This post by Marion Brown appeared yesterday on Mad in America and Mad in the UK where the title is A Decade in the Rise and Rise of Functional Neurological Disorder. Marion has done more than probably anyone to raise an alarm about FND. Her post links to many RxISK and related posts My Doctor Thinks I'm Faking It Feedback Loop Disorders Interoception needs … [Read more...] about The Rise and Rise of Functional Neurological Disorder
Antidepressants
Ariadne’s Thread and Post-Mefloquine Toxicity
This post is linked to Functional, Fashionable or Toxic. No professional or patient body interested in the potentially toxic effects of medicines and how to defuse these could possibly ignore the Mefloquine - Lariam story. It has featured on several RxISK posts for over a decade - The Strange History of Lariam and Lariam Hell and most recently in David Rimmington's Sanctuary … [Read more...] about Ariadne’s Thread and Post-Mefloquine Toxicity
MHRA Announces New Warnings for Suicide and PSSD
On 15 October 2026, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced new warnings for SSRI and SNRI antidepressants. These will include a new boxed warning in the patient information leaflet for suicidal thoughts and behaviours, a new patient card, a supporting safety leaflet, and the addition of the term post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) in the … [Read more...] about MHRA Announces New Warnings for Suicide and PSSD
The Troubled Dream of Life
This is the first time RxISK has run 2 posts on the same topic on the same day. Not only that but in addition to the Troubled Dream of Life linking to Drug Induced Loss of Capacity that follows on from this post, Troubled also links to Damnation and Salvation posted on dh.org today. Finally all 3 also link to both The Eclipse of Science and of Us, Entranced, Spellbound and … [Read more...] about The Troubled Dream of Life
Drug Induced Loss of Capacity
Twenty four years ago, after a Panorama program, The Secrets of Seroxat (Paroxetine), the BBC was flooded with nearly 1400 emails, then a new way to communicate, about your experiences on SSRIs. This led to a follow up Panorama program - Emails from the Edge - and then two more follow ups. Your emails outlined your experience with suicidality and dependence on SSRIs. In … [Read more...] about Drug Induced Loss of Capacity
Consent to Waltz, Capacity to Tango, Connect to..
RxISK's posts on consent start way back even before We have a Dream - Getting Engaged to a Doctor or You'll Come a Taltzing Matilda with Me. There's the recent Challenging my Doctor to Disclose or Challenging a Juggernaut and above all Guilty until Proven Innocent. Why another? Read on to find out about Connecting. When is Consent Consent The notion that medical treatment … [Read more...] about Consent to Waltz, Capacity to Tango, Connect to..
Ordinary or Forgotten Women and Men
Mid-Ulster Council lit up for July 29 Dr Gerald Dal Pan druginfo@fda.hhs.gov This letter was emailed to Dr Dal Pan on July 29, 2026 See Prescribed Harm Awareness and Stolen Lives for more on this. Dear Dr Dal Pan I listened with interest to your recent interview with Dr Celia Williams in a Q & A with FDA series, where you were asked which types of adverse event … [Read more...] about Ordinary or Forgotten Women and Men
Prescribed Harm Awareness Goes Global
Colleen Bell, Stephen O'Neill's niece, set up Stephen's Voice and through Stephen's Voice started Prescribed Harm Awareness Day on July 29, 2020, four years after his death on July 29, 2016. Several years later Katinka Newman who had set up Antidepressant Risks, got in touch with Colleen to find out more and linked to their conversation Katinka set up a Stolen Lives Day on … [Read more...] about Prescribed Harm Awareness Goes Global
Triple Therapy for Enduring Sexual Dsyfunction
The similarities between AIDS and PSSD/PFS/PRSD are striking. Both involve: Sex Anonymity – everyone’s initial instinct was not to reveal they had the problem. The AIDS community faced up to this with the creation of ACT UP. For PSSD things changed dramatically when the PSSD Network put names and faces to the condition. A People’s Movement. When it was … [Read more...] about Triple Therapy for Enduring Sexual Dsyfunction
Adverse Events Need A Human Touch
One of the most dramatic moments in the annals of adverse events was when in 2008 Audrey Bahrick, a psychologist linked to the U of Iowa, contacted her senator, Senator Chuck Grassley, telling him about Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) and asking him to alert FDA to the problem in the hope that something could be done to ensure not too many people were affected. He did as … [Read more...] about Adverse Events Need A Human Touch