Kevin Cruz

@Rozewicz @joannamoncrieff SSRI's made me severely depressed, gave me suicidal thoughts, emotional blunting and potentially permanent sexual dysfunction. Neither doctor that prescribed them to me after only talking to me for a few minutes gave me any informed consent. "Safe and effective" is a LIE!

I can understand this is a difficult time for my psychiatry colleagues. I am sure they all have good intentions, but it turns out that the most widely used psychiatric treatment, antidepressants, causes significant iatrogenic effects (e.g. severe withdrawal reactions, PSSD), is not very effective (at best) and does not target an underlying biological abnormality after all. Although many people still seek a psychiatric diagnosis and a medical approach, increasing numbers highlight how misleading and disabling this approach can be. Their voices are starting to be heard, and we need to work with them to provide help for people who have been harmed by psychiatric treatment, and to prevent more harm being done. Trying to shoot the messenger doesn’t help anyone.

@tylerblack32 @samhall404 I was prescribed SSRI's on my first visit with a new doctor after they only talked to me for a couple minutes and gave me no informed consent. I never had a single suicidal thought in my whole life until I was on SSRI's. I'm far from the only one with this experience.

akathisia is a symptom: a neuropsychiatric movement disorder characterized by an intense, uncontrollable need to move, often accompanied by severe internal restlessness and mental distress i had a quite severe SYMPTOM akathisia after an uncharacteristically long walk (70,000 steps) that lasted about 16 hours. I couldn't sleep, i couldn't get comfortable, i couldn't stop shaking, I couldn't walk due to the shakiness and tremor and I was quite worried that i had done serious damage. I presented to the ER in Tokyo. i did not claim to have drug-induced akathisia, and i am not only aware of, but teach, that drug-induced akathisia does not let up and is profoundly awful. Re the black box warning, it is far more controversial than you think it is. You may not believe it, but there are hundreds of articles discussing this. I stand by everything I say, and I don't care

Here is self proclaimed “suicidologist” @tylerblack32, who describes himself as a “literal expert” in suicidology, declaring that it’s “not clear if the black box warning is necessary” for suicide risk on SSRI labels 😮‼️ In another post, he claims he experienced akathisia simply from walking too far in Tokyo 🫠 This is particularly striking because increased suicidal ideation and impulsivity are well documented adverse effects of antidepressants, especially in the early weeks of treatment. True akathisia, a state of severe inner restlessness and torment, is a recognised, drug induced neurological condition triggered by SSRIs, other antidepressants or during withdrawal. It is not caused by walking or physical exertion. More importantly, akathisia is one of the most dangerous and well established suicide inducing adverse effects of these drugs. It creates an intolerable state of inner restlessness where stillness itself becomes unbearable, driving some patients into profound agitation, despair and suicidality that can last weeks, months or even years. Make it make sense 🤷‍♂️ A so called suicidologist wants to weaken suicide warnings on SSRIs while appearing not to fully understand akathisia, one of the most serious, drug induced pathways to suicide associated with them. It’s like a firefighter who claims expertise in fire safety while arguing that smoke detectors are probably unnecessary and then insists he once suffered severe smoke inhalation from standing too close to a candle.