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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

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A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders Reports sheds light on this issue, offering insights from patients diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) who have experienced antidepressant treatment. Maelys Touya was an employee of Lundbeck LLC, and Lambros Chrones was an employee of Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A.,

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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” Although sexual dysfunction is labeled as a “side effect”, numerous patients report issues far persisting withdrawal. That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

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The ward round was a time when the consultant showed his (rarely her in those days) colours. My intention was to become a GP, but just before I reached that goal, I was side-lined into postgraduate training to become an A&E consultant. The psychiatrist was worried when I reported that I wasn’t sleeping well.

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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It seemed then that pharmaceutical companies had discovered scientific, targeted treatments for depression, free of side effects. As The New York Times reported in 2018, patients who “try to stop taking the drugs often say they cannot.” Nearly half who tried to quit could not do so because of these symptoms.”

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Human

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I thought that if I consulted with another psychiatrist to alter my medication, I would eventually feel almost human. He diagnosed me with ‘Major Depressive Disorder’ after a twenty-minute consultation and prescribed me my first ‘antidepressant’, Venlafaxine. I asked my psychiatrist during our final consultation.

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How the Medical Profession Pathologizes Emotions and the Damage to Patients

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When patients show up at doctor’s offices reporting vague or difficult-to-describe symptoms, many doctors’ kneejerk response is to test, rule-out, scan, and try to whittle it down to an exact answer.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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335 In 2000, they co-authored a report of a depression pill trial in New England Journal of Medicine where the authors had so many ties to drug companies that there wasn’t room for them in the print journal (they took up 1067 words). In 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness.