😞Hi, I think I'm depressed. My anxiety is through the roof.
👨⚕️Ok here's a prescription for some #SSRIs.
😞Hi, my depression seems to be worse now.
👨⚕️Ok let's up your dose.
😞Hi, my depression isn't going away, I feel tired all the time with this debilitating brain fog and slurred speech.
👨⚕️Ok let's put you on a different #antidepressant.
😞Hi, I don't think these different antidepressants are working for me. I'm done with them and want to try and fix my lifestyle rather than rely on pills.
👨⚕️Ok you can taper off them in 2 weeks.
😞But I've been on them for 10 years, are you sure that's a good idea?
👨⚕️Yeh you'll be fine.
😞Hi, since stopping my genitals are completely numb, my sex drive has completely disappeared and I can no longer enjoy anything, not even a cup of coffee or a pint of beer. I can no longer appreciate a sunset.
👨⚕️I understand you're upset that you now have permanent #PSSD, but I think there must be some underlying cause for your depression.
😞I'm depressed because I've been permanently chemically castrated by the drugs you prescribed me and I wasn't warned this could happen. I feel brain damaged, lobotomised.
👨⚕️I'm not an expert in PSSD, sorry.
😞Ok I guess I'm on my own then. Bye ☠️
In a survey of sexual+gender minority youth, excluding people with hormonal treatments, 1 in 7 experienced PSSD symptoms after stopping antidepressants, 14 times the rate in youth who had stopped other psychiatric medications. #mentalhealth RT @markhoro https://t.co/OeVDNZgfYY
@ferrisbuhler81 The possible downsides of antidepressants are worse than most people, including @joeroganhq, imagine. SSRIs have in some cases permanently robbed patients of their sexuality. This condition is known as irreversible Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). https://t.co/LLVzbpsJKb
"To be robbed of your sexuality through a chemical process, with absolutely no warning, and no way to consent, it's very traumatizing."
On @GlobalBC, Emily Grey and Yassie Pirani from @PSSDCanada discuss the devastating impact of living with Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD).
@MikhailaFuller@DocShivSharma@joannamoncrieff@thetimes Just a short time period on antidepressants can also result in potentially permanent Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). Pharma companies still aren’t being required to warn patients of this devastating possible harm that they’ve known about for decades.
https://t.co/cfEPiJTyLw
@pearlythingz The possible downsides of antidepressants are worse than most people, including @pearlythingz, imagine. SSRIs have in some cases permanently robbed patients of their sexuality. This condition is known as irreversible Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). https://t.co/LLVzbpsbUD
"To be robbed of your sexuality through a chemical process, with absolutely no warning, and no way to consent, it's very traumatizing."
On @GlobalBC, Emily Grey and Yassie Pirani from @PSSDCanada discuss the devastating impact of living with Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD).
More than half of women in the UK born in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh have never worked here (@thetimes). A staggering statistic which suggests serious integration issues in this country.
@sheislaurenlee@calleymeans The possible downsides of antidepressants are worse than most people, including @sheislaurenlee, imagine. SSRIs have in some cases permanently robbed patients of their sexuality. This condition is known as irreversible Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). https://t.co/LLVzbpsbUD
"To be robbed of your sexuality through a chemical process, with absolutely no warning, and no way to consent, it's very traumatizing."
On @GlobalBC, Emily Grey and Yassie Pirani from @PSSDCanada discuss the devastating impact of living with Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD).
@calleymeans This has inflicted more collective harm than almost any other pharmaceutical agenda in history
It’s not just the side effects (which can be permanent) — it’s the disempowerment / self-fulfilling nature of the mental health labels that justify the prescription & reimbursement
@ferrisbuhler81 The possible downsides of antidepressants are worse than most people, including doctors, imagine. SSRIs have in some cases permanently robbed patients of their sexuality. This condition is known as irreversible Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). https://t.co/LLVzbpsbUD
"To be robbed of your sexuality through a chemical process, with absolutely no warning, and no way to consent, it's very traumatizing."
On @GlobalBC, Emily Grey and Yassie Pirani from @PSSDCanada discuss the devastating impact of living with Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD).
@Timcast https://t.co/kR5CVTu6ml
Tim, you’ve gotta check out and share our channel, Moral Medicine. Tons of video interviews of people permanently damaged by SSRIs and Finasteride. This is a silent epidemic.
@BrigantiPhil@Timcast The possible downsides of antidepressants are worse than most people, including doctors, imagine. SSRIs have in some cases permanently robbed patients of their sexuality. This condition is known as irreversible Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). https://t.co/LLVzbpsJKb
"To be robbed of your sexuality through a chemical process, with absolutely no warning, and no way to consent, it's very traumatizing."
On @GlobalBC, Emily Grey and Yassie Pirani from @PSSDCanada discuss the devastating impact of living with Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD).