Medicating Normal

Anders Sørensen is a Danish clinical psychologist, researcher, and author with a PhD in psychiatry. His clinical work focuses on helping people safely taper off psychiatric drugs using gradual, hyperbolic dose reductions—while addressing the return of suppressed emotions, thought patterns, and trauma reactions through psychotherapy. He is the author of the upcoming book "Crossing Zero: The Art and Science of Coming Off — and Staying Off — Psychiatric Drugs," and is a leading voice in the international conversation on safe deprescribing and mental health beyond medication and diagnostic labels.

Join us for a candid and clarifying conversation featuring Nicole Lamberson, PA - taper coach, physician assistant, and Medical Director of the Benzodiazepine Information Coalition - and Mark Horowitz, MD, PhD, psychiatry researcher, lead author of The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines and co-founder of Outro.com. Together, they'll unpack the most misunderstood topics in the psychiatric medication withdrawal space: microtapering, long holds, tolerance, updosing, interdose and reinstatement.

Jan DeFehr is an associate professor in the faculty of education at the University of Winnipeg. Informed by her previous clinical social work practitioner experience, Jan's course development, teaching, and research focuses on building public access to the scientific, ethical, and anticolonial critiques of mental health premises and practices that have been produced by patients/ex-patients/psychiatric survivors, academics, and professionals.

With a background in education, digital production, and activism, Morgan Stewart was called to this work after experiencing a traumatic withdrawal from an SSRI in 2022. Morgan founded ACE (Antidepressant Coalition for Education) in response to the growing need for an organization focused on awareness, education, and research into the adverse effects of antidepressants. She is a passionate advocate for informed consent, scientific integrity, and liberation for all.

Joanna Moncrieff discusses her latest book "Chemically Imbalanced The Making & Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth".

Guest Bio: Stacey Uhlman is a dedicated wife, mother of two beautiful children, and a teacher to nineteen energetic third-graders. Stacey has lived through the nightmare that Benzodiazepines can cause for many years while helping her husband recover from tolerance, acute, and protracted withdrawal.

Most recently, she has walked with her husband, Dennis, who is also here today, through a setback. She desires to help people find hope and light in the midst of a dark and often long journey to recovery. She has written a book entitled, “Loving Someone Through Benzo Withdrawal,” to help educate and encourage family members and friends who are caring for someone who is sick from Benzos.

Dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of Health" for her unique ability to expeditiously assess and remediate rare neuromuscular conditions that others have deemed impossible, Mary Ruddick is an ancestral nutritionist and experiential anthropologist who specializes in neuromuscular disorders, infertility, and disabling chronic disease.

She can regularly be found endangering herself in the untouched corners of the world to learn from and distill the wisdom from the last remaining traditional cultures. She shares her findings and knowledge via her sought after keynote speeches, 100+ podcast appearances, her published articles, and her work both in front and behind the camera.

Emily Grey is a medical activist using her lived experience of PSSD to advocate for awareness, recognition, and research for the condition. She has suffered from PSSD since March 2019 after taking the SSRI citalopram.

Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutrition science, brain metabolism, and mental health. Her two decades of clinical experience includes twelve years at Smith College and Harvard University Health Services, where she was the first to offer nutrition-based therapies as an alternative to psychiatric medications. Dr. Ede speaks internationally about dietary approaches to psychiatric disorders, nutrition science, and nutrition policy reform. She is also the creator and director of the first medically accredited course in ketogenic diets for mental health practitioners. In 2022, she co-authored the first inpatient study of the ketogenic diet for serious mental illnesses and was honored to be named a recipient of the Baszucki Brain Research Fund’s first annual Metabolic Mind Award. Dr. Ede is the author of the upcoming book, "Change Your Diet Change Your Mind" (on sale 1/30/2024), a revolutionary guide that shows the powerful way we can change brain chemistry with food.

Kaitlin was prescribed Effexor at the age of 21, not knowing how this would destroy her life years later. After tapering off the drug in 2018 using a compounding solution, even though she went more slowly than doctors recommended, it was still too fast. She went into a latent withdrawal 1.5 years after discontinuation and has been in protracted withdrawal for the last 3 years.

Rob Wipond is a freelance journalist who writes frequently on the interfaces between psychiatry, civil rights, policing surveillance and privacy, and social change. His articles have been nominated for seventeen magazine and journalism awards.

Adam Urato, M.D. is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) physician in his hometown of Framingham, Massachusetts. He has an active clinical practice. He writes and lectures on medication exposure in pregnancy.

Beata Pawlikowska is a writer, traveler, journalist, and author of over one hundred motivational, travel, culinary, and language books. Beata developed her own method of learning and teaching foreign languages, and her language books have sold well over a million copies. For 16 years, she hosted a weekly radio show, “The World According to a Blonde,” on Poland’s second-biggest national radio station. Now she continues her podcast work on her YouTube channel.

