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  1. “In psychiatry, as in all areas of medicine, prescribing and deprescribing occur every day as part of individualized, evidence-based treatment planning between physicians and patients. The solution is not to stigmatize psychiatric medication or impose broad assumptions on clinical care, but to ensure that patients have access to the full range of evidence-based treatments and that decisions are guided by the best available science and each patient’s needs.”

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

    #theguardian #maha
    #ssris #deprescribing
    #rfkjr #ushealthcarepolicy
    #prozac #zoloft #lexapro

  2. 🚨🚨🚨 RFKJr’s “health” officials explored US #ban of some widely-used #antidepressants🚨🚨🚨

    #US #health dept ​ofcls last week explored whether they could ban certain drugs in a widely prescribed class of #antidepressants as #HHS Secy #RFKJr prepared to roll out a plan to reduce their use….

    Their interest centered on…selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or #SSRIs, such as #Zoloft, #Prozac & #Lexapro, which have been available in the US for decades….

    #MentalHealth
    reuters.com/business/healthcar

  3. “Depression is linked to overly rigid brain circuits that resist change, and by softening these circuits and altering how their mitochondria function, fluoxetine may create a window of plasticity or flexibility in the brain. #DNA #ISOGG #Prozac #brain #geneadons #cognitive #Epigenetics
    technologynetworks.com/neurosc

  4. RFK Jr. Is Targeting Vaccines And Tylenol. Are Prozac And Ozempic Next?

    Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Associated Press Tylenol maker Kenvue is reeling…
    #NewsBeep #News #Medication #CA #Canada #falsemedicalclaims #Health #healthcarepolicy #HHS #Kenvue #misinformation #Ozempic #prozac #RFKJr. #RobertF.KennedyJr. #tylenol
    newsbeep.com/ca/172256/

  5. RFK Jr. Is Targeting Vaccines And Tylenol. Are Prozac And Ozempic Next?

    Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Associated Press Tylenol maker Kenvue is reeling…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Medication #falsemedicalclaims #Health #healthcarepolicy #hhs #Kenvue #Misinformation #Ozempic #prozac #RFKJr. #RobertF.KennedyJr. #tylenol
    newsbeep.com/us/184486/

  6. #doxepin was bad. Made me feel like crap, slowed me down. After 3 weeks just had to stop it.

    That pales in comparison to #mirtazapine. It turned me into a drooling incomprehensible unable-to-think zombie. Horrendous. Really really bad on every level.

    #venlafaxine is fine, as was #prozac. Amitryp was ugh, Lithium made me ill, Valproate made me huge.

    YMMV

    #depression

  7. CW: My cat is stoned.

    So #DemoTheCat had a big day today. He got super high. He bit his vet. He isn't even sorry.

    A bit of background - he HATES this vet. Always has. Loves people, but not this vet. So he got the GOOD drugs - Gabapentin on top of his usual #Prozac. It wasn't enough.

    He was his usual charming self, up until the moment he'd had enough. His vet was gracious, and my wife (who bit nobody) apologized.

    Now my fierce little warrior gets a stoned victory nap.

    #CatsOfMastodon #pets #cats

  8. CW: My cat is stoned.

    #DemoTheCat bit his vet and drew blood today, and neither he nor I are sorry.

    He's always hated this vet, passionately. So he went in for his checkup today, hopped up on Gabapentin in addition to his usual Fluoxetine (#Prozac).

    My wife says that the vet took him to a back room (he hates that, away from his people) where he nommed her finger real good. Good for him!

    He fought for what he believed in, and won the day. Next time, he gets a new vet.

    #CatsOfMastodon #pets #cats

  9. RFK Jr. Is Already Taking Aim at Antidepressants
    motherjones.com/politics/2025/

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has been planted by Trump in the role of Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

    He wants to slash scientifically-established medication, hospital treatment, financial benefits, and government programs for people with these conditions:
    - Chronic illness.
    - Autism.
    - ADHD, and medication including Adderall and Ritalin.
    - Asthma.
    - Obesity.
    - Multiple sclerosis.
    - Psoriasis.
    - Mental illness such as depression and anxiety, and SSRI medication including Prozac and Zoloft.

