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@Sassafrass_84 I thought Jesus was the reason for the season ✝️

Why does everyone hate their neurologist

@DiaryofaSickGrl Where do I start???

I came across this notification about the recall of sertraline in the UK (SSRIs) yesterday, because the manufacturer have mixed the drugs in with Citalopram. But what alarmed me on top of the recall, which is bad enough as it is, is the government notification on the second slide here, that very clearly states the SSRI corrects a serotonin imbalance in the brain - which is false. Not only is this false, but we have all recently been told by the Royal College for Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association - that they have never said this. When the serotonin theory was effectively debunked in 2022 due to the umbrella review, they both said that apparently patients have never been told this in the first place - and it was never a theory or narrative given to the public. And we all know that was a GIANT lie, as millions of people have been told this. Organisations and charities scrubbed their websites of the serotonin imbalance explanation of anxiety and depression, and instead claimed that patients had been misunderstanding and spreading false information for decades about SSRIs! The audacity. And yet here we are, and one has slipped through the net again. We all know what everyone was told - and yet the powers that be, in conjunction with their good friends, the pharma companies - have decided to gaslight us all into oblivion that they never said mental health conditions were caused by lack of serotonin and required their magic SSRIs. Amazing how frequently these slip ups keep occurring for something that was ‘never said’. Goes without saying too though, if you are currently prescribed 100mg Sertraline, please check with your provider about this recall - as it has not been widely announced (of course) and you may be mixing sertraline with citalopram and not even know x

@KevinRo90321458 I was healthy before, too! I was put on Lex💩poo for PMS. I would choose PMS every (!) day over what it did to me!

