Additional Details Regarding MAOA and SSRI Effects MAOA is stored in the mitochondrial membrane. SSRI are associated with destroying the membrane. Damaging that in theory would lower the MAOA activity. The more damage there is to the mitochondrial the stronger the SSRI becomes. Neuron release of serotonin drops, synaptic levels increases. Risk of Serotonin syndrome, emotional blunting and sexual dysfunction increases. There is documented evidence that mitochondrial damage increases overtime during chronic SSRI use. In theory the more time you spend on a SSRI the more tired and emotional blunted you will become. It's a closed loop. - SSRI clog up the the SERT recycling, placing more serotonin the cleft. - SSRI damage the mitochondrial. This damages the MAOA and reduces it's ability to break down serotonin - The neuron detects the serotonin overload and slows it's release. When we review the monkey studies I posted earlier today. They had low MAOA and the effects of the SSRI was devastating to them. It appears MAOA enzyme activity maybe one of the keys behind protracted withdrawal and PSSD.

I was given #SSRIs aged 21. I had suicidal thoughts. I was feeling low because I had trauma relating to past child sexual abuse. My abuser claimed that SSRIs caused him to act the way he did. Ironically, I was given SSRIs because of what he did, and I got #PSSD. He didn't. He has a normal life, a family, kids, and I'm isolated without the prospect of having this type of life, despite being successful in other areas of life. Now to add salt to the wound, SSRIs are being used to castrate sex offenders in the UK - the country that gave me PSSD. I'm honestly surprised I'm still alive, yet no health professional in the #NHS - or in fact the majority of people - gives a damn.

The fact that nobody has gone to jail for putting SSRIs, finasteride, Accutane, Vioxx and Covid shots onto the market without informing the public of the dangers, exposes the extreme corruption that exists in America today. Forcing citizens to take shots that are not safe for everyone in order to keep their job or attend university, is an attack on freedom and people’s bodily autonomy. Many people have died or are now severely injured as a result. Those responsible for these atrocities who are walking the streets freely displays the deeply broken justice system we have in our country.

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SSRIs increase the likelihood of a suicide attempt for anyone 25 years of age and under using them. SSRIs are also used to decrease libido in sex offenders. The sexual dysfunction in many cases does not go away after discontinuation (PSSD). In what world is it even remotely acceptable or moral to be using these drugs on children?

SSRI Lowers Blood Serotonin Levels by 90% to 92.86% I did some digging trying to get my head around why 5-HIAA is elevated while in SSRI withdrawal and hopefully figuring out what is happening to dopamine in this phase. Then I came by this. Pure luck. 64 SSRI patients were compared to 64 healthy patients. Blood samples were taken from each to ensure there was no discrepancies throwing their numbers off or food that could effect measurements like bananas was accounted for. Results are 10-fold and 14-fold decrease in blood concentrations of serotonin. I was mentioning and posting a few days ago that SSRI deplete neurons of their serotonin stores. Now there is evidence it depletes the blood of serotonin too. The real world picture is starting to look like SSRI strip your body of serotonin and what is left is close to being functionally useless stuck in the synaptic cleft. It's appears SSRI simply shut the serotonin system down while providing additional stimulation to 5-HT receptors on the post synaptic neurons. Which in turn suppresses dopamine functioning leading to anhedonia and sexual dysfunction. This removal of communication in the nervous system causes your sense of self to constrict. This is the completely opposite effect of what people have been lead to believe by pharmaceutical marketing. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…?

