Thank-you Anders for making such a great effort to promote real "true" informed consent and applying empathy with the information. I would love to see tapering clinics take hold everywhere where people are tired of adverse effects and there are too few real guides as to what to do. True Informed consent can change your future for the better, too often the information is missing. I really liked reading that if you use a chapstick too often your lips become chapped. So simple yet true. All I heard was "Diabetics have to take insulin. You MUST take psychiatric medication." as an answer to my questions to my first psychiatrist. The drugs stress the body- thank-you for saying that antidepressants affect all cells., because they do, they create all over muscle aches and all sorts of lethargy, including in cognitive functioning. Thanks for translating medical research into terms I can use and understand.
I was told by my psychiatrist that some standard antidepressants/psych drugs cause tyramine intolerance similar to an MAOI - ones that just increase levels of monoamine neurotransmitters, not that directly inhibit MAO-A or MAO-B. I think it's really dangerous that this is acknowledged by providers but not on fact sheets. I wonder how many drugs change what you can eat without providers acknowledging that. I post about tyramine intolerance to raise awareness, but I can't help as much as actual professionals could.
This is a blatantly biased document. Look at the list of withdrawal effects (which literally repeats the same term to make it look like there are more withdrawal effects) which is not a coherent list and is obviously manipulative.
I would appreciate a document that wasn't so manifestly biased. Given the agenda of the list of withdrawal effects, it makes me wonder about the credibility of all the other information - I presume that's similarly skewed?
I would venture to say almost everything is biased in that people have agendas in their dissemination of information. The information provided here is (to me) an example of what could be, not what EXACTLY must be. And none of it is anything I haven’t read in many other places regarding this topic, both in professional literature and lived experience forums.
Yeah man. I was on antidepressants (Zoloft) from age 13 to about 15, I'm 20 now and I still feel like I have some "leftover" side effects, but maybe I'm just thinking too much into it. Either way, I'd never give it to a child below 18. I remember being numb to bad & good, literally being a walking zombie. But on the flip side, I was a dumb suicidal teen with parents that had zero clue about how to raise a kid, so who knows what would've happened otherwise.
Fortunately my therapist was good enough to tell me to only take it until the problem is fixed, not keep on taking it for years on end and think of it as a tool only.
Fantastic and should be obligatory!
And needless to say similar should exist for all pharmaceuticals and interventions.
Thank-you Anders for making such a great effort to promote real "true" informed consent and applying empathy with the information. I would love to see tapering clinics take hold everywhere where people are tired of adverse effects and there are too few real guides as to what to do. True Informed consent can change your future for the better, too often the information is missing. I really liked reading that if you use a chapstick too often your lips become chapped. So simple yet true. All I heard was "Diabetics have to take insulin. You MUST take psychiatric medication." as an answer to my questions to my first psychiatrist. The drugs stress the body- thank-you for saying that antidepressants affect all cells., because they do, they create all over muscle aches and all sorts of lethargy, including in cognitive functioning. Thanks for translating medical research into terms I can use and understand.
Wonderful, but this will never happen unfortunately.
I was told by my psychiatrist that some standard antidepressants/psych drugs cause tyramine intolerance similar to an MAOI - ones that just increase levels of monoamine neurotransmitters, not that directly inhibit MAO-A or MAO-B. I think it's really dangerous that this is acknowledged by providers but not on fact sheets. I wonder how many drugs change what you can eat without providers acknowledging that. I post about tyramine intolerance to raise awareness, but I can't help as much as actual professionals could.
Really wish this were provided to people! I would have made a vastly different choice all those years ago had I been told.
This is a blatantly biased document. Look at the list of withdrawal effects (which literally repeats the same term to make it look like there are more withdrawal effects) which is not a coherent list and is obviously manipulative.
I would appreciate a document that wasn't so manifestly biased. Given the agenda of the list of withdrawal effects, it makes me wonder about the credibility of all the other information - I presume that's similarly skewed?
I would venture to say almost everything is biased in that people have agendas in their dissemination of information. The information provided here is (to me) an example of what could be, not what EXACTLY must be. And none of it is anything I haven’t read in many other places regarding this topic, both in professional literature and lived experience forums.
Depressing.
This is so powerful! Thank you for sharing, Anders.
1. consent means you can give it or you can choose to not give it (refusal)
2. Fully informed consent is given by the patient.
A provider of treatment does not [cannot logically] give it.
The patient gives consent or doesn’t give consent.
The providers only duty is to fully inform.
And the problem is that most providers are not openly and accurately informing, thereby making it impossible for true consent to be given by patients.
Yeah man. I was on antidepressants (Zoloft) from age 13 to about 15, I'm 20 now and I still feel like I have some "leftover" side effects, but maybe I'm just thinking too much into it. Either way, I'd never give it to a child below 18. I remember being numb to bad & good, literally being a walking zombie. But on the flip side, I was a dumb suicidal teen with parents that had zero clue about how to raise a kid, so who knows what would've happened otherwise.
Fortunately my therapist was good enough to tell me to only take it until the problem is fixed, not keep on taking it for years on end and think of it as a tool only.