Muddles Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 http://cepuk.org/moreharmthangood/ 2008 - Doctors appointment with stress induced anxiety led to Citalopram prescription. Severe adverse reaction Mirtazapine prescribed - adverse reaction but told to stay on. Poop out - December 2013 15mg Currently on 13.5mg, April 12mg May 10th - 11mg June 10th - 10mg July 8th - 9mg September - 0mg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btdt Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 That looks like a group of all stars all on our team... I hope a lot of patients go.. but I know a lot are too sick to make it. I hope they tape it and put it on utube so I can watch WARNING THIS WILL BE LONG Had a car accident in 85 Codeine was the pain med when I was release from hosp continuous use till 89 Given PROZAC by a specialist to help with nerve pain in my leg 89-90 not sure which year Was not told a thing about it being a psych med thought it was a pain killer no info about psych side effects I went nuts had hallucinations. As I had a head injury and was diagnosed with a concussion in 85 I was sent to a head injury clinic in 1990 five years after the accident. I don't think they knew I had been on prozac I did not think it a big deal and never did finish the bottle of pills. I had tests of course lots of them. Was put into a pain clinic and given amitriptyline which stopped the withdrawal but had many side effects. But I could sleep something I had not done in a very long time the pain lessened. My mother got cancer in 94 they switched my meds to Zoloft to help deal with this pressure as I was her main care giver she died in 96. I stopped zoloft in 96 had withdrawal was put on paxil went nutty quit it ct put on resperidol quit it ct had withdrawal was put on Effexor... 2years later celexa was added 20mg then increased to 40mg huge personality change went wild. Did too fast taper off Celexa 05 as I felt unwell for a long time prior... quit Effexor 150mg ct 07 found ****** 8 months into withdrawal learned some things was banned from there in 08 have kept learning since. there is really not enough room here to put my history but I have a lot of opinions about a lot of things especially any of the drugs mentioned above. One thing I would like to add here is this tidbit ALL OPIATES INCREASE SEROTONIN it is not a huge jump to being in chronic pain to being put on an ssri/snri and opiates will affect your antidepressants and your thinking. As I do not update much I will put my quit date Nov. 17 2007 I quit Effexor cold turkey. http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/1096-introducing-myself-btdt/ There is a crack in everything ..That's how the light gets in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura1981 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I'm going! Feb 2015 Took venlafaxine for 5 days only... experienced withdrawal that made me completely non-functional Mar 2015 took under 1mg of Sertraline for 10 days in an attempt to combat Venlafaxine withdrawal. Got adverse reactions. After stopping Sertraline, withdrawal got much worse. New, horrific symptoms. June 2015 Still non-functional but slowly getting better. Still brain zaps, migraines, sweating, heart racing, depression, crying spells September 2015: 24/7 brain zaps, twitches in the face, no concentration, bad memory, language skills deteriorating. Profile feed: http://goo.gl/3g2GRn Sign this petition for a blackbox warning on Prozac in Ireland: https://www.change.org/p/leo-varadakar-hpra-the-lack-of-a-blackbox-warning-on-prozac-in-ireland-and-its-use-by-the-hse-in-under-18-s?recruiter=63289046&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page&utm_term=des-lg-no_src-no_msg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
line Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hi! Just want to inform about this conference by UK organisation Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry in London More Harm Than Good: Confronting the Psychiatric Medication EpidemicIt is open for students, psychiatric trainees, patients / service users and their families (I already have a ticket!) Speakers and panellists include: Robert Whitaker: Our psychiatric drug epidemic, a historical overview Peter C Gøtzsche: Why few patients benefit from the drugs and many are harmed Peter Breggin: How to practice psychiatry without drugs Peter Breggin: Chronic brain impairment and psychiatric drug withdrawal Robert Whitaker: ADHD, changing the child instead of the environment Prof John Abraham: The misadventures of pharmaceutical regulation Panel discussion: “Prescriptions for change” Chair: Peter Kinderman Discussants: Prof John Abraham, Prof Peter Breggin, Prof Peter Gøtzsche, Dr Joanna Moncrieff, Prof Lord Patel of Bradford, Robert Whitaker More informations: http://cepuk.org/moreharmthangood/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura1981 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Great Line! Nice to see more people going. We have to meet when we're there. Feb 2015 Took venlafaxine for 5 days only... experienced withdrawal that made me completely non-functional Mar 2015 took under 1mg of Sertraline for 10 days in an attempt to combat Venlafaxine withdrawal. Got adverse reactions. After stopping Sertraline, withdrawal got much worse. New, horrific symptoms. June 2015 Still non-functional but slowly getting better. Still brain zaps, migraines, sweating, heart racing, depression, crying spells September 2015: 24/7 brain zaps, twitches in the face, no concentration, bad memory, language skills deteriorating. Profile feed: http://goo.gl/3g2GRn Sign this petition for a blackbox warning on Prozac in Ireland: https://www.change.org/p/leo-varadakar-hpra-the-lack-of-a-blackbox-warning-on-prozac-in-ireland-and-its-use-by-the-hse-in-under-18-s?recruiter=63289046&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page&utm_term=des-lg-no_src-no_msg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
line Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 laura, yes we do! i am so looking forward to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddles Posted September 7, 2015 Author Share Posted September 7, 2015 CEP is pleased to announce that its upcoming conference More Harm than Good: Confronting the Psychiatric Medication Epidemic will be 'live streamed' via YouTube on 18 September. This means that anyone with an Internet connection can watch the conference for free in real time. In addition, each of the talks will be filmed and posted onto the CEP website for later viewing. There are two streams to view. The first starts at 9am BST (GMT+1) and will record the morning session. The address is: The second starts at 2pm BST (GMT+1) and will record the afternoon session. The address is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSF1vjCwrk 2008 - Doctors appointment with stress induced anxiety led to Citalopram prescription. Severe adverse reaction Mirtazapine prescribed - adverse reaction but told to stay on. Poop out - December 2013 15mg Currently on 13.5mg, April 12mg May 10th - 11mg June 10th - 10mg July 8th - 9mg September - 0mg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
line Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Slides are avaiable here: http://cepuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MHTG-slides.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
line Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Individual videos of each to the talks given at the recent conference ‘More Harm than Good’ on psychiatric drug harm are available here: http://cepuk.org/2015/10/01/short-videos-talks-psychiatric-drug-harm-conference-now-available/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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