be psychiatrists reading that
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@NoContextBrits
Flamboyant bingo caller down the Mecca and guy who spends six hours cleaning his Mk4 VW Golf R32 every Sunday
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Patient-bullying psychiatrists on here- eg the snidey Howard- think patients who are dissatisified with psychiatry and its so-called treatments are a “tiny... noisy, unrepresentative minority”.
Meanwhile, over on IG, a small-ish account (3,472 followers) gets *1.3 MILLION* likes
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"I'm a brain doctor - trying to come off antidepressants left me in a state of terror"
TERROR is the word. Not anxiety. Not panic. Not restlessness. TERROR. For me it was about 21 hours a day, for MONTHS.
Link below.
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@NoContextBrits
We have Jaws III to blame for this not being a thing. SHAME ON YOU FOR FEAR MONGERING, JAWS III!
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The “science” underpinning the mental health system, in a nutshell:
Psychiatrist: “Because I said so.”
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@NoContextBrits
1. Wear a scarf with your pyjamas
2. Call it a pashmina
3. Get some massive but super cheap sunglasses from a Shell garage
4. Apply sunglasses
5. Talk about 'provenance' a lot
Eh voila! You too can be a posh twat!
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@NoContextBrits
JUST IN: Fire Service Unveils Breakthrough New Technology To Combat Chip Pan Infernos
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A doctor saying the quiet part out loud of...
"People who say things I don't like deserve to be sedated with psych drugs"
...explains so much about what really happens in psychiatric units (see reply for examples)
Another medical doctor has weaponized antipsychotic prescription. This isn’t the burn they think it is and only provides further evidence that those who take psychiatric medication are not respected by the medical profession.
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Here,
@rcpsych
, is a tweet that that is going viral bc general public (ie NOT campaigners) in their droves are identifying with it. She's essentially describing withdrawal, but your profession has failed to explain the difference between withdrawal and relapse>
Has anyone else been on antidepressants for YEARS and feel like they’re not doing anything bc you’re still extremely depressed, but when you try come off them, you reach a level of depression you didn’t realise existed so you have to go back on them again ???
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@NoContextBrits
These guys aren't kissing, aren't standing, and aren't naked. Picture is misleading so this is misinformation.
(Sarcasm, ok)
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@SoVeryBritish
There's also generic nicknames- mine are themed around 'mog', so 'moglet', 'mogganog', 'moggalicious', 'mogtastico'...
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I love gallows humour (and satire)- it's a coping thing (including for me). But when it's directed at patients in severe distress by people wielding powerful chemicals, it's also PUNCHING DOWN.
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@Lara_Fergie99
🩸Being forced to beg for pads & tampons, often withheld as punishment
🩸Being humiliated/told off for bleeding on sheets bc you were on a heavy day but used up your quota
🩸Being told you're imagining your cramps so painkillers won't help
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Psychiatry: "Withdrawal symptoms from nicotine, alcohol, from street drugs? Sure. Can be fatal."
Also psychiatry: "Withdrawal symptoms from any of the drugs we prescribe? No way. Or it's not a big deal. Anyway, it's addiction."
LIARS.
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1/12 THREAD: How some psych (and non-psych) nurses respond on social media to a meme celebrating Haldol (for its chemical restraint action).
(Source/meme below)
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@NeurologistMom
Two stories of
#MedicalMisogyny
here- physical conditions written off as anxiety (mine was actually severe infection that required hosp stay & IV antibiotics). The word 'hysterical' might not be used now, but 'hysterical woman' concept still v much alive.
1/3 This woman lost her eye because doctors wrote off her symptoms as "anxiety".
That's because psychiatry's diagnoses are so woolly and so arbitrary they're a dumping ground for every human ailment and experience. Especially women's.
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FAO Lord Alton (
@DavidAltonHL
), as mentioned before, I wanted to share with you a thread. It's about this, by
@thetimes
:
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1/13 THREAD: "I was 20 the first time I was prescribed antidepressants. I had gone to the doctors during January in rainy, miserable Manchester complaining of flu. Somehow, I came out of the appointment having been diagnosed with depression and prescribed a course of SSRIs. But
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Australian Pharmacist (
@PSA_National
) covering deprescribing of antidepressants AND other psych drugs AND explicitly mentioning *akathisia* and not some wishy-washy euphemism like 'restlessness'...
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@NoContextBrits
German for "jelly" (or "jello" in US) is "wackelpudding", which literally translates to "wobble pudding".
All jelly products should be rebranded "wobble pudding".
