A brief summary about SSRI truth (from another forum)

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1. SSRI's cause permanent subtle cognitive damage

2. Most people who take SSRI's do not know that they have been

damaged

3. Most p-docs will advise you to increase your dosage if you

complain to them that you have suffered brain damage from SSRI's usage

4. Most p-docs will tell you that your damage is due to DEPRESSION,

even if you insist that you feel your cognitive ability has not been

the same since taking and consequently STOPPING the use of SSRIs.

5. Most p-docs get their information directly from the pharmaceutical

companies themselves, who fund the conferences, lectures, and

symposiums that they attend

6. Most pharmaceutical companies skew their research results to make

a profit, and virtually no long-term research is done to determine

whether SSRI's cause long-term damage to the brain

7. The most troubling permanent lasting adverse neurological effects

you may experience after prolonged SSRI usage (and consequent

STOPPING) are :

a). Word finding troubles

. Absolute emotional flatness and deadness

c). Permanently reduced sex drive

d). An odd, pervasive social anxiety/awkwardness

e). Trouble with coordination

f). Bad memory

g). Trouble retrieving words

h). Overall paucity of thought and expression

i). Lack of creativity and intellectual fluidity (mental fog)

j). A lack of ability to "steer" or control the tone of your voice

(I've noticed this- that I sound shaky and agitated no matter what my

mood is, and people think I'm upset when I'm really not)

8. After these brain damaging effects have sunken in, you may have

great difficulty finding support anywhere. Talking to a p-doc may be

an exercise in futility. They will want to protect their own interests

and shield themselves from a possible lawsuit, hence you may be told

continually to get back on meds/up your dosage. The more you protest,

the less credibility you have, thus the more evidence in your p-doc's

mind that you need to go back on SSRIs.

9. Once you realize the extent of the damage, and it sinks in beyond

the denial you may initially face, it will be hard to explain to

others exactly why you are not the same person you used to be. The

damage is similar to a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) yet it might be

better termed DBI (Diffuse Brain Injury).Comments?