David Thomson

Thank you for the review of #Antidepressed @IMSMagazine @kylatrkulja_ I do not say people shouldn’t take antidepressants. It is their choice and I hope my book informs them of potential risks. youtu.be/NQhdd0KOVIY

“have the information and support to make the right decisions for you,” he said. And here it is. All the information patients need! My book Antidepressed. “A COMPREHENSIVE WAKE-UP CALL FOR PATIENTS AND PROFESSIONALS Antidepressed breaks down the growing issue of antidepressant use, harm and dependence—how we got to this point, what’s happening worldwide every single day, and most importantly, where we go from here. Providing information that both patients and mental health professionals desperately need, Antidepressed exposes the holes in mental health systems and highlights the desperate need for reform. Featuring compelling accounts from real people whose lives have been irrevocably harmed by prescription antidepressants, Antidepressed provides proof that there is no such thing as a magic pill—and that pretending otherwise risks the lives and well-being of those who need help the most.” amazon.com/dp/1578269237/

I hope violent crime and mental health medication lessons will be learned. A psychiatrist or GP who prescribes mind altering psych drugs is responsible for the actions of their patient. Adequate monitoring to prevent harm is their job! Education regarding the potential dangerous adverse effects is urgently needed. @drsanjoykumar @MrsEmmaWebber

“This Has To STOP!” | Two-Thirds Of Teenagers Are Expected To Have A Men... youtu.be/D6F_KD6W9wQ?is… via @YouTube Thank you @mrmarkdolan @TalkTV Benefit claims for common mental health problems like anxiety and ADHD are set to cost taxpayers between £3.5 billion and £4.3 billion annually.  Monthly PIP awards for mental health conditions have tripled from roughly 2,500 per month in 2019 to over 8,200 per month in 2023.  While mental health conditions make up about a third of all new PIP claims, they account for 70% of claims for those under 25.  ‘Why are so many ‘conditions’ lacking objective medical evidence receiving so much and why are we such a disabled nation? PIP for undiagnosable mental health conditions is fuelling a harmful mental health scam. It is a scam that plays with peoples’ lives. The Mental Health Industry is made up of corporations and organisations that prey on the vulnerability of individuals exploiting our psychological and social weaknesses and profiting from it. Why is it a scam? No biological markers ever been found for most 'mental disorders' and no objective tests exist to verify any psychiatric diagnosis or ‘psych-illness'. Diagnosis is subjective. There are currently over 970 million people (worldwide) who supposedly suffer from a mental disorder and willingly participating in this worldwide scam. The prescribing of the toxic drugs generally given to treat our mental health and lack of evidence to justify this prescribing is in itself scandalous. As for ADHD, an estimated 3 million people in the UK have ADHD. The UK ADHD market, is estimated to be worth roughly £172 million to over £518 million depending on whether it covers only drugs or includes private assessment services. The sector is growing rapidly—with NHS spending on private providers rising 252% over 3 years. It amazes me we claim to understand so much about our ‘brain’ with its vast network of over 80 billion neurons and countless trillions of connections when the most eminent neuroscientists agree the dynamic nature of its electrical and chemical signaling make it exceptionally difficult to map and comprehend.  Angela Rayner and other high profile celebrities are amongst the millions of adopted, brainwashed, groomed patients who the industry use as influencers. They have swallowed the mythical and unproven marketing babble of organisations selling the ADHD label. So what should we do to help young people? The government’s proposal to review mental health-related benefits and its proposals to shift towards faster employment support is an inadequate solution. It is about educating people supposedly suffering from a mental disorder that they are willingly participating in this worldwide Mental Health scam. No more irresponsible messages……just the truth. It is about stopping the social contagion and the language used. It is about addressing the harmful ‘opportunistic’ nature of the Mental Health Industry and some related industries. If we continue to make young people believe the problem lies within them, we will always fail to consider the social, environmental or systemic causes. It is about social change. We must call on the UK government to tackle the social causes of rising disability: inequality, iatrogenic harm, poor clinical outcomes, social injustice, and harmful over-medicalising And as for Labour’s commitment to putting a mental health professional / counsellor in every school …….their maths surprisingly doesn’t add up! They have costed this at £175 million for the first year. A counsellor’s average salary is £30k and in the first year Labour have allocated a mere £5,440 per school. If children are Labour’s priority, why the small £175 million projected spend on professional Mental Health support?

In 2022, my book Antidepressed was published. In the next few days I will share key content. amazon.com/dp/1578269237/

@MikhailaFuller Thank you @MikhailaFuller Your video with @Antidepressed1 is more relevant ever! 👇 youtu.be/kt5y2tQC2rc?si…

@samhall404 A month's supply (28 tabs) of citalopram 20mg costs the NHS less than £1.00 in reimbursement prices, making it a very low-cost medication. A month's supply of liquid citalopram has an NHS indicative price of approximately £10.08 per 15ml bottle!!!

