I wonder when he’ll figure out they’re the same people at different stages of “treatment”?

Serotonin plays a crucial role in bone health & SSRIs have chemical effects on bone. In this NEW STUDY, serotonergic antidepressants (eg SSRI/SNRIs) were associated with more than a 2-fold increase in the odds of nonunion following spinal fusion. "exposure to SSRIs impairs osteoblast differentiation, reduces mineralization, & degrades trabecular bone microarchitecture, reflecting a shift toward impaired bone formation & increased resorption." thespinejournalonline.com/ar…

People are never told this: The longer you remain on antidepressants the chances of turning an episodic emotional struggle into chronic disability increases dramatically.

Call for volunteers: CALLING ALL PEOPLE LIVING IN CANADA WHO HAVE BEEN PRESCRIBED AN ANTIDEPRESSANT! Mad in Canada has created a short survey aimed at shedding light on the informed consent process experienced by adults who are living in Canada, and who have been prescribed antidepressants at some point in their life. Our survey is not about whether people should or should not take antidepressants. It’s about what people are being told about the potential effects of antidepressants, when they are prescribed. Learn more and take the survey here. madincanada.org/2026/05/call…

Our analysis of the FDA approval of escitalopram in children with anxiety is finally published. In the approval trial, children were more likely to become suicidal on escitalopram than to improve, yet the drug was approved. We reveal the pro-drug bias of the regulatory system which is not protecting children's welfare. @markhoro @NaudetFlorian. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

I've got a question that's been bugging me: If Bipolar Disorder is cured with a Ketogenic diet... wasn't the original problem metabolic illness & just mischaracterized as a psychiatric illness? That's not how modern psychiatry understands it, communicates it, or treats it. Although I tend to agree — we shouldn't use the term as if it's a discrete medical illness. Where else is this done in medicine? A colleague of mine diagnosed with IBS lost 60lbs in 7 months on the ketogenic diet. No longer experiencing IBS symptoms. Blood pressure under control. Go to our sick care system and they will want to give you an antidepressant (SSRI) as a front line treatment — without any examination of diet or lifestyle. This is centralized healthcare. The ketogenic diet in mental health works because it helps people eliminate the poison. It removes the ultra-processed carbohydrates, the seed oils, the food additives, the sugar that feeds inflammatory processes. It forces the body to return to its evolutionary preference for fat metabolism. Of course people feel better. They've stopped poisoning themselves. Many also got off toxic pharmaceuticals that create metabolic disease at the same time. But let's be crystal clear: this isn't "curing mental illness" in the way it's being marketed. This is removing the chemicals that were making you sick in the first place. There's a fundamental difference — and that difference matters when we're talking about human suffering and how to address it. I work with eating disorder clients, so I am used to behavioral interventions. I have implemented ketogenic diets with some, others shifting diet completely away from chemicals and processed junk. It's life changing — and more valuable than most interventions in mental health. AWAKEN.

i think some of us were designed for small villages where we could become permanently fond of like twelve people and one strange bird.

This realization can definitely kick a leg out from under you. As a pharmacist this was hard to accept, but my own suffering was clear evidence that I could no longer ignore.

The average psychiatric drug trial submitted to the FDA lasts just 6 to 8 weeks. Yet many people remain on these medications for months, years, and sometimes decades. Most patients never hear this, and many assume that long-term prescribing means long-term safety and effectiveness have been established. I assumed that too for many years– until I realized how wrong I was. @smerconish

Did you know Eli Lilly, maker of Prozac, secretly paid the victims $20 million to help ensure a verdict exonerating the drug company in mass shooting lawsuit 30 years ago? usatoday.com/story/news/nati…

My psychiatrist had “never seen someone have problems with tolerance or withdrawal” like I had. Translation: he increases doses to mask tolerance and his patients never come off their Benzos.

Can we look into what’s really happening to the nervous systems of patients? Withdrawal of the drug is a matter of days to weeks- why do people have brain zaps months to years later? This is nervous system damage.

It’s time to listen to us patients who have been harmed. I’m not here to scream at you but help make reforms so that others aren’t harmed as I and my clients have been. This is a public health emergency in my opinion.