Hyperbolic tapering is increasingly recommended for the gradual reduction of psychiatric drugs to minimise withdrawal symptoms, yet available formulations rarely accommodate the small dose regimens required. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

This is important to read. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Even as I disagree with many parts of it (the permanent neurological injury and lived “saved” parts, for example, I wouldn’t assert), this is a necessary perspective. No absolutes, let’s not cancel each other out but try to do better.

Dear anti-psychiatry, this "mental illness isn't real" narrative is making us look bad. SSRIs can cause permanent neurological injuries that destroy lives via mechanisms we don't understand, and those experiences are not canceled out by the lives they 'save'. That fact doesn't mean that mental illness isn't real, or is just a simple result of not enough sunshine or human connection. There are many forms of severe idiopathic mental illness that people suffer from, and those diseases are also deserving of legitimate treatment. Has psychiatry exploited this and gone too far in some instances? Yes. Absolutely. Diagnosing every kid who can't sit still or focus with ADHD and medicating them is a criminal example of this. However, there are many people who chronically struggle with severe mental illness that cannot easily be cured by natural remedies, and those people are desperate for help. The problem is that those people are just as vulnerable to SSRI neurological injury as those who 'didn't need' them. The mechanisms behind these injuries need to be fully understood, predictable and preventable before they continue to be carelessly given, period. In the meantime, psychiatrists need to stop writing SSRIs off as merely "less than perfect", and the anti-psychiatry movement needs to stop promoting the idea that the mental illness that MI sufferers sought relief from isn't real in the first place. The way forward is to simultaneously acknowledge that mental illness is real, and med harm is not just a necessary and unfortunate byproduct of trying to fix it. Med harm is real and a crime against humanity, and the suffering that leads people to become med harmed in the first place is equally real. To reconcile these two outcomes by saying "they save lives, but they're not perfect" is not good enough. Neither is saying "all mental illness isn't real, you just need more sunshine and meaning". Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry needs to do better if we ever want this situation to progress.

Getting a DSM diagnosis can be a very positive turning point in a person's life if: 1)it is accurate 2)done with empathy 3)promotes feeling understood 4)inspires hope 5)reduces anxious uncertainty & feeling uniquely damned

Yes they are liked to the mechanism . The ‘reversal’ of the excitability of neurons. youtu.be/LJ2v21AyHgs?si=jyUy…

Just a reminder that in this trial participants were grossly under-treated with buprenorphine and had residual withdrawal symptoms. Had they been adequately treated for withdrawal it is likely that the benefit for yoga would have been zero. @JohnTorousMD

If you’ve ever tried to stop an antidepressant and felt like you were "falling to pieces," you aren't alone. For many long-term users, the standard medical advice to taper off over just a few weeks can lead to a "cliff" of severe withdrawal symptoms. Seek a doctor who understands hyperbolic tapering. Hyperbolic tapering offers a personalized, slower path that respects how your brain actually heals. Read the full deep-dive on the science of hyperbolic tapering: wb.md/3RyYRmr

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I recommend coin flips to rumminators who cant make decisions Why? 1)50/50 questions torture most 2)If there were clear right answer answer they'd know it 3)Deciding usually works better than ruminating Exceptions: People contemplate self-destructive & impulsive acts.