Was I right to ask the question in 2017? What can we learn from Tiger Woods' arrest? nationalclubgolfer.com/tour/tour/tige…

“Tiger Woods’ pain and misery has been very publicly documented. In 2009, Woods’ life as the world’s greatest golfer began to crumble on a night when he was reported to have taken Ambien, a prescription drug to help sleep, and the opioid painkiller Vicodin. Vicodin, the brand name for a painkiller that combines the opiate hydrocodone with the over-the-counter pain reliever acetaminophen (or Tylenol), is a Schedule II substance due to its high potential for addiction. It is perhaps of no coincidence this followed Woods’ ACL surgery.” @NCG_com @SkySportsNews @GBNEWS @GolfDigest @GolfChannel @SkySportsGolf

“but most importantly I write that there is no way to predict who is going to develop the most severe problem, akathisia, and it’s cousin, late onset akathisia that occurs months after successful tapering. My opinion is that these problems do not result, as most people think, from tapering too fast. In my experience, it happens even with very slow tapering. It is unpredictable. As a consequence of tapering, akathisia is devastating. I do not think that anyone who has not already experienced akathisia can realistically be prepared for this possibility through informed consent; it is simply too uncomfortable to be fully imagined in advance. This is what keeps me from my string of withdrawal clinics. Because of the uncertainty, I felt that I could not honestly tell people that I could guarantee that my strategies would safelyallow them to stop taking the serotonin based antidepressants, or that they would even be able to stop. The data indicates that not everyone is able to stop. There isn’t data that clarifies how common akathisia and late onset akathisia is in people who stop taking these drugs, but I saw it fairly often. Too often to be able to say that this is very rare and unlikely to happen.”

There's no good choice for GPs in the system as it is at the moment." - The better choice would be to not prescribe a drug that can disrupt sexual and emotional development, which is especially important at key stages of life. It carries explicitly warnings about suicidal ideation and persistent sexual dysfunction, and requires responsible monitoring and strict tapering to prevent harmful withdrawal. If a GP can't see that, then a huge training programme and overhaul is needed. #ssris #pssd bbc.com/news/articles/…

@MikhailaFuller and we need to stop promising ‘everyone will heal’. Not everyone will heal from their brain injury. This current ‘tapering movement’ is built on a hypothesis with “safely” this, “functional’ that, “coaches’” and “experts” all profiting under the guise of their work being “scientific” and “evidence-based”. They might have some evidence people can heal but it doesn’t mean it is very good! They advertise themselves as clinicians, when they are not. They make false unsubstantiated claims to be scientific and advise on complex medical issues. So where is the real evidence the patients neurologically damaged by taking psychotropic drugs will heal? There are no guarantees. Some people thankfully do heal but many will not. For some, after long term exposure, tapering to achieve total withdrawal can lead to catastrophic outcomes. Shouts of “Yes, keep going, I was the same and I promise it does get better!” Can be heard from the profiteering sidelines. I am the first to acknowledge that people deserve and need help. But who can predict where the tapering / brain damage injury journey will end?…. Not always with the last nanogram of drug hyperbolically taken. Are we all simply players in the next commercial chapter and exploitative experiment of the iatrogenically harmed? Is this another scam business model….you might pay by the month and taper over countless years but it is definitely not for everyone.

@benzosarebad @ReadReadj @suzypuss @ClrBlwrs We know of many others. Totally failed by ‘#medicine’ Women and men.

April Fool’s come early? “PETRUSHKA shows by combining the best available evidence with patients’ own preferences, we can personalise antidepressant treatment from the outset & help more people in the NHS stay on the medication that is right for them.” openaccessgovernment.org/ai-tool-person…

“The Serotonin of Psychiatry is as unreal as the Tooth Fairy.It can’t be measured But it can be used by The Experts to claim they know better than you what is going on in You” rxisk.org/madness-normal…

“Linking withdrawal to tapering at serotonin receptors similarly opens a door to herbalists and neuroplasticioners—those who tell us that their help in manipulating our neuroplasticity will solve the problems of drug toxicity. The difficulty with all this is that we know that many of the effects of these drugs stem from actions on regulatory proteins like p63 and enzymes such as carbonic anhydrase—actions that need thorough investigating, as distinct from buzzwords that may seduce a client..” “DH: Tapering has been around for decades. It made obvious sense to sufferers when they were being ambushed by seriously troubling states after missing a dose. But the word “hyperbolic” is a Johnny-come-lately, and essentially meaningless. Worse, conveying that we know precisely how to get people off SSRIs allows pharma to gaslight patients, to claim there is no problem a little tapering can’t solve.”

holeousia.com/in-the-world/a… @rcpsych says it takes #patientsafety very seriously ... 🤔 Do you agree?

@DrHoenderkamp @mrmarkdolan When will people listen? An estimated 3 million people in the UK have caught the ADHD bug! The global ADHD market was valued at around USD 14.3 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach about USD 18.6 billion by 2030. It amazes me the ADHD experts understand so much about our ‘brain’ with its vast network of over 80 billion neurons and countless trillions of connections when the most eminent neuroscientists agree the dynamic nature of its electrical and chemical signaling make it exceptionally difficult to map and comprehend.  The so called ‘ADHDers’ are millions of adopted, brainwashed, groomed patients who are often used as influencers. They have swallowed the often mythical and unproven marketing babble of organisations selling the ADHD label. As I said, there are years of incredible strategic genius behind some of these organisations which exploit our psychological weaknesses and profit from it.

What about the evidence from those who haven’t been able to taper successfully? Some will easily taper, others will take years with unpredictable outcomes. Will there ever be guidelines for who can and can’t ‘safely’ taper? I doubt it.

#Antidepressed #Sex #PSSD