Dr. Josef @DrJosefWD
Board-Certified Psychiatrist | Former FDA Medical Officer | Founder of the World’s Largest Psychiatric Drug Tapering Clinic - TaperClinic taperclinic.com Park City, Utah Joined January 2023-
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The brain is not meant to be in a drugged state.
Could the medication you were given for anxiety or insomnia actually be making you worse? I'm Dr. Yusef, a physician and former FDA medical officer. I help people get off benzos like Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan and Valium, and here is what most patients are never warned about. The people who get trapped are rarely who you'd expect. They're disciplined, high functioning professionals and parents who hit a brutal stretch, lost their sleep, and got a prescription that felt like a lifesaver. Then the brain adapts. The dose stops working. And coming off can unleash crushing insomnia, panic, and brain fog all at once. Stopping too fast can cause real neurological injury that lasts years. So never quit cold turkey. There is a safe, gradual way off.
The Truth About Mental Health x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Mental health prescriptions are at an all-time high. American mental health is at an all-time low. If both of those things are true at the same time, it's worth asking why, and whether the medication-first model we've built is actually helping people heal or mostly helping them cope. I'm honored to be part of an upcoming Town Hall where we tackle exactly that. I'll be joined by Dr. Simone Gold and Jeff Childers for an honest conversation about something millions of people are quietly wondering about: long-term SSRI and antidepressant use, emotional blunting, dependency, withdrawal, hormones, and what quality of life really looks like, both on and off these medications. We'll work through three big questions: How did medication-first care become the default, and why are more patients starting to question long-term use? What do the side effects, withdrawal risks, and informed-consent gaps actually look like in real life? What does a healthier path forward involve, including physician-guided tapering, nutrition, sleep, and integrative care? To be clear: this isn't about telling anyone to stop their medication. It's about giving people the full picture so they can make informed decisions alongside their own doctor. If you've ever felt like there was more to this conversation than you were being told, this one's for you. Sign up here: goldcare.com/townhalls/head…
The safety of these medications were only tested for a year.
One of the things I see everyday in my clinic.
For decades, those of us speaking about the harms caused by taking and coming off psychiatric drugs have been ignored, denied or dismissed. I’ve been labeled everything from “antipsychiatry,” “anti-science,” and “Scientologist,” to “right-wing fascist” and “anti-vax,” to simply “too mentally ill” to understand what was happening to me. Now the APA’s own annual meeting is full of panels on deprescribing, overmedication, withdrawal, and psychiatrists openly admitting they regret not helping patients come off these drugs sooner. The hundreds of thousands of personal stories of psychiatric iatrogenesis have become impossible to keep waving away as meaningless anecdotes. I have deep compassion for how hard it must be to face the possibility that you’ve been inadvertently causing harm to patients you’ve been trying to help. But fear is the master distorter of truth, and the only way out is through. We are eager to build a big-tent coalition to begin work on these changes we all know are necessary. I hope you’ll join us.
Mental health is much more complicated than just taking a medication.
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After stopping antidepressants, this 23-year-old said she experienced a “chemical castration." What to know about PSSD, according to experts. usatoday.com/story/life/hea…
In my interview with Dr. Sami Timimi, we dug into the explosion in ADHD and autism diagnoses. In the scientific sense, there is no such thing as ADHD. You can't see it on a brain scan. You can't find it in a blood test. You can't spot it under a microscope. It's an idea. And we've turned that idea into a brand. Things like ADHD are facts of culture, not facts of nature.
Antidepressants can cause mass sh**tings.
A piece I wrote for the Daily Mail on Sugar Ray Leonard having his son arrested. Learn more: dailymail.com/debate/article…
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