Thousands of people in the UK could have been made “functionally asexual” by antidepressant medication with symptoms that last far beyond treatment, but campaigners claim their experiences are being ignored by authorities. Thousands of people around the world and the UK could be suffering from what is called Post-SSRI Sexual dysfunction (PSSD), a condition that…
IN-DEPTH: Victims Who Became ‘Asexual’ After Anti-Depressants Claim UK Authorities Are Ignoring Them
Antidepressant Prescriptions Soar for Pain Management Despite Little Evidence They Work: Study
Chronic pain poses a significant public health crisis, affecting about 50 million Americans, with 20 million unable to work due to its debilitating severity. To alleviate their suffering, millions are prescribed antidepressant medications. However, a recent comprehensive review of studies reveals that many prescriptions for antidepressants used to manage chronic pain lack adequate and reliable…
Prozac Is Unsafe and Ineffective for Young People, Analysis Finds
A new analysis finds that Prozac (generic name fluoxetine) is unsafe and ineffective for treating depression in children and adolescents. Regulatory documents show that trial participants attempted suicide after taking fluoxetine, but these events were excluded from the final journal publication in the Archives of General Psychiatry. I notified the journal of the new findings, but the editor…
Scientists Warn ‘No Reliable Evidence’ Antidepressants Can Treat Chronic Pain
Scientists have warned many antidepressants given to UK chronic pain patients are being prescribed without adequate evidence of their effectiveness. A major investigation into medications has found that despite hundreds of thousands of people being given recommended drugs to manage long-term pain, there is “no reliable evidence” for their long-term safety or reliability. The two-year…
TMS: An Effective Treatment for Depression Without Drugs or Psychotherapy
Depression is a treatable condition, but standard treatments aren’t always effective, resulting in some sufferers feeling hopeless. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) may be used when typical treatments such as medications and psychotherapy don’t work or when a patient desires a more natural approach to treat their depression—the results can be life-changing. The Cost of Depression The National Institutes…
Antibiotic Resistance Increased by Common Antidepressants
Antibiotics are a well-known cause of antibiotic resistance, but they aren’t the only common drug that’s contributing to this global crisis, as demonstrated in a recent University of Queensland (UQ) study. In a study led by Prof. Jianhua Guo from the UQs Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, researchers found that antidepressants also increased…
New Study Reveals Antidepressants Linked to Rise in Superbugs
February 3, 2023
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The term ‘superbug’ conjures images of bacteria with superpowers—able to evade the effects of the antibiotics given to destroy them. The prolific use of antibiotics is thought to be the cause, and bacteria, in a fight for their survival, have adapted—making an increasing number of antibiotics ineffective against a growing number of bacterial infections. A…
Patients Taking Antidepressants Become Emotionally Numb, Researchers Investigate Why
Commonly-prescribed antidepressants can cause patients to become emotionally numb by affecting a key cognitive function that allows people to learn from their actions, a new study suggests. A class of antidepressants, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), is widely used to treat patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). These drugs…
How We Have Been Misled About Antidepressants
August 23, 2022
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Commentary Our umbrella review that revealed no links between serotonin and depression has caused shock waves among the general public, but has been dismissed as old news by psychiatric opinion leaders. This disjunction begs the questions of why the public has been fed this narrative for so long, and what antidepressants are actually doing if they are not reversing…
Antidepressants Overprescribed, Linked to Suicide Risk
July 8, 2022
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Cases of depression and anxiety increased by 25 percent in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic alone by some counts, up from 1 in 20 adults worldwide, and the use of antidepressants has become more common. However, studies have found that antidepressants have unexpected risks. In the 1960s, it was discovered that depression could…
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