Recent reviews claim antidepressant withdrawal is clinically insignificant, but they are based on flawed and short-term studies. Minimizing withdrawal problems is worrying.

Outro, which is now available in seven states, wants to help people taper off antidepressants without experiencing debilitating side effects.

Almost all countries in the world have witnessed a rapid increase in levels of economic inequality, a measure of the distribution of income and wealth across the population, since the advent of neolib...

ESPAÑOL Health Workers For Palestine Spain denuncia la expulsión de tres residentes de psiquiatría holandeses asistentes al 33º Congre

The clinical and neural effects of escitalopram were markedly influenced by verbal suggestions. This points to a pronounced placebo component in SSRI-treatment of SAD and favors a biopsychosocial over...

Katarina Lungden discusses the impact of diagnostic labelling to obtain welfare for emotional difficulties

Los nuevos líderes del neoliberalismo extremo (con acceso al Despacho Oval) pueden favorecer un consumo de drogas que se podría resumir así: psiquedélicos para ricos, benzodiacepinas para clases media...

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Importance: Antidepressant use is rising globally, with increasing duration of real-world prescribing. While the FDA considers 6-8 week trials adequate for regulatory approval, guidelines recommend pr...

La mayoría de sociedades de Psiquiatría y Psicología han avalado este sábado el Plan de Acción de Salud Mental.

Depression drugs don’t work for depression and they increase the occurrence of the most feared outcome, suicide.

Who should take them? What are the side-effects? When — and how — should you stop?

Awais Aftab’s blog about the Sunday Times article on my new book, Chemically Imbalanced, was predictable. Like previous reactions to our serotonin paper, it illustrates how elements of the psychiat…

ADHD UK says people are turning to private treatment because they cannot wait.

A psychiatrist with lived experience advocates for a more humane, collaborative approach to antipsychotic discontinuation that respects diverse ways of knowing.

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In recent years, social media has allowed neurodivergent people to find community online – but is there a darker side to the ‘subculturalification’ of mental health conditions?

Objective Antipsychotics remain the first-line treatment for people diagnosed with psychotic disorders despite adverse effects which lead many people to stop their medication. Many stop without the ...

El hecho de centrar la atención de los adolescentes en los problemas de salud mental podría, paradójicamente, haberlos exacerbado

I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered a recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs.