Eliot Muir
@eliotmuir
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CEO/Founder of iNTERFACEWARE. Our world needs to be less siloed. I see a way to achieve this by teaching first principles to live better.
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When does a child become an adult?
Maybe when they realize their parents are humans who also have their own emotions and feelings?
Maybe some never get there?
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@AlexSelbyB
No worse than their journalism.
There was a report that Trump told conservative Christians this was the last time to vote, implying he would create a dictatorship.
Short thread🧵
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@KamalaHarris
This is shocking that the presidential candidate of one of the two mainstream parties would make such a statement.
Wow. American deserves better politicians.
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@ChidiNwatu
@KamalaHarris
Yes makes sense since you have no logical ideas to counter him with.
This is a good strategy!
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My advice is not to listen to psychiatrists who don't understand how the pharmaceuticals they prescribe work and lack the humility and ethical standards to accept the limits of their knowledge but persist on giving inaccurate information.
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Unpopular opinion?
Cannabis isn’t a good alternative drug to managing mental health instead of psychiatric drugs.
It will also lead to problems.
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SSRI usage is so high that it's polluting groundwater and affecting fish at low concentrations.
SSRIs are also linked to gender dysphoria.
Could this contribute to the rise in asexuality and transgenderism in our children?
What are peoples thoughts?
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All medications have multiple effects on the body. For example, Ozempic has psychiatric effects, and Viagra started as a heart medication.
We label the desired effect as the medicinal benefit and label the rest as side effects.
Follow the thread 🧵
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Christmas came early at my home! ❤️
I'm reviewing a book that markets psychiatry to children - a must-have classic for any young reader.
The book opens with a picture of a brain, suggesting that psychiatrists fully understand its workings...
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Why is that on X the folks that are psychiatric drug enthusiasts seem to have such trouble being emotionally regulated in their conversations?
I would have thought that given access to those wonderful ‘mood stablizers’ like Seroquel they would all be pretty chill and happy?
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One of the most successful defensive messaging strategies for the psychiatry and mental health industry is not to deny harm happens, but to maintain that it is exaggerated and rare.
When in fact, it is the norm rather than the exception.
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I might joke about some psychiatrists being driven by profit, but most are just following the rules set by their group. This is the banality of evil hypothesis.
Thread follows🧵
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Psychiatry, claims to focus on brain biology without tools to measure it, relies on ineffective and harmful drugs.
We should focus on psychology and neurology instead. Psychiatry, like alchemy and phrenology, is outdated and irrelevant today.
It simply has to go.
That is it.
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The science is done.
Psychiatry is a net negative for society.
Anti-psychiatry only has three significant problems to solve at this point:
Messaging
Branding
Distribution
These are the problems I want to help solve.
Come. Let’s talk about how we do this.
Comment or repost.
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Psychiatric drugs can screw with your metabolism pretty badly.
Being fat is a choice.
It is not genetics or a slow metabolism.
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I don't agree with everything Matt Walsh says, but it's good to see him highlight this issue.
Psychiatry as it is now is a big problem in our society.
The psychiatric industry has turned every negative human emotion and behavior into a disease. I'm going to keep talking about this problem, no matter how mad the outrage mob gets.
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The core of propaganda is to reiterate only a few simple messages in many ways.
What are the most successful key messages for the mental health industry? 🧵
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Psychiatric medications save lives.
Bullshit.
What I see is once you are on them it is life endangering to get off them.
I have seen with my friends that missing a dose of SSRI antidepressants results in panic attacks, suicidal thoughts and worse.
Same with this lady.
@DrAnnieHickox
If I miss my SSRIs for just two days, I collapse into weeping and increasingly dark thoughts. And that's not because I'm "psychologically dependent" on them, since when I miss them, it's because I plain forget.
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@Noahpinion
Noah on this one you might need to see the relative rates of population growth for context.
Canada doesn’t make it easy to build new houses which exacerbates the problem.
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Countries with better psychiatric services experience higher suicide rate. Kind of messes with the ‘These medications save lives’ narrative.
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Most people have an internal monologue, hearing a voice inside their head that isn’t real.
Some people don’t have this.
Others hear multiple voices and may perceive them as external.
Who decides what is normal or abnormal in these experiences?
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Selling SSRIs and Cannabis for mental health look strangely similar.
Did they both source from the same colouring book?
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I don't make money from criticizing psychiatric drugs; it actually risks my financial interests.
Companies like Roche and Pfizer, who buy my data products, might disapprove. I speak out because it matters to me, not for financial gain.
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Hmmm.
I guess he didn't appreciate my comment that the top students in medical school typically don't become psychiatrists.
It must have triggered him.
The truth hurts!
😂
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We in the anti-psych movement should embrace this label.
