Don't do drugs (both legal and illegal), lose some weight, practise some sport, socialize, have some interests, eat healthy, meditate daily, and your overall health and life expectancy will improve enormously (and you'll take less pills and see less doctors)
#Psychiatry
For those who defend that we don't have biomarkers in Psychiatry, that it's all make believe and it's not rooted in Physical Science, here you got few (of many) examples
#Psychiatry
@nassirghaemi
Lithium and Clozapine are probably the 2 drugs that do a better job in preventing suicide, in people with moderate or severe Mental Illness.
@chrisaikenmd
Bad news is Buprenorphine is "only" a partial agonist, and it doesn't cover much more than like 40mg of Methadone a day, in principle even at high doses, so many people cannot end up using this very good molecule.
@JDaviesPhD
Trauma-based explanations are also Biological (as far as no one proves the existence of non physical stuff), like everyhing else in Mental Health. Does it mean that we can only attack problems directly from a Biochemical point of view? Not at all, but it all happens down there.
@chrisaikenmd
I'm a Psychiatrist, and I tend to disagree with some/many things you post, I believe often you don't distinguish the trees from the forest.
@Snuggs78703287
@Psychiatry_Anti
with the info we got at hand, through Evidence-based Medicine. I wish we could make it work 100% of the times, but that's very beyond us, for example because of broken families (as you mentioned), drugs, bad lifestyles, ... that people don't want or cannot change.
@JDaviesPhD
Suffering is suffering. You break a bone, it hurts, and it has nothing to do with your ideas about it. Mental suffering works exactly the same; you can afterwards rationalize it differently, but the pain, given the exact same process/disease, is and has to be exactly the same.
@JDaviesPhD
On the other hand, been worried for years on how many people don't need psychotherapy and do need medication and don't get the right treatment. As today, Clinical Psychology is too often a bad joke, and they not only often don't help people but sometimes they do hurt them.
@psychharm
Ignorant. Bad things happen (unfortunately) in all areas of medicine, but the ratio NNT/NNH for SSRIs is super high. I assume, with such a big mouth, you know what all those acronims stand for.
@taymurph26
With suvh a big mouth you should know that these numbers are always compared, and a drug don't hit the market if it's too dangerous and/or doesn't help enough people. YOU FUCKING IGNORANT.
@MendesJohn5936
1) Psychiatrists who need them take the meds. 2) Psych Meds don't cause irreversible damage. 3) We don't gaslight the patients, we ALL have the greatest of respect for them (for us too, if we happen to be psychiatry ill), and we learn a great deal from them everyday.
@JDaviesPhD
It is always the Counsellor/Therapist, regardless of the type of Therapy. That's one of the reasons why Clinical Psychology cannot be regarded as a half-hard Science.
@CALDirector
No worries, they will collapse unto themselves, much in the same way like hyperrealist in literature does when you try to apply it thoroughly. However, it's our duty to very clearly say out loud that they're wrong and sometimes delusional, and let that collapse peacefully happen.
@psychharm
Also remember for every case of akathisia that they cause they help/cure you thousands of times. And keep in mind akathisia desappear when you quit the drug, so no big problem. This guy is an ignorant twat, don't read anything he posts.
@sbuehler
Everything in the Universe is. The Universe is a verb, not a noun. It's known in Physics for many years, as usual Psychologists come forth bad and late.
@DrMcFillin
You're wrong, both in what you said and in what you implied (or didn't say). Damn, psychologists like you turn Clinical Psychology into a joke (not always, but just too often). Shame on you.
For all those who deny
#Psychiatry
has biomarkers (and these are only the objective peripheral ones). Needless to say there're many more, both objective and subjective.
@BitcoinOasis86
@MoralMedicine
court and ask for a compensation, you could even sue the Doctor, which would be useless because he did the correct thing, Finasteride for hair loss, it's done al around the world a zillion times everyday. You make your case, and if you prove that it's been the molecule maybe...
@jefffinethomas
3/4 of Clinicsl Psychology is, as you indirectly mentioned, an unfunny joke, and the 12 session thing is proof of that. It comes from trying to be a hard science and research, but, as you well said sir, it is rubbish.
@justin_garson
The fact that people has an opinion on science, psychiatry in this case, is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what scientific knowledge says, period, regardless of many uninformes opinions.
@BlackshepSusan
It does, you learn therapeutic and potential adverse effects all at the same time, plus mechanism of action, plus pharmacokinetics, plus potential interactions, ...
