SSRI withdrawal is something else. My brain feels like it's chemically dependent on them at this point. Who would have guessed that medicine that gives your brain serotonin that it can't create itself develops a dependency? And they don't even warn you about it before giving it to you.

Venlafaxine protracted withdrawal diary: I was able to get out of the house yesterday. Not today #psysky #medsky #madsky #pharmsky

Venlafaxine protracted withdrawal diary: I've lost my appetite again #pharmsky #medsky #madsky #psysky

"According to established pharmacological principles, chronic application of any psychotropic brings about neurophysiological processes: adaption, tolerance, and potential dependence with withdrawal upon reduction of the drug" #medsky #madsky #psysky #pharmsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I've heard it occasionally over here, too Perhaps @markhoro.bsky.social may want to weigh in?

"If you’re coming off antidepressants, don’t skip doses. It’s not a safe shortcut. It’s not a smart alternative to the nitty-gritty work of a proper hyperbolic taper. It increases the risk of severe withdrawal." #pharmsky #medsky #madsky

On this date in 1939, the USSR invaded Poland in cooperation with its ally, Nazi Germany. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...

🆕 UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 156 en español 🆕 Retiro de antidepresivos: Lo que los pacientes y los prescriptores deben saber 👉 www.ti.ubc.ca/es/2025/06/1... #SegPac #MedEd #deprescripción #deprescribing #antidepresivos

good question...probably not. The mechanism is likely related to neurotransmitters and their post-synaptic receptors being down-regulated. Our group has done a fair bit of work on this: www.ti.ubc.ca/2025/06/18/1... and www.ti.ubc.ca/2025/07/17/1... are our recent efforts.

never should have got on venlafaxine. never should have started weaning off them. i feel like hell, I feel like I’m going crazy

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Robert Redford has died. A clip from one of my most favorite films. He was so pretty. And so funny: youtu.be/XhCo2mgRD4A

Venlafaxine protracted withdrawal diary - For the first time in a year, my husband is abroad for work. I hope to be able to make it. The loss of functionality and handle the simplest situations is one of the worst aspects of this awful condition #pharmsky #madsky #medsky

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

Bernisson and Sismondo: How big is the medical writing industry? Why it matters > 1000 medical education and communication companies (MECCS) provide medical writing services, mostly sponsored by pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Great to see that antidepressant-withdrawal issues has been covered in Psychiatric News psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

Paxil withdrawal is hard to bear, Akathisia drives despair. Electric shocks, a burning brain, Tinnitus screams, waves of pain. Sweat and nausea, nerves on fire, Autonomic chaos, nothing’s higher. Long-term users are fair game, Beware, beware this drug will maim…

Apollonio's article used documents unearthed in litigation from the fabulous UCSF Industry Documents Library, a great resource for researchers, media and students. beta.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/

Janssen and Eli Lilly successfully marketed antipsychotics Risperdal and Zyprexa to prisons and jails, a 2022 article by Dorie Apollonio finds. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"Stop regarding menopause as a disease", PharmedOut's Tony Scialli tells Healio: www.healio.com/news/primary...

#pharmsky #medsky

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🔴 Más de un millón de personas en España toman cada día un tratamiento contra el infarto que no sirve para nada elpais.com/ciencia/2025-08...

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Venlafaxine protracted withdrawal diary: never think you're getting better

today I am loving the UN Geneva Archives platform which hosts the complete League of Nations archives, digitised, entirely free some archive digitisation programs are very clunky & hard to use, this is immaculate & has an incredibly user friendly interface + excellent metadata

Blog on the longstanding tendency to play down the dependence-inducing effects of psychiatric drugs, now playing out in two reviews that minimise antidepressant withdrawal effects based on flawed studies of short-term users www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chem...

This summer's raging wildfires in Spain are the red spike in this graph. atmosphere.copernicus.eu/copernicus-i...

How I wish I could move to Vigo

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

Thank god that birds don’t have to worry about which toilet they’re allowed to use.

Hi #INC5 👋 from the 1980s when residents of the lower Mississippi — “Cancer Alley” — walked from Baton Rouge to NOLA to protest the cumulative effects of all the pollution coming off all the plastic-petrochemical plants. It’s way past time — #PlasticsTreaty via @librarycongress

‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution - Faded items dating back to 1950s have been found on Italian beaches, underscoring plastic’s problematic longevity #plasticstreaty www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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During a live broadcast of Big Brother in Israel, members of Standing Together rush the stage wearing “Leave Gaza” shirts and calling for an end to the genocide and against Netanyahu’s plan for permanent occupation.

Just a reminder for #historians that I am constantly updating this list of *online* and *open access* collections of radical historical documents. Nearly 1000 listed from around the world in many languages! hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

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Calling harmed patients “anti-psychiatry” isn’t just name-calling it’s a systemic silencing tactic that hides the truth about SSRI withdrawal, endangers others still on the drugs, & slows down ethical reform. Millions are left uninformed, vulnerable, & unprepared for WD risks…

I've started thinking a lot about you both again. Does it mean that I'm healing?

Art critic. 😾

Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now:

Lexapro absolutely saved my life. But at the same time, for months after quitting I had the most exquisitely torturous panic attacks. And this is coming from someone who's had panic attacks since they were eight and is very, very used to talking myself down from them. Absolutely hellish experience.