Dr. Joanna Moncrieff is my favorite psychiatrist simply because she tells it like it is and is on the cutting edge of research and is not being led astray and being bought off by the pharmaceutical industry. This is why I love her and cheer her on. I also love Dr. Horowitz.
Close to1 in 4 women between the ages of 40-60 in the USA are currently on antidepressants. (23%) What's going on with women at this age? Hormonal changes, change of role in the family. We need to stop thinking about "antidepressant medication" and find "anti-stress" interventions, which includes nutrition, exercise, meaning and purpose, natural stress reduction techniques, development of community and society towards life affirming qualities. Thank-you for using your intelligence and caring for the good, Joanna Moncrieff! Dr. Suzanne Lerner Psychologist Santa Cruz, CA USA
Great video. Would like to add that sometimes people just need a rest, a break from modern life and expectations. Some extra sleep and a change of scene. When a horse is lame its given a rest in a paddock..not ridden even harder
I really appreciate her saying that putting children on psychiatric drugs gives them the message that they need a chemical crutch to help them with their behavior. I say this as someone who had behavioral challenges due to physical and emotional abuse and was put on prozac at age 12. When that happened I definitely did get the message that I needed a chemical crutch when really what I needed was unconditional love and support and my parents to sort out m the issues they were having with trauma that they passed on to me. So, with that said, I really do feel like she validated my experience and that of many other children. Thank you Ms. Moncrieff for being the voice of reason in a field of so much quackery and nonsense that is psychiatry.
I just wanted to add something to my previous comments: These drugs and others should be opened to all families and really need in discussion what they are used for and how are they used. What families have seen with their loved ones medication or what has not worked? Or what needs changing with the dosage or what needs to be taken off? I believe these questions and others need to be answered today! Matt
Excellent she's "spot on" on virtually every point. P.S. A leading antidepressant in France (chemical name tianeptine) is an SSRE (selective serotonin reuptake *enhancer*)--it works by LOWERING serotonin in the brain.
+Oliver Lu There is no link between Serotonin (a lack of or a surplus of) in "mental" disorders. Researchers and practitioners are overfocused on a panoply of "molecules' instead of looking at a person's innate higher nervous system and their experiences in life. Mental Illness is a category of Capitalilst bourgeois sociology. Blaming the patient, or "customer' in this case. I would highly recommend reading Pavlov's work on higher nervous activity. He got it right the first time. There is a good article by Moncrieff called Psychiatric Imperialism, which I believe, discusses this.
+no coat Yes I should have written it is *believed* to lower serotonin and thus have an effect on an underlying mental disorder...however I don't agree that mental illness is simply a category of bourgeois capitalism, the Soviet Union had a comparable number of psychiatric patients as a percentage of the population for example (the numbers which were put there purely for political reasons is greatly exaggerated by Westerners).
+Cutie Pie It is not "well-known" that mental illness is a category of bourgeois sociologists, this is an old Marxist talking point without any basis in reality (in any case Russia before the Soviet era wasn't capitalist, it was czarist [although with some low-grade parliamentary reforms before 1914]). (The Soviet Union also had an earlier period of self-willed capitalist practices before Khrushchev, the New Economic Policy from 1921-1928. And rates of alcoholism [which often if not always are closely related to mental disorders] were probably never higher than in the years just *before* Khrushchev, probably because of the trauma and losses of the Second World War.)
I just got through a terrible month of withdrawal symptoms from zoloft and buproprion. It was hell, but it is so wonderful to have my feelings back and to have my libido back. I would caution people who's doctors are pushing anti-depressants, do the research on the medication first, look before you leap. These drugs have side-effects and are very difficult to get off, the evidence says they aren't really all that helpful. In summation do you really need to take all that risk for such little benefit?
+Eric Bray its not just antidepressants i can tell you from personal experience anti-psychotics are also very bad they are also additive very hard to get off and often leave many who are are on them long term with the chemical equivalent of a lobotomy. My brain pretty much feels dead most of the time now, the mental health system here in my country has been a complete disaster.
Joanna is so honest. She admits that benzos are very beneficial. There are very powerful corporate interests behind the demonization of benzos and opioid based prescription drugs
Dr. Stuart Shankar at The Mehrit Center in Canada explains stress effects in children very well and how the ability to self-regulate not control oneself depends greatly on emotional, social, pro-social, cognitive and biological development. Development of the human brain takes time and it takes healthy relationships not meds. We are not robots to be programmed. It’s about energy and tension balance not sedation and suppression.
Dr. Joanna Moncrieff is my favorite psychiatrist simply because she tells it like it is and is on the cutting edge of research and is not being led astray and being bought off by the pharmaceutical industry. This is why I love her and cheer her on. I also love Dr. Horowitz.
Thank you, Dr Moncrief for standing up & telling the truth!
So refreshing to hear a psychitrist talk like this.So wonderful to hear someone like her talk.
She's my hero,psychiatry has done so much damage to countless people with its ineffective and damaging practices.Its time for change.
I opened the comments ( and then saw yours) with the same idea in mind. She is heroic in my eyes.
One of the most honest characters in the public eye today- admirable, incredibly well-informed, true advocator of social change. Thank you.
