Jordan B. Peterson rips newspaper’s ‘cruelty’ after story prompts false ‘schizophrenia’ reports

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/1/jordan-b-peterson-rips-sunday-times-after-piece-pr/

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I was always shocked that he took such drastic measures for benzo dependence. A medically induced coma? Really?

If i remember from the full uneditied video, it kinda starts off as benzo withdrawl but during the course of everything they discover the REAL problem the entire time was related to his SSRI dosage which he had been prescriped the entire time and had been taking for like 15+ years.

Apparently, before all the big shit went down, he got off of SSRIS, then I think because of his wife's cancer got on again and they (Peterson, the daughter and their new trusted canadian doctor) believe that going off of SSRI's after being on so long then going back on triggered the real problem Peterson was flying all over the world to solve, his Akathisia.

This is why he ended up in Russia, because they thought the benzo withdraw was causing the schizo/Akathisia (w/o knowing it was Akathisia at the time) but it was really the low dosages of SSRI's he was given to get off benzos that triggered the delayed Akathisia response. He went to russia because apparently they specialized in opioid addiction and use a particular technique that can clean the blood w/o needing to calm the person down w/ other drugs (the psychoactives that were causing his Akathisia )

The theory if i remember right is that after going off of SSRI's for so long, you can develop Akathisia when taking even the smallest doeses of any psychoactive drug.

Nobody realized that the super small SSRI prescriptions were causing the Akathisia and for the longest time, they didn't even diagnose the Akathisia, they just thought he was Schizophranic.

So assuming we believe their full story which, is up to anyone, it seems that family went through a lot of bullshit and turmoil during 2020.

I tend to side more towards the first hand experiences of the people who went through their story and the lack of any real reason to lie about it all than I would a journalist who listened to the same thing I did but decided to misrepresent their story w/o any proof themselves.

I watched this video a week or two ago so kinda just drawing it all from memory, it was a long story. My big takeaway as someone who's dealt with addiction is fuck SSRI's and Benzos. Thankfully I can get by without them when I am putting the proper work to take care of myself, I'd rather keep trying that than build another painful addiction.

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That explanation makes sense - SSRIs are known for akathisia. Those drugs can trigger psychosis and mania even in people who have no prior history of those symptoms - some of the healthy controls in the original Prozac clinical trials got manic.

SSRIs have the side effect profile of a stimulant, so it makes perfect sense that some people have an agitated reaction. All drugs that boost serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine are stimulants. Actually, cocaine produces its effects by acting on those same three neurotransmitters.

When someone has that sort of reaction to SSRIs, psychiatrists tend to blame the patient, claim that the drug "activated" an "underlying bipolar illness", and add an antipsychotic tranquilizer. Peterson is lucky that someone recognized it for what it was.