To be anti-psych is to be pro science and against nonsensical harmful treatment.
We should hold our heads up high and be proud. We are the rationale ones.
Countries with better psychiatric services experience higher suicide rate. Kind of messes with the ‘These medications save lives’ narrative.
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It's amusing—well, not really—that mental health professionals think they can be objective and free of belief systems, when in fact, their entire field is based on one.
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What is wrong with Anglo society that we promote psychiatric drug usage so much in our society?
We are not in the blue zones.
We are in code red.
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@WifiMoneyPlant
@mhp_guy
After driving a Tesla, non EVs feel squishy and unresponsive.
The acceleration on a Tesla is hard to beat.
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Man, I just looked over my clinical notes from CAMH in 2018. The documentation was poor, and the attitude was condescending.
They diagnosed me with Bipolar 1, believing I couldn't function without medication.
Yet, here I am, medication-free and fully functional. How pathetic.
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@Sensible__Med
has a good article on overdiagnosing depression.
Reminds me of what I learned in primary school: Ask a silly question and get a silly answer!
We're asking people if they're sad and medicating those who say yes.
What could go wrong?
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Nice analogy, but schizophrenia isn't like diabetes or cerebral palsy.
There's no well-defined disease mechanism—just a set of symptoms psychiatry can't explain.
The drugs used to 'treat' it are toxic tranquilizers that will shorten your daughter's life and damage her brain 🧵
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@drjanaway
I thought you said that it was only anti-psychs that talked about the discredited chemical imbalance theory?
This guy wrote Psychiatry for Kids.
He appears to think 50% of us should take medications for our mental chemical imbalances?
Thoughts?
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@JaroGiesbrecht
@JustinTrudeau
@MikeBarrettON
@elonmusk
The US was smart enough to figure out SpaceX could a do a better job than NASA.
Canada will always be second tier to the US with our worship of government and mediocrity.
You know Elon Musk was educated at Queens in Canada?
He made the right choice to leave.
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@KamalaHarris
Fighting won't create the wealth a healthy society needs. Kamala, your thinking is too linear.
To produce wealth and balance the budget, your administration needs to understand how to create exponential growth.
Learn about the Theory of Constraints.
How do you create systems that boost output exponentially?
You need to understand the Theory of Constraints (TOC), which says every system has one major bottleneck that limits its overall speed.🧵
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There was a report that Trump told conservative Christians this was the last time to vote, implying he would create a dictatorship.
Short thread🧵
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I think family dynamics play a huge role in mental health. It's closely connected.
What do others believe?
Does it make sense to view severe mental illness as solely biological and self-contained?
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One of the things the anti-psych movement really needs to work on is once people get off psych drug—what’s next?
People presumably got on to psych drugs for a reason. How do you go about solving those same problems without drugs?
Maybe start with the basics?
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No psychiatric drug improves cognitive function.
For dementia, drugs like Seroquel are used to sedate and make elderly patients more compliant, not for their benefit.
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Bookmark this.
As someone who proudly identifies as Antipsych because I believe science-minded individuals should be, I often get asked for data.
I pull articles from my A.S.S.
Articles (of)
Scientific
Significance
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The latest edition for folks who want to medicate their kids. Follow the thread to learn more 👇
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@MarioNawfal
Makes sense. Scientology has always been critical of psychiatry, and so am I.
People like me who oppose psychiatry often get called Scientologists.
Tom Cruise actually is one. It's funny—I agree with their stance on this, but I hate being called one.
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PSSD is…
REAL, COMMON, UNTREATABLE
Don’t make the mistake of talking to a doctor about your depression.
Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction is no joke.
The core of propaganda is to reiterate only a few simple messages in many ways.
What are the most successful key messages for the mental health industry? 🧵
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A is for Akathsia: Inner restlessness and motion compulsion, a side effect of antipsychotic medications.
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@acgrundy
Bookmark this.
@StigmaB47868
's humour includes abusing women like
@benzosarebad
and posting pornography in his
@SolicitedDicks
account which I see he has finally closed to public access.
This pervert is encouraged in his abuse by Annie Hickox and Jonathan Stea.
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It’s fun to teach children about the A-Z of psychiatry - let’s start with letter A!
A is for Akathsia: Inner restlessness and motion compulsion, a side effect of antipsychotic medications.
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Mental Health Dictionary!
Boys and girls - people in mental health like to use big words that are hard for non neuro-typical people to understand.
Follow the thread🧵to join the conversation to help everyone understand what the terms mean!
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People die from the ‘treatment’ given to treat bipolar.
The drugs prescribed make people sicker and less stable over time.
No one gets better who receives these medications.
This is my lived experience from receiving this diagnosis and being prescribed Seroquel.
