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Psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical researchers point out: psychiatric diagnoses are based on checklists of behaviors—that's it. No chemical imbalance tests, or x-rays or brain scans. cchrint.org/psychiatric-di…
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CCHR Int
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Official CCHR International— Non-profit Mental Health Industry Watchdog that has helped enact 190 laws protecting patients from abuse.
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Nisan 2009
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Why does it so often fall on harmed patients and grieving families to push for change?
The people fighting for Black Box suicide warnings in 2004 and 2006 were families blindsided by tragedy. The people pushing for better information about antidepressant withdrawal are often those who can’t get off the drugs themselves. The people advocating for PSSD warnings are those living with life altering harms that were never properly disclosed.
None of us asked to become experts in these issues. We became motivated because we learned the hard way and don’t want others or their families to have to experience the same thing.
That’s not anti drug. That’s pro informed consent, transparency, and prevention.
Where’s the @FDA ? The doctors? The @APApsychiatric ?
Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social@markhoro
It's inspiring to see that patients who have been harmed by psychiatric drugs are organising to prevent this happening to others. It is also an absolute indictment of the current system that patients are forced to this. Basically disgraceful.
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WSJ— Behind the Boom in Psychiatric Medication—How the APA is driving the psychiatric drugging of America by constantly expanding its criteria for mental "illness," turning normal worry, grief, and sadness into labeled clinical disorders wsj.com/opinion/behind…
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Attempts to investigate the safety of SSRIs, especially their relation to violence, were stifled from the very beginning. Columbine shooter Eric Harris was in fluvoxamine, a high-strength SSRI, and may have attempted to come off it cold turkey when he was rejected for the Marines.
AJAC@AJA_Cortes
In the long term, SSRIS will have the same reputation as lobotomies WTF were we ever thinking in giving these to people
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Through Freedom of Information Act requests to 32 states, data show that 270,196 children aged 0–5 were prescribed psychiatric drugs under Medicaid alone — this figure does not include children covered by private insurance cchrint.org/massdrugging-o…
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“The medications that are being given to people are without exception introducing chemicals that are altering the brain in ways which can be very damaging. And I'll go a step further and say that in the absence of a proven chemical imbalance for which the medications are quote "rebalancing" or fixing, the medications are in fact toxic...
What the American public should be thinking about is when they or their loved ones or their friends have received a psychiatric diagnosis, they should be asking the doctor, ‘Where's the chemical test for that? Where is the objective test for this?’ And I guarantee you that they'll be told, ‘Uh, we don't have a chemical test for that.’”
- Grace Jackson, Psychiatrist
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“But in America, the FDA, to this day, does not require any warning labels about persistent sexual dysfunction on these medications. So SSRIs are potentially causing serious, lifelong side effects, most of which are not disclosed to patients as a potential risk.”
@MattWalshBlog
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Historically and currently accurate
Dr. Roger McFillin@DrMcFillin
The psychiatric system has no financial interest in your recovery.
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Dr. Eric Berg shares disturbing statistics about the number of children being prescribed SSRIs.
“People don’t realize… we have millions of kids starting these drugs.”
“A child’s brain is not a small adult’s brain.”
“Between the ages of 8 and 25, that brain is actively under construction.”
“So when you introduce an SSRI during that time frame… it alters the construction of the foundation of the brain itself.”
“A child who starts these drugs at 10 years old may never develop the full emotional range.”
@dr_ericberg
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Psychiatric diagnoses are made-up terms to sell drugs.
Redkin@FiveRedkin
You don't have a mental health condition; a condition has been imposed on you so that you can be drugged.
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This is child abuse.
Children’s Health Defense@ChildrensHD
🚨 School With 50 Locations Uses Electric Shock Devices on Autistic Children — the FDA Wants to Ban the Devices “This is the worst type of demeaning and deplorable aversive therapy imaginable.” @BrianHookerPhD Electrical stimulation devices are used for a specific type of aversive shock therapy that delivers an “often-painful electric shock” to people exhibiting self-injurious or aggressive behavior. Most practitioners largely abandoned the practice decades ago. The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC), based in Canton, Massachusetts, is the only known institution in the U.S. that uses the devices to control disabled youth. JRC operates about 50 residences throughout Massachusetts. A 2007 Mother Jones investigation found that six children died at JRC in its 36-year history, prompting numerous lawsuits and government investigations into its use of the therapy.