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BREAKING: Having Had Their Decades Of Lies Exposed, Psychiatrists' Latest Antidepressants Elevator Pitch To Patients Looks A Lot Like This:
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Today, from one of UK's biggest daytime TV shows- two patients incl
@mirandalevycopy
, with
@markhoro
on horrors of stopping
#pregabalin
. Patients faces say it all when the soulless gone-through-legal-42-times pharmaco statement is read out.
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1/3 BREAKING: With The Help Of The Pharma-Bankrolled
@SMC_London
, Antidepressant Field Sales Team Sorry Psychiatrists Rehashing Pharma's Past Attempts At Denying And Downplaying Problems Of Antidepressant Withdrawal, Such As This Atrocity:
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I am a patient and you do not speak for me. That's because you are a passive-aggressive bully and liar, working in a field that forces chemicals on people against their will on the basis of little more than fallible opinion and pharma-funded PR disguised as research.
Not only do
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BREAKING: When It Comes To Antidepressants, Most Psychiatrists Recommend A 'Do As We Say, Not As We Do' Treatment Plan, Finds Study
79.3% of psychiatrists recommended immediate antidepressant treatment for a person with depression, but only 39.1% would follow that recommendation themselves.
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The study wasn't about them being *addictive*, so in exploiting the public's confusion about dependency and addiction, you are LYING TO AND MISLEADING PEOPLE here.
And yes, they most definitely are a vital tool in psychiatry, hence your totally dishonest BS, pharma PR guy.
My new article in the
@guardian
is out: The myth that
#antidepressants
are addictive has been debunked – they are a vital tool in psychiatry
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It doesn't even make logical sense that tying someone to a bed for 10 days could improve their mental health (or any aspect of their health), let alone make humane sense.
(This is South Korea- an advanced, wealthy country. The Hankyoreh is South Korea's liberal daily newspaper.)
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If only psychiatry was as dedicated to patients as it is to prescribing chemicals, things would be very different indeed
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@cwfrederick
@HenryRunamucker
@stclairashley
@Cernovich
To recap:
1. Psychiatrist sets stall out with appeal to authority
2. Says ssris helpful for 90% ppl
3. Asked for source of that figure; offered FDA study: no better than placebo in 85% of cases (therefore massively/misleadingly overprescribed)
4. Psychiatrist: shrugs
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BREAKING: People Whose Livelihoods Greatly Involve Prescribing Dubious Chemicals Strangely Talk A Lot About Prescribing Dubious Chemicals And Very Little About Anything Else, Which Suggests The Biopsychosocial Model They Claim To Practise Is Basically This:
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Thread: from National Geographic, today. Link at bottom of thread
First- good headline: DON'T abruptly stop antidepressants (or stop them too quickly)-can be DISASTROUSLY dangerous.
(Unfortunately, 'stopping too quickly' often stems from doctors- more on that next.)
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1/97 🧵🧵🧵MEGATHREAD:*
Things I’ve learned as a patient about **ANTIDEPRESSANT TAPERING AND WITHDRAWAL**, with links to useful info.
*“Megathread” sounds like the name of a metal band (Megadeth vibes) so my future megathreads might get mock album covers like the below...
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1/3 BREAKING: Psychiatry Sets New World Record For Being So Completely Out of Touch With Human Beings And Up Its Own Arse It Celebrates A New Study That Somehow Fails To Notice The Blindingly Obvious That...
...Being Homeless Is Depressing And Disturbing And Bad For Your Health
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Breaking my own rule to never comment on self-serving OPs by docs, but I can personally say that as a psychiatric patient, antidepressants nearly cost my life multiple times due to start-up then withdrawal akathisia. And in between that, gave me years of emotional blunting where
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@KonLontos
If a doctor can't explain a difficult subject honestly and sensitively, they shouldn't be a doctor.
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@SoVeryBritish
Clear glass mug = use for cappuccino to be more sophisticated
Brown glass mug = use for golden vegetable soup out of a packet to be more 'I'm on a camping trip'
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@markhoro
"An Australian doctor has published a landmark step by step guide on how to get off antidepressants safely. It followed his own experience of using the medication for 15 years ending in severe withdrawal symptoms when he came off it."
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@atomicaceso
A doctor saying the quiet part out loud of...
"People who say things I don't like deserve to be sedated with psych drugs"
...explains so much about what really happens in psychiatric units
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.
@markhoro
discussing
#deprescribing
on both sides of the planet- here on Australia's national public TV network with
@mjrowland68
and Lisa Millar. Source/ full video below👇
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BREAKING: Psychiatrist Seeing Scientologists Everywhere, Again
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