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<h1 class="reader-title">Are antidepressants a crime against
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<p>For decades the general public (patients) have been bombarded
with messages about chemical imbalances in the brain and in
particular low serotonin being the cause of depression. I
certainly was bombarded with these messages. The psychiatrist who
first prescribed tricyclic antidepressants to me was Prof George
Ashcroft. Prof Ashcroft had discounted the low serotonin theory by
1970 as he could find no evidence to support it. I did not know
this until recently. As I could not tolerate most of the drugs
prescribed to me, I was eventually given an SSRI, Prozac, another
terrible drug which I could not tolerate. At every single point in
time I was led to believe that these drugs would somehow help my
condition. Yet I had been on a benzodiazepine since 1975, a drug
which mad made me extremely unwell and very quickly. None of my
doctors noticed this. I was already trapped on that drug by the
time antidepressants were offered to me. Psychiatrists were now
persuading me that I needed to be trapped not just on one class of
drug but on two classes of drugs. At no point was there informed
consent. I am just one person, with one story. There are millions
like me, yet this is viewed as being just a normal part of routine
medical practice, it does not even raise an eyebrow among doctors.
It never raised an eyebrow in any of the doctors I consulted with,
they believed that drug dependence and long term prescribing was
good for my health!</p>
<p>Millions have been deceived into consuming SSRI antidepressants.
Millions no doubt have been harmed. </p>
<p>This is normal, routine, every day medical practice. I call it a
crime against humanity! The suffering caused by these drugs is
horrific, just as the suffering caused by benzodiazepines is also
horrific. They call it evidenced based medicine. </p>
<p>For me this isn’t about “mental health” or “mental health” drugs.
I was not prescribed a benzo for my “mental health”. It was
prescribed by a neurologist. It is about drugs being brought to
market without warnings of risks, false marketing, ignorant
doctors educated by drug companies, failure to listen to patients
as they report harm, continued high prescribing rates despite all
the risks being known, the lack of informed consent. I can
guarantee as I write antidepressant prescribing rates will be
rising, this is the same pattern as we saw with benzos, the
prescribing rates continued to rise despite all the potential
harms being known by doctors. How many patients will actually be
informed of the risks? </p>
<p>Prescribers are very willing to prescribe, much less willing to
outline the serious risks and most certainly will not inform of
the permanent damage caused by these drugs about which they can do
absolutely nothing. PSSD is one example. These drugs can
permanently alter the functioning of the brain and body in many
different ways, with current medical knowledge medical doctors
have no way of helping those who are permanently altered. </p>
<p>This article seems pertinent to add here. </p>
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