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Withdrawal Syndromes: Lost in Translation

April 3, 2025 48 Comments

Understanding Antidepressant Withdrawal © Coral Smith 2025 This post by Harriet Vogt follows on from her recent Ruptures in Clinical Care post The members of Shane Cooke and Mary Hennessey’s antidepressant withdrawal peer support group decided there was more to explore together after our first meeting. They wanted to dig deeper into their experiences of protracted … [Read more...] about Withdrawal Syndromes: Lost in Translation

Over-Diagnosing or Under-Diagnosing

March 10, 2025 22 Comments

This post follows on from Repairing Ruptures in Clinical Care and the Future of Health App-Ointments.  It also links to An Appleby a Day and Tangled up in Bureaucracy. Repairing Ruptures had a lot of comments from Lucy.  One of them kicks things off here. Lucy’s Struggle Since waking up to the adverse effects of psychiatric drugs, I have written countless letters to … [Read more...] about Over-Diagnosing or Under-Diagnosing

Restoring the Magic to Healthcare

February 3, 2025 25 Comments

The Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SRI) story starts in 1969 with Arvid Carlsson (above) who created Zelmid, the first SRI, after listening to people on antidepressants. He linked an anxiolytic effect some older drugs have to the serotonin system.  The SRIs aimed at exploring that effect - Normality and Antidepressant Dysregulation. Fluoxetine (Prozac). sertraline (Zoloft). … [Read more...] about Restoring the Magic to Healthcare

Who Will Make Medicine Great Again

January 12, 2025 58 Comments

Apologies to all readers outside of Britain who may never have heard about The Pirates of Penzance, definitely not The Pirates of the Caribbean. PoP though has a famous song - I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General - featuring a dimwit General who knows everything about everything except military strategy. This post ideally needs an … [Read more...] about Who Will Make Medicine Great Again

Deciphering the Web We Have Woven

January 2, 2025 59 Comments

Three people who got in touch recently, one with a problem, one with an idea, and one 'outraged' contributed to this post.  The problem and idea illustrate what happens when doctors take Probity Blockers. The outrage tells you almost everything you need to know about the Web we are enmeshed in.  Using the problem, idea and outrage, this post gives a punchier version of the … [Read more...] about Deciphering the Web We Have Woven

No One Expects the Reformation

October 16, 2024 22 Comments

The title of this post borrows a famous line from Monty Python: No one expects the Spanish Inquisition   This is an advance notice of things to come rather than a post per se. To get a sense of the things to come, it is worth reading the Antidepressants, Homicide and a Challenge post and the comments that come after it where many regular contributors to RxISK pick up … [Read more...] about No One Expects the Reformation

Antidepressants, Homicide and a Challenge

October 6, 2024 43 Comments

This post follows a Mad in America Webinar about Antidepressant Dysregulation Syndromes,  which was built on the research done by people on these meds. Antidepressant linked Automatism Spectrum Disorders is also built entirely on reports from those who have been taking these medicines. You will hear some extraordinary things few people know about.  We need more reports like … [Read more...] about Antidepressants, Homicide and a Challenge

Antidotes for Akathisia and Dysregulation

September 26, 2024 19 Comments

A recent Mad in America Webinar on Antidepressant Dysregulation Syndromes introduced the idea that tapering might not be the only way to solve some of the problems SSRI antidepressants can cause.  Tapering supporters give the impression tapering is the only legitimate way to go, leaving little or no room for the possibility that antidotes might help. Quite aside from … [Read more...] about Antidotes for Akathisia and Dysregulation

Madness, Normality and Antidepressant Dysregulation

September 8, 2024 37 Comments

Some weeks ago, Bob Whitaker asked me to do a Mad in America Continuing Education Webinar on the problems stopping Antidepressants. The talk with discussion is here Stopping Antidepressants and responses to points raised will be followed up in forthcoming posts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIlk1My4ZgQ   I prerecorded the talk in case of disaster as Tapering … [Read more...] about Madness, Normality and Antidepressant Dysregulation

The Seductive Charm of Pharmacology

September 5, 2024 Leave a Comment

The Post-Finasteride Syndrome Foundation has done great work for over a decade raising the profile of the sexual dysfunction that finasteride (Propecia) can cause - Post-Finasteride Syndrome - and more recently the suicidal effects this drug can have. The clear similarities between the difficulties triggered by Finasteride/Propecia, Isotretinoin/Accutane and SSRIs often … [Read more...] about The Seductive Charm of Pharmacology

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