Hewa Khalilifar She speaks so simply yet so truthfully and so beautifully.
Close to1 in 4 women between the ages of 40-60 in the USA are currently on antidepressants. (23%) What's going on with women at this age? Hormonal changes, change of role in the family.
We need to stop thinking about "antidepressant medication" and find "anti-stress" interventions, which includes nutrition, exercise, meaning and purpose, natural stress reduction techniques, development of community and society towards life affirming qualities.
Thank-you for using your intelligence and caring for the good, Joanna Moncrieff!
Dr. Suzanne Lerner
Psychologist
Santa Cruz, CA USA
She is a pioneer in her field. I admire her work and thinking should be widespread.
Great video. Would like to add that sometimes people just need a rest, a break from modern life and expectations. Some extra sleep and a change of scene. When a horse is lame its given a rest in a paddock..not ridden even harder
I really appreciate her saying that putting children on psychiatric drugs gives them the message that they need a chemical crutch to help them with their behavior. I say this as someone who had behavioral challenges due to physical and emotional abuse and was put on prozac at age 12. When that happened I definitely did get the message that I needed a chemical crutch when really what I needed was unconditional love and support and my parents to sort out m the issues they were having with trauma that they passed on to me. So, with that said, I really do feel like she validated my experience and that of many other children. Thank you Ms. Moncrieff for being the voice of reason in a field of so much quackery and nonsense that is psychiatry.
I just wanted to add something to my previous comments: These drugs and others should be opened to all families and really need in discussion what they are used for and how are they used. What families have seen with their loved ones medication or what has not worked? Or what needs changing with the dosage or what needs to be taken off?
I believe these questions and others need to be answered today!
Matt
Thankyou Dr. Moncrieff
Excellent she's "spot on" on virtually every point.
P.S. A leading antidepressant in France (chemical name tianeptine) is an SSRE (selective serotonin reuptake *enhancer*)--it works by LOWERING serotonin in the brain.
+Oliver Lu
There is no link between Serotonin (a lack of or a surplus of) in "mental" disorders. Researchers and practitioners are overfocused on a panoply of "molecules' instead of looking at a person's innate higher nervous system and their experiences in life. Mental Illness is a category of Capitalilst bourgeois sociology. Blaming the patient, or "customer' in this case. I would highly recommend reading Pavlov's work on higher nervous activity. He got it right the first time.
There is a good article by Moncrieff called Psychiatric Imperialism, which I believe, discusses this.
+no coat Yes I should have written it is *believed* to lower serotonin and thus have an effect on an underlying mental disorder...however I don't agree that mental illness is simply a category of bourgeois capitalism, the Soviet Union had a comparable number of psychiatric patients as a percentage of the population for example (the numbers which were put there purely for political reasons is greatly exaggerated by Westerners).
+Cutie Pie It is not "well-known" that mental illness is a category of bourgeois sociologists, this is an old Marxist talking point without any basis in reality (in any case Russia before the Soviet era wasn't capitalist, it was czarist [although with some low-grade parliamentary reforms before 1914]).
(The Soviet Union also had an earlier period of self-willed capitalist practices before Khrushchev, the New Economic Policy from 1921-1928. And rates of alcoholism [which often if not always are closely related to mental disorders] were probably never higher than in the years just *before* Khrushchev, probably because of the trauma and losses of the Second World War.)
How can I help my son get off Clozapine....Please help me , I'm a single mum desperately in need of your help.
Look up Inner Compass withdrawal.
Look up Maudsleys Deprescribing Guidelines by Dr Mark Horowitz and prof Taylor
I just got through a terrible month of withdrawal symptoms from zoloft and buproprion. It was hell, but it is so wonderful to have my feelings back and to have my libido back. I would caution people who's doctors are pushing anti-depressants, do the research on the medication first, look before you leap. These drugs have side-effects and are very difficult to get off, the evidence says they aren't really all that helpful. In summation do you really need to take all that risk for such little benefit?
+Eric Bray its not just antidepressants i can tell you from personal experience anti-psychotics are also very bad they are also additive very hard to get off and often leave many who are are on them long term with the chemical equivalent of a lobotomy. My brain pretty much feels dead most of the time now, the mental health system here in my country has been a complete disaster.
Joanna is so honest. She admits that benzos are very beneficial. There are very powerful corporate interests behind the demonization of benzos and opioid based prescription drugs
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Dr. Stuart Shankar at The Mehrit Center in Canada explains stress effects in children very well and how the ability to self-regulate not control oneself depends greatly on emotional, social, pro-social, cognitive and biological development. Development of the human brain takes time and it takes healthy relationships not meds. We are not robots to be programmed. It’s about energy and tension balance not sedation and suppression.
A great woman, although the stats for CBT don't stand up to academic scrutiny either.
ACT is a better fit for people tapering off psych drugs.
Awesome Video!
Look at the disaster of the massively flawed theory of HIV leading to Aids, most people die my even have a clue , I like what this lady has to say
The beginning of the problem went the patient went to doctors thats where they gets the first problem with drug that leads to follow up consequences
They want to use your children in research....
They need to look at themselves first..
Nazi rageam
Only when people like this think they know it all they become psychotic
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