Lady Gabriella Kingston said her husband Thomas Kingston died after making a 'sudden impulse' decision to take his own life after suffering an adverse effect to antidepressant drugs. At a recent coroner's inquest, she said people need to be warned about the effects of medications used to treat mental health conditions. The…
The pharmaceutical industry and the psychiatric industry form an unholy alliance, generating profits from human misery. Their business model is simple; list out and group together a set of emotional and behavioural characteristics and give them a scientific-sounding psychiatric label. Then prescribe psychiatric drugs like antidepressants to those who present with that…
When things go catastrophically wrong, like major failures linked to antidepressant drugs, psychiatric spin doctors make statements that include the mantra ‘lessons need to be learned.’ But when considering year-on-year failures linked to the drugs, prescribers aren’t learning any lessons. Figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal deaths related to drug…
The Daily Mail recently published an article which should have made headline news across the nationals. Its central claim was so staggering that, if nothing else, it should have sparked a national debate on the safety and effectiveness of SSRI antidepressants. The evidence presented should – and hopefully will – represent a…
Various media outlets have been warning of potential shortages of, among other pharmaceutical products, antidepressant drugs. One article in a national newspaper presented a dire warning, noting: “according to Mark Samuels, who heads industry body the British Generic Manufacturers Association, the situation is ‘worse than at any time I’ve experienced during my…
In the last few weeks, the mainstream media has come out in a full court press to debunk, or at the very least cast doubt on, the serotonin theory of depression. The notion of a 'chemical imbalance in the brain' has been given a wide berth by those who previously used it…
For decades, people have been prescribed antidepressants based on the belief that the psychiatric drugs could do something to resolve a so-called 'chemical imbalance in the brain'. Psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies and their spin doctors used the idea to convince people there might be something useful in taking them, while at the same…
In a recent post the quantities of antidepressants prescribed in England since 2008 were scrutinised.1 It was noted that there has been an unrelenting upward prescribing trend for the past 14 years (at least). While the trend has health repercussions for the patient, what does it all mean for the UK taxpayer? Consider…
Although antidepressants were once reserved for the mentally disturbed, today it is difficult to find someone who has not taken one. Prescribed for everything from learning and behaviour problems, bedwetting, juvenile delinquency, aggression, criminality, drug addiction and smoking, to handling the fears and problems of the elderly, antidepressants are among the…
It's not just the taking of antidepressants that can cause extreme violence. Withdrawal from antidepressants can cause extreme violence too. Research shows that in just a few days, a person can unknowingly go into severe withdrawal and not even know why he or she is feeling violent or suicidal. A common symptom…
Antidepressants have been shrouded in controversy for decades due to the effects that are reported when people take them
On 20 March 2013, Stephanie and John‘s lives changed in a way they could never have imagined. This is the true story of their son who was prescribed the antidepressant drug Prozac.
