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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

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In recent years, there has been a growing awareness surrounding the adverse long-term effects of antidepressants, particularly concerning treatment-emergent sexual dysfunction (TESD). at the time of the study, indicating affiliations with pharmaceutical companies that manufacture antidepressants, including those under investigation.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

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There was no placebo group, and all patients started on citalopram, manufactured by Lundbeck, which was motivated by horrendously erroneous claims of citalopram’s “absence of discontinuation symptoms” and its “safety” in elderly patients. 147 One paper stated in the abstract that suicidal ideation was seen in only 0.7%