333 SelfWork: May Cause Side Effects: A Conversation with Brooke Siem About Antidepressant Withdrawal
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
I love when an author reaches out to me personally – and that’s what Brooke Siem did. I didn’t have to talk with a bunch of publicity or marketing people. She knows exactly what her message is – and who needs to hear it. I was mesmerized by her evocativeness of her writing her book, May Cause Side Effects, is worth the read for that fact alone.
This is the first memoir on antidepressant withdrawal to hit the mass-market, a notable milestone in the journey to bring global awareness to antidepressant withdrawal.
As you know, not everyone on antidepressants wants to stay on them forever, and it's imperative that both patients and doctors recognize antidepressant withdrawal and practice safe deprescribing. Brooke’s mission is to shift the narrative of depression as a chronic ailment to one that frames depression as a temporary human experience.
Let’s make sure no one is hearing “You shouldn’t be on anti-depressants.” That’s not the case. They can be very helpful. And it’s hard to tell in Brooke’s memoir how much her own chaotic upbringing led to many of her ver difficult, almost psychotic experiences, and how much was attributable to physical and emotional withdrawal.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Selfwork, and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:14.1 | At Selfwork, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Dr. Margaret, and Selfwork is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today |
| 0:26.2 | for your own Selfwork. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello, and welcome, or welcome back to Selfwork. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm a clinical psychologist, and we've been doing Selfwork now for six and a half years. |
| 0:39.2 | I wanted to extend the walls of my practice to those of you who are already interested |
| 0:43.4 | in psychological or emotional issues, maybe your in therapy, but also to those of you |
| 0:48.6 | who might be looking for answers. |
| 0:50.6 | Maybe you're wondering if something's wrong or you're having a problem that you might |
| 0:53.6 | like to develop a little more insight around. |
| 0:57.0 | But also to a third group of you, to those of you who think middle health treatment |
| 1:00.6 | or therapy is kind of wackadoodle. |
| 1:03.9 | I'm here to talk to you about that and see what you think after you listen to Selfwork. |
| 1:09.3 | We've got a couple of fantastic interviews for you this week, as I'm honored to speak |
| 1:13.8 | at a couple of meetings, one for clinicians about what I'm terming perfectly hidden addiction, |
| 1:19.5 | and one for a group of construction workers on hidden depression and the movement |
| 1:23.9 | to recognize suicidal thinking as a normal human response to something that feels intolerably |
| 1:30.8 | painful. |
| 1:31.8 | But more on that later. |
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