Medical Incompetence - How I Ended Up On A SSRI. The Path of Quitting. What The Experience Of A SSRI Is Like. Antidepressants do so much damage to the brain, that the person taking it will often fail to recognize what has happened to them. In my own personal case. I knew something wasn't right. But couldn't figure out what it was that was wrong. This in combination with belief my doctor was competent was enough to convince me Lexapro was treating a disease. The irony of it is. I was mentally healthy before taking the prescription. I didn't have a mental health disorder. I wasn't complaining of anxiety or low mood. I had a period of about 2 months where I had some mental fogginess. It was a memory issue and just not feeling as sharp as I use too. I described the problem to the doctor of being something like the reduced clarity you get when you have a bad cold; the lack of focus. He responded with I get people like this from time to time and usually the cause is something in their life triggering it. I responded with yes I understand that sometimes you simply have to wait these problems out and let whatever it is heal or address what is bothering you. I followed up with I knew to wait and it has been about 2 months now. Could there be something deeper wrong like an infection my body isn't clearing? I have my routine work stress I know you are aware of my profession although I always dealt with that. Nothing else is out of normal that I'm aware of regarding stress. After another moment of brief conversation. He says it sounds like a chemical imbalance. He also says I have something I can give you. It's an antidepressant but it works for that. It'll help give you your focus back. The following morning I took the Lexapro. Maybe 20 minutes had past before I had a serious adverse reaction. I started to become disconnected from my environment and had tremors in my left arm. Around day 10 I nearly jumped to my death while in a bizarre and morbid combination of akathisia and detachment from reality. I was on sick leave from work for 3 weeks. It took about a month before a level of stabilization began to return. I would also have moments where I would freeze up in pure terror for a few minutes. It took a few months for complete clearing of symptoms. Some serious issues remained. My emotional acuity and awareness of self went from from a dial of 10 all the way down to a 1. Today I'm now aware that I experienced a decrease in cognitive abilities. My reading, writing memory had weakened. My ability to focus and multitask deteriorated further. The whole time I was taking Lexapro which was around 3 years. I think I was suicidal. During the first month of the prescription I was both a danger to myself and others. I didn't notice what the drug had done. Some people saw things which they shrugged off as a little weird but irrelevant. I had two co-workers on two occasions who noticed my ability to tolerate cold weather was abnormally higher than normal. This was the numbing effect of Lexapro at play. Disabling my ability to process temperature properly. Eventually I developed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. After some failed attempts I thought to myself; drugs can make people tired. Maybe it's these pills. Then I thought wait... I have been taking these for 3 years now? Wasn't it only suppose to be several months then you stop them? I was puzzled at how I didn't notice years went by while on Lexapro. So I thought well if it's the drug causing the exhaustion maybe if I go down from 30mg to 25mg and try to give it a week and see if there is any change. Around day 3 or 4 of this test. There was a change. But to my surprise it wasn't the fatigue. I had a glimmer of someone I use to know and I didn't recognize what it was. It caused me pause for a couple seconds and vanished as quick as it appeared. I didn't know what I saw. I knew I saw something. This lead me to discontinuing the drug. I looked up some basic drug tapering guidelines and followed that at first. I made it to 25mg pretty easy. 20mg was difficult. 15mg was unbearable. I went back to 20mg and by the next day I was stabilizing. I thought to myself oh no. I'm addicted! Taking a more of a drug and finding your symptoms clearing is a sign. So I made a doctors appointment. By now we are still under covid protocols so it was phone call only. I explained I needed help and that I think I'm addicted to Lexapro. I hardly recall the details of the conversation. I remember after speaking with him. I knew I was on my own and there was no help. I think what I clued in on was he emphasized the drug treats a mental health disorder and I remembered I never took it for a mental health disorder as I never had one. Once I felt stable at 20mg I continued tapering. It took about 9 months in total to get off of Lexapro. Then I suffered a crash and when it cleared my system at which point I went completely numb. This morphed into akathisia again and wow I learned what depression is. I never had depression until I quit the drug. It was brutal and life threatening for about 2 months post drug before I started to stabilize. Again around the 3 month mark most erratic symptoms had faded and now I was in protracted withdrawal. The first 1.5 years of protracted withdrawal was harsh. I had severe memory and cognitive impairment. Chronic POTS like symptoms plus insomnia. Totally detached from the world with crushing anhedonia. A chronic dizziness, a buzz in the back of my mind that would prevent environmental stimulation and emotions from getting through. I would hear something and it just didn't penetrate. If i exerted myself to much like trying to exercise an impending sense of doom would overcome me. Information getting through was wort of like layers of an onion. Sound and emotions would only get through the first layer but never make it to the core. It was a form of chemical silencing. This applied to every aspect of my existence. Slowly over time it heals. I'm coming up on 2.5 years of being off SSRI and it's has improved greatly. But the condition still continues to heal to this day. What caused the initial symptoms of brain fog leading to the SSRI prescription? I strongly suspect it was side effects of a pantoloc prescription. Pantoloc is used to treat GERD. It reduces your stomach acid production. Using GERD medication chronically can cause nutrient disruptions in the body and additional illnesses leading to my initial complaint of brain fog. Funny my doctor didn't mention pantoloc can cause cognitive difficulties! The Irony to all this. Discontinuing the pantoloc was the solution. Not adding additional drugs. It turns out I never needed the pantoloc too. I had 2 prescriptions that that treated nothing and induced all my problems. While on Lexapro I developed asthma. A few months after quitting SSRI. My asthma vanished and never came back. Now I was at 4 prescriptions. All of were to treat a side effect of side effects for a medical induced illness that I didn't naturally have. I was told my GERD was chronic and I needed pantoloc for life. That probably was the lie that triggered the prescribing cascade. All of this was 100% medical incompetence. It really is a sick care system and doctors don't have any idea what the drugs are doing outside of a very superficial understanding. Buyer Beware!

@mealseigen They may think it’s a good experience until they try to come off them

“People have got to stop talking badly about antidepressants because they saved my life” Okay good for you but they didn’t save mine. In fact they messed me up pretty severely and I don’t think I’ll ever be free. But I’m not supposed to say that because YOUR experience was good.

@Helios_Movement That’s an older study. I bet it’s less than 39% now.

Did you know that 79% of psychiatrists would recommend immediate antidepressant treatment for an outpatient with depression, but only 39% they would take one themselves immediately in the same scenario? No this is not a joke.

@lyncey_gilbe This is why I learned to groom my own dogs. It all started when one of my dogs got a huge staph infection in her ear from the hair being plucked out at the groomers. I’m not trusting people like this with my dogs.

