Moderator Emeritus ChessieCat Posted July 12 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted July 12 (edited) Youtube video: Psychiatry & Big Pharma: Exposed - Dr James Davies, PhD Channel: The Weekend University Summary: Quote Why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in the 1960s, to around 370 today? Why has the definition of mental disorder expanded to include ever more domains of human experience? In the first part of this lecture, Dr James Davies will take us behind the scenes of how the psychiatrist’s bible, the DSM, was actually written – did science drive the construction of new mental disorder categories like ADHD and major depression or were less scientific and more unexpected processes at play? His exclusive interviews with the creators of the DSM reveal the answer. The second part will address why psychiatry is such big business, and why, on the whole, it may be doing more harm than good. You’ll get insider knowledge on how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients’ well-being. The charge sheet is damning; negative drug trials routinely buried; antidepressants that work no better than placebos; research regularly manipulated to produce positive results; doctors, seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards, creating more disorders and prescribing more pills; and ethical, scientific and treatment flaws unscrupulously concealed by mass-marketing. You’ll learn the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself. Dr James Davies graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 with a DPhil in Social and Medical Anthropology. He is a Reader in Social Anthropology and Mental Health at the University of Roehampton and a practicing psychotherapist. James has delivered lectures at universities such as Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Oslo, Brown, UCL and Columbia. He has written for The Times, The New Scientist, The Guardian and Salon, and is author of the bestselling book: Cracked: why psychiatry is doing more harm than good. James is the co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, now secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence. His latest book: ‘Mental Health in Crisis’ will be published later this year. Edited July 12 by ChessieCat VIDEO: Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome and its Management MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: (6 year taper) 0mg Pristiq on 13th November 2021 Woohoo!!! Finally off Pristiq Post 0 updates start here ADs since ~1992: 25+ years - 1 unknown, Prozac (muscle weakness), Zoloft; citalopram (pooped out) CTed (very sick for 2.5 wks a few months after); Pristiq: 50mg 2012, 100mg beg 2013 (Serotonin Toxicity) Tapering from Oct 2015 - 13 Nov 2021 LAST DOSE 0.0025mg My full tapering program My Intro (goes to my tapering graph) My website PLEASE NOTE: I am not a medical professional. I provide information and make suggestions. Please DO NOT TAG me - thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crochet Posted Wednesday at 04:47 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 04:47 PM Watching this now. It's fascinating and shocking. To think the DSM-III came about from a small group of people casting votes, with very little research to back them up. I almost can't believe it. 2012-present - Escitalopram currently 4.71 mg 9/2021-present - Claritin currently 1mg History: 2012-2017- Escitalopram 10mg 2017-2020 - Escitalopram 5mg 07/2019-11/2019 - Valium 10mg, every 2-3 days, then stopped 11/2020 - Stopped Escitalopram 5mg abruptly (crashed January 2021) 1/2021-12/2021 - Escitalopram Reinstated 2.5mg to 5 to 10 to 7.5 to 7.14 to 7.07 to 7 to 6.92 to 5.84 to 5.7 to 5.55 to 5.34 to 5.05 to 5 to 4.95 to 4.90 to 4.85 to 4.75 to 4.71 1/2021-2/2021 - Ativan .5mg - Took 13.5 pills over the course of 22 days and stopped 2/2021-9/2021 Hydroxyzine - 50-100mg to 25 to 10 to 5 to 2.5 to 1.6 to .8 then cross-tapered to Claritin and stopped Supplements: Daytime - 1000mg fish oil, 4,000mg Vitamin D, 5 drops of keto chow electrolyte drops per water bottle Nighttime - L-theanine 200mg, 1mg melatonin, magnesium glycinate 400mg. Rarely an additional 100mg L-theanine for early morning wake ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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