Anna King
@annaking1.bsky.social
RN - non practicing due to injury from prescribed psychotropics. Advocate for safer deprescibing of antidepressants and benzodiazepines.
Kirsty bravely shares her lived experience - “The psychiatrist put me back on another SSRI AD at a higher dose. The psychiatrist said my [withdrawal] symptoms were caused by a relapse & a worsening of depression and anxiety, not symptoms of withdrawal”
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Kirsty's Story - Antidepressant Withdrawal Australia 2025 - Lived Experience
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May 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Kirsty bravely shares her lived experience - “The psychiatrist put me back on another SSRI AD at a higher dose. The psychiatrist said my [withdrawal] symptoms were caused by a relapse & a worsening of depression and anxiety, not symptoms of withdrawal”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kDXl...
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"Yet, there is evidence from primary care that people are prescribed antidepressants when clinical guideline criteria are not met, more commonly women", write Katharine Wallis, @annaking1.bsky.social and @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social #Psysky #madsky
🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
Antidepressant prescribing in Australian primary care: time to reevaluate
✍️ Katharine A Wallis, Anna King and Joanna Moncrieff
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Antidepressant prescribing in Australian primary care: time to reevaluate
✍️ Katharine A Wallis, Anna King and Joanna Moncrieff
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May 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Yet, there is evidence from primary care that people are prescribed antidepressants when clinical guideline criteria are not met, more commonly women", write Katharine Wallis, @annaking1.bsky.social and @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social #Psysky #madsky
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March 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
To stay updated on future content, be sure to subscribe to the Antidepressant Withdrawal Australia YouTube channel.
The channel is dedicated to raising awareness about the challenges people face when withdrawing from antidepressants 🙏🏻
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The channel is dedicated to raising awareness about the challenges people face when withdrawing from antidepressants 🙏🏻
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Eight individuals from Australia, each with lived experience of antidepressant withdrawal, share their personal stories and valuable educational insights. Please share 🙏🏻
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Antidepressant Withdrawal Australia 2025 - Lived Experience 8 mins
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March 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Eight individuals from Australia, each with lived experience of antidepressant withdrawal, share their personal stories and valuable educational insights. Please share 🙏🏻
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We asked readers about taking antidepressants. The response points to a ‘silent epidemic’ and urgent need for reform
We asked readers about taking antidepressants. The response points to a ‘silent epidemic’ and urgent need for reform
Out of 776 responders to our callout, 711 say they experienced withdrawal symptoms, many debilitating
* The new science ending the ‘terror and panic’ of coming off long-term antidepressant use
* Nineteen readers on their experience taking and…
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December 19, 2024 at 2:01 PM
We asked readers about taking antidepressants. The response points to a ‘silent epidemic’ and urgent need for reform
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Nineteen readers on their experience taking and withdrawing from antidepressants
Nineteen readers on their experience taking and withdrawing from antidepressants
Many people were given little information about potential side effects from coming off the medications and suffered withdrawal effects they described as worse than the initial symptoms
* We asked readers about taking antidepressants. The response points…
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December 19, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Nineteen readers on their experience taking and withdrawing from antidepressants
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‘A pill for every ill’: doctors say Australia overprescribing antidepressants to mask toxic social conditions
‘A pill for every ill’: doctors say Australia overprescribing antidepressants to mask toxic social conditions
Antidepressants can be helpful but they can’t fix chronic stress caused by social problems like debt, poverty, racism or domestic violence
Too many people are being prescribed antidepressants to deal with stressful life events or social problems,…
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December 20, 2024 at 11:00 PM
‘A pill for every ill’: doctors say Australia overprescribing antidepressants to mask toxic social conditions
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The new science ending the ‘terror and panic’ of coming off long-term antidepressant use
The new science ending the ‘terror and panic’ of coming off long-term antidepressant use
‘Protracted withdrawal’ from antidepressant medication is not yet well-understood or recognised – but doctors and patients are looking to change that
In 2006, Anna King was involved in family court proceedings that caused severe stress and trauma.…
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December 18, 2024 at 2:01 PM
The new science ending the ‘terror and panic’ of coming off long-term antidepressant use
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Hi Bluesky! We're a UK charity, supporting the development & implementation of good practice for psychiatric drug withdrawal in every country. Follow & support our work. iipdw.org
International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal (IIPDW)
The International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal (IIPDW) was created to respond to a glaring need in mental health: to develop ways for helping people withdraw from psychiatric drugs.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Hi Bluesky! We're a UK charity, supporting the development & implementation of good practice for psychiatric drug withdrawal in every country. Follow & support our work. iipdw.org
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Debunking the chemical imbalance theory may be meaningless to some professionals, but to countless millions of people, who were misled by the theory, its falsity still comes as a revelation. What psychiatry knew in private was not made public. The damage still reverberates today.
November 23, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Debunking the chemical imbalance theory may be meaningless to some professionals, but to countless millions of people, who were misled by the theory, its falsity still comes as a revelation. What psychiatry knew in private was not made public. The damage still reverberates today.
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To demedicalise distress is not to delegitimise distress. One can honor, respect and care for profound suffering without labeling it as illness, pathology or disorder.
September 1, 2024 at 7:53 AM
To demedicalise distress is not to delegitimise distress. One can honor, respect and care for profound suffering without labeling it as illness, pathology or disorder.
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Slides from my talk today on (es)ketamine in suicide prevention.
Feedback very welcome.
Feedback very welcome.
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Ketamine and Esketamine in Suicide Prevention Breakthrough or Hype? Martin Plöderl, PhD 9th Vilnius Conference on Suicide Intervention Methods, 22. Nov. 2024
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November 22, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Slides from my talk today on (es)ketamine in suicide prevention.
Feedback very welcome.
Feedback very welcome.
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Some psychiatrists now claim they’ve known the chemical imbalance hypothesis was false for decades. Which poses the serious ethical question of why they failed to correct the record until Moncrieff published.
November 20, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Some psychiatrists now claim they’ve known the chemical imbalance hypothesis was false for decades. Which poses the serious ethical question of why they failed to correct the record until Moncrieff published.
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Hello #Bluesky. 👋
We started Mad in America in 2012 with the aim of critically reviewing the science behind psychiatry and its diagnoses.
We provide personal stories, reviews of scientific literature, podcasts, online events and original MIA reporting.
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We started Mad in America in 2012 with the aim of critically reviewing the science behind psychiatry and its diagnoses.
We provide personal stories, reviews of scientific literature, podcasts, online events and original MIA reporting.
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November 19, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Hello #Bluesky. 👋
We started Mad in America in 2012 with the aim of critically reviewing the science behind psychiatry and its diagnoses.
We provide personal stories, reviews of scientific literature, podcasts, online events and original MIA reporting.
Visit us here: www.madinamerica.com
We started Mad in America in 2012 with the aim of critically reviewing the science behind psychiatry and its diagnoses.
We provide personal stories, reviews of scientific literature, podcasts, online events and original MIA reporting.
Visit us here: www.madinamerica.com