
BASED PSYCHIATRIST
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BASED PSYCHIATRIST
@BasedPsychMD
Medical Doctor. Ungovernable. Building a platform for Deprescribing: TaperMeds & TaperCommunity



U.S. nursing homes are fabricating schizophrenia diagnoses to hide their use of dangerous antipsychotic drugs to subdue dementia patients, a government watchdog report found. The drugs increase risk of falls, strokes and death. wapo.st/4tfSUsr




1/ TW ⚠️ One of my goals for 2026 is to raise more awareness about akathisia. Seeing as it’s one of the most severe side effects of psychiatric medications and withdrawal, it’s strange that so few prominent psychiatrists and institutions on this platform discuss it 🧵


According to the psychiatrist in today’s MDT sertraline doesn’t cause withdrawal. My parents had to provide evidence to suggest otherwise. Feathers ruffled and it gets me nowhere. We need a safe place for people in withdrawal to go and not be told withdrawal doesn’t exist.






People are waking up with regards to psych meds. The deprescribing movement feels like a freight train picking up momentum.