Stephen died following a catastrophic reaction to the antidepressant sertraline. He developed akathisia - a severe and distressing side effect that ultimately led to his death by medication-induced suicide. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Stephen’s passing. In his memory, we want to do something meaningful to celebrate his life, raise awareness, and help protect others. On Saturday 25th July, in the lead-up to Stephen’s anniversary on the 29th, we will be taking on the “Stairway to Heaven” walk to honour his life and raise funds for @antideprisks This year, we are especially honoured to be joined by other families who have also lost loved ones to medication-induced suicide. Together, we will walk in remembrance of those who should still be with us today, sharing their stories, honouring their lives, and standing united in our determination to raise awareness. As we make our way along the Stairway to Heaven, we will be remembering not only Stephen, but all those precious sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, and friends whose lives were cut short after suffering devastating adverse reactions to medications that had been prescribed to them and taken exactly as directed. Their memories will walk beside us every step. The 29th July marks not only Stephen’s anniversary, but also the day we launched #PrescribedHarm Awareness Day six years ago, which has since grown into a recognised annual event raising awareness around medication-related harm. This walk is a way to remember Stephen and all who have lost their lives to medication-induced suicide. To show support to their families and stand in solidarity with all those affected by iatrogenic illness worldwide. AntidepressantRisks is a non-profit organisation made up of a team of experts dedicated to helping people make informed decisions before taking antidepressants. While these medications can help some, they can also cause serious and life-changing side effects for others. AntidepressantRisks works to ensure people are fully informed about these risks and provides support to those who have been harmed. By supporting this fundraiser, you are helping to raise awareness, promote informed choice, and support those affected. Thank you for helping us remember Stephen, honour all those we have lost, and make a difference in their names. #StephensVoice gofund.me/84fb8651b

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Survey's suggest that approximately 80% of American's believe in God or a higher power. Acknowledge the metaphysical & spiritual. Consider themselves a soul. Does anyone else share my concern that this is completely denied by Psychiatry & absent in any conceptualization. Most continue to try & reduce the human experience to the brain. In fact, talk too much about god, spirit and connection to the divine and you will be labeled mentally ill.

Develop a severe disabling side effect on a psychiatric drug like Seroxat and the clinical response is likely to be more drugs. "This is because psychiatrists adamantly refuse to accept that their treatment is worse than the disease...a fine psychiatric tradition." Niall McLaren

The year is 1949. The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain. The year is 1956. Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over. The year is 1966. A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots. The year is 1979. Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005. The year is 1985. Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning. The year is 1992. There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with. So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now. Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one. It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.

At 21, #SSRIs turned my resolvable struggles into an ongoing nightmare - and now at 35 years old, I'm only just beginning to see the true long-term impact on my life. youtu.be/0dwIkZsv1DA?si=mT6v…

The reason why fraudulent antidepressant studies are not retracted by the Psychiatric medical establishment & remain part of the training curriculum (see STAR*D) is simple. If the general public & trained professionals became aware it would end Psychiatry as a viable healthcare specialty and wipe out the antidepressant market. The product liability lawsuits themselves would be astronomical. The public trust in western medicine would be further destroyed.

My Lamictal taper is a clear example of withdrawal—there's nothing to "relapse." I was prescribed it off-label for misophonia, which it never helped with. Yet since stopping, I've had panic, akathisia, and heart palpitations right after a cut—all of which fade with time.

Yet another damning statistic that the psychiatric drug pushers will no doubt try to spin as "progress." Almost one in five Australians, that’s roughly 5.2 million poor souls, were pumped full of brain pellets in the 2025 financial year. And get this: around 10% of boys aged 5–17 are now 'medicated' (you know, for that ever-expanding "ADHD" label) The number of boys being dosed has tripled in just a decade. They're not treating an epidemic of mental illness. They're creating one. afr.com/companies/healthcare…

i don't think biopsychiatrists understand what's happening here. I still see them fighting with the harmed patient community when their time would be better spent looking for a new job. The writings on the wall.

One of the main challenges with how we approach mental health is that when someone has the courage to share that they’re thinking about suicide we become hyperfocused on our fear and on risk and then take peoples rights away. What if we built a system where people could get help without worrying about losing their rights?

Much like oxycontin, SSRIs were marketed as “non-addictive.” The millions trying to come off them would disagree.