Thinking Aloud

Dear Wendy, On Wednesday night on Twitter, you posted a tweet about the levels of abuse that had been directed at you and Dr Kate Lovett. You didn't elaborate on where the abuse had come from, or offer any examples of it. Dr Lovett commented that “it was never a great tactic to start a conversation.” Hmm... I must admit, my first reaction on seeing it was anger. I had spent the previous two weeks, asking you and Dr Carmine Pariente a question that both of you chose to ignore. A question which had been asked initially by Fiona French, who has suffered extensive harm to her health as a result of taking prescribed psychiatric medication. We had asked for evidence of the extraordinary claim Dr Pariente had made during a Radio 4 broadcast that antidepressants were an important and life saving treatment for most people. During the broadcast he had also downplayed the incidence of problems of withdrawal from SSRIs, despite recent research indicating that problems are w