Human beings have an innate ability to adapt. Throughout history, mankind has endured famines, war, migrations and periods of tremendous uncertainty. As a nation of immigrants, the United States is built upon the notion that human beings are resilient. 

On today’s podcast we revisit one of our earlier conversations, originally published in July of 2021. An overall discussion on resilience and question whether the recent shift in society has created a lack of coping skills. 

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck

The Coddling of the the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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When it comes to social media, your views are their source of revenue. Mental health is big business, which provokes some to create content specifically for these platforms. Self diagnosis videos are targeting a vulnerable population. When you consume these, you are at risk of falling victim to the algorithm—scrolling through an endless stream of negative influence. 

On today's podcast we discuss the TikTok approach to self diagnosis. 

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Why People Pretend to Be Unwell Online | Psychology Today

Deconstructing TikTok Videos on Mental Health: Cross-sectional, Descriptive Content Analysis - PMC

New TikTok probe to investigate if app is harming kids’ mental health

11:30 - TikTok: 5 signs you're probably Autistic

17:00 - Episode 15: What the hell is Society doing to teenage girls?

20:45 - How to know if you have #ADHD

30:40 - Texas sharpshooter fallacy - Wikipedia

37:00 - Social Media and Mental Health: Benefits, Risks, and Opportunities for Research and Practice - PMC

39:30 - Five signs that you may be on the Bipolar spectrum

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Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) is a disorder that reduces sexual functioning despite stopping treatment with SSRI or SNRI medications. Lack of awareness and the nature of the issue most likely contributes to the underreporting of this condition. 

On today's podcast we welcome Yassie Pirani & Emily Grey to discuss PSSD.

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Canadian PSSD Society

PSSD Network

PSSD Hilfe Deutschland e. V. - Startseite

Yassie Pirani

15:00 David Healy: Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction | RxISK

17:00 Sexual Health Research Lab

17:45 Post SSRI/SNRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) | Sex[M]ed

19:30 Anhedonia: Why does nothing feel good anymore?

25:00 Finding and Learning about Side Effects (adverse reactions) | FDA

32:00 Diagnostic criteria for enduring sexual dysfunction after treatment with antidepressants, finasteride and isotretinoin

34:00 PSSD Doctors & Specialists | RxISK

48:30 Antidepressant Use During Development May Impair Women’s Sexual Desire in Adulthood - PMC

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Having access to an enormous amount of information in the palm of your hand is powerful and dangerous. Googling health symptoms can send you in a direction that takes you farther away from reality. This being overly concerned about one’s health can increase anxiety and decrease your quality of life. 

On today's podcast we discuss hypochondriacs in the age of Google. 

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

5:00 Cyberchondria Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

12:00 Investigating the Obsessive and Compulsive Features of Cyberchondria: A Holistic Review

14:00 Cyberchondria: Overlap with health anxiety and unique relations with impairment, quality of life, and service utilization

17:30 Search neutrality - Wikipedia

19:00 Illness Anxiety Disorder - Psychiatric Disorders - Merck Manuals Professional Edition

28:00 Health Anxiety | Psychology Tools

30:00 The biochemistry of belief - PMC

38:30 CME Info - Child Mortality Estimates

42:00 Using information technology to reduce rates of medication errors in hospitals - PMC

46:30 The Health Belief Model

54:30 Radically Genuine Podcast | 40. Chris Palmer, MD

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Kim Witczak is a leading global drug safety advocate and speaker with over 25 years professional experience in advocacy, advertising and marketing communications. She is currently a very vocal Consumer Representative on the FDA Advisory committee evaluating new drugs coming to market. 

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Kim Witczak

https://www.woodymatters.com/

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

13:00 Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9 & PHQ-2)

14:30 The citalopram CIT-MD-18 pediatric depression trial: Deconstruction of medical ghostwriting, data mischaracterisation and academic malfeasance

16:00 Federal Trade Commission - Enforcement Policy Statement on Deceptively Formatted Advertisements

19:00 Pfizer issues prosecutors a manual to defend drug – Star Ledger

19:50 Akathisia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

30:00 Misplaced Trust: Why FDA Approval Doesn’t Guarantee Drug Safety

38:00 Why is the FDA Funded in Part by the Companies It Regulates? - UConn Today

39:00 Dr. Wayne W. Dyer - What You Should Know About Anti-Depressants

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52. You have the right to remain silent

EPISODE NOTES

Who determines the truth? Despite resistance from physicians fearing government overreach, California’s Medical Misinformation Bill AB-2098 was passed in the state senate and enrolled on September 1, 2022. This bill now sits on the desk of Governor Newsom for veto or signature into law. If signed into law, discussing the risk vs. reward of Covid treatments with patients could be labeled “misinformation” and put physicians at risk of losing their medical license. 

On today’s podcast we debate truths and the role of the scientific method.  

