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Advocating for informed consent & listening to patient experiences with psychotropics should not be controversial. Yet, prominent psychiatrists & their followers label such calls as ‘anti-psych’ or ‘anti-med.’ Critique ≠ denial of treatment. It’s about evidence, safety & ethics

In case you didn't know, GSK withheld data linking its antidepressant, Paxil, to baby heart defects during early pregnancy. The company only added label warnings after lawsuits forced such disclosure. GSK later paid over $1B to settle birth defect claims. schmidtlaw.com/paxil-class-ac…

This is rich, coming from George, the #ECT cheerleader who refuses to acknowledge the severe cognitive impairment and memory loss (brain damage) that ECT can and does cause. Instead he blocks people calling for a long overdue investigation into the issues with ECT. Shameful.

We must never forget the countless babies and mothers who trusted their doctors when told that taking Paxil during pregnancy was “safe and effective.” That trust was betrayed. GSK ultimately paid nearly $1 billion to settle Paxil-related lawsuits. Pfizer, too, faced lawsuits

This meta-analysis in The Lancet Psychiatry shows psychotherapy goes beyond symptom reduction by enhancing self-understanding, social engagement, and self-agency. Can SSRIs or other depression 💊, with their emotional numbing, achieve these outcomes? thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. How to explain probabilistic stats 101: Don’t combine a clearly quantified risk (e.g. 3 extra malformations per 1,000 pregnancies from SSRIs) with vague hand-waving like “there are risks of untreated depression.” That phrase fails to account for severity, offers no numbers, and

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Early Life Adversity Predicts Later Mental Health Issues Around the World Exposure to childhood trauma raises the risk of adult mental illness by 66%, according to a systematic review of 43 meta-analyses across seven countries. By Richard Sears madinamerica.com/2025/07/early-…

Cochrane Recommends Antidepressants for Anxiety in a Garbage In, Garbage Out Review by Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD The Cochrane review of antidepressants for generalised anxiety disorder is scandalously poor, misleading and harmful for the patients. madinamerica.com/2025/07/cochra…

Do look at these resources👇🏼Thanks to Stephen’s Voice - Suicide Prevention for raising awareness from such pain! Polypharmacy & associated adverse effects blighted 30 yrs of my life. #Informed choice is every persons right. If there’s no other options can our decisions be informed? #PHADay #HumanRights

This is not just about a patient but someone who is writing to large numbers of the public as a journalist and will influence the choices made by women. Women deserve to know the risks of different options.

I am glad to hear my work has been helpful. Some of my colleagues are not so bountiful with their praise!

Is there anything more destructive to mental health than to convince someone that their thoughts and feelings and experiences are the symptoms of a disease?

George Kirov Have antidepressants been shown to reduce these risks in the puerperium?

I admin a large antidepressant withdrawal FB group. 14,000+ people harmed by abrupt tapers, misdiagnosed withdrawal as relapse & poly pharmacy. All from guidance that ignores basic pharmacology. When patients know more than prescribers, something is deeply wrong with the system

Sam Hall Well done on doing that. It is a much needed service

Fiona French, freedom is bliss Thank you. It saved my life so I do it to return the favour and try to prevent some of the suffering that I’ve experienced from protracted withdrawal

A UCL professor wrote about me 5 years ago, on 4 Aug 2020: ‘He's a tiny cog in the realistic/critical/anti-psychiatry machine on Twitter. Like all of them, he preaches mostly to the converted.’ Since then, the number of Critical Psychiatry trainees has grown from a dozen to 185.

'Nonsense as nuance' - response to Awais Aftab's blog on antidepressant withdrawal by Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social 'The result of his [Aftab's] interventions is to solidify the status quo which misleadingly and systemically dismisses and minimises patients’ concerns.' mhorowitz.substack.com/p/no-the-kalfa…

"SSRIs increase neuroplasticity" is an aspirational fantasy repeated so often that it's now an "everybody knows". There is zero evidence that SSRIs increase neuroplasticity.