@Mad_In_America
@TheLancetPsych
There's tons of evidence that moderate-severe depression don't respond to placebo, most likely explanation for this article is that stimulation was harmful, not that placebo turned out to be magic.
@chrisaikenmd
Not surprised. It seems there're many things very wrong in the CNS in moderate and severe disorders, which explains why you have to push hard to compensate them: 60-80% occupancy D2 receptors in Schizophrenia, same % with SSRIs in presynaptic 5HT transporter in Depression, ...
@chrisaikenmd
This is something I've always said: enough about this anti-BZD and Z-drugs psychosis! They're very useful, very safe (if wisely prescribed), and the vast majority of people use them properly in accordance to the symptoms.
@Altostrata
@alexarevef88285
@JDaviesPhD
Of course it is, everything is, damn! The thing you miss is that Biology "creates" Phenomenology, and it goes right or left depending on many variables, which in the end "do their job" by modulating/affecting, in human's case, our Biological Systems, including the CNS.
@JAMAPsych
It seems pretty that Psychiatric Disorders are a bundle of brain, genetic, developmental, ... conditions, that may or may not affect only the brain, and that's why the more neurologic, medical, ... problems you have the more psychiatric problems there are (in general).
@Bloodclaw12
We're far from perfect, there're many things to improve, but what we've done last 70 years is really astounding. Thanks for your words, and I hope you stay healthy forever. Cheers.
@WiringTheBrain
@BlumLenore
@BernardJBaars
Wow! Inevitable? Why? Because some forms of behaviour are similar? Are we nuts? NOBODY KNOWS WHAT CONSCIOUOSNESS ENTAILS OR NEEDS RO APPEAR AND FUNCTION, EVEN IF IT IS INDEPENDENT OF MATTER, so NOBODY KNOWS WHAT WE NEED TO EXPLAIN IT. So let's all be humble, and go step by step.
@eliotmuir
@DickieRAnderson
Yes, we very are very good at prescribing them, absolutely. Now, can we improve when knowledge improves and help us take better decisions? For sure. But for now, with what we have at hand, we do a pretty goddamn job.
@NimatGray
@soul_subway
And it's not sedatives in general, for example benzos are counterindicated, it's antipsychotics like haloperidol, risperidone, quetiapine, olanzapine, ... hal and risp are the 2 with most evidence. And, again, check for physical causes, meds too, and use as few as possible.
@ThiefDreamer
@BlackshepSusan
Sexyal dysfunction with SSRI (and similar meds) is always temporary, it goes back to normality when the med is retired, and it always depend on the dose, med, ... Period.
@psychgeist52
The fact that it sometimes doesn't follow modern science is one of the reasons why too often Psychotherapy is kind of a joke. Not the way around.
@binguswobble
@JDaviesPhD
Some Philosophy? Ok, here it goes: we call things, but things themselves are never that word we use to label them. It also happens in Biology. Labels have to be consistent, which make them useful. We're not taking any ontological stance calling something a or b. Understood?
@BhavPatelMBA
Wrong, Newton: those who take greater dosages are those whose illness is worse, so everything goes awry - including decreased brain volume, BUT IT COMES FROM THE DISEASE.
@ChrisPalmerMD
No no no, that's incorrect. The fact that incorrect metabolism affects how the brain works doesn't mean at all that it is the only reason why Psychiatric condition exists: look at structural differences, neural pathways gone awry, acquired damage, and a zillion things more.
@Chitailova
That is not true, you don't end up being given antipsychotics because "your're weird", having a psychosis is something qualitative different than being weird or not (as a trait of personality). It's true that sometimes it is hard, even impossible, to know the exact label...
@karenmitchell__
Well, I guess this "amazing" tweet almost mean all of us are narcissists/psychopaths/predators, you say it pretty clear. You don't state "some of them", "x% of them", ... No, you say "many, many", which is factually very incorrect. Ignorant.
@JourneyofHope4U
You're wrong, and as a Psych Nurse you should be very aware of this. It all depends on the disorder: some of these people need no meds at all, some need them just temporarily, and some need them chronically. Your "belief", while well-intentioned, means nothing in the real world.
@Psychiatry_Anti
Trust
#Psychiatry
, it does wonders. Believe me (not this woman), I've been practicing it for 15 years, and I not only know the theory but have seen first hand the pros and the cons of using it, and, again, it is amazingly helpful (not perfect -nothing is-, but astounding).
