The following quotes are by [in order, as shared]: Hanya Yanighara, Annalena McAfee, Evelyn Waugh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, E M Forster, Richard Holloway and A S Byatt:
Notes:
I made this film 15 years ago. Time moves on and I would change a few words in this film. That said I feel that this film remains an important presentation:
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Hi Peter, your film about the pharmacist is great. Paxil was widely used in Canada also, I was on it briefly when I was younger. Treating depression like a disease is the difference for the success of antidepressants, as we know the difference between the medical model and the counselling is we believe it is a bit nature but mostly experience. 🙃😵💫😊
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience, Rhonda.
Paroxetine is a nasty drug, if anybody doubts, well there is Study 329.
Since I made this film ‘Gilbert Farie Revisited’ the numbers of individuals being prescribed antidepressants, has been rising year after year, after year. At least in the Western world. Psychiatry, in particular seems to be in denial about this. Psychiatry still argues that prescribing rates of antidepressants [and indeed any psychiatric drug] is appropriate. The word overdiagnosis is not spoken. Furthermore, those that have spoken up about harmful consequences of antidepressants, of any sort, but including those trying to get off them, have generally been disbelieved by the medical establishment.
I am NOT saying that antidepressants are “addictive”. This term implies ‘craving’. What I do consider is very real is that the numbers of people who have difficulty in trying to get off antidepressants is high [and far higher than medicine has so far acknowledged]. Might it be, this explains why antidepressant prescribing rates are so high? I think this is a big part of the explanation. We are no where close to understanding the physiological effects of antidepressants in relation to exposure to such drugs over a long period. The studies have not been done, and the few that have been done have done a really poor job at differentiating ‘relapse’ from drug-related consequence!
I am a number of years retired as a psychiatrist, so no longer have a medical role, but I would repeat the general advice: do not stop antidepressants abruptly. Do so slowly and carefully and with professional support.
aye Peter