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Welcome
I want to be perfectly clear that I am not a Dr nor am I considered by anyone to be an expert. I do know what I’ve seen and the personal accounts that have been shared with me about how SSRI’s and SNRI’s have altered personalities and driven loved ones to suicide.
I undertook this project because I realized after participating in a Protest in Washington DC that in the short time allowed there was no way to convey everything I’d learned and quite honestly there was no way I could remember to tell someone everything they might need to know.
For this reason I have compiled the following information. Information presented by Dr’s and other experts in this field.
People within the Pharmaceutical industry and those having financial ties may say these are merely anecdotal accounts and I say to them, show us your science.
He calls the chemical imbalance story a
"useful metaphor" but says it is never one he uses when talking to patients. "I can't get myself to say that."
Wayne Goodman, chair of the psychopharmacologic advisory committee of the US Food and Drug Administration
From issue 2525 of New Scientist magazine, 12 November 2005, page 7
"I am alarmed at the monster that Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon Snyder and I created when we discovered the simple binding assay for drug receptors 25 years ago. Prozac and other antidepressant serotonin-receptor-active compounds may also cause cardiovascular problems in some susceptible people after long-term use, which has become common practice despite the lack of safety studies.
"The public is being misinformed about the precision of these selective serotonin-uptake inhibitors when the medical profession oversimplifies their action in the brain and ignores the body as if it
exists merely to carry the head around! In short, these molecules of emotion regulate every aspect of our physiology. A new paradigm has evolved, with implications that life-style changes such as diet and exercise can offer profound, safe and natural mood elevation."
Dr. Candace B. Pert
Letter to the Editor of TIME Magazine, October 20, 1997, page 8