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Since a 5 year marketing campaign in the 1990s the prescribing of antidepressants has risen year on year. The marketing promoted the idea that antidepressants were “safe and effective” alongside a key message that there will be No difficulty in stopping them.
What is shared here is an archive of a range of material on antidepressants
It was welcome to read this thoughtful and informed response by Professor Om Prakash. Alas, British psychiatry continues to be in denial about this issue, such that even the review … Continue reading Confronting the Pharmaceutical Shadow in Psychiatry
The above alternative front cover for the BMJ asks an important question. This post was prompted by the front cover of this week’s BMJ: When I am reflecting on patient … Continue reading AKATHISIA
Summer 2013: Professor Carmine Pariante invited Professor Charles Nemeroff to give the Inaugural lecture for the new centre for Affective Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry: Around this time I … Continue reading Sailing blithely: Paid opinion leaders in psychiatry
This is a reply to the letter of the 25 September 2024 sent by the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists: To: Dr Lade Smith, CBE, President of the … Continue reading A reply
On the 16th June 2024, this letter on patient safety was sent to the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists on behalf of a group of people who have suffered … Continue reading A response from the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
This post is from over 2 years ago. I concluded this post by saying that we need to be kind to one another. It is reasonable to expect healthcare professionals … Continue reading A member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists on prescribed harm
This Editorial by Jeffrey CL Looi, Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai, Steve Kisely, Paul A Maguire , Katrina Anderson, and Gin S Malhi* was published in Australasian Psychiatry, 6 September 2024. … Continue reading ‘Deprescribing antidepressants for depression – what is the evidence for and against?’
In May 2019, having shared a series of social media responses to the hashtag #ITakeMedsForMyMentalHealth , the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has found herself caught up in … Continue reading RCPsych, social media and “what we believe in”