I remember seeing someone had used an official information act to extract a report that benzos cause neurological damage.
That report was from the early seventies and like anything negative or embarrassing about psychiatric medication, had been buried for decades.
It makes me wonder if there's been any official research into antidepressant tardive dysphoria. Because like any impairment that accretes over time, there's got to be some neurological damage involved.
Although people who were addicted to alcohol or heroin can experience disabling post acute withdrawal symptoms that drag on for years, it's fairly "clean" compared to the shitshow some antidepressant users experience when they deprescribe.
How many deaths have resulted from an especially ugly, agonising protracted withdrawal? It really disgusts me, and I'm sure it gets chalked up to the "tragedy" of someone who "lost their battle with mental illness."
I sent your comment to a renowned researcher on psychotropic drugs, response as follows:
"Yes I definitely think antidepressants cause brain damage - they must when you see the impairments they cause. No one has really looked - some studies show brain shrinkage over time. Probably subtle changes. Someone needs to look more carefully but everyone studiously ignores these issues. Horrifying really. "
The real concern is what happens to the brains of children on these drugs? What effect do they have after 30 or 40 years? It's not good enough to hand them out like chocolates and then wait to see what effect they have. Cheers, JMcL
What's even more horrifying is when pediatric bipolar became a thing and kids as young as three were being stupefied on antipsychotics. Talk about snuffing out someone's chances at life.
Very important issue. How many deaths from OD of antidepressants caused by failure of the drugs, by their side effects or by persistent after-effects? Unknown. I'll ask around but as you say, it's all put down to the "disease." "We gave it our best but he had a very bad disease."
I remember seeing someone had used an official information act to extract a report that benzos cause neurological damage.
That report was from the early seventies and like anything negative or embarrassing about psychiatric medication, had been buried for decades.
It makes me wonder if there's been any official research into antidepressant tardive dysphoria. Because like any impairment that accretes over time, there's got to be some neurological damage involved.
Although people who were addicted to alcohol or heroin can experience disabling post acute withdrawal symptoms that drag on for years, it's fairly "clean" compared to the shitshow some antidepressant users experience when they deprescribe.
How many deaths have resulted from an especially ugly, agonising protracted withdrawal? It really disgusts me, and I'm sure it gets chalked up to the "tragedy" of someone who "lost their battle with mental illness."
I sent your comment to a renowned researcher on psychotropic drugs, response as follows:
"Yes I definitely think antidepressants cause brain damage - they must when you see the impairments they cause. No one has really looked - some studies show brain shrinkage over time. Probably subtle changes. Someone needs to look more carefully but everyone studiously ignores these issues. Horrifying really. "
The real concern is what happens to the brains of children on these drugs? What effect do they have after 30 or 40 years? It's not good enough to hand them out like chocolates and then wait to see what effect they have. Cheers, JMcL
What's even more horrifying is when pediatric bipolar became a thing and kids as young as three were being stupefied on antipsychotics. Talk about snuffing out someone's chances at life.
Big Pharma at its finest. Truly disgusting.
Very important issue. How many deaths from OD of antidepressants caused by failure of the drugs, by their side effects or by persistent after-effects? Unknown. I'll ask around but as you say, it's all put down to the "disease." "We gave it our best but he had a very bad disease."