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Polypharmacy is now “the standard of care” in child psychiatry: 1. Put a kid on a stimulant to comply with authoritarian schooling. 2. Put them on an antipsychotic to stabilize that irritability caused by the stimulant. 3. Put them on clonidine so they can fall asleep. 4. Put them on an antidepressant since the other medication is leaving them feeling flat and unmotivated. 5. Put them on metformin to manage prediabetic insulin levels caused by the antipsychotic. The good news is that the destruction of their bodies and identity formation doesn’t matter. What matters is now they’re easier for the school or the stressed parent to manage.

A BetterHelp advert on the London Tube last week concludes that switching one therapeutic relationship for another is no more psychologically meaningful than switching trains at Waterloo. Welcome to the unashamed Uber-isation of therapy.

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Professor Kirov, your argument confuses efficacy with safety. Saying that two-thirds of patients are “much” or “very much improved” does not show that they did not suffer persistent autobiographical memory loss. Depression can improve while autobiographical memory is damaged. Unless autobiographical memory is systematically measured long-term, improvement statistics cannot establish that such harm is rare. Likewise, if bilateral or higher-dose ECT is more effective, that says nothing about its cognitive cost. Greater efficacy does not cancel risk; it makes the benefit–risk discussion more important. My consent information did not merely omit permanent memory loss. It stated the exact opposite. It said: “Extensive memory loss, permanent memory impairment or persistent concentration problems do not occur.” And it went further: “ECT treatment … also leads to an improvement in your memory.” So I was not simply left uninformed. I was explicitly told that permanent memory impairment does not occur, while ECT was presented as potentially improving memory. If persistent autobiographical memory loss is a recognised possible consequence of ECT, how can this constitute informed consent? #ECT #ElectroconvulsiveTherapy #JohnRead #drannamedical #Lionadvocacy #InformedConsent #AutobiographicalMemory #MemoryLoss #CognitiveSideEffects #PatientSafety #PatientRights #MedicalEthics #RiskDisclosure

A year ago, on September 27, I posted this image on Facebook, announcing how glad I was that Professor @ReadReadj had accepted my invitation to record a podcast episode w/ me. Last Thursday, September 24, I published the 7th episode in a series we ended up creating together. (1)

There was a funny moment for me in the episode with Professor @ReadReadj that I published yesterday. I had my own way of pronouncing “alternatives”, which was our topic, and I didn’t even notice it until John mentioned it. I found it amusing. 😄 piped.video/yGMM-A3qQEs?si=e56c…

If you want people to find you trustworthy you need to provide evidence for your statements. This just looks evasive and suspicious that you aren't willing to back up what you say. Immediately makes me think it's because you can't actually back up your argument!

I asked ChatGPT but I didn’t get an AI summary that would allow people to be hyped about ADs enhancing emotions. Perhaps @DrAnnieHickox could provide me such an AI summary?

It's actually nothing to do Piia's abilities. It's called being helpful and backing up your argument of which you have done neither. Being patronising also doesn't help your case.

Based on that statement couldn't you have spared 5-6 seconds of your precious time to help everyone understand your point of view? I'd be interested to know if Piia found the evidence you claimed using AI since it seems you don't care enough to provide it?

In the short-term studies, using quite a poor way to measure the usefulness of the meds, in my opinion. Numbed emotions, etc., can seem like a benefit in the short-term but worsen the situation in the long-term. And informed consent is often lacking, unfortunately.

This is consistent with my clinical experience that people on long-term paroxetine find it very difficult, if not impossible to stop.

I don't agree with everything RFK Jr says but I think the mainstream media owe him an apology on this account. I have had many patients say that they found coming off antidepressants harder than coming off heroin. And now there is large-scale data to back up those anecdotes. This of course is distinct from addiction. The pre-requisite for withdrawal is physical dependence which is a predictable physiological response that is the consequence of adaptation to a drug. Physical dependence does not involve compulsion, craving, etc. Opioids cause addiction because of their reinforcing euphoria which antidepressants do not do. But they are both cause physical dependence and evidently comparable levels of withdrawal for the higher risk antidepressants.

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MSN covering our new paper showing that plunges in mood and increase in anxiety after stopping antidepressants is most likely withdrawal and not relapse. Led by @HengartnerMP Links below

A study from Israel shows non-coercive, community-based care that minimizes psychiatric drug use is linked to lower likelihood and of readmission as well as longer times between discharge and readmission compared to traditional inpatient treatment. buff.ly/9Uft2hD

The variation between individual brains is so large that scans aren't remotely sensitive or reliable enough to tell us whether any particular person 'has ADHD'. That's precisely why they have no role in the diagnostic process.

Thanks for informing Express readers about the misinformation that has been propagated about antidepressants for so long & which prevents people from making informed decisions about whether to take antidepressants or not.

A psychiatric horror story By Eric Daniel madintheuk.com/2026/09/a-psy… #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #MentalHealthAwareness

This patient of Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring recently finished tapering off her antidepressant. She shares her story which includes her experience doing a "blind taper." buff.ly/z7aexfT