LEAP4PDD @LEAP4PDD
The Lived and professional Experience Advisory Panel for Prescribed Drug Dependence - register your interest to be consulted about NHS services in your area leap4pdd.org Joined July 2022-
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Join us Oct.17 for next @Institute_PDW event Withdrawal From Antipsychotics….Safely @joannamoncrieff @willhall @MITUKteam @Mad_In_America @markhoro @CEP_UK @JDaviesPhD eventbrite.co.uk/e/antipsychoti…
Here are just a few examples of responses to an open question [on the first ever international survey of #ECT recipients] asking what patients were told: "ECT would reboot my brain like a computer." "The fastest way to treat depression would essentially" “snap you out of your…
Here are just a few examples of responses to an open question [on the first ever international survey of #ECT recipients] asking what patients were told: "ECT would reboot my brain like a computer." "The fastest way to treat depression would essentially" “snap you out of your…
This is behind a paywall, but its an informative and hopeful article about how difficult antidepressant withdrawal can be, how slow tapering can help people get off successfully, and asking why we are not doing more to implement this dailymail.co.uk/health/article…
Timeline cleanser. This is shredding 👇🏻
Timeline cleanser. This is shredding 👇🏻
New study recommends "a suspension of ECT in clinical settings pending independent large-scale placebo-controlled studies". Vital to highlight patient experiences @ReadReadj @PsychRecovery 👏 dx.doi.org/10.1111/inm.70…
In a strange contortion of logic, it’s not unusual to hear, “I thought it was just me, but now I know it was my ADHD”, with ADHD then simultaneously occupying a role as an identity and the function of ‘something that’s not me’
Ther term 'mental illness' is a way of ideologically capturing as a 'psychiatric issue' what could be more accurately seen as diverse forms of demoralisation, social suffering, situational distress, confusion, loss truama, iatrogenic & relational harm. The term is a smokescreen.
Quality of the therapeutic relationship is way more important than specific techniques- why psychotherapy comparisons result in tie scores. This is a pretty good summary; 'Psychotherapy Status Report: Past Achievements/Current Failures/Future Disruptions" psychotherapy.net/article/allen-…
Quality of the therapeutic relationship is way more important than specific techniques- why psychotherapy comparisons result in tie scores. This is a pretty good summary; 'Psychotherapy Status Report: Past Achievements/Current Failures/Future Disruptions" psychotherapy.net/article/allen-…
I helped consult on this article. It’s time we talk about our mental health “care” of veterans. This same thing happened to me for 13 years. Over 40 medications, all in my records from VA. They almost killed me. wsj.com/health/healthc…
There’s real power in survivors coming together - connected by experience, driven by purpose. When we speak, push, and demand better together, we move the system closer to what it should have always been: shaped by those who’ve lived it.
I admin a large antidepressant withdrawal FB group. 14,000+ people harmed by abrupt tapers, misdiagnosed withdrawal as relapse & poly pharmacy. All from guidance that ignores basic pharmacology. When patients know more than prescribers, something is deeply wrong with the system
This is not just about a patient but someone who is writing to large numbers of the public as a journalist and will influence the choices made by women. Women deserve to know the risks of different options.
This is not just about a patient but someone who is writing to large numbers of the public as a journalist and will influence the choices made by women. Women deserve to know the risks of different options.
Most influential psychiatrist in world today is @markhoro- main force behind 'The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines' books.google.com/books/about/Th… Best boost to patient care in decades. Especially remarkable since he's a trainee. Great credit to @wendyburn for getting world to notice.
Most influential psychiatrist in world today is @markhoro- main force behind 'The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines' books.google.com/books/about/Th… Best boost to patient care in decades. Especially remarkable since he's a trainee. Great credit to @wendyburn for getting world to notice.
A decade ago, when we warned about the harms of over-medicalisation, no one in power paid attention. Now they do, as the results are impossible to ignore as an entire generation suffers the personal & ideological harms of their distress being unduly pathologised & medicated...
Remember the 2024 Henssler review claiming only 1 in 6 have antidepressant withdrawal symptoms & 1 in 30 severe symptoms? Here we show it was based on highly unreliable data & can't be used to estimate withdrawal effects 1/n @JohnRead @markhoro @JDaviesPhD cambridge.org/core/journals/…
🧵1/4 JAMA Psychiatry appears more concerned with petri dishes than real people harmed by antidepressant withdrawal. They’ve denied our request to correct the misleading Kalfas et al. review—a request that was grounded in both the real-world experiences of hundreds of thousands…
Grossly Flawed Paper Denies that Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects are “Clinically Meaningful” By John Read Pharma-funded researchers are endangering patient safety by minimising the incidence and severity of withdrawal. madinamerica.com/2025/07/grossl…
While psychiatrists are on X arguing about what to call antidepressant withdrawal / destabilization / discontinuation, there are thousands of patients reading the bickering and fighting for their lives to heal from this. Most of them have completely walked away from medical…
I hadn't realised that members of the public can sign this BRILLIANT letter by @ACE_CoalitionEd, calling on @JAMAPsych to correct the misleading Jauhar article on antidepressant withdrawal. Please add your name using the link below! 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/1yeOS9…
I hadn't realised that members of the public can sign this BRILLIANT letter by @ACE_CoalitionEd, calling on @JAMAPsych to correct the misleading Jauhar article on antidepressant withdrawal. Please add your name using the link below! 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/1yeOS9…
Amended version of BMJ News article by Jaqui Wise - Withdrawal from antidepressant JAMA Psychiatry 2025 "Editor’s note: We amended this story on 15 July 2025 to clarify the study’s limitations and to add comments from James Davies." @JDaviesPhD
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Bert @HenryRunamucker
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