In January 2023, Beata posted a video on her YouTube channel sharing the large body of the latest peer-reviewed scientific research (with citations) that contradicts the mainstream assumptions of psychiatry (e.g., the myth of the "chemical imbalance" theory of depression). She was threatened with violence and criminal prosecution.

Sami Timimi, M.D. is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the National Health Service in Lincolnshire, UK. He writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics relating to mental health and childhood.

Guest Bio: Bob Schwartz is a Drug Impairment Expert and Survivor of a near-fatal psychotropic medication adverse event which inspired him to start a mission-based 501(c)(3) called A Better Bob, where he is the Executive Director. He is also the Executive Producer of a short documentary film about his tragedy and experience—“If I Had Known the RxISKS."

Peter Eliasberg is a civil rights lawyer who lives in Los Angeles. His life was upended for 4.5 years after he got off an antidepressant way too quickly. The harmful effects of withdrawal were exacerbated by his being prescribed a benzodiazepine that he was advised would help with horrific insomnia, which was one of the symptoms of antidepressant withdrawal.

Guest bio: Anders Sørenson is a Danish clinical psychologist with a special interest in psychiatric drug withdrawal. He has undertaken research which assesses the state of guidance on psychiatric drug withdrawal. He has also paid close attention to tapering methods with the aim of identifying approaches which might make withdrawal more tolerable for people.

Guest Bio: Dr. Wible is a family physician born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. She soon discovered why—to heal her patients she first had to heal her profession. Fed up with assembly-line medicine, Dr. Wible held town hall meetings where she invited citizens to design their own ideal clinic. Open since 2005, Wible’s community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal clinics and hospitals nationwide.

In between treating her own patients and helping doctors launch community clinics, Dr. Wible devotes herself to medical student and physician suicide prevention. She has investigated nearly 1,300 doctor suicides and her extensive database and suicide registry reveals highest- risk specialties—and solutions. Dr. Wible runs a free doctor suicide hotline and has helped countless medical students and physicians heal from anxiety, depression, PTSD, and suicidal thoughts so they can enjoy practicing medicine again.

Guest bio: Jim Gottstein grew up in Anchorage, Alaska where his father was a prominent businessman and his mother one of the most beloved women in town. Jim was on track to go into the family grocery and real estate empire, studying for a business degree at the University of Oregon when the law found him during his required Business Law class. He didn't miss a question the entire class and realized law was a good fit. He managed to get into Harvard Law School as the only sky-diving applicant from Alaska that year.

After graduating from law school in 1978, Jim went into private practice in Anchorage with Robert M. Goldberg, primarily representing Alaska Native organizations. In 1982, he experienced a psychotic break due to sleep deprivation and was introduced firsthand to the mental illness system. He was told he would be permanently mentally ill and to forget about his law career. Luckily, he escaped psychiatry and the experience led him to legal representation and other advocacy for people diagnosed with serious mental illness not as lucky as he. Jim opened his own law office in 1985, generally focused on business matters, and is now mostly retired from the private practice of law. In 2002, Jim founded the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) to mount a strategic litigation campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock, and to inform the public about the counterproductive and harmful nature of the drugs and shock.

Guest Bio: Ellen Vora is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher, and she is the author of the #1 bestselling book The Anatomy of Anxiety. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health—considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root. Dr. Vora received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Vora is also one of the experts that appears in the documentary film, Medicating Normal.

Guest bio for Jim Wright, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC: James (Jim) M. Wright obtained his MD from the University of Alberta in 1968, his FRCP(C) in Internal Medicine in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from McGill University in 1976. He was a practicing specialist in Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology [retired]. He was Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics and Medicine, University of BC, Vancouver, BC, between 1977 and 2019. Since 2020 he is Professor Emeritus.

Guest Bio: Brooke Siem is an award-winning chef and writer. She is also the creator of Happiness is a Skill, a newsletter devoted to educating people on antidepressant withdrawal, safe deprescribing, and learning the skill of happiness.

Guest Bio: Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist residing in Southern California. He is internationally recognized for his innovative work in treating depression with active, brief psychotherapies. He routinely teaches to professional audiences all over the world. To date, he has been invited to present his ideas and strategic methods to colleagues in more than 30 countries across six continents, and all over the United States.

Guest bio: Dr. Helen Kales, Chair of Psychiatry at University of California, Davis is a fellowship-trained, board-certified geriatric psychiatrist. She has special clinical interest in the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and neuroscience, Director of the Emotion Regulation Lab, and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Health Technology at Hunter College, where the mission is to connect researchers, community stakeholders, and technology innovators to bridge the healthcare gap.

Erica Komisar