PSSD Realist
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PSSD Realist
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SSRIs destroy lives. Finasteride destroys lives. Accutane destroys lives. FGM and MGM destroy lives. Check out @PSSDNetwork (not affiliated).

In 2007, @Roy_PSSD took the SSRI citalopram for only 3 weeks before discontinuing it due to intolerable side-effects. 17 years later, he still suffers from Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (#PSSD). Read Roy's story: seattletimes.com/nation-world/a…

All this talk of Britain being ‘finished’ or that our country has fallen… We’ve been ‘finished’ again and again through our long history, and time again and again we’ve shocked the world by getting back up. That’s what we do. We get up. Our people are worth standing for!

I have been doing inpatient psychiatry continuously for over 4 years and practiced outpatient psychiatry for 3 years. I can say with confidence that this is exactly what I hear from patients in real clinical practice. Demonizing SSRIs based on anecdotes, social media fear mongering, and flawed studies by people who do not actually treat patients with psychiatric illnesses is extremely dangerous. Just to remind everyone, SSRIs are first line treatments not only for Major Depressive Disorder, but also for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, OCD, Eating Disorders, PTSD, and several other debilitating psychiatric conditions. No medication is completely free of side effects and withdrawals, but pretending these medications do not help millions of people regain functioning, relationships, careers, and their lives is simply irresponsible.


A White university student, 18, bled to death after being arrested because the Sikh man who stabbed him with a ceremonial knife told responding police he had been racially abused, a British court heard.


Vanderbilt senior Lauren Friedman (@lololizzle) recently spoke at the MAHA Mental Health & Overmedicalization Summit about living with Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). Her testimony highlighted the urgent need for recognition, research, and treatment for the condition.

“Who is he, Tom Cruise? I take an antidepressant. You know why? Because of a chemical imbalance. And you know what it does? It provides balance for me under a doctor’s treatment." News broadcaster @ChrisCuomo responds to @SecKennedy's plan to deal with antidepressant withdrawal,











