Prof David Baldwin, Prof Wendy Burn & the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

So, I came on this via twitter. It features Prof David Baldwin, Prof Wendy Burn and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. I think it’s time to get my soapbox out again…  I take issue with quite a few things in this story, the most outrageous claim being the assertion made by Baldwin & Burn that “… In the vast majority of patients, any unpleasant symptoms experienced on discontinuing anti-depressants have resolved within two weeks of stopping treatment…” It is very worrying that in 2018 two very high profile mental health professionals can make a statement that is quite so wrong – and dangerous. I really did think we had got beyond this kind of muddle-headed stupidity. And as for Baldwin representing the Royal College of Psychiatrists on an Public Health England expert panel reviewing prescription drug addiction – well, words fail me on that one. Why would they say something like this? Do they have an agenda? Are there any conflicts of interest that could possibly be in play?  Or are are they just plain stupid? I have to ask this, as I’m the expert – at least I presume I am – as I guess that Baldwin and Burn have never taken Seroxat and then had to suffer the hell of withdrawal as they tried to stop taking it. I’m not talking about a few “unpleasant symptoms” that “resolved in two weeks” but rather almost two years of absolute horror – physical and emotional – as I slowly reduced the amount of Seroxat I took.  An...
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