Naomi Judd: Victim of toxic psychiatry? Shock treatments and four benzos, numerous SSRIs.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
· Apr 29
Replying to @pmarca
Wellbutrin is way worse than Adderall imo. It should be taken off the market.

Every time that drug has come up in conversation, someone at the table has a suicide or near suicide story.

https://twitter.com/_/status/1520601401197572097

From her own book:

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jc
@atomicaceso
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Some quotes from the late Naomi Judd's book. "River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged With Hope." She died of today of "mental illness". She was on FOUR benzodiazepines and CTed off (plus ECT!) Her book reads like a full-on believer in biological psychiatry.
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"I had been counting on being able to take a Klonopin to help minimize my apprehension and anxiety about the first treatment early the next morning. All night long I paced the oval track from the bathroom to the sitting area to the bedroom, around and around."
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@atomicaceso
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"After the third antidepressant proved to be ineffective, I told the psychiatrist that my anxiety was off-the-charts unbearable. He prescribed one of the four benzodiazepines, Klonopin, to take as needed."
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"The doctor also gave me prescription for Ativan, in hopes that my nighttime panic attacks would be less frequent. Over the course of the next year I also had prescriptions for two other benzodiazepines, Valium and Xanax, but Klonopin became the drug I depended on...."
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@atomicaceso
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“ECT has a strong and immediate effect on the neurotransmitters in the brain. It’s the minute-long seizure that changes the neural networks, the biological abnormalities, which are associated with depression. The modified seizure would make changes in the brain centers..."
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@atomicaceso
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“Dr. Rosenbaum felt that my severe treatment-resistant depression was affecting my overall health and he was greatly concerned about my having suicidal ideations for over two years.”
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"As it turned out, Dr. Rosenbaum’s first suggestion was not for another medication. It was for me to stay in the Boston area for the next three weeks and start treatment rounds of electroconvulsive therapy there at Mass General. The words made me gasp." ht
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jc
@atomicaceso
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"Once in a while I’ll have a flashback to being locked in a psychiatric ward. I immediately start deep breathing and pull my focus back to the present moment, so I can’t think about the past anymore."
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"I’ve been able to greatly reduce my anti-depression medications to less than half of what they were. My hand still trembles from one that I’m tapering off of, but it should steady out soon."
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" I took the prescribed antidepressants and Klonopin by day, and Ativan at night, even taking another when I would wake up at 3 a.m. This amount of antianxiety medicine left me groggy and emotionally flat."