Oh my god I’d love to do what they are doing to those dogs to them! Bastards

@KevinRo90321458 Thank you. Sharing it

I recently did a post on it. Yes they enhance GABA, GABA directly modulates dopamine. So if it speeds up GABA, generally you can expect emotional blunting and sexual dysfunction to follow. I posted a lot of detail in this thread and in a follow up reply to nick. x.com/KevinRo9032145… It hits most of the major factors regarding what the SSRI does.

“Ask your doctor” if he or she is aware that “SSRI’s affect far for more than serotonin alone.”

SSRI Suppress Phasic Dopamine Bursts - why you don't get excited, orgasm, enjoy music or a good laugh and alcohol looses it's kick. A little science then I'll explain what it means and how the the SSRI screwed up your ability to feel. When you swallow an unhappy pill (SSRI). You jack up the serotonin levels in the synaptic cleft. Studies often put this at 200% to 400% increase in serotonin levels. This extra serotonin hits receptor 5-HT2C in the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) which is a small cluster of neurons located in the midbrain. This area of the brain is main origin of dopamine neurons. This stuff gets complicated but think of it as the tree trunk. 1 of 2. The other is the Substantia Nigra pars compacta (SNc). The VTA is the main hub where all the good stuff happens. When you enjoy music, a laugh, orgasm, it requires dopamine spikes to take place. These spikes in dopamine activity are dampened directly leading to sexual dysfunction. The other brain areas are mostly downstream from the (VTA/SNc). Those pesky 5-HT2C receptors being overloaded on dopamine neurons puts a physical cap on the ability for dopamine to be released and communicate enjoyment. Sure but why doesn't alcohol work? Isn't Alcohol GABA-A? Your right. GABA neurons also have 5-HT2C receptors and they are being stimulated by the SSRI also. This enhances GABA activity. Alcohol also enhances GABA activity. Given GABA activity is already greatly enhanced by the SSRI, Alcohol looses it's effectiveness it's already maxed out and dopamine release is already capped by the SSRI. The pleasant alcohol effects simply can't take place. This can lead to over consumption of alcohol as it takes more than usual to have an effect. There is a lot more detail as to what's happening, but I can't realistically put it all into a Twitter post. Know this SSRI activate 5-HT2C which suppresses dopamine and takes out the ability to enjoy life. That's why you can't feel on a SSRI and drugs that produce pleasure loose their effectiveness!

@RealSpitfire @eap328 Man’s best friend. Without a doubt. 🫶

Retirement ceremony for a military K9. 🙏🏼🐾🇺🇸 My heart🥹

Cure for Alzheimer’s does not exist today purely due to corruption at NIH, per HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Democrats don't oppose gerrymandering. They're just pissed Republicans are finally fighting back.

Glad to be 1 of 73.

@grok How many Americans take SSRIs in the United States? Some studies suggest 35% of people taking SSRIs develop Akathisia, is that true? If so, how many Americans would be affected with Akathisia?

Listen, I'm bad at math, didn't look at all the studies to come to a complete conclusion because I'm still struggling with my health, but know some publications stTe roughly 30%+ people that take SSRIs will develop Akathisia. If Gemini is right about this Akathisia data... Then we Americans are indeed looking at a national emergency. I'm going to ask Grok next in the comments below 👇.

@ACsomenumbers Same here! My vet's office was bought by VCA.....I get doom emails all of the time!

@TFG_2025 This honestly sucks.

I just got an email from my vet's office for an "important health alert" regarding leptospirosis. Recommending 2 initial doses of the vaccine and a booster every year after....NOPE! Not gonna happen.

@KevinRo90321458 From my research, SSRIs can inhibit dopamine, correct? (Like 5-HTP as a supplement can as well?) Hence, so many people report lack of energy and motivation, emotional blunting, apathy, sexual dysfunction, etc. after long-term use of SSRI’s?

@ACsomenumbers All neurons with a 5-ht receptor. Almost everything. GABA, dopamine... You name it the SSRI changes the operations.