CEP-UK and AntidepressantRisks.org Present 'Medicating Normal' film screening & Discussion

#MEDICATINGNORMAL #CEP #ANTIDEPRESSANTS
To watch Medicating Normal - the film, visit: www.medicatingnormal.com
To learn more about the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, visit: cepuk.org
To share your story or to learn more about Antidepressant Risks, visit: www.antidepressantrisks.org
Luke Montagu, is an entrepreneur who now spends most of his time managing his family’s estate at Mapperton in West Dorset. After graduating from Columbia University, Luke founded a series of technology, education and media businesses. In 2003 he co-founded the Met Film School, which he led as CEO until 2009. In 2104 Luke co-founded the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, a group of experts committed to reducing the harm caused by the overprescribing of psychiatric drugs. Luke is a founding member of the Secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence and was a committee member for the NICE guideline on Safe Prescribing and Withdrawal Management. Luke is also chair of the trustees for the Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion which produces courses to promote compassion in schools.
Dr Anne Guy, UKCP (Reg), MBACP (Accred) is a psychotherapist in private practice, having previously worked as a lecturer at the University of Roehampton. She is a member of the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, the secretariat co-ordinator for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence and an associate member of the Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal. She is the lead editor for the “Guidance for Psychological Therapists: Enabling Conversations with Clients Taking or Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs” created in collaboration with leading UK therapy organisations and academics. She has co-authored articles on patients’ and therapists’ experiences of psychiatric drugs and reports for the APPG describing current and potential service models for supporting prescribed drug dependence in the UK. She chairs the Withdrawal Services Working Group convened to define patients’ needs and sits on the NHS Advisory Group for the NHSE&I programme considering the implementation of PHE’s recommendations for action on prescribed drug dependence.
Katinka Blackford Newman is a BBC trained documentary film-maker who lives in London. Her interest in psychiatric drugs began in 2012 when she nearly lost her life because of an adverse reaction to an antidepressant. She was hospitalised and prescribed more drugs which made her extremely ill. After a year she was lucky to be taken off all the drugs and made a full recovery. She researched the side effects of antidepressants and wrote a best-selling book, ‘The Pill That Steals Lives, One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth about Antidepressants.' In 2017 her research was made into a BBC Panorama programme 'A Prescription for Murder' which investigated whether an antidepressant could be the cause of one of the worst mass killings of this century. She has been interviewed on radio and TV about her experience and writes articles for national newspapers. She is co-founder of a not for profit organisation Antidepressantrisks.org which gives a platform to those who have been harmed to tell their stories.
Rachel Kelly is a bestselling writer, public speaker and mental health campaigner. She writes regularly for the press and gives TV and radio interviews to help educate and break down the stigma around mental illness in her role as an ambassador for several mental health charities. She also shares evidence-based strategies on how to stay calm and well and is the author of four books covering her experience of depression and recovery and her steps to wellbeing from poetry to nutrition. Rachel speaks at events and wellbeing workshops, sharing her motivational and holistic approach to good mental health. She is an official ambassador for Rethink Mental Illness, HeadTalks, SANE and The Counselling Foundation. Her books include her memoir Black Rainbow about her expression of depression and three subsequent books about her recovery and how to stay calm and well - Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness; The Happy Kitchen: Good Mood Food; and Singing in the Rain: An inspirational workbook published in January 2019. She is a member of the Speakers Collective, a group of speakers with lived experience of mental health conditions.
The panel discussion and Q&A was moderated by Angela Peacock, MSW, subject of the film, Medicating Normal.

[@kiwitraveller6451]

Love you guys...thanking you for all your interviews, zoom meetings etc to help us peoples tapering and helping out MH but many more people in nz are now driving into the sea, walking into the sea, jumping etc in more ways to get out of the pain with the restrictions here in new zealand...am helping one man now as I type not to go down that track...supporting him is all I can do...am so sad what is happening...and our govt chucked lots of money to help MH and do not where or how this is helping people at the moment...money cannot be found for MH so it was given to someone and not to help MH...sorry to say but this is what is happening here...:-( Thanks again...:-)

[@user-sp3qp2hv3m]

I would like to say thank you so much for this video, there is so much on Benzos and rightly so but very little on SSRI withdrawal. I am in protracted withdrawal and Luke's story in particularly helps me understand that I will recover. I would never, never have believed that a legal prescribed medication could have done this to me, with no support from the NHS. I was told withdrawal would take 2 weeks, and then 6 months. I do not bother with the GP's now. I trusted the professionals and therefore did not reinstate, I am too late now and just need to wait it out to recovery. Keep up the good work it is sterling stuff you are doing!!!

[@montesa9136]

Circumstances in many people's lives are not possible to change, and such people are helped tremendously through medication. If they believe drugs work for them, that's all that counts! Our response to problems in life differs by everyone, those who respond badly need help I'm not saying medication is the answer for everyone, it's not, but for many it is

[@matimati6152]

Medication is not a real help. All the temporary relief or numbness comes at high costs of coming off the meds.

[@montesa9136]

@@matimati6152 @Mati Mati - The relief is not temporary for many people and the majority of people stay on their meds for life! I know Dozens & Dozens of people who are happily married to their meds & get offended at even the thought that they would ever stop taking them. It would be wonderful if none of us never had to take medication, but that is not tiniest bit realistic .........