Stuart Shipko - SSRI Withdrawal: Shooting the Odds
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
4.7 • 213 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week on MIA Radio we interview Dr. Stuart Shipko. Dr. Shipko is a psychiatrist in private practice in Pasadena, California and author of the books Surviving Panic Disorder, Xanax Withdrawal and Dr. Shipko's Informed Consent for SSRI Antidepressants.
Stuart has over 30 years' experience as a psychiatrist and an extensive background in the psychotherapies. He writes for Mad in America on issues relating to SSRI withdrawal and he has a particular interest in the side effects and withdrawal effects of antidepressants and benzodiazepines and the need for informed consent when prescribing.
We discuss: SSRI withdrawal, Tardive Akathisia, informed consent and psychiatric drug tapering.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, this is James, and welcome to the podcast. And this week, I'm delighted to get the chance to chat with Dr. Stuart Shipko. |
| 0:23.0 | Dr. Shipko is a psychiatrist in private practice in Pasadena, California, and author of the |
| 0:29.0 | book's Surviving Panic Disorder, Zanax withdrawal, and Dr. Shipko's informed consent for SSRI |
| 0:36.4 | antidepressants. |
| 0:43.0 | Stuart has over 30 years experience as a psychiatrist and an extensive background in the psychotherapies. |
| 0:44.7 | He writes for Mad in America on issues relating to SSRI withdrawal and he has a particular |
| 0:50.2 | interest in the side effects and withdrawal effects of antidepressants and benzodiazepines |
| 0:54.7 | and the need for informed consent when prescribing. |
| 0:59.4 | Dr. Shipko, Stuart, welcome. Thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me today for the |
| 1:05.4 | Mad at America podcast and very excited and interested to get to talk to you and hear more about your work. |
| 1:12.6 | To kick us off, really, I wanted to ask a little bit about you and your background, |
| 1:18.0 | what it was in particular that led to your 30-year-plus career as a psychiatrist. |
| 1:24.1 | Well, I went into medicine. |
| 1:26.0 | It's all I wanted to do when I was a kid was going to medicine. Then I went into emergency medicine and family medicine first. And then I went into psychiatry in order to continue pursuing research I did on psychosomatic medicine when I was in medical school. I really actually didn't intend to be a practicing |
| 1:45.9 | psychiatrist. Okay. And when we spoke previously, you mentioned that you'd had experience as a kind of |
| 1:52.2 | humanistic or shamanistic practice. And I haven't spoken to too many psychiatrists that kind of |
| 1:58.6 | have that on their CV. So, you know, I was interested to |
| 2:01.5 | explore that part of your medical practice. It's not a part of my medical practice. I got to say, |
| 2:08.5 | I mean, I suppose it was integrated, but I don't hold myself out as a shamanic healer. But in the years |
| 2:16.3 | follow, I did an internship and then went into practice, |
| 2:19.7 | so you could do that in those days, 43 years ago. And I was interested in knowing about |
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