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jc

@atomicaceso

1 month

They don't understand that this is a battle to save lives from medical harm, and we are not going to let it go.

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jc

@atomicaceso

4 months

PTSD = something traumatic happened to you once CPTSD = something traumatic happened to you more than once, but you’ve managed to not annoy your psychiatrist BPD = something traumatic happened to you more than once, and you’ve annoyed your psychiatrist

Kindly #deprescribe -- taper psychiatric drugs

@Altostrata

4 months

As with all psychiatric diagnoses, both BPD and PTSD can mean many things — they are “heterogeneous”. Nobody knows exactly what these labels mean.

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2 years

@GraduatedBen I remember thinking this segment was totally out there when it first aired and now I'm like...

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1 year

Today I'm three years off benzodiazepines!

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@atomicaceso

13 days

Another medical doctor has weaponized antipsychotic prescription. This isn’t the burn they think it is and only provides further evidence that those who take psychiatric medication are not respected by the medical profession.

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@atomicaceso

10 months

Psychiatry's harmed patients are disabled and dying, with nearly all receiving no medical assistance, many left completely isolated and in dire poverty, while some of the most privileged people on earth label them "pill-shamers".

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@atomicaceso

3 months

Today I am four years off benzos.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

Being prescribed a benzodiazepine, antidepressant or antipsychotic without a single mention of physical dependence, withdrawal or akathisia means that your prescriber is either incompetent or feels entitled to gamble with your life. I don't think this should be allowed.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

I went to the doctor this week and part of my intake was the phq-9, a depression scale invented by Pfizer to sell more antidepressants. This is one example of why it’s so hard for me to take the medical field seriously. It felt like a black mirror episode.

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@atomicaceso

10 months

Psychiatric prescribing isn't like managing diabetes with insulin. It's more like randomly throwing poisonous spaghetti against a wall and hoping something works, all without considering any consequences.

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@atomicaceso

1 year

Real psychiatrist arguments: Patient: Your prescribing harmed me. Psychiatrist: All treatments carry risks. Patient: You should have warned me! Psychiatrist: If I did, you wouldn't have taken the prescription!

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@atomicaceso

10 months

Another clueless psychiatrist. Akathisia is not "part of mental illness" but caused by psychiatric medications. It's not inner restlessness. It's not always "treatable" and can become chronic. Most of the suicides related to #prescribedharm that I've known of are from akathisia.

Grace

@dignityhnrgrace

10 months

Meet Dr. Jenkins, a San Diego psychiatrist, who thinks akathisia is “part of mental illness,” is “very uncomfortable” and is “treatable.” How is it possible that alleged “experts” are this uninformed? ?

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@atomicaceso

7 months

Am I supposed to lie about my experiences with psychiatry to appease psychiatrists on this platform?

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@atomicaceso

1 year

@gabby_frost Can I get one that says this Barbie was disabled by Lorazepam and Lexapro?

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@atomicaceso

1 year

@fesshole Physical dependence and addiction are not the same thing. If your patients go into benzo withdrawal because you randomly think they're an addict, they could die.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

When I say a medication harmed me, I'm not discussing an adverse effect. I'm stating that lorazepam altered my central nervous system, making it inhospitable to life. Since this occurred, I've yet to find a doctor trained in this harm or even a relevant study that may help.

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@atomicaceso

6 days

The evidence supporting much of psychiatry is largely terrible. Most of its proponents justify their stances with anecdotes, appeals to authority, mistruths, and outright denialism. The bad faith is overwhelming. There's just too much money in psychiatry for reality to prevail.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

Someone just asked me how they can help me, I said I don't know and then told me to "think positive." I told them the best way to help me is to never say that stupid positivity shaming shit to me again.

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@atomicaceso

3 months

Today, The Guardian published "The myth that antidepressants are addictive has been debunked," by a prominent pharma-funded psychiatrist, as if addiction was ever the concern. Deny, Deflect, Delay♻️

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@atomicaceso

1 year

I am starting to suspect that psychiatrists may mistakenly believe the criticism they receive is because many critics have been diagnosed with mental health conditions and lack insight, not because psychiatry is corrupted and unscientific with terrible outcomes. Thoughts?

