PSSD London

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

In my career as a psychologist I am unable to recall any one person whose quality of life improved from prescription psychiatric medications. Yet I am haunted by the consistent stream of clients entering my center whose quality of life & health has been negatively impacted.

[PSSD London @PSSDLondon]

@sullibible How is he a grifter? Millions are being prescribed SSRIs and told it's very safe. When they have permanent life altering effects, they're gaslit and nobody can help them. If you believe the reason why doctors won't tell you about PSSD is for your own good you're mistaken.

[Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social @markhoro]

I think when doctors say they don’t see withdrawal it goes something like this.

- The average GP/PCP has 2000 patients under their care,
-200 on antidepressants (10% of pop),
-studies show 6% of people stop their AD each year (eveleigh, 2018) in regular practice so 12 people stop
-4 will have no major issues,
-4 will have moderate issues,
-4 severe issues.

Of the 8 with problems 6 or 7 will be told or think it is relapse and go back on meds (of course textbooks and training say relapse is very common, withdrawal is a minor concern so it would be a pretty rare physician to see what they haven’t been taught to see).

1 or 2 will say this doesn’t make sense, research it, try to work out what is going on and make a point about it to doctor (30% of people on social media groups for withdrawal have graduate degrees).

And so the doctor will say ‘I rarely if ever see this’ because drugs are rarely stopped and the correct diagnosis is rarely made. It takes a motivated, thoughtful patient to push the issue. There are currently about 200,000 such patients, and growing rapidly.

Given that most studies of withdrawal from relatively long term treatment show 60%+ of patients experience withdrawal syndromes of at least 4 withdrawal symptoms (Rosenbaum 1998) it is simply not plausible that most people are not having pronounced withdrawal effects.

And that's before we even talk about the plausibility of the concept of 'relapse'....

[Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social @markhoro]

This is a very concerning approval. The chance of a child experiencing treatment-emergent suicidality when given escitalopram was higher than the chance of them experiencing an improvement in their anxiety and yet the drug was approved by the FDA for anxiety. This process is not fit for purpose and needs to be reviewed. This approval needs to be reversed rapidly as this will potentially endanger children's lives.

[Emily Grey @EmilyGreyPSSD]

Hi Matthew, thanks for raising awareness, but “coming off too quickly” has nothing to do with it. There’s no indication of correlation between tapering method and odds of developing PSSD. No one knows why some people get PSSD and some don’t. You shouldn’t cold turkey a medication because that’s dangerous for other reasons.

[The Josh Philipp Show @JoshPhilippShow]

America is hooked on antidepressants, and the HHS wants to change that.

A new campaign from the Department of Health and Human Services could see antidepressants, including many that have become incredibly common, soon face restrictions.

But are antidepressants really that bad for you? @JoshJPhilipp does a deep take into the issue, and the rise in the broad prescriptions of SSRIs.

[Kenneth M Peters MD @KennethMPeters1]

Seeing too many young men with severe, persistent sexual dysfunction, and suicide after STOPPING Finasteride for hair loss. Relatively small % of men, but millions of doses used worldwide, leads to a major problem. Need informed consent and focused research #PFS #PSSD #PAS

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

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[Emily Grey @EmilyGreyPSSD]

@Galenpharm @KatieRColl No one with a PSSD-related account wants to be here doing this. It’s gruelling and humiliating. But if no one does it, the condition remains unrecognized and we have no hope of future treatment.

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Federal law defines child abuse as any act that results in serious physical or emotional harm to a child.

I want to ask a direct question: Does prescribing mind-altering drugs to children, with no confirmed biological basis for the diagnosis, no long-term safety data, and a black box warning for suicidality, meet that definition?

I believe it does.

There is no biological marker for ADHD. None for childhood depression. None for childhood anxiety. Not one psychiatric diagnosis given to children has an objective, measurable biological foundation. The diagnoses were created by committee votes. The chemical imbalance theory, the story told to millions of parents to justify these prescriptions, has been formally abandoned by the field itself.

Yet the prescriptions continue.

- When we label a child with a psychiatric disorder based on no objective evidence, we cause emotional harm. The child internalizes that something is fundamentally wrong with how they think and feel. That belief follows them.
- When we prescribe drugs carrying black box warnings for suicidality to children, we cause physical harm.
- When we interpret adverse drug reactions as evidence of worsening mental illness and add more drugs in response, we perpetuate harm.
- When we transform a child having a normal human response to a painful circumstance into a lifelong psychiatric patient, we cause profound harm to their identity, their development, and their future.

The fact that this happens in medical offices does not change what it is.
The fact that credentialed professionals perform it does not change what it is.
The fact that insurance covers it does not change what it is.

I have watched children labeled treatment-resistant transform when we stopped drugging their symptoms and started addressing their actual lives. Consistently. The psychiatric system does not want families to know this is possible.

If you are a young person who was drugged into compliance and told there was something fundamentally wrong with you: there was not. There is not. You were a human being having a human experience inside a system that profits from your suffering.

We are systematically harming children while calling it care. Until we name it clearly, nothing will change.
AWAKEN.

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Most psychiatric treatments are barbaric and ineffective. Which is why it remains the only medical speciality where there is a global revolt driven by harmed patients.

[Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social @markhoro]

It is an oddity. Studies of long-term users find that 60%+ have withdrawal problems (eg. Rosenbaum), 100,000s of people online report that their clinicians mis-diagnosed withdrawal as relapse or something else, doctors on here swearing they don't see it (after being taught for years it barely exists)....I wonder what could be happening?

[PSSD Network | Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction @PSSDNetwork]

(1/2) Remarkable milestone: r/PSSD has surpassed 20,000 members on @Reddit, underscoring the urgent need for the medical community to recognize Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). With little help from medical professionals, people have turned to online communities for answers.

[Mark Millich @Unstoppable218]

It’s always the same narratives and gaslighting talking points. “You don’t have a brain injury from SSRIs,” “it’s rare,” “it’s likely other factors,” etc. It’s a script at this point, not honest engagement or genuine curiosity about why so many people are reporting similar life altering symptoms after these drugs.

And then when patients try to build awareness or advocate for research, it gets dismissed as “complaining.” There’s seemingly never a “right” way for people to speak out without being met with criticism, ridicule, gaslighting, or being told they’re “playing the victim”. Many have sacrificed their privacy, reputations, relationships, and mental health just to push these issues into the public eye, yet even that gets twisted into something negative.

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

ADHD is NOT a discrete & identifiable medical illness. Its a made up label to sell drugs to manage child behavior & has since transitioned to adults for a larger customer base.
People can struggle w/ concentration & focus due to a myriad of conditions too many to list.

[PFS Foundation @PFSFoundation]

https://t.co/TWZ5z1TY42

[Grant @GrantS0227]

“SSRIs won’t change your personality” is one of the most dangerous and destructive pieces of misinformation told by doctors over the past few decades.

The truth is, they can not only change your personality while on the drug, but the changes can persist even after stopping.

[Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller]

@AhmadRehanKhan You seem to have missed these 200 studies: https://t.co/0fGkbw1ARq but brushing off long term brain changes as side effects is incredibly uneducated.

[Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller]

@AhmadRehanKhan It’s not a “side effect”. Long term brain changes are the effect. It’s in the scientific literature.

[@samizdathealth @DrDavidHealy]

Here's the website Dan launched in memory of his son Dexter, who died at age 17 while on escalating doses of Prozac. 2/

https://t.co/Q6yXMvyCf7