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Medication-tapering, Cochrane-trained researcher and psychologist. Book: https://t.co/TjEKHrpIJo

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I don’t understand this "severe mental illness" thing. If someone develops anxiety after being assaulted, it makes sense. If someone becomes depressed after a loss, it makes sense. If someone develops an extreme need for control after growing up in chaos, we look for connections. But then we come to the experiences in the West labelled “psychotic”. Hearing voices. Feeling persecuted. Developing “bizarre beliefs.” Losing touch with reality. And suddenly, the curiosity stops. Instead of trying to understand these experiences in context, we explain them as illness. As a psychologist, I have the privilege of being invited into the experiences and lives of many of these people. And I honestly cannot think of a single time when their experiences did not make sense once we explored them together in light of their life story, their trauma, their diet, and their life situation. When you take the time to understand someone’s story, it stops being mysterious. Dr John Read

I don’t understand this "severe mental illness" thing. If someone develops anxiety after being assaulted, it makes sense. If someone becomes depressed after a loss, it makes sense. If someone develops an extreme need for control after growing up in chaos, we look for connections. But then we come to the experiences in the West labelled “psychotic”. Hearing voices. Feeling persecuted. Developing “bizarre beliefs.” Losing touch with reality. And suddenly, the curiosity stops. Instead of trying to understand these experiences in context, we explain them as illness. As a psychologist, I have the privilege of being invited into the experiences and lives of many of these people. And I honestly cannot think of a single time when their experiences did not make sense once we explored them together in light of their life story, their trauma, their diet, and their life situation. When you take the time to understand someone’s story, it stops being mysterious. Dr John Read

Anders Sørensen

23,500 просмотров • 11 дней назад

Why do SSRI tapering and deprescribing provoke so much pushback? Because if withdrawal can be this severe and mimic relapse this closely - and take years of tapering to avoid - then many people told they “needed the drug” may actually have been in withdrawal rather than "relapse". If that's true, the case for long-term treatment begins to crack. And with that, much of mainstream psychiatry's legitimacy. But paradigms resist before they change = hence the pushback. Conclusion: this community matters. Come join. You’ll meet the best of people.

Why do SSRI tapering and deprescribing provoke so much pushback? Because if withdrawal can be this severe and mimic relapse this closely - and take years of tapering to avoid - then many people told they “needed the drug” may actually have been in withdrawal rather than "relapse". If that's true, the case for long-term treatment begins to crack. And with that, much of mainstream psychiatry's legitimacy. But paradigms resist before they change = hence the pushback. Conclusion: this community matters. Come join. You’ll meet the best of people.

Anders Sørensen

18,527 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

9 minutes on psychiatric drug withdrawal in front of representatives from HHS, FDA, CDC & SAMHSA. I talk about ... why antidepressant withdrawal keeps getting mistaken for relapse, ... why hyperbolic tapering matters, ... and how we've been here before, repeating the same mistake we made with benzodiazepines and opioids. This conversation is finally reaching the institutions capable of changing guidelines and clinical practice.

9 minutes on psychiatric drug withdrawal in front of representatives from HHS, FDA, CDC & SAMHSA. I talk about ... why antidepressant withdrawal keeps getting mistaken for relapse, ... why hyperbolic tapering matters, ... and how we've been here before, repeating the same mistake we made with benzodiazepines and opioids. This conversation is finally reaching the institutions capable of changing guidelines and clinical practice.

Anders Sørensen

11,573 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Just spoke on Sky News UK about the realities of antidepressant withdrawal and tapering - why it matters, and how we can do better in helping people off medication safely.

Just spoke on Sky News UK about the realities of antidepressant withdrawal and tapering - why it matters, and how we can do better in helping people off medication safely.

Anders Sørensen

25,839 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

Most “mental illness” makes perfect sense when you understand someone’s story. In 10 years as a clinical psychologist, I’ve never seen suffering that didn’t make sense in context. The mystery is never in the person; it’s in how little we’ve been taught to look for the meaning beneath the suffering. It can be painful, yes. But it’s rarely as complicated as psychiatry makes it sound.

Most “mental illness” makes perfect sense when you understand someone’s story. In 10 years as a clinical psychologist, I’ve never seen suffering that didn’t make sense in context. The mystery is never in the person; it’s in how little we’ve been taught to look for the meaning beneath the suffering. It can be painful, yes. But it’s rarely as complicated as psychiatry makes it sound.

Anders Sørensen

15,656 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

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