@NimatGray
@citalopramstoic
clorpromazine started to be used with lots of patients many got better, but professionals believe that they would be eventually perfect, and for many of them that wasn't the case. Sanitariums were closed, Psychiatry was engulfed into General Hospitals, and Intermediate places...
@csd9byptmr
@BhavPatelMBA
Yes, we're sooo bad that we invest tons of money and like 15-20 years to be good Physicians because we have nothing else better to do, they're not broadcasting anything interesting on TV. Arse.
@Notshockednomo
I'm so sorry about your suffering, but never firget it is that disease the cause of all bad things thst happened, we Doctors try to help - vsst majority of times it works amazingly, some others it doesn't. But point your gun always at the disease, ALWAYS, not against us.
@lukesjulson
@RianKMD
You forgot to mention that at low doses it's amazing, and dose is always key to ponder and compare molecules (doses that too often are not mentioned).
@psychharm
It's a real pity things went awry for them, no doubt. However, they were given meds and stuff for a reason, they had a disorder that was not mild. Plus, how is it that me (15 years of psychiatric experience), barely see any patient having had these complications that you mention?
@eliotmuir
There are many, but they are too complex to discuss in here. The fact remains: never ever have I heard/read any anti-psychiatry twat mention none of them, and that's because they're oblivious to their existence, because they don't know enough about the subject, ...
@ChrisPalmerMD
@iam_emilyanne
Just to be clear... Psychosocial factors obviosly exist, they're very important, but before anyone proves there's a non-physical substance that explains consciousness, in the end it's all pure biology.
@ThiefDreamer
@BlackshepSusan
Well, I'm a Psychiatrist with many postgraduate studies and more than 10 years of experience. Not only books/articles say that never happens, I've also never seen it, and I use tons of SSRI and similar drugs. I guess I'm quite educated on the matter.
@NimatGray
We're all diverse, be it neuro, be it whatever. Now, if this "neurodiversity" makes you hear voices, have antisocial traits, ... then you have a problem. So neurodiversity, in the end, means nothing, it's always been known that we're all different.
@JDaviesPhD
That line of thinking equals that that having a Cancer is just the way your body evolved, so we don't have to do anything. Would you like that? No "labels"? No sense of normality vs pathology? I guess someone should re-test your PhD, it's a shame you have it.
@soul_subway
And we, as professionals, have to fight against this disinformation because it's dangerous, very much indeed, whether some patients like it or not. I see it everyday: people quit pills and get worse, I've never seen a patient who decided to quit "my pills" and got better, NEVER.
@justin_garson
If someone has cured Psychosis by talking, please tell him/her she's winning the Nobel in Medicine. No, they don't improve by talking, they improve with meds (or ECT, or some other things), so stop spreading disinformation.
@JourneyofHope4U
And, of course, they have to be used judiciously, that goes without saying. But it doesn't equal in no way what you wrote after this statement.
@eliotmuir
For now it's not necessary. But, when enough research is properly done, there will come a day when at least some will for sure be used. Ignorant.
@soul_subway
Very fair, I should have not written my thoughts the way I did with you, and I sincerely apologize. You have been more than correct all the time, and bc I was on fire with the others you suffered the consequences. I'm really sorry.
@NimatGray
@citalopramstoic
were not created enough to satisty these huge quantity of people that got better, but who couldn't function at a high level, even with the magnificent drugs. And that's what's been happening to you, unfortunatelly. It's a shitty situation when these things happen, really.
@soul_subway
Yes, sometimes it can be very tricky, that's why it's good to have so many different options, and more of them we want from "Big Pharma" - the more options we have the more individualized the treatment can be. I send you my best wishes!
@DavidPuder
Mmm... There're too many "Deep Psychology" episodes in your Podcast (I've heard them all, as I said I'm a big fan), and very rarely I've heard you say something like (this is my view, nothing more): "75% is BS, 15% is flawed, and the rest could be useful in few circumstances".
@chrisaikenmd
Come on, let's keep on using low doses of Sertraline or Escitalopram and all patients get better or are cured, there's no need to overcomplicate things with such an easy problem to solve.
@Altostrata
Caffeine, many other stimulants included in (for example) energy drinks, alcohol, taurine, ... are direct psychotropics too, not to mention the indirect ones. You should be more precise when making such statements, but you can't because you lack the knowledge to do so.