    RFK Jr says wants people who live with chronic illness such as those listed above — who often require daily preventative medication, a professional carer/assistant, or an assistive device for their daily functioning and to maintain their quality of life and sense of dignity and autonomy — to be stripped of their treatment and put into in "Wellness Farms" for "three or four years if they need it".

    This is the sort of inhumane mistreatment of people requiring medical care that happened in the USSR and still goes on today in North Korea. It should not happen in the USA.

    This move by RFK Jr is going to destroy childhoods, ruin families, cause people financial ruin, and for some people it will cost them their life.

    #USPol #RFKJr #Trump #ChronicIllness #ChronicDisease #Autism #ADHD #Adderall #Ritalin #Asthma #Obesity #MultipleSclerosis #Psoriasis #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Depression #Anxiety #SSRIs #Prozac #Zoloft

  10. Fish On Prozac: Psychiatric Drug Pollution May Harm Wild Fish

    "Antidepressants like Prozac (fluoxetine) have helped millions of people around the world, but studies show they may be harming wildlife and wild fish."

    by @grrlscientist via @medium

    #fish #fluoxetine #prozac #pollution #wildlife #SciComm medium.com/grrlscientist/fish-

  11. 3/ That discussion was enough to send C into a panic and downward spiral again, and yesterday we went into #hospital again because C felt #reducedmovements. I think that’s the third time we’ve been in for that reason. The observations were all good and so while I’m reassured, C is still on edge. About 14 weeks in, C reluctantly decided to start on 40mg of #fluoxetene / #Prozac to get her out of her #mentalhealth crisis. She’s now thinking about upping it, but worries about the impact on baby.

  12. Fish On Prozac: Psychiatric Drug #Pollution May Harm Wild #Fish

    Antidepressants like #prozac (fluoxetine) have helped millions of people around the world, but studies show they may be harming wildlife & wild fish

    by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

    #water #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/f

  13. Fish On Prozac: Psychiatric Drug #Pollution May Harm Wild #Fish

    Antidepressants like #prozac (fluoxetine) have helped millions of people around the world, but studies show they may be harming wildlife & wild fish

    by @grrlscientist via #Substack

    #water #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/f

  14. Where is my #Prozac?

    I want to try it.

    Now.

  15. 🔴 Prozac entering waterways is changing how fish behave and reproduce, study says

    “Even at low concentrations, fluoxetine altered the guppies’ body condition and increased the size of their gonopodium, while simultaneously reducing sperm velocity – an essential factor for reproductive success,” study co-author Upama Aich from Monash University in Australia said.

    🔗 independent.co.uk/news/science

    #Prozac #Antidepressants #Ecology #Pollution #Science #News @science

  16. A couple of months ago I let my children know that they might notice some changes in my demeanour in the coming weeks. I explained that my tele-health doctor had recommended that I cease to take an antidepressant that I had been taking for decades. He told me that I had reached an age at which it would be more likely to harm my constitution than to improve my sense of wellbeing.

    Being an obedient woman, I agreed to go along with his advice. In fact, I was glad to get it. I had already, about eight years ago, asked a doctor to take me off it but their response had been to ask, “Do you feel normal when you take it?” My answer was, “Well, yes,” and they advised me, therefore, to keep on taking it.

    There is a stupidly long backstory to this medication. A few years after my second child was born I visited my family doctor in mid-winter while wearing a toque pulled down low over my ears and forehead. He noted that I looked depressed and prescribed a medication that has stayed with me all this time. Well, not that medication exactly because the brand was changed once and its potency reduced twice. Regardless, this has been going on since the 1980s. To be fair to that original doctor, though, I may have been depressed, but I put my mood down to the fact that it was winter and/or to an extended post-partum malaise associated with living in a new place where I had very little social interaction.

    Anyway, now I find myself wondering if I feel normal or not. I am taking that medication now only once a week, having tapered off from a daily dose, and I don’t like the person I am becoming. I have noticed that I become more anxious in perfectly ordinary situations and small annoyances make me unreasonably tense. For example, I have to talk myself into leaving my apartment to go anywhere. Yesterday, it took me a long time to knock on the door of my new next-door neighbour to welcome her to the building, and I was relieved when no-one answered.

    Today I forced myself to drive to get groceries but, when I hesitated in making a left turn, someone honked their horn at me. My heart rate got faster and I was taking deep breaths by the time I got to the parking lot of the store. I was both indignant and panicky at the same time.

