What’s Wrong With the NICE Depression Guideline?
35 organisations have expressed concern over the draft 2018 NICE guidelines for depression. In a joint stakeholder position statement, six methodological issues were raised.
ECT REVIEW – WRITE TO YOUR MP
A group of 40 professionals, researchers, ECT recipients and carers has written to Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, asking for an independent review into ECT along the lines of the recent Cumberlege report into pelvic meshes.
Antidepressants: is there a better way to quit them?
Millions of us take SSRIs, and most can give them up without too much trouble. So why do a minority suffer severe side-effects?
A NICE Game of Minecraft: Philosophical Flaws Underpinning UK Depression Guideline Nosology
The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has delineated certain subclassifications of persistent depression in its new guideline, which grossly distorts the phenomenology of depression.
I Hope Others can be Spared the hell I Went Through with Depression Pills
Like millions of Britons who’ve taken prescribed antidepressants, when I tried to stop taking the pills I suffered serious psychiatric symptoms. In fact, I felt so suicidal that I had to be admitted to hospital.