Moderator Emeritus ChessieCat Posted July 12, 2022 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted July 12, 2022 (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 Edited July 12, 2022 by ChessieCat 1 * NO LONGER ACTIVE on SA * MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: (6 year taper) 0mg Pristiq on 13th November 2021 ADs since ~1992: 25+ years - 1 unknown, Prozac (muscle weakness), Zoloft;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 Post 0 updates start here My tapering program My Intro (goes to tapering graph) VIDEO: Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome and its Management Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crochet Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 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. 2 2012-present - Escitalopram currently 2.55 mg Supplements: Daytime- Green Lipped Mussel 2400mg, Omega-3s 1710mg, Wheat Germ Oil 770mg, Multi-Min 2 tablets, Liposomal Glutathione 4 pumps, EDTA+colloidal silver nasal spray, Cholestyramine binder 2g , Beyond Balance herbal tinctures for lyme (including one only taken during menstruation); Nighttime - L-theanine 200mg, melatonin 1mg, magnesium glycinate 400mg. 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 and then started slow taper 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 tapering down to .8mg, then cross-tapered to Claritin and stopped 9/2021-9/2022 - Claritin 5 mg (tapered off) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGlassDarkly Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Agreed! This lecture is packed full of jaw-dropping information that should be required knowledge for all the poor souls on this board! I was especially shocked to discover that here in the UK Psychiatry draws heavily on the DSM for its professional classification. What a house of cards…! 🙄 PS Doubly shocked to learn that the PHQ-9 questionnaire – that in the UK we've all filled in many times (to assess our level of distress/depression, and that 90% of the time leads to a prescription of ADs) – well, its development, copyright and distribution throughout the NHS was funded by…*drum roll* – Pfizer! 1988 (Age 24) Prozac – briefly, then ceased. 1990 – 2007 Citalopram 20mg, then 10mg. Several 6-month cold-turkey/hard-stops, then reinstatements. 2007 Venlafaxine briefly, then ceased. 2008 – 2010 Citalopram 10mg 2010 Wellbutrin (Buproprione XL) 150mg + Citalopram 10mg 2010 – 2018 Alternated either/or Wellbutrin (Buproprione XL)/Citalopram annually. 2019 – 2021 Switched Citalopram with Escitalopram (Lexapro) 10mg Sept 2021 Started Wellbutrin (Buproprione XL) 3 month taper (50%), skipping days. Dec 2021 Wellbutrin (Buproprione XL) ceased. Feb 2022 Started Escitalopram (Lexapro) 3 month taper (50%), skipping days. May 2022 Escitalopram (Lexapro) ceased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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