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“I was a very sensitive child. I did have a lot of anxiety but there were other methods… I did not need to be on medication. It only ever made me feel worse.”
Danielle Gansky speaking candidly about how it all started: sloppy handwriting and not paying attention in school led her parents to a psychiatrist. At just 7 years old, she entered a prescription cascade that lasted for decades.
She stresses she was never given non-drug options, even though she believes they would have been better for her. Now at 30, she’s calling for real change: evidence-based tapering guidelines, informed consent, black box warnings on the serious long-term risks, and national awareness so people can actually make informed decisions.
Far too many sensitive, anxious kids get funneled straight into lifelong medication without being told the full risks.
What do you think — should schools and doctors be required to try non-drug approaches first for childhood anxiety and attention issues before prescribing psychiatric drugs?
Camus@newstart_2024
“My brain felt like it was on fire. I was crawling out of my skin… rocking in the fetal position on the floor, screaming in excruciating pain.” That’s how Danielle Gansky described the severe withdrawal she endured after attempting to stop the SSRI antidepressant she had been prescribed since age 7. It all started when her second-grade teacher noticed she was fidgety and distracted. She was diagnosed with ADHD and put on stimulants (Adderall and Ritalin). This quickly escalated into a cascade of other psychiatric drugs — antidepressants, benzodiazepines, mood stabilizers, and antipsychotics — all before she turned 10. SSRIs became the one drug she stayed on for her entire life. At 23, she tried to come off the SSRI. Her doctor tapered her in just 6 weeks. The result was years of devastating neurological torment: bedridden, housebound, constant terror, rage, and physical agony she had never experienced before. She calls the overall effect a “chemical lobotomy” that stole her joy, creativity, and sense of self. She just turned 30 and is still trapped on the same SSRI. Even tiny reductions (less than 1%) cause debilitating symptoms. She has now been in protracted withdrawal for seven years. What’s your experience — have you or someone you know struggled with long-term psychiatric medication or severe withdrawal?
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With the growing awareness of psychiatric drug dangers and withdrawal, FOIA data revealed that under Medicaid funding alone nearly 3 million children (ages 0-17) in just 32 states were prescribed psychiatric drugs — including 270,000 aged 0-5. cchrint.org/massdrugging-o…
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The side effects & damage from the same SSRI aren’t contingent on whether you’re diagnosed with ADHD, Bipolar, or Depression.
Psychiatrist David Healy (FRCPsych, Prof of Psychiatry, psychopharmacologist) & Prof Joanna Moncrieff (UCL Critical Psychiatry) have pointed out in studies:
SSRIs can cause suicidality, emotional blunting, sexual dysfunction & severe withdrawal even in healthy volunteers with no mental illness.
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@DrWaldmiller @CCHRInt The harms of SSRIs don't vary based on the patient's diagnosis.
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Imagine being a 23-year-old and being chemically castrated by an SSRI and robbed of your ability to feel any positive emotions including the ability to feel deep connection with others or love. This is Post SSRI Dysfunction. #PSSD @PSSDNetwork
danielle gansky@DanielleGansky
It’s been years since her last SSRI, yet she still cannot feel love for her mother or connection with her friends. She now lives with chemical asexuality the drugs “neurologically severed those bonds.” “Patients are not warned that the side effects from SSRIs can be permanent long after you stop the last drug dose.” “PSSD is not just “low libido.” It is a full nervous system injury. she has complete loss of sensation in her genitals, total loss of libido, and the inability to orgasm — a form of chemical castration.” “My clitoris is completely numb, as if it’s the back of my elbow. I have no sensation internally… I’m 23 years old.” The day she woke up with this injury, she felt her soul leave her body. SSRIs robbed Lauren of her ability to feel love for her family and friends — a chemical lobotomy that severs you from your own humanity. “Removing someone’s ability to connect with another human being is a crime against humanity.” Lauren (@lololizzle) is living with PSSD — Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction. #PSSD @PSSDNetwork @elonmusk
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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.
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