Antidepressant use is associated with an increased risk of seizures / epilepsy according to a study from UK researchers.

The increased risk of seizures is as follows:

                                                                                                                                           

Antidepressant	Increased Risk of Seizure
Amitriptyline (Elavil)	1.9-fold
Dosulepin	2.2-fold
Lofepramine	3.1-fold
Trazodone	5.4-fold
Citalopram (Celexa)	2.0-fold
Escitalopram (Lexapro)	1.5-fold
Fluoxetine (Prozac)	1.5-fold
Paroxetine (Paxil)	2.0-fold
Sertraline (Zoloft)	1.6-fold
Venlafaxine (Effexor)	2.8-fold

 

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“I believe we could reduce our current usage of psychotropic drugs by 98% and at the same time improve people’s mental health and survival (see Chapter 14),” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

“The most important reason for the current drug disaster it is that leading psychiatrists have allowed the drug industry to corrupt their academic discipline and themselves.”

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“We have repeated the same mistakes with the SSRIs that we made with benzodiazepines, and before them with barbiturates,” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

“We have created a huge epidemic of drug overuse with just as many drug addicts on SSRIs as on benzodiazepines (see Chapter 12).”

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“[Double-blind studies] have rather consistently shown that it is the psychiatrists that think their drugs are effective, not the patients (see Chapter 3),” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

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“Cochrane reviews have shown that it is doubtful whether antidepressants are effective for depression (see Chapter 3) and whether antipsychotics are effective for schizophrenia (see Chapter 6),” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

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“The facts are that SSRI’s kill one of 28 people above 65 years of age treated for one year; that half of the patients get sexual side effects; and that half of the patients have difficulty stopping antidepressants because they become dependent on them (see Chapter 3),” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

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“Furthermore, members of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry explained in Lancet Psychiatry that British withdrawal-support charities report alarming numbers of people suffering disabling symptoms for multiple years following withdrawal from antidepressants,” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

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“A 1993 study in the United States by the Rand Corporation showed that: Over half the physicians wrote prescriptions after discussing depression with patients for three minutes or less,” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 2 What does it mean to be mentally ill? of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

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Seizures are 60 percent more common in people who are extremely obese, that is have a BMI of 40 or more, than those who are normal weight, and 70 percent more common in those who are underweight with a BMI of less than 18.5 according to a new study.

The incidence of seizures is similar for people who are obese, that is with a BMI of 30 or more, compared to people who are normal weight with a BMI of 18.5 to 25. Read the entire article | Email this article