#ANTIDERPRESSANTS 2.
Numbing
"SSRIs and related antidepressants also produce an emotional numbness in most takers. This is at the core of their therapeutic action. We prefer to talk about these drugs “working” rather “numbing” because numbing doesn’t sound ethically quite right"
#ANTIDEPRESSANTS 3.
Women of childbaring years:
#SSRIs double the rate of birth defects in children born to women who take them during the first trimester. These range from almost all cardiac defects through to spina bifida and other problems. Also other risks ….
#ANTIDEPRESSANTS 4
Children & Adolescents
A horror story with children even more likely than adults to end up with a plethora of gateway diagnoses leading to shocking cocktails of treatment
There are proposals to increase the numbers of child psychiatrists to meet an unmet need.
#ANTIDEPRESSANTS 5.
'Save Lives'(??)
"When the regulators finally put a Black Box on antidepressants it was because there was an excess of suicidal acts on these drugs – not because there was some evidence there could be a suicidal act on treatment."
#ANTIDEPRESSANTS 6.
Work
"ADs make people’s serotonin systems abnormal. The longer you stay on them, the more abnormal your serotonin system becomes.
A lot of people seem to sense this, because more than half of those put on an antidepressant stop by the end of the first month."
#ANTIDEPRESSANTS 7
'Millions benefit'
"Roughly the same amount of people get put on antidepressants for the first time each year.. Roughly 90% of the people now on antidepressants have been on them for a year or more.
The bulk continue taking them because they can’t get off."
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