Bob Schwartz

Adverse Event-Impairment Survivor/Education about Medication/Executive Director-Film Producer/Public Speaker/Public Safety Advocate/ James 1:12 / Matthew 10:34

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

@maryhollandnyc @CHDTVLive @ChildrensHD @teacher_choice @DrAaronLewis1 @BrianHookerPhD A must watch by all.

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

@maryhollandnyc @CHDTVLive @ChildrensHD Great Day at the Capitol 🇺🇸.

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

We express our sincere gratitude to Children’s Health Defense and https://t.co/bDEe3cTIEl for the opportunity to showcase our short, award-winning film titled “If I Had Known the Rxisks.”

[Mary S. Holland, Esq. @maryhollandnyc]

CHD has a plethora of movies. Watch anytime. Your movie night is on us — FREE! 🎬🍿 @ChildrensHD @CHDTVLive @RxISKS @teacher_choice @AgeofAutism @AutismActionNet

https://t.co/zMSkfIPnRQ

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

@maryhollandnyc Education about Medication

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

Educate not Medicate

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

Children’s Health Defense and https://t.co/bDEe3cTIEl,

Thank you for providing the platform to share my story of "unspeakable hardship." My hope is that it encourages others to report adverse events and medical errors resulting from psychotropic medications.

[Mary S. Holland, Esq. @maryhollandnyc]

I lost my family, my career, my home — after just 5 days on a prescription drug. My doctor gave it to me at 3x the starting dose. This is my story. - Bob Schwartz @RxISKS @ChildrensHD #SSRI

Watch the complete story on @CHDTVLive:
Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder
https://t.co/BeZTPZsYAS

A Conversation w/ Bob Schwartz: "If I Had Known the RxISKS"
https://t.co/O8CgWlJoE4

[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

Big Pharma has an unwritten rule for its sales employees: sell dangerous untested drugs off-label or be unemployed.

A pharmaceutical whistleblower is speaking out.

“There was this duality of rules… the written rule… and then the unofficial rules, with a wink and a nod.”

“If you’re not selling off-label, you’re not going to hit your number.”

“If you’re not going to hit your number, you’re not going to be employed very long.”

“That’s basically the motto.”

“You were to go out and promote the drugs off-label so that you could get that incremental business.”

“For instance, selling migraine drugs for pediatrics where it's not indicated.”

“Wellbutrin, for weight loss, for sexual dysfunction, for add-on therapy to SSRIs.”

[Inner Compass Initiative @_innercompass]

This is Charay Gadd-Spencer, holding a framed photo of her daughter, London.

London was a bright, artistic, soccer-loving 12-year-old who dreamed of becoming an Air Force pilot. She deeply sensed the world we live in and all the pain it can bring. When her family sought help, the mental health industry responded with rushed prescriptions instead of real support.

After a crisis admission, London was started on Prozac without discussion of non-drug options or the FDA black box warning for suicidal ideation in children. Just weeks later, on July 30, 2024, she died from an overdose. The system failed her at every turn.

While London became a direct patient of the mental health industry, Charay was not. Yet she has lived through every parent’s worst nightmare—the sudden, preventable loss of her child.

She is now channeling her grief into advocating for vital change. As the founder of The London Effect, her nonprofit is championing informed choice, pharmacogenetic testing, and London’s Law to prioritize non-drug interventions first.

As an organization run by and for patients who have left or are leaving the mental health industry, much of what we talk about is from the perspective of patients.

But we want to highlight the impact the mental health industry can have on the families and loved ones of patients—people who never directly received the diagnoses and drugs that so many of us have. People like Charay.

At this point, Charay and London may be new faces to you all, but Charay’s voice is only going to carry further. So we’d love for you to join her in saying hello in the comments to welcome her into this community. You can say hello here or to her directly via our corresponding Instagram post.

And given all that’s happened to Charay, we’d especially love to hear from those of you who are loved ones of patients and former patients. Thank you. 💛

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

It's inspiring to see that patients who have been harmed by psychiatric drugs are organising to prevent this happening to others. It is also an absolute indictment of the current system that patients are forced to this. Basically disgraceful.

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

Tragic story…https://t.co/JzlYL9b3SV

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

@MAGAGwenAZ @RealLindellTV Tragic. My condolences 💐 https://t.co/wVC4fnkk9s

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

Courageous panel to tell there stories. Education about Medication and Informed Consent.

[Kim Witczak 💜 @woodymatters]

Our conversation from last week’s @MAHA_Institute Mental Health and Overmedicalization Summit is making waves across the globe.

People deserve information no matter what country they are from.

@_innercompass @lololizzle @DanielleGansky @NickTaber @coldplungecam

[danielle gansky @DanielleGansky]

I am still trapped on the same SSRI I was prescribed at 7 years old because every attempt to come off has resulted in severe, debilitating withdrawal....

At 23 years old, I decided I wanted to come off antidepressants. Despite having been on them virtually my entire life — throughout my childhood and brain development — my doctor tapered me off in just 6 weeks, following the same outdated and dangerous guidance many doctors still use today.

What followed was a severe full-body neurological crisis: nonstop physical, cognitive and psychological suffering unlike anything I knew a human being could endure.

