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It is a human right to try and sometimes to fail
Another taboo topic: do ‘antipsychotics’ cause withdrawal symptoms? @joannamoncrieff @markhoro @CEP_UK @MarnieWedlake @dranneguy @IndigoDaya @Institute_PDW
I’m honored to be giving a talk organized by ISPS Poland tomorrow on the topic: Recovery A Conspiracy of Hope. It's free to join and will stream at 8pm Central European Time.
Great training in how to do therapy with people who are in "psychosis" is not widely available - so let people know about this series of 5 online seminars, available at early bird discount of only $59.99 each when registering by 4/5/24.
Some would say don't rely on this since the evidence was "low quality" but I think the key point is that is the best evidence we have so far about long term effects.
“Psychiatric diagnoses are categorically different [from medical diagnoses] because they are merely descriptive, not explanatory. It's not that we don't know their causes *yet*. It's that DSM diagnoses cannot speak to causes, now or ever”.
