APRIL_charity

I am winding down the charity after 28 years. I am grateful to the Wellcome Collection Archivists accepting, listing, & eventually cataloging my research data.

[APRIL_charity @APRIL_charity]

Please share this valuable information I have only just discovered thanks to Lucy @iipwd. org
as finding definitive #antidepressantWithdrawal practical advice was not easy

https://t.co/zW3BuPZQxZ

[APRIL_charity @APRIL_charity]

@JasonFarrellSky https://t.co/MFCFSjc5fy

Please read this account of how people & babies harmed by prescription medication #Primodos have been treated.

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[APRIL_charity @APRIL_charity]

Prescribers should hear the #TherapeuticsInitiative @ The UBC deprescribing webinar with our very own #DrMarkHorowitz

[Therapeutics Initiative (TI) @Drug_Evidence]

🎺#Deprescribing webinar: Antidepressant withdrawal effects & how to safely stop them🛑

✅Maudsley approach to deprescribing #antidepressants
✅Distinguishing withdrawal effects
✅Hyperbolic tapering

Speaker: @markhoro
Register: https://t.co/SCRWc2kHGI

#medsafety #MedEd

[Therapeutics Initiative (TI) @Drug_Evidence]

🎺#Deprescribing webinar: Antidepressant withdrawal effects & how to safely stop them🛑

✅Maudsley approach to deprescribing #antidepressants
✅Distinguishing withdrawal effects
✅Hyperbolic tapering

Speaker: @markhoro
Register: https://t.co/SCRWc2kHGI

#medsafety #MedEd

[APRIL_charity @APRIL_charity]

Kristina
after recent stay in hospital I asked nurses if they knew word #AKATHISIA they had no idea of the word or the meaning. Challenge GPs medical education, secretaries & surgery receptionists. Receptionist rejected my daughter’s wish to see #GP as suffering Akathisia.

[Kristina Kaiser @AkathisiaRx]

Netherworld, narrated by Tilda Swinton, shares my child's prescribed torture from #antidepressants she didn't need.
https://t.co/Zli1DXBgbK

[APRIL_charity @APRIL_charity]

@Louthewarrior What time will you be at the RCGPs please as I will try to be there?
Not too hopeful after reading about the Primodos campaigners!
Plus a conversation overheard between 2 doctors at a public meeting at the RCphysicians.
“ trouble if you whistle blow you have to leave the country”

[Frank Moriarty @FrankMoriarty]

Interested in pharmacoepi, deprescribing and big data?

We're hiring 4 researchers for a research programme @RCSIPharmBioMol funded by @wellcometrust to develop methods and generate evidence on the effects of deprescribing.

Links in the next tweet, D/L 22nd Apr, RTs appreciated!

[APRIL_charity @APRIL_charity]

Great to see you are helping the amazing Therapeutics Initiative (TI) at Uni. Of British Columbia (UBC) as they want stories to educate the Canadian Doctors). I first met their founder in 2001 when he presented at our charity conference.

[Therapeutics Initiative (TI) @Drug_Evidence]

💊#Deprescribing webinar: Antidepressant withdrawal effects & how to safely stop them🛑

✅Maudsley approach to deprescribing #antidepressants
✅Distinguishing withdrawal effects
✅Hyperbolic tapering

Speaker: @markhoro
Register: https://t.co/SCRWc2k9Ra

#medsafety #MedEd

[Therapeutics Initiative (TI) @Drug_Evidence]

💊#Deprescribing webinar: Antidepressant withdrawal effects & how to safely stop them🛑

✅Maudsley approach to deprescribing #antidepressants
✅Distinguishing withdrawal effects
✅Hyperbolic tapering

Speaker: @markhoro
Register: https://t.co/SCRWc2k9Ra

#medsafety #MedEd

[AntiDepAware @AntiDepAware]

"Dr Robert Stevenson, 63, from Huddersfield, took his own life after being prescribed #Ciprofloxacin.
"An inquest had heard the drug could have a rare link to suicide that many medics might not be aware of."
https://t.co/nyMsOoRrmR

[AntiDepAware @AntiDepAware]

Healthcare professionals prescribing #Fluoroquinolone antibiotics are reminded to be alert to the risk of psychiatric reactions, including depression and psychotic reactions, which may potentially lead to thoughts of suicide or suicide attempts."
https://t.co/foAK0B4aXw

[Bob 'Fiddy' Fiddaman💜🇵🇦 @Fiddaman]

For 'medicine' that is allegedly 'life-saving', there's something that doesn't quite tally here.

Any idea what it could be?

Answers on a postcard to:

It's just a coincidence
C/O @ProfLAppleby
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester
Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health

[APRIL_charity @APRIL_charity]

@Rufusmay Hi Rufus
I am wondering if you can help with interviews we did at ‘ Bed Push’ Parliament Hill Fields as the video person ‘ forgot to get release forms’. All interviews can be archived as I am winding down APRIL.
Please email me at info at april . org. uk

[Ali Zeck @AliBeckZeck]

Now that my #mentalhealth is stable & I’m almost 8 years off of all psychiatric drugs which I was on for almost 25 years & had psychosis, multiple suicide attempts & mania from, I love to observe the response from “experts” like Tyler Black & Jonathan Stea (who have both blocked me) that call my experience & others like it “anecdotal,” when the reality is there are black box warnings on psychiatric drugs that they can cause suicidal ideation, mania & psychosis.

The gaslighting by Big Pharma & its simps is real.

[Elie Jarrouge, MD @ElieJarrougeMD]

If you want to escape your family history of chronic diseases, you have to eat differently than your family did.

Obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, etc. are largely dietary diseases, not genetic.

You’re not destined to be sick. You eat yourself to sickness.

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

Maybe telling traumatised and abused people to go to their GP who has little training in abuse and less than 5 minutes per patient isn’t the smartest idea we’ve ever had.

I’ve never understood that. They run a traumatic and distressing story on a soap or a news item and then tell you to talk to your GP. Why? You’re not ill. You don’t require a GP. And yet so many people are told to go to their doctor when traumatised or distressed.

Maybe this is one of our main causes of pathologisation and finding yourself fast-tracked to lifelong psychiatric intervention when you just needed a bit of support?

[Paul Minot, MD @PaulMinotMD]

Every one of us carries a history of experiences, interactions, thoughts, emotions, hopes, dreams, successes, and failures. All contribute to our psyche.
Given its current practice, the etymology of the word “psychiatry” stands out as one of the greatest ironies of modern life.

[Paul Minot, MD @PaulMinotMD]

Apologies for my inactivity here, but I'm no good at multitasking--and my focus nowadays is on finishing my damn book!!!
I'm closing in on completion. My current (and maybe last) title is:
MINDLESS AND THOUGHTLESS
Psychiatry's Record of Failure, and a Scientific Case for Wisdom

[Paul Minot, MD @PaulMinotMD]

I've been practicing psychiatry for 38 years. I love my job, my peers, and my patients. But I've come to the conclusion that I'm participating in the biggest intellectual scam of this era. We claim to be a science, but have no understanding how thought or behavior is generated./1

[Fiona French, freedom is bliss @benzosarebad]

From 1979 onwards I did not encounter one psychiatrist or one GP in my decades of drugging who did not believe I had a disordered brain. Why would they suggest drug consumption if I did not have a disordered brain? The prescribers/drugs ruined my life.