When I went back to my doctor and told him I was in withdrawal, I was told antidepressant withdrawal “doesn’t exist,” that symptoms of “discontinuation syndrome” are “mild and only last two weeks,” and that what I was experiencing was proof I needed the drugs

After months of torturous suffering and countless emergency room visits, I had no choice but to reinstate the antidepressant. But even after reinstating, the neurological damage from the rapid, doctor-directed taper did not go away.

That is why the term “withdrawal” is often deeply misleading. For many people, coming off antidepressants can trigger a devastating neurological injury that persists for years.

I still do not feel normal. I am intermittently bedridden, and even as I type this, my brain feels like it is on fire.

I genuinely do not remember what happiness, love, or emotional connection are supposed to feel like anymore. So much of my cognition, personality, creativity, and ability to access my mind the way I once could feels altered or gone. Some days the suffering becomes so overwhelming that I genuinely do not know how much longer I can continue living in this condition.

Today, at 30 years old, I am still on the same medication I was prescribed as a child. I desperately want to come off, but every attempt has caused severe, debilitating withdrawal that has made it physically impossible.

#MentalHealthMonth #NobodyToldMe #medicationinjury #HHS #HealingJourney #overmedicalization #SSRI

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

@woodymatters @SenTinaSmith @MAHA_Institute Well said Kim. You are courageous in awareness, caution and accountability. Keep battling.

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

Well said Kim. You are courageous in awareness, caution and accountability. Keep battling.

[Kim Witczak 💜 @woodymatters]

Hey @SenTinaSmith, were you actually in the room on Monday?

I was. And so were a couple other of your Minnesota constituents.

I moderated the lived experience panel at the @MAHA_Institute Summit on Mental Health and Overmedicalization, and I can assure you that neither the summit nor @SecKennedy said anything about “taking away people’s medicine” or banning SSRIs.

The discussions were about informed consent, overprescribing, withdrawal, tapering support/guidelines, transparency, and making sure patients and families understand both benefits and risks.

Many of the people on lived experience panel who spoke said they were never warned about withdrawal effects, adverse reactions, or how difficult these drugs can be to stop safely.

After your public criticism of Secretary Kennedy during confirmation hearings, I along with @DrDavidHealy personally met with your staff and brought peer reviewed studies along with internal FDA and Pfizer documents uncovered during my litigation following my husband Woody’s Zoloft induced suicide.

What is astonishing is watching elected officials spread fear and misinformation about a summit they did not attend while dismissing harmed patients, grieving families, and lived experience as “crazy conspiracy theories.”

This issue is too important to reduce to politics and inflammatory rhetoric. People deserve honesty, transparency, and fully informed consent … not fearmongering.

Purple for People 💜

@_innercompass @DanielleGansky @lololizzle @ACE_CoalitionEd @kare11 @WCCO @WCCOAmelia @wccoradio @MPRnews @StarTribune @KSTP @hubnm @duffy_fallon

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Kamala’s Stepdaughter, that has been labeled Worlds Sexiest Model by Democrats says she has been on SSRI’s for Decades. That’s Anxiety Meds if you don’t know.
Are you surprised that the world’s sexiest model takes these?

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

Powerful speech by RFK Jr.

[Died Suddenly @DiedSuddenly_]

RFK Jr. got emotional sharing a story about a family member coming off SSRIs:

“I happen to be an actual expert on this because I was addicted to heroin for 14 years. I went through cold turkey withdrawal probably over 100 times. After 72 hours, it’s over.”

“But I’ve watched people come off SSRIs… and it is not even comparable.”

He described a close family member who, after years on the drugs, woke up suicidal every single morning:

“She said, ‘I don’t want to live.’ The only reason she stayed alive was for us.”
RFK says he’s heard that exact same heartbreaking story from hundreds of people.

[Mary S. Holland, Esq. @maryhollandnyc]

“Duty to Disobey,” a documentary examining the experiences of U.S. service members who refused the COVID‑19 vaccine mandated by former President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense, is set to hit theaters in June. @ChildrensHD @CHDTVLive

Military Testimonies Raise Civil Liberties Questions Over COVID-19 Vaccine https://t.co/Ktq0U48SiO

[Bob Schwartz @RxISKS]

March 24th - National Adverse Drug Event Day - recognizing awareness to the 3rd leading cause of death in America.

[Edward Dowd @DowdEdward]

I really appreciate Ron Johnson.

[Jason Frazier 🇺🇲 @JasonFrazierUSA]

We need reporters all over the country looking at their voter rolls.

I don't believe @LevinsReports had ever seen a voter roll before she started asking questions.

I gave her a bit of coaching and off she went.

Good reporting doesn't need to involve clickbait. Just show the facts and people will want to listen.

She picked this up very quickly and could identify thousands of bad registrations in no time at all.

If I can find these, if Savannah can find these, if @David_Khait can find these, why can't Fulton. They have a $33M budget to run our elections this year.

It is a lack of will and alternative motivations.

They will spend close to $1M just to keep me off the Board of Elections. I wouldn't even need to be there if they spent that $1M running clean elections with clean voter rolls.