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Categorically false.
I wish this was true.
Even the best doctors do not go through all the possible side effects of medicines before they give them.
With Seroquel I was just told it was a safe medicine which would help me sleep.
@VindictivePuppy
@CnutaviousIii
@eliotmuir
Categorically false. Doctors go through all possible side effects with you before prescribing medicine. Who are you trying to fool?
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@nate_postlethwt
Seroquel: Only on it for 5-6 weeks.
It took years of focusing on sleep, communication, and diet to re-stabilize myself.
Psychiatric drugs are harmful.
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But not only do you have all the 'side effects' of each drug, but these medications also interact with each other. The problem expand exponentially the more medications you have.
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One absurd belief about stimulants used to ‘treat’ people with ADHD is that they only work for people with ADHD.
As if the drug can recognize the diagnosis and change its effects accordingly.
This is false.
All medications have multiple effects on the body. For example, Ozempic has psychiatric effects, and Viagra started as a heart medication.
We label the desired effect as the medicinal benefit and label the rest as side effects.
Follow the thread 🧵
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So there you go kids!
Only trust mental health professionals, trust psychiatry and don't get discouraged by this type of negative talk!
Countries with better psychiatric services experience higher suicide rate. Kind of messes with the ‘These medications save lives’ narrative.
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Eliot: Why are suicides higher in countries with more psychiatry?
Rae, Annie: You are an anti-psychiatry, misogynist, narcissist who doesn’t respect our boundaries when you ask reasonable questions. No comment. Oh, except you are ugly too.
🧵 for more details.
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This guy is like the Energizer Bunny—he never stops pushing bogus science.
Does it ever occur to anyone that the brain on the left is on major tranquelizers?
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@POTUS
Do they add up to the 1.6 trillion deficit the US has been running?
@KamalaHarris
I don’t think America can afford any tax cut. Have you seen how quickly your federal debt is increasing as a percentage of GDP?
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Yes.
But saying psychiatric drugs are helpful for treating mental illness is like saying cocaine makes for a good nasal decongestant.
Saying that mental illness doesn't exist is like saying allergies don't exist.
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In psychiatry, we're masters of rebranding. We take everyday sadness, label it as depression, and then recommend SSRIs.
This can turn a temporary issue into a lifelong journey.
Clever, isn't it?
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Let's nominate Dr. Jake Goodman for the RCPsych Awards for promoting psychiatry education for kids and reviving the chemical imbalance theory.
@juliaisobela
, how can we nominate him? He's in the US but has greatly impacted the global community.
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Some well meaning doctors try to help patients by providing drugs to treat the side effects of other medications.
For instance, Viagra to solve the problem from anti-depressants which cause erectile dysfunction.
This leads to a phenomenon we call 'polypharmacy'.
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Studies show that psychiatrists who employ pseudoscientific diagrams and complex terminology can earn at least 30% more than their colleagues who do not.
This is where we get into the real profit centre of psychiatry - drugs!
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Medicating one illness often opens the door to another—like prescribing antidepressants might just unlock mania, leading to a bipolar diagnosis.
Hey, the earnings boost might even clear your college debt!
Now we are talking!
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@KamalaHarris
Could you please clarify what these fundamental freedoms are that you are fighting for?
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New drugs are often discovered by observing the side effects of existing drugs.
However, liking one effect of a drug doesn't eliminate its other unwanted effects.
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Dual diagnosis - This is what happens if you go to two different psychiatrists. The DSM is so arbitrary and definitions overlap so much that it’s hard to get repeatable results - but don’t worry psychiatry is still a science!
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If only Jonathan would focus less on harmless hippies and would focus more on the harm delivered by the pseudo science of psychiatry.
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I have someone in my extended family facing critical mental health issues related to depression. I am looking for a psychiatrist who is knowledgeable in the field of critical psychiatry, which questions mainstream psychiatric practices and emphasizes the contextual and subjective
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@JourneyofHope4U
These are the lucky ones - although even a short period of time on psych meds can damage a person.
That was my personal experience.
Took a while to recover.
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You know things are off with Canadian society when your kid’s summer camp sends off a series of emails asking what psychiatric medications your kid is on.
This has become the new normal for our society.
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I have a friend on 100g of Sertraline (Zoloft).
What is the recommended way to get off of it?
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@humanbeingawk
I think the fact that autistic people have to learn ‘innate’ behaviours is a sign of being more evolved.
@DrElleMorris
@ItsEmilyKaty
I observe that cats have many built-in behaviors.
Humans are more evolved; we're born helpless and must learn basic things that come naturally to cats.
I think 'autistic people' are further along this evolutionary continuum.
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Notice how many street addicts die after receiving psychiatric care?
