ANTIDEPRESSANT WITHDRAWAL INJURY is a serious neurological brain injury that happens even when you stop an SSRI following “standard” doctor tapering advice. After long-term use, the brain & nervous system adapt and change but the rushed 2-4 week one-size-fits-all tapers doctors still use are dangerously fast and actively causing brain injuries on a massive scale. Right now, thousands of people are being harmed simply by doing exactly what their doctors tell them and end up with long-term neurological damage and years of disability. The system gaslights victims, denies the harm, and hides the truth. This rivals the opioid crisis. If you've been affected, you're not alone. Share your story. #antidepressantwithdrawal #pssd

Yesterday, a young man told me he still has emotional numbness 10 years after stopping an SSRI. He is not alone and it suggests a persistent re-set of neurological pathways. I really hope these do return to baseline, but for some people it is not quick.

Far too many people are being prescribed antidepressants and some have severe difficulty stopping them.

So much of our youth are left maimed by psychiatric drugs, carrying devastating injuries no one can see dismissed, disbelieved, and left without answers. lives forever altered by harms they were never warned were possible. Many have taken their own lives amid the unfathomable, insurmountable suffering these antidepressant injuries can cause. We urgently need research into these iatrogenic conditions and regulatory change so patients are warned about devastating, potentially permanent harms that beautiful young souls like Lauren were never told were possible.

🚨 BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins CHD in D.C. this Thursday. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will deliver a keynote at the Children’s Health Defense conference in D.C. on September 17. This event is sold out but we’re reopening registration with a VERY limited number of seating-room only passes tickets for those who want to be there for this moment.

When you take an SSRI you are not correcting a chemical imbalance... you are inducing one. Be aware of those consequences. They are not benign.

The Worst SSRI Side Effect

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Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) isn't just about sex. It's permanent chemical castration that destroys the neurological pathways for emotional bonding, passionate engagement, and the felt sense of love itself. Some never recover. Years after stopping.

I was two years off psych meds, sitting on my couch, so agitated I wanted to rip my skin off. I realized at that moment that the freedom I’d been yearning for in the wake of my psychiatrization wasn’t about withdrawing from the prescriptions, themselves, but from the belief that pain is a problem with a quick fix. @TheoVon @ThisPastWeeknd

Lauren stood in front of strangers in Washington DC and gave up her privacy to describe what an antidepressant took from her: her sexual function, and harder still, her ability to feel love for her own mother. She has PSSD, post-SSRI sexual dysfunction. It is not just low libido. It is a nervous system injury that can persist permanently after the last dose, taking sexual function and, for some, emotional function with it. Patients describe moving through life feeling like their soul left their body. Here's what should trouble you. Persistent sexual dysfunction after stopping is already acknowledged on SSRI labels across the EU, Canada, and Australia, and it's in the US Prozac label. Yet most American patients are never told. A citizens' petition asking the FDA to add the warning went in back in 2018. I used to work at the FDA. Drug applications get answered in months. Suffering patients have waited nearly eight years. Lauren said it best: if she had known, she could have chosen differently. That choice was taken from her. That is what informed consent exists to prevent. I break down her full testimony in my new video, including what the research shows and why I tell people to exhaust the non-drug approaches to depression and anxiety first. If you have PSSD: you are not crazy, you are not alone, and you deserve doctors who believe you. If you are struggling, call or text 988. Never stop an SSRI abruptly. Any change should be gradual and medically supervised.

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Withdrawal symptoms following long-term SSRI use appear far more pervasive and serious than previously realised. Now medical bodies are rethinking how and when to stop taking them newscientist.com/article/258…

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In writing this article, I interviewed nearly 30 psychiatrists, psychologists, and academic researchers, as well as plenty of patients who discontinued SSRIs. I came away shocked by the gap btw clinical perception and patient experience of withdrawal.

"We are running an experiment that we do not understand in our children" On @DrRonEhrlich's podcast, Dr. Mark Horowitz (@markhoro) discusses evidence that antidepressants affect the development of the sexual organs in juvenile animals. Their effects on human children is unknown.

This piece assumes antidepressants must 'work' by targeting an underlying biological mechanism of a disorder (the disease-centred model). This assumption is distorting research and leading us to miss the actual effects of these drugs (emotional numbing, sexual dysfunction etc).

Such a great month in DC. 🇺🇸 So grateful for every opportunity to use my voice, fight for those harmed by psychiatric medications, and push for meaningful change @WhiteHouse @POTUS

Such a great night @aliceandolivia for @G_W_Forum event 🫶🏻💋 @itsmarlamaples @LianaWernerGray