I looked up at the pediatric emergency patient board — and read that THREE 8-year-olds had been brought in for su*c*dal ideation

↓ ↓ ↓ It was 2012, and I was in Upstate New York doing a clinical rotation in “emergency psychiatry”

Questions are the pathway to bringing the truth to light ~~~

Top 30 pressing questions regarding psychiatric medications in America

With respect & appreciation to the MAHA Commission

We the People, need to know

↓ ↓ ↓ 1) When a seemingly healthy individual commits su*cide, what % of the time are psych meds detected in their toxicology report? Which meds?

17 years ago, I woke up post-tonsillectomy to a resident yelling in my face, “What did you take? Aspirin? We need to know! You’ve been bleeding!”

Dazed, I replied, “No! I only took my usual meds”

Then, they put me back under

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Today I realized,

It was probably the SSRIs Serotonin is important for platelet aggregation — helping platelets stick together, form clots, & stop bleeding

SSRIs, SNRIs, & several other psych meds classes block serotonin transporter (SERT) protein

Cells, including platelets, use SERT to take up serotonin

When do drugs really expire?

Which ones take decades to degrade?

Why does the US government use secret expiration dates for pharmaceutical stockpiles — but make pharmacies & hospitals discard perfectly potent meds?

I went down a wild rabbit hole for us In 2012, Dr. Lee Cantrell, a Cali pharmacist-toxicologist, finds a box of drugs that had been stashed away on a shelf for decades

He wonders if any of the meds are still effective

Most people stop at wonder — the scientifically-minded amongst us find a way to get an answer

“I can’t post about it, so can you tell your followers that I have been trying to get off Paxil since 2002, but every time I stop taking it I feel like my brain is on fire, so I just keep taking it.”

— Emergency Room Doctor “I had anxiety when I moved away to college, so I started Paxil —paroxetine. I still have anxiety, and I never stopped having anxiety”

Which pharmaceuticals, medical devices, & surgical procedures have the LARGEST dedicated online communities of patients reporting harm?

I obsessively & autistically dug into it — so that you don’t have to!

(Research thread)

↓↓↓ To locate patient harm communities, I extensively & repeatedly searched Google, FB, Reddit, 𝕏, & my brain, plus prompted AI, & also reached out to harmed individuals / community leaders

I used these intensive search tactics for all categories represented in this analysis — & for countless others that did not make the cut (due to a lack of communities, or minuscule-sized ones)

More about my research methodology & segmentation as I delve into specific categories of results

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I am an American Jew

It’s been an intense year

I am not a victim of anything or anyone

But I am human

I gravitate towards stoicism

But I do feel

There are pieces of me that broke this past year —

and then reassembled into a different formation

↓ ↓ ↓ I am an American Jew and here are some of the moments that were dark FOR ME this past year

and also,

18 that shined light

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