Kirsty bravely shares her lived experience - “The psychiatrist put me back on another SSRI AD at a higher dose. The psychiatrist said my [withdrawal] symptoms were caused by a relapse & a worsening of depression and anxiety, not symptoms of withdrawal” m.youtube.com/watch?v=kDXl...

"Yet, there is evidence from primary care that people are prescribed antidepressants when clinical guideline criteria are not met, more commonly women", write Katharine Wallis, @annaking1.bsky.social and @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social #Psysky #madsky

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We asked readers about taking antidepressants. The response points to a ‘silent epidemic’ and urgent need for reform

Nineteen readers on their experience taking and withdrawing from antidepressants

‘A pill for every ill’: doctors say Australia overprescribing antidepressants to mask toxic social conditions

The new science ending the ‘terror and panic’ of coming off long-term antidepressant use

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Debunking the chemical imbalance theory may be meaningless to some professionals, but to countless millions of people, who were misled by the theory, its falsity still comes as a revelation. What psychiatry knew in private was not made public. The damage still reverberates today.

To demedicalise distress is not to delegitimise distress. One can honor, respect and care for profound suffering without labeling it as illness, pathology or disorder.

Slides from my talk today on (es)ketamine in suicide prevention. Feedback very welcome.

Some psychiatrists now claim they’ve known the chemical imbalance hypothesis was false for decades. Which poses the serious ethical question of why they failed to correct the record until Moncrieff published.

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