I believe a major cause is drug interactions. If someone already using street drugs is prescribed more medications, it can lead to dangerous drug interactions.
What do other people observe?
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What's interesting about psychiatry is that it allows for the labeling of everyday issues as disorders, which can then be treated with medication, turning normal into exceptional. Pretty cool, right?
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@s_guilbeault
How about we privatize/sell/close the CBC?
The offices it owns can be converted to affordable housing.
It would eliminate 1.24 billion from the budget which is about 2.4% of the budget.
6000 staff shifted to the private sector at median wage would generate substantial revenue.
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Does anyone know what has happened to Vindictive Puppy?
Her account has been disabled for a long time. Normally people have other back up accounts but I have not heard from her.
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Psychiatry needs new stories to explain how psych meds work now that the chemical imbalance theory is done. Good credible stories to explain how they work...
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Notice how some symptoms of bipolar disorder overlap with those of ADHD.
Ambiguity is our friend!
Psychiatrists refer to this as 'comorbidities.'
It’s a fantastic chance to upsell—much like how McDonald's suggests adding fries to your burger order!
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Once the manufacturer’s bias is removed, it becomes clear that antidepressants do not perform better than a placebo.
Using sugar pills that patients believe are medicine might actually benefit most patients more effectively.
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@AhmadRehanKhan
Could you please include less hash tags and a direct link to the actual article?
I would be curious to read it. It had always felt like schizophrenia was the ‘grab bag’ diagnosis - everything that we don’t understand and don’t know how to treat gets dumped into this one.
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Narcissist - This is a label to apply to anyone you don't like particularly.
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I have managed to uncover my undiagnosed ADHD because of my recent Twitter habit. I'm very distracted and have trouble completing tasks.
I'll start with an online test to diagnose myself. 🧵thread follows.
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It's harder to see that the patient reached a state of severe psychosis due to harm from psychiatric drugs and/or ECT. It's also difficult to see the long-term damage that tranquilizers and ECT treatments cause to the patient.
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OCD is another gold mine!
You guessed it—time to pile on more medications!
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Therapy alone often doesn't earn enough for luxuries like a cottage since there are only 40 work hours a week, capping your income.
Medications, however, provide a scalable model that allows for unlimited earnings!
Now how do you sell those meds?
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It's strange that, even though we don't fully understand how psychiatric drugs like antidepressants work, companies claim they can test your genetics to find the best one for you.
Doesn't that seem too good to be true?
What do you think?
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Children are being over diagnosed with conditions like ADHD:
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@wendyburn
@thetimes
Would it be more accurate to say there is ‘very little’ science behind psychiatry?
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Heard of Mitochondrial Myopathy?
This condition affects the mitochondria's ability to produce energy for muscle cells, leading to muscle weakness and fatigue.
I heard it mostly affects women and doctors used to attribute it to ‘hysteria’ and treat it with anti-depressants?
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So many times I have heard psychiatric medications like antidepressants save lives.
Then I ask more questions.
When did your mother start using antidepressants?
Oh as a teenager.
And she still got depressed?
Hmmm - interesting.
@KonLontos
@eliotmuir
I understand what he’s saying. And those medications are lifesaving - I maintain that, despite side effects - which are very real - they change lives for the better
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@joannamoncrieff
I have long admired your work debunking some the crude techniques of psychiatry such as electro shock therapy ECT.
I think when we think of consciousness as software running on biological hardware it becomes clear how crazy ECT is.
you are only conscious because you grew up in a society that acculturated you with a shared theory of mind
consciousness is a cultural virus that has been endemic to our population for a relatively short period of time
of course robots raised among us will also be conscious
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I am a fool to doubt the usefulness of using MRI scans to diagnose mental illness.
I am looking at this heat map of a CPU and I can really start to see the utility in looking at this as using it as a software tool to fix problems and improve AI software. 🧵
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An easy explanation is to believe that the decline of patients is due to the progression of their mental illness.
We all like to think of ourselves as good people, so most psychiatrists are willing to be convinced that what they do is okay.
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See how happy other kids are on their medications? You could be just as happy!
Just ignore the critics who claim that our drugs cause mental health issues—they're just spreading misinformation.
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Paper addressing Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD)
(SSRI - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor)
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M is for medicalizing normal - diagnosing normal life challenges as medical illnesses.
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@joannamoncrieff
The level at which anti-depressants are consumed is becoming an issue for waste water pollution.
This has a impact on public health. This is speculative but worth discussion.
Impossible to prove. But worth some discussion.
SSRI usage is so high that it's polluting groundwater and affecting fish at low concentrations.
SSRIs are also linked to gender dysphoria.
Could this contribute to the rise in asexuality and transgenderism in our children?
What are peoples thoughts?
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