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@atomicaceso

1 year

My friend Randy @randmanq was a beautiful, caring soul, a talented artist, and generous with his time. I'm so grateful he existed, so angry he was stolen, incredibly heartbroken, and I will miss him.💛

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@atomicaceso

7 months

WTF is actually wrong with psychiatrists? How can a field filled with people who are this defensive be trusted with anything?

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@atomicaceso

9 months

I just finished @robwipond 's book, Your Consent is Not Required, and highly recommend it. It's on par with Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic. I chose the audio version due to my psychiatric injury. Nonconsensual psychiatry is horrifying, and everyone should be aware of it.

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@atomicaceso

6 months

Psychiatrists really be like... ONLY *I* am qualified to diagnose... ummm, those unproven disease states that some committee of white guys made up decades ago. This is very serious business. No amateurs or pseudoscience, please.

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@atomicaceso

28 days

Many practicing psychiatrists are so clueless that it crosses into dangerous territory, and nobody stops them because psychiatry lacks an objective reality to operate from.

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@atomicaceso

6 days

It bothers me that psychiatric opinions are considered credible in legal cases, given the limitations of psychiatry. What are these opinions based on? The reliance on psychiatry in legal systems has far surpassed its actual capabilities. It's convenient, but it's not accurate.

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@atomicaceso

1 year

Professor Robert Howard shares why he continues to use SSRIs in dementia patients despite the research indicating they do not outperform placebo. #RCPsychIC

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@atomicaceso

2 years

The thing about iatrogenic harm is nearly nobody cares about it until it happens to them. Why don't we all want more resources dedicated to preventing and addressing damage, as injury can occur to anyone who consumes a medication at any point?

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@atomicaceso

2 years

I can now see a psychiatrist at Walmart. It's over. Capitalism won. The oligarchy won. Big pharma won. Let's plunge into absurdity.

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@atomicaceso

10 months

People who profit heavily from a system are rarely critical of it. That system works for them. We need to consider this when psychiatrists downplay patient harm. What do psychiatrists stand to lose if the system that sustains them loses favor and is viewed as dangerous?

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@atomicaceso

4 months

This guy is a licensed psychiatrist. Vulnerable people see him in their darkest hour, and they rely on his guidance to survive. And he doesn’t even know that Prozac causes withdrawal. What else doesn’t he know?

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@atomicaceso

9 months

When SSRIs fail, the diagnosis changes; when mood stabilizers are ineffective, the prescription and diagnosis shift again. It's important to recognize that this isn't a journey toward discovering the correct diagnosis but a hazardous guessing game with minimal chances of success.

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@atomicaceso

8 months

Steve Pittelli, a psychiatrist, accused the late Joey Marino of faking his severe #prescribedharm , instructing him to work on his acting skills. However, Joey was not faking, and 10 months after the accusation, Joey was dead.

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@atomicaceso

1 month

In psychiatry, it is perfectly acceptable for a prescriber to decide they don't believe in the most common risks of a drug they are prescribing and not inform their patients, even when those risks are occurring.

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@atomicaceso

3 years

On this day last year I took my final benzo. Both damaging my brain and creating a nasty physical dependency, it took many years to painfully taper off. Despite a worldwide hunt, I was unable to find a doctor to help me with any part of this process beyond writing a prescription.

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@atomicaceso

1 year

There needs to be an entirely different medical specialty dedicated to iatrogenic harm. This specialty must exclude most of those trained in psychiatry from its practice to get anywhere worthwhile.

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@atomicaceso

4 years

The @APAPsychiatric still has the chemical imbalance myth on their website. What's the point of professionals debunking it, saying it's antipsychiatry to even mentioned that they ever pushed this myth if the APA still has it on the site? I rest my case!

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@atomicaceso

1 year

Psychiatry has just FIVE classes of drugs that they apply to any situation they encounter. They only need to know the risks and benefits of these FIVE classes of drugs. And yet, somehow, they don't. Why is this?

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@atomicaceso

2 years

I had heard benzos were "addictive" when I first started them. Addiction didn't apply to me. I didn't abuse them. What I didn't know, and my doctor didn't share, is they can cause long term neurological damage and extreme withdrawal syndromes at any daily prescribed dosage.

