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
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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
Love Actually and Looping Disorders
None of the psychotropic drugs – SSRIs, antipsychotics - we now have or their clinical effects good or bad have been discovered in/with cohort studies, animal models, brain scans or randomized controlled trials (RCTs). They have been discovered by looking at and listening to people. At the recent Enduring Sexual Dysfunction Congress and for several … [Read more...] about Love Actually and Looping Disorders
Enduring Sexual Dysfunction World Congress
Over a few days in late April 2026, Ken Peters, a Professor of Urology in Detroit, chaired a meeting he had organized that pulled together some of the folk most engaged with a set of enduring medicine induced sexual dysfunctions – Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), Post Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) and Post Accutane Syndrome (PAS). (Accutane is isotretinoin). Ken figured it … [Read more...] about Enduring Sexual Dysfunction World Congress
Gambling on SSRIs
Is Consent to an SSRI Possible The idea that we had a right to know what our treatment options are and should be able to consent to the option that looks right for us – even if that conflicts with the views of the doctor we are seeing - arose in the 1950s linked to breast cancer treatment, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and treatment trials (research). The original drug … [Read more...] about Gambling on SSRIs
No Sex – We’re on Antidepressants
No Sex Please! (We’re on antidepressants). Based on 17th Century Kama Sutra and Ragamala paintings. © 2014 created by Billiam James. Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) was the first born sexual dysfunction - before its Finasteride and Isotretinoin siblings - Finasteride and Consent - Isotretinoin and Consent. This video and post give you the background to PSSD which opens … [Read more...] about No Sex – We’re on Antidepressants
Consenting to Isotretinoin and Finasteride Treatment
In the Isotretinoin and Consent and the Finasteride and Consent posts we encouraged readers to make their own videos. Our aim was to contrast the BAD Isotretinoin video with something more decent. But lots of those whose lives or families have been badly damaged by isotretinoin or finasteride want something more. They often call for these drugs to be banned. We don't … [Read more...] about Consenting to Isotretinoin and Finasteride Treatment
Isotretinoin and Safety – Destiny or Mirage?
On January 22, Britain's Medicines Regulator convened a meeting on consent to Isotretinoin (Accutane, Claravis), whose dynamics map straight onto Prima Facie. Families whose children died from Isotretinoin triggered suicide, or whose sexual function is potentially wiped our forever have clamored for reform for over a decade. In 2023, MHRA rewrote the Rules of Evidence on … [Read more...] about Isotretinoin and Safety – Destiny or Mirage?
Treating Narcissistic Doctor Disorder
Many of Freud's ideas linger with us to this day. A few are disastrously misapplied in some situations but still capable of offering insights in other situations. One of these Janus-Faced ideas was about transference reactions. One day a woman in therapy threw her arms around Sigmund. Rather than reach for the obvious explanation, discombobulated he figured she was … [Read more...] about Treating Narcissistic Doctor Disorder
Interoception needs Intrepid Interoceptors
This post complements I've Come to Praise SSRIs not to Bury Them as well as Interoception or Neuroplasticity. Ghosts In 1832 the discovery of spinal reflexes initiated a journey that led to a realization that incoming sensations could trigger motor reflexes that could account for ever greater amounts of our behaviour. This was the start of a journey to a nervous systems that … [Read more...] about Interoception needs Intrepid Interoceptors