Yeah maybe society shouldn’t push psych meds on people who are having trouble existing in this capitalist hellscape because of systematic problems.

Why should people be forced to take psychiatric medication just so they can more calmly except the systematic problems? Especially if they’re going to get #ALS from them? (And listen I am pro medication, Adderall changed my life. But I remember being prescribed SSRI’s in the early 2000s because I was having trouble affording life after the price gouging that never went down after 9/11. Prozac wouldn’t make my previously $400 now $700 rent more affordable.)

“Question  Is there an association between prescribed use of common psychiatric medications and the risk and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)?
Findings  In this case-control study including nearly 9000 individuals, prescribed use of #anxiolytics, #hypnotics and #sedatives, or #antidepressants was associated with a 34%, 21%, and 26% higher future risk of ALS. Prediagnostic use of such medications was also associated with poor prognosis after ALS diagnosis.
Meaning  These findings suggest a potential link between psychiatric medications, or their indications (ie, psychiatric disorders), and the risk and progression of ALS.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834877

#JAMA #study #psychiatry

(Edited to fix “health scape” (hellscape)

"Millions of people worldwide are physically dependent on commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs. While these drugs can provide effective short-term relief, pharmaceutical companies have hidden -from both doctors and patients - their dangerous side effects, addictive nature, and long-term harm.

Combining cinema vérité and investigative journalism, Medicating Normal follows the stories of those whose lives have been torn apart by the very medications they believed would help them. Expert testimony and undercover footage reveal a systemically corrupt industry. Medicating Normal is the untold story of the disastrous consequences that can occur when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress."—ENDEVR

Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick >

https://youtu.be/xJs9lK8PIok?si=zOEv6R8fOfMd8xnx

#documentary #psychiatry #medicine #profit #medication #psychotropics #anxiolytics #benzodiazepines #antidepressants #drugs #mentalhealth #wellbeing #sicksociety #video

"we estimate a mean average reduction in prescriptions for #antidepressants and/or #anxiolytics in the 5 years following the census of –15.1% (95% CI: –15.3% to –15.0%) amongst #cycle commuters compared with those who use any other mode to commute"

#BikeCommuting

https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/does-cycle-commuting-reduce-the-risk-of-mental-ill-health-an-inst

@mxmehl

At times I wonder if these #privacy related forms are just #anxiolytics.

How can anyone check they are actually using it?

Also... opt-out?
If I remember correctly, as per #GDPR analytics should be opt-in.