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@atomicaceso

1 year

Is this UK psychiatrist Daniel Wilkes actually stupid? Of course people disabled by psychiatry are obsessed with it. It sucks to be disabled and in pain. Instead of helping, you insult us.

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@atomicaceso

3 months

This entire antidepressant withdrawal "debate" would end if the people claiming that antidepressants don't cause withdrawal simply stopped taking them for three days.

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@atomicaceso

10 months

When psychiatric treatments alter our brains in ways that worsen our suffering, help is nonexistent. Instead of the dedicated care stroke patients receive, we're gaslit and misdiagnosed by the very people who caused our suffering!

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@atomicaceso

2 years

I think one of the worst feelings I've had in my entire life was being tortured alive from psychiatric prescribing, and the slow, desperate creeping realization that absolutely nothing in the world exists to help.

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@atomicaceso

1 year

@samjcohn This happened to my best friend and she almost died.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

People who claim to care about social justice but behave aggressively towards those harmed by psychiatry are frauds.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

I'm proud of myself. I saw a cardiologist this week and he was not only clueless about the harms from exposure to psychiatric meds, but condescending. Most doctors don't know, so I can accept that, but they CAN be curious. Instead of tolerating it, I had my cardiologist changed.

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@atomicaceso

10 months

I don't understand the argument that psychiatric harm doesn't affect everybody, so it's okay for the medical field to do nothing about it.

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@atomicaceso

1 month

I suspect much of the pushback on deprescribing from psychiatrists comes from being unable to face years of past failures, like misdiagnosing withdrawal symptoms as relapse, and feelings of inadequacy. It might be easier to teach a new provider who has never deprescribed.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

@ProfTonyDavid @DrAdrianJames @ProfRobHoward Are you unaware akathisia is caused by psych meds? God forbid an advertisement do a psychiatrist's job and provide the opportunity informed consent.

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@atomicaceso

1 year

It’s so important to understand that she didn’t get bad psychiatry. This is normal psychiatry.

Jo Luehmann

@JoLuehmann

1 year

Hey friends, I was strapped by feet and wrists to a bed, against my will, and given haldol even though I was just grieving loss. The cops and medical professionals at the hospital were so unprofessional an abusive that I’ve been in a panic for over 48 hrs. 1/

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@atomicaceso

2 months

A new study involving almost 5,500 people suggests that long-term benzodiazepine use may shrink parts of the brain involved in memory and mood regulation.

Benzos like Xanax may shrink the brain in the long term, study hints

A new study involving almost 5,500 people suggests that long-term benzodiazepine use may shrink parts of the brain involved in memory and mood regulation.

www.livescience.com

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@atomicaceso

10 months

There are psychiatrists out there who will seriously look you in the eye and say, "Benzodiazepine withdrawal? Never heard of it!"

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@atomicaceso

10 months

When a psychiatrist advertises that they practice "precision psychiatry" a small part of me dies.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

Some quotes from the late Naomi Judd's book. "River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged With Hope." She died of today of "mental illness". She was on FOUR benzodiazepines and CTed off (plus ECT!) Her book reads like a full-on believer in biological psychiatry.

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@atomicaceso

7 months

It's strange how even after years of partying, people aren't nearly as damaged as they can be in just a few hours with psych meds.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

Prescribed harm damaged my "self" so profoundly that when anyone from my pre-harm life says hi, our shared memories seem to refer to a completely different person. If you've reached out to me and I was distant, this is why. I don't know you anymore because I am not me anymore.

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@atomicaceso

3 years

@ZachJonesMD @jcoler820 @TuleyCorn Are you saying you deserve more respect than another healthcare worker? Why?

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@atomicaceso

5 months

FYI: Benzos are not highly addictive. They're dangerous as all hell, but not because they are "highly addictive"

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@atomicaceso

1 year

If a psychiatrist claims to have knowledge about patient harm but isn't engaged in any activism to address it, I don't believe they truly understand the extent of patient harm. Or worse, they don't care.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

@bennessb I’ve essentially be bedridden since 2014 and partially bedridden from 2008-2014 and people are like “but you look fine” when I look feral. What does “not fine” even look like? I’ve accepted that society and medicine is never going to help me or advocate for me, but it’s dark.

