Tag: antidepressants and suicide

For almost 40 years, psychiatric leaders have denied that antidepressants increase suicides despite overwhelming evidence.

I am left with questions that cannot be resolved retrospectively. Why were medications added without clear longitudinal review of cumulative exposure?

We must warn about the harms of antidepressants and bring people to justice who contribute to the suicides and homicides by lies and medical malpractice.

Former FDA officials write that claims that the black warning led to an increase in youth are "factually inaccurate in ways that are directly verifiable."

The approval is an example of what can go wrong in "evidence-based" psychiatry due to conflicts of interest and placing guild interests before patient safety.

The idea that the FDA black box warning led to increased suicide is just as easily refuted by the data now as when it was first proposed.

A coroner has issued a warning about the effects of antidepressants prescribed by a Buckingham Palace doctor to the son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent before his suicide.

EDITOR’S CORNER If you’ve been following the news over the last week or so, you’ve likely read of Zoraya ter Beek, the young Dutch woman...

Experts advocate limiting antidepressant use to only the most severe cases of depression, emphasizing the need for social and psychological interventions.

I’ll never forget standing beside my sister Lucy as she was strapped to a gurney during a midnight admission to an E.R. in Cambridge, Mass.

In a study of people with borderline personality disorder, only ADHD stimulants were associated with a decrease in suicide.

Heather Armstrong’s life was taken by psychiatry, and our unwillingness to scrutinize their methods of madness.

In May 2021, Cochrane published a network meta-analysis of depression pills for children. The abstract is misleading and reads like drug company marketing.

“Prescripticide”: The purpose of this informational video is to raise public awareness of this association between psychiatric drugs and violence/suicide.

Researchers again debunk the claim that the FDA black box warnings on antidepressants led to more suicides.

The psychiatrists have fought really hard to hide the terrible truth that depression pills double the risk of suicide, not only in children but also in adults.

Bias and financial conflicts in antidepressant trials “contribute to systematic underestimation of risk in the published literature.”

There are quite a few books published about the lack of benefit and harm caused by so-called "antidepressants." Prescription for Sorrow, by Patrick Hahn, is simply the best one I have read.

Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome characterized by long-term adverse experiences after coming off of antidepressants.

Researchers investigate the claim that the introduction of antidepressant drugs led to decreases in suicide rates internationally.

Noted antidepressant researcher, Michael Hengartner, summarizes the latest research on the use of antidepressants in children and adolescents.

We interview Dr. Stuart Shipko, a psychiatrist and author who has a particular interest in the side effects and withdrawal effects of SSRI antidepressants and the need for informed consent when prescribing.

Psychiatry has a history of continuing to perform harmful, even deadly procedures. But does it still happen? Medication-induced akathisia filled two and a half pages of the DSM-IV. Why was it written out of the DSM 5?

National data on rates of youth antidepressant prescription, suicide, and self-harm in Australia sparks public health debate about drug safety.

“This is remarkable for drugs that are used to treat depressive symptoms,” write the researchers.