    A few days ago, a friend was trying to give me directions to a restaurant and I got so overwhelmed I gave up. I couldn’t process the changing information fast enough.

    When I was walking around the grocery store today I realized that I was upset by the sound of babies’ cries and unable cheerfully to navigate all the people and carts in the vegetable section. I have always been sensitive to sounds and groups of people, but now that sensitivity seems to have been magnified.

    As I ponder all this today I wonder if I just need to give my body more time to readjust to the reduction in medication. Or, perhaps I should talk to a psychologist about the process I am going through or even about life in general. I don’t know. I only know that I don’t much like the person I am becoming. I thought I needed to warn my children, but someone should have warned me.

    https://snowbirdofparadise.com/2024/07/29/what-is-normal/

    #antiDepressants #Buproprion #fluster #medication #mood #panic #Prozac #psychology #sensitivity

  17. @mattotcha

    'they injected the dorsal raphe of the mice with an adeno-associated virus (AAV)'
    might be clearer if it read
    '... with a modified adeno-associated virus (AAV)'
    {i.e., gene therapy}

    ~

    The journal article is paywalled, but the preprint is available:
    doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.10.540

    " Thus, prompt fluoxetine
    may block the transmitter switch in the 5-HTlwDR by blocking glucocorticoid receptor-mediated
    gene transcription in 5-HTlwDR neurons. We found that treatment with fluoxetine two weeks after
    footshock did not block transmitter switching and acquisition of generalized fear. The short time
    window for effective therapy may explain why PTSD patients with long histories of this disorder
    are less responsive to SSRIs (56)"

    #fluoxetine #Prozac

  18. #Statistik der Woche: Welches die umsatzstärksten #Therapiegebiete sind. Eli Lilly ist das Schwergewicht in der #Pharmabranche. Es ist bekannt für #Diabetes-Medikamente und #Prozac. Unsere Infografik rankt Firmen und Therapiefelder. heise.de/hintergrund/Statistik

  19. has anyone heard more about #MadInAmerica’s change petition to get the #APA’s American #Journal of #Psychiatry to #retract the STAR*D #fraudulent #misrepresentation of an inflated 67% remission rate, (in fact closer to 35%, and “Only 3% of the 4041 patients who entered the trial had remitted and then stayed well and in the trial to its end.”)?

    seems this deserves more visibility in the press. 67% becoming 3% seems like #JohnOliver territory. #prozac #fluoxetine #fraud

    madinamerica.com/2023/10/the-a

  20. I lost accurate count, but I'm now about 10 days into the Prozac withdrawal. Apart from the persistent sleep issues, I'm feeling pretty decent.

    I still have a couple of weeks to go before it's completely out of my system, but the hard part is over.

    I am still microdosing the psilocybin 2-3x per week and will continue this to treat the depression which will inevitably return, although hopefully diminished.

    One day at a time. :)

    #Prozac
    #withdrawal

  21. CW: Join us live in YouTube for our microbiology news show coming up in less than an hour

    We'll be covering the 10 most interesting #microbiology papers we've seen in the last 2 weeks, some of which we tooted about to the oneabstractaday guppe.

    Join us in the live #journalClub to discuss #methods of making better bacterial boba, #fungi adapting to #ant behaviour, #prozac stressing out #bacteria, an #HPV model in #mice, and more!

    youtube.com/watch?v=G5S9PM-1wh

  22. I'll just put this out there.
    I'm currently suffering with , I haven't been at work since June.
    Now on my 3rd different medication.
    Had & neither worked
    Now on (#Prozac)
    Hoping to see a change

  23. Forschende haben herausgefunden, wie Fluoxetin Covid-Kranken hilft. Es wird gerade in einer internationalen Phase-3-Studie als Covid-Medikament geprüft.
    Covid-Therapie: Altes Antidepressivum Prozac bald Medikament gegen SARS-CoV-2?
  24. Weltweit wird nach Corona-Behandlungsoptionen gesucht. Die Uni Münster hat festgestellt, das Antidepressivum Prozac könnte helfen. Ein Überblick zum Stand der Forschung.
    Covid-19: Was hilft bei der Behandlung? Was nicht?
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