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@atomicaceso

11 months

I suspect many mental health professionals underestimate how many patients deceive them and feign success stories in order to get away from them. Maybe their egos won’t allow them to recognize this.

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@atomicaceso

7 months

Suicide Prevention Advisor: "My focus is on preventing suicide." #PrescribedHarm : "What about helping patients who become suicidal because of their mental health treatment?" Suicide Prevention Advisor: "I'm not interested in that type of suicide prevention."

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@atomicaceso

6 months

While patients suffer and die, psychiatrists debate if their suffering exists or not. The field of psychiatry is useless, leaving the people they harm to support each other without answers.

Duncan Double

@DBDouble

6 months

Relational psychiatry: Habituation to antidepressants

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@atomicaceso

2 years

Why does the field of psychiatry remain trusted when all the evidence shows that they mistreat, misdiagnose and discard the patients that they harm?

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@atomicaceso

1 year

#psychiatry is trending! Show me your memes!

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@atomicaceso

1 year

So, if psychiatry is aware of this and uses SSRIs to intentionally create sexual dysfunction, why do so many psychiatrists become full-blown idiots when Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) is mentioned? #RCPsychIC

Royal College of Psychiatrists

@rcpsych

1 year

The medications used in people that commit sexual offences #RCPsychIC

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@atomicaceso

9 months

Really tired of benzodiazepine physical dependence, which is, at its core, a prescriber problem, being reframed as benzodiazepine addiction in order to blame the patient.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

Every so often I meet a doctor who really gets benzo harm. I always ask how they learned. The answer is never med school. These doctors are never mean or defensive because they know I have been through literal hell. They understand why patients are so angry at their colleagues.

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@atomicaceso

1 month

Uncritical belief in psychiatry is deadly

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@atomicaceso

8 months

Another good person gone because of #prescribedharm . We all know we either heal or go, because staying where we are is incompatible with life. RIP Joey. You deserved so much better.💛

joey marino story

@joeymarinoactor

8 months

It’s with sadness I (Carly) report that Joey had passed away early this past Sunday morning. Joey loved life and wanted to get back to his old life. He is missed beyond belief to all that knew and loved him. Fly high Joey. 🕊️💔💔

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@atomicaceso

5 months

What on earth motivates people to lie and BS themselves and others all day about the evidence for psychiatric treatments and the causes of mental illness? I get why psychiatrists do it, but why do patients do it?

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@atomicaceso

1 year

@EdwardSpruit @DrMMuehlbacher I about fell over when I read your tweet. Imagine typing something so wrong authoritatively. Nearly all benzo injuries come from “therapeutic” (ha!) doses. What does that even mean? The FDA just put a boxed warning for this very thing, adding how poorly trained professionals are.

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@atomicaceso

1 month

It’s almost comical how so many support mainstream psychiatry, not because of the evidence, but because they can’t fathom that there's so little.

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@atomicaceso

4 years

I've wanted to get off benzos since August, 2011. 9 years later, after so many painful & deadly approaches by clueless doctors, I'm almost there. In 2014, I gave up on professionals & learned how to stop from other patients. It saved my life. Please join me in counting down to 0.

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@atomicaceso

3 years

People may not fully get what "iatrogenic harm" means. It's not like a cut, bruise or rash. Iatrogenic harm changes who you are at its core. It changes how your body works. It changes your senses. It changes your physical abilities. And there isn't any medical help for it at all.

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@atomicaceso

2 months

To me, the psychiatry debate boils down to two key questions: 1. How many patients is it acceptable to harm,without any warning, in order to benefit a few? 2. How much of the benefit experienced by the few is due to the placebo effect or another reason unrelated to drugs?

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@atomicaceso

1 year

What do we call it when a healthcare professional keeps making the same mistake, causing harm to their patients, but still refuses to learn?

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@atomicaceso

5 months

Could someone provide an example of iatrogenic patient harm that the medical field has proactively addressed?

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@atomicaceso

3 years

This honestly nauseated me. How does a psychiatric resident believe the medications work by “correcting chemical imbalances in the brain”? There are no chemical imbalances, goodbye.