AB 2098 Take Action

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1:30 Steps of the Scientific Method

9:00 Assembly Bill 2098

9:15 Biography | Official Website - Assemblymember Evan Low Representing the 28th California Assembly District

9:30 California COVID misinformation bill targets doctors spreading false information

15:00 Alex Berenson: The White House privately demanded Twitter ban me months before the company did so

15:30 COVID-19: The Great Reset: Schwab, Klaus, Malleret, Thierry: Books

16:30 Medical Definition of Vaccination

17:20 Stress and Resilience Image

21:00 Revolutionary mRNA vaccine technology: History, facts and the future

28:00 Trends in the distribution of COVID-19 deaths by age and race/ethnicity — United States, April 4–December 26, 2020 - PMC

37:45 A Timeline of COVID-19 Developments in 2020

38:00 The latest on the coronavirus | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

45:00 AB 2098 Take Action

49:30 The Role of Vocal Affect in Persuasion: The CIVA Model | SpringerLink

52:00 April 2020: Safer at Home Order for Control Of COVID-19: Temporary Prohibition of All Events and Gatherings Closure of Non-Essential Business

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The investigation into the illegal promotion of the drug Zyprexa by the US justice department resulted in the largest sum for both a corporate whistleblower claim and the largest criminal fine ever imposed by the US upon a single company.  

On today's podcast we welcome Jim Gottstein, famous for subpoenaing and releasing the Zyprexa papers.

The Zyprexa Papers Paperback - Jim Gottstein

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4:30 - Eli Lilly Said to Play Down Risk of Top Pill - The New York Times

5:00 - Eli Lilly and Company Agrees to Pay $1.415 Billion to Resolve Allegations of Off-label Promotion of Zyprexa

11:00 - Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill: Whitaker, Robert

12:00 - Law Project for Psychiatric Rights

20:00 - Olanzapine (Zyprexa) | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

37:00 - The Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Elderly

44:00 - PsychRights: Lucy Booth: Psychiatric "help" - The Doctor was Fooled or Complicit

54:00 - Why is the FDA Funded in Part by the Companies It Regulates? - UConn Today.

54:40 - Federal Register :: Revised Draft Guidance for Industry on Distributing Scientific and Medical Publications on Unapproved New Uses-Recommended Practices; Availability

59:00 - A Strategic Approach to Mental Health System Change

1:02:30 - California COVID misinformation bill targets doctors spreading false information

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For the last two months we have had a number of insightful conversations on psychiatric medications and harm caused by the overprescription of drugs. A good way to close out those episodes is to reshare one of our very first episodes to simply answer the question, “Do antidepressants even work?” Originally published in July of 2021.

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When a product is launched in a particular category we expect it to satisfy an unmet consumer need or perform as intended. Shampoo, caffeinated coffee, or running shoes. If the product doesn’t work, it won’t sell. 

How often are we scrutinizing our use of pharmaceuticals? Instead, we rely upon the recommendations of our healthcare providers. What if those drugs don’t work? And, what if the established guidelines for standard of care are flawed. On today’s podcast Roger, Kelly and Sean discuss the efficacy of antidepressants and the subjective process used by doctors to apply the label of “depressed” on us all. 

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Background Reading

Attorney Michael Baum: Antidepressants & Teens

Relabeling the Medications We Call Antidepressants

Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9 & PHQ-2)

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In the past 25 years we have witnessed the rise of a new parenting style commonly referred to as “helicopter parenting”. These overprotective and over-involved parents intervene to protect their children from experiencing natural consequences and in turn impede autonomy. Kelly and Roger explore the rise of this cultural phenomenon and its impact on mental health. 

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

6:30 - Parental style and impact on Emotional well being 

12:30 - Locke et al. study 2012 Overprotective Parents

14:20 - Economic roots of helicopter parenting

28:00 - Parental traits associated with over-parenting

36:45 - USA Today Video Clip

41:00 - 2014 National Survey of College Counseling Centers

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Beverley Thomson is a writer, researcher and speaker with a focus on psychiatric medication including antidepressants, benzodiazepines and ADHD drugs; their history, how the drugs work, adverse effects, dependence, withdrawal and development of patient support services. 

Her latest book Antidepressed breaks it all down into a resource that educates both patients and mental health professionals on the growing issue of antidepressant use, harm and dependence. 

A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence Paperback – January 4, 2022

IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO NOT STOP YOUR ANTIDEPRESSANTS SUDDENLY OR TOO FAST.

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BEVERLEY THOMSON

Beverley Thomson: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

14:00 A systematic review into the incidence, severity and duration of antidepressant withdrawal effects: Are guidelines evidence-based? - ScienceDirect

28:40 The Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS): Long-term Effectiveness and Safety Outcomes

55:00 Medicines Used in Mental Health – England – Quarterly Summary Statistics April to June 2021 | NHSBSA

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