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JD Nick @Dr_Cliff_Sharp Dr Sathya Prakash @akathisiaalli @annmarcos1 Royal College of Psychiatrists @dranniehickox Saying #akathisia's a "unpleasant motor restlessness" akin to telling someone sitting on a fire ant hill "it may feel unpleasant." It occurs more than ever w/ ever increasing rates of benzos, antidepressants & polypharmacy. Drs clearly don't understand it. x.com/Dr_Cliff_Sharp…

Psychiatry searching for a diagnostic biomarker that is sensitive & specific enough to be clinically useful

I finished “The Zyprexa Papers” by Jim Gottstein today. Fascinating story of how Gottstein obtained & shared confidential documents showing that Eli Lily executives had knowingly concealed data related to metabolic risks of Zyprexa (downplaying risks in published data)… (1/7)

If a treatment your Dr recommended had no standard practices (dosing consensus protocols based on safety studies, etc) registered with the US FDA, would you want to know BEFORE treatment? #AuditECT #AskThePatient @TaperClinic Allen Frances

If the treatment your doctor recommended had no standard practices (safety studies/dosing consensus protocols based on safety studies, performance measures patient registries, etc) registered with the US FDA, would you want to know BEFORE treatment? #AuditECT #AskThePatient

If you're doctor had no subspecialty training to dose a treatment he was ordering for you, would you want to know? #AuditECT #AskThePatient

If you were prescribed a treatment using a medical device that is NOT #FDAapproved and had no recognized rehabilitation interventions in the event of injury, would you want to know before having treatment? #AuditECT #AskThePatient

What say ye? Would you want to know BEFORE treatment? #AskThePatient Disability Rights California Disability Scoop Kathy Flaherty Allen Frances mesh injured patients 🕊 Center on Disability Studies #AuditECT National Disability Rights Network Institute on Disability Physicians for Informed Consent ICAN - Informed Consent Action Network Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO Gavin Preston, M.D.

What say ye?

New study: SSRI antidepressants have toxic chemical effects on heart cells. The authors write: "SSRIs during pregnancy can increase the odds of congenital heart defects in babies." "Our study demonstrated that SSRIs induced cardiac toxicity via (1/2) nature.com/articles/s4200…

dysfunction of mitochondria & sarcomere structure." "Furthermore, our data suggested that SSRIs may be associated with abnormal bleeding & coagulation disorder, as well as impair cardiac development...These findings highlight the potential risks of SSRIs to cardiac health." (2/2

One of the principles that helped me wean off psych drugs was faith - faith that deep down, I had a well-functioning inner guidance system. Healing meant tuning into it, not drowning it in medication. Psychiatry works by eroding that faith.

"Does prenatal SSRI use increase later anxiety & depression in the exposed children?" -Yes. This was shown most recently on May 6th in research showing that adolescents exposed to SSRIs in utero exhibited higher anxiety & depression symptoms. (1/2) nature.com/articles/s4146…

Depression has lost its meaning. What used to describe a serious clinical condition is now an umbrella term for any negative emotion or disappointment. And what does the medical system do? They don't take the time to understand context or explore root causes - they write

This is what “education” looks like at the American Psychiatric Association conference: pharma-branded temples and staircases wrapped in marketing. Vraylar. Cobenfy. Choose your sponsor, not your science. Let’s stop pretending this is normal. It’s not. Physicians who speak

Hanna_PSSD Macbeth Nick Taber Dr John Read Based on decades of research, the majority of #ECT providers in community settings use the MMSE, an inadequate tool according to Robertson & Pryor: "Claims that ECT does not have permanent adverse effects on memory and cognitive ability have been based on extremely gross

Today marks 54 months (four and a half years) of tapering off handfuls of psychiatric medications. It’s been a journey that has stretched me in every way imaginable. This hasn't just been a physical process. It's been a complete reshaping of how I see life, myself, and the world

Here is what Cochrane said about aripiprazole (Abilify) for schizophrenia: "Despite the fact that 7110 people participated in fifteen randomised aripiprazole studies, we were unable to extract any usable data on death, service outcomes... 1/2