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@atomicaceso

5 months

It’s wild to me that #prescribedharm gets discarded, denigrated and dismissed as anti-psychiatry when, as time goes on, more and more medical bodies are slowly recognizing that we’ve been right the entire time.

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@atomicaceso

5 months

Psychiatric facilities are kill shelters.

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@atomicaceso

3 years

@kawaiilovesarah They can't help, and most of us would be better off never speaking to or about mental health services at all.

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@atomicaceso

3 years

I saw a new specialist yesterday for a cluster of symptoms that are probably benzo damage, but they're new, so wanted to check it out. Was prescribed a drug without any mention of any risk. I checked on my own and saw there are deadly risks with it. Is informed consent just dead?

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@atomicaceso

1 year

We found a significant (10%) July spike in fatal medication errors inside medical institutions.

A July Spike in Fatal Medication Errors: A Possible Effect of New Medical Residents

Each July thousands begin medical residencies and acquire increased responsibility for patient care. Many have suggested that these new medical residents may produce errors and worsen patient...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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@atomicaceso

1 year

@fasc1nate Psychiatry

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@atomicaceso

1 year

Professor Robert Howard shares why he continues to use SSRIs in dementia patients despite the research indicating they do not outperform placebo. #RCPsychIC

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@atomicaceso

2 years

I am facing a category 4 hurricane today, but I survived psychiatric harm, and nothing else scares me.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

I've seen so much suffering and death from psychiatry (and the medical field) disabling people without informed consent and leaving them dead that I'm numb to it now. This scares me.

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@atomicaceso

6 days

I found a chart comparing science and pseudoscience and circled all the elements that apply to psychiatry. Out of 16 points, 8 on each side, psychiatry aligns with 7.5 on the pseudoscience side and none on the science side.

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@atomicaceso

1 year

I was disabled for no reason. My benzo harm is completely avoided if SSRI harm didn't occur first. These drugs are hazardous, with 0 effectiveness beyond placebo in mild cases. How we don't have a widespread investigation of a system handing these out without warning baffles me.

Dr. Josef

@taperclinic

1 year

Modern psychiatric practice has massively stretch diagnostic boundaries. Medications like antidepressants can have such serious risks, I'm convinced that only 5% of the people currently on them, should actually be taking them

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@atomicaceso

2 years

Dealing with this right now. Blast me with ableist memes! Yoga themed extra appreicated. #prescribedharm #NEISVoid

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@atomicaceso

3 months

The lack of effective help for patients coming off prescribed drugs should be embarrassing for the medical field. Instead, so many professionals just dig in their heels and deny the suffering.

Australians coming off antidepressants are relying on social media due to lack of clinical support

Researchers find many patients do not feel included in treatment decisions and have concerns about side effects

www.theguardian.com

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@atomicaceso

1 year

The only thing replicable in the psychiatric medical literature seems to be patient harm.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

Most doctors know, and I can't stress this enough, absolutely nothing about benzodiazepines, all while providing an illusion of competence due to their training. This includes psychiatrists and neurologists. Believe nothing that they say about the drugs without verification.

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@atomicaceso

2 years

I was watching Dopesick. Benzodiazepines are the same pharmaceutical corruption, same Sackler family, but the benzo patient’s central nervous system is destroyed instead of an addiction. Then they are gaslit about the harm and never helped. Now over 60 years of destruction.

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@atomicaceso

6 months

My Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines arrived late last night! I checked on Amazon and found out it's the #1 new release in psychiatry, which is incredibly encouraging. You can get your own copy here:

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@atomicaceso

5 years

I’ve lost all my walking gains. Got a pic of my tropical moon, though. My doctor thinks it will take me 5 years to walk like a normal person after I heal. I never consented to this when I filled that Ativan prescription. I never consented to anything at all. #PrescribedHarm

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@atomicaceso

1 month

Psych meds aren’t safe at all and nearly nobody really cares about this.👇

Daniel Owens

@psychharm

1 month

Are psychiatric drugs safe? According to data from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (2006-2014) of the top 10 drugs most reported as causing disability 40% were psychiatric drugs:

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"The problem is spreading and the only line of defence - drugs - is failing. As psychiatrists we have only the haziest idea of how they work. For 20 years I watched, and used myself of course, the hit and miss 'Try that, then try something else'"