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[Brooke Siem — Subscribe to my Substack @BrookeSiem]

@AllenFrancesMD Dissapionted in how they spun your quote for this piece, completely missing the nuance you were trying to convey and the work you've done to spread awareness around overmedication. I'd love to read the unedited transcript of your interview, because I bet there was more to it.

[Medicating Normal @MedicatingNorm1]

@BrookeSiem interviews Gretchen LeFever Watson, PhD.

"Kids Are Not the Problem: An Interview With Gretchen LeFever Watson"

Link: https://t.co/Np2Doe8PpM

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

“She said she believed his death was “likely provoked” by an adverse reaction to the medication [sertraline] he had begun, and subsequently stopped taking, in the weeks leading up to his death.” https://t.co/VXxCygerFr

[Medicating Normal @MedicatingNorm1]

@gabbyreece speaks with @BrookeSiem on the topic of #antidepressants

"Antidepressants Stole Her Youth, Now She's Fighting Back"

Video Link: https://t.co/Jt8Zt0VHTX

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

It's one thing to argue that seed oils aren't bad, the problem is the dismissiveness and sketchiness with which the media does it.

I'm open to being wrong. What I'm not open to is having the media pretend like anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint has no idea what they're talking about and should be ignored in favor of "experts."

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

Disclosure is not the solution. You shouldn't be able to sit on any guidelines, committees or write editorials if you're stuffing your pockets with Pharma money. Either be a professor or work for Pharma. Don't do both simultaneously.

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

After getting through the withdrawal process this is what I routinely hear from people. But there is no research on this because most studies are short term. Many people do not appreciate what effects the drugs were having until they are off them.

[Mad In America @Mad_In_America]

When @BrookeSiem was 15 years old, her father died. Her mother, Dee Barbash, sought help for her daughter that led to a prescription for a psychiatric drug. In this #podcast interview, they look back on that fateful decision #antidepressants #mentalhealth

https://t.co/HjLVlSnOuX

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

We completed a systematic review and meta-analysis of antidepressant withdrawal effects and found that 43% of people experienced them, there was a trend towards longer exposure giving rise to a higher risk of withdrawal effects https://t.co/2C97k7ptQn 1/n

[Senator Ron Johnson @SenRonJohnson]

LIVE: American Health & Nutrition: A Second Opinion
https://t.co/oZ35seNVnn

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Use of hormonal contraception is associated with subsequent use of antidepressants and a first diagnosis of depression.

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[Brooke Siem — Subscribe to my Substack @BrookeSiem]

On Thursday, I will be lecturing at Grand Rounds at the University of Nevada, Reno Medical School.

My talk: Bad Medicine, Antidepressant Withdrawal, and the Incalculable Costs of Medicating Normal

The event will be streamed live. Details below.

https://t.co/smthVPepfx

[Mad In America @Mad_In_America]

On our #podcast, Brooke Siem is joined by Mark Horowitz @markhoro and David Taylor @DavidTa23968240 to discuss the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines. The guidelines were influenced in part by the authors’ experiences of #antidepressant withdrawal. https://t.co/x7GAy9JEu9

[Bert @HenryRunamucker]

@Altostrata @chrisaikenmd Chris needs to look a little harder: https://t.co/7vJxFqXyXp
Official govt and medical info: "All 39 websites mentioned the benefits of antidepressants. Twenty-nine (74%) websites attributed depression to a "chemical imbalance" or claimed they could fix an imbalance."

[Daniel Owens @dsowens17]

Antidepressant withdrawal and online support

We keep getting told that psychiatrists have never seen antidepressant withdrawal or that it is at best minimal.

Online tells a different story. There are currently over 100,000 people in Facebook support groups desperately trying to help one another get off these drugs. Similarly, the peer support site Surviving Antidepressants has over 200,000 visits per month.

Why are so many people turning to online support?

It's because the practitioners they trusted with their health aren't up to the task.

Yet we are supposed to believe that AD withdrawal is not a problem?

The denials just aren't credible. When is the profession going to take responsibility for the crisis it has created?
#SSRIs #morethan2weeks #prescribedharm

[jc @atomicaceso]

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.

[Hassan O. @AuthorOnTheSide]

The only app where you'll see 3 prominent authors debating algebra & f-words 😂

[Julia Hotz @hotzthoughts]

I had the most inspiring conversation with @BrookeSiem on the @Mad_In_America podcast about #TheConnectionCure -- my new book (@simonbooks) exploring the science and spread of #socialprescribing -- a rapidly spreading practice through which health workers prescribe community activities and resources, instead of just pills. It shifts from focusing on "what's the matter with you" to "what matters to you". It honors the way PATIENTS are experts in their own health.

https://t.co/guaWm0M9e3

[Matilda Gosling @matildagosling]

A 🧵 on unintended consequences of mental health interventions, and why some school and workplace schemes may be contributing to the problem they were designed to solve. 1/10

[Brooke Siem — Subscribe to my Substack @BrookeSiem]

@sameerjauhar @markhoro Please explain how low doses “can’t be absorbed?” It’s not like they’re passing through the body like a slip ‘n slide.