fireworks and confetti
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Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of former Vice President Kamala Harris, from 16 December last year: "...I'm just sitting here crocheting, waiting for a friend, and I was just listening to this podcast that The Wall Street Journal put out about SSRIs and anti-anxiety meds and kind of the over-prescription of them in America. "And it was making me think a lot because I've been on SSRIs for over a decade, almost fifteen years probably, and they were calling out the lack of research on long-term use of these things. "They were calling out the lack of information that doctors give about coming off of these meds and kind of the psychological effects they can have. "And it really got me thinking how little I've thought about that, naively, obviously. "But I've noticed that every time I've gone off of it for a week or missed it or for whatever reason, like, it has been really hard for me, and I've had a really hard time. "And I guess this is just something I was wondering if you guys have thought about or relate to or kind of consider when you're thinking about going on meds like that. "Because I don't know if this is something that I feel like is being talked about enough because I feel like so many of us are on these meds, and this is, like, actually happening. "Like, people get off of them, and they kind of break down, and it can be really bad. So yeah, I guess I just want your general thoughts."
fireworks and confetti4,164,806 views • 3 months ago
Psychiatry and its proxies have done such a pervasively dishonest job of informing patients about SSRI/SNRI withdrawal AND such a pervasively dishonest job of convincing those patients they have a innate chemistry problem with their brain, that it's not unusual to see patients saying things like "my depression has come back" after they miss just one dose of their antidepressant. Even though a depression diagnosis requires a minimum of two weeks of symptoms. But this TikToker gets it. And she gets how withdrawal is different. And she gets how withdrawal can be worse than the symptoms leading to the original diagnosis. And she's far, far from alone. (@ hannnnahblair, posted 10 April 2022, 13.5k likes as of today)
fireworks and confetti936,910 views • 1 year ago
1/2 I couldn't cry on an SSRI. (Nor could I really laugh.) And as appealing as that might be when you are crying lots, in hindsight I realised this: Crying, for me, is an essential form of communication. It's the Yin to laughing's Yang. Opposite sides of the same coin. So grateful I can cry again.
fireworks and confetti15,070 views • 1 year ago
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