Editorial Note: This post continues from last week's Persecution of Heretics. It's about how only a Popular Movement with those suffering adverse effects on drugs speaking up can save us now. It adapts a talk given a month ago to the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry in Los Angeles. It loses something without its slides. But it was recorded and may be … [Read more...] about Better to Die RxISKing It
Antidepressants
Rethink at Rethink?
Editorial Note: This post from James Bennett of RxISK's team explores the increasingly problematic area of sexual functioning on antidepressants and other drugs. The efforts to take down the Wikipedia page on Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) suggest that the sexual side effects of antidepressants worry industry more than anything else. Why this should be is something that … [Read more...] about Rethink at Rethink?
The Tooth Fairy
Editorial note: While many people in the UK make it a point of honor to say they never read The Mail, when it comes to its health and femail pages The Mail can be quite astonishing. For some of us who have followed the stories on RxISK linking SSRI use to alcoholism, the Mail's pages feature an extraordinary parade of women crashing cars and killing others, or divorced by … [Read more...] about The Tooth Fairy
Asexuality: A Curious Parallel
Editorial Note: This post is by James Bennett who is organizing RxISK research on PSSD. In the last two decades there has been an explosion in the number of children being prescribed a range of drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and stimulants. There is also a dramatic increase in the number of children exposed to these drugs, especially antidepressants, before … [Read more...] about Asexuality: A Curious Parallel
Life on Drugs
Editorial Note: This extraordinary account of what it can be like to live on psychotropic drugs came by email out of the blue from Jim Seko. For the record, it looks from here that Jim cannot have had schizophrenia. His original problem almost has to be an acute and transient psychosis. The tragedy of these states is that they sometimes do lead to a life dulled by … [Read more...] about Life on Drugs
When is a Drug Guilty?
Editorial Note: We desperately need you to undertake some jury duty - we need you to explore why we react so strangely when it comes to changes on behavior linked to prescription drugs? In the last two posts Doctor Faces Marriage-Buster and Homicide of a Husband, there were two scenarios where drugs were involved and the questions were - can a drug change a person so they … [Read more...] about When is a Drug Guilty?
Doctor faces Marriage-Buster: What should s/he do?
Editorial Note: This post is about an issue covered before - the effects of antidepressants on relationships - see My Wife Has Left Me. This post had thirty-four follow-up comments which show that this issue gets at the heart of doctoring - what do you do when a wife or husband tells you the SSRI their partner is on has changed their personality and this wish to leave the … [Read more...] about Doctor faces Marriage-Buster: What should s/he do?
Girl on a Hot Tin Roof: Drug Withdrawal Syndrome
Editorial Note: There are two reasons to run Katie B-T's story here. One is the phenomenon of burning feet she reports. This seems common with benzodiazepine like drugs, including gabapentin and pregabalin. We would love to hear from others who have had problems like this - how long did the problem last, what helped if anything. The second reason is to launch the Notes on … [Read more...] about Girl on a Hot Tin Roof: Drug Withdrawal Syndrome
A PSSD Story
Editorial Note: This is the fourth of five posts running over two weeks, about Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). The first was Wikipedia Editor inserts Foot in Mouth, followed by 120 cases of PSSD, and Recovering from PSSD. I first took citalopram in November 2007, at the age of 22. I had quite bad OCD and because there was a long wait to try CBT, I was persuaded to try … [Read more...] about A PSSD Story
Recovering from PSSD
Some weeks ago, a number of people linked to Paxil Progress got in touch. They were concerned that RxISK was putting out a message that there was no recovery from Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) and that if people got this message they might go on to commit suicide. This post tackles the issue of recovery, first by offering an account of recovery, followed by a comment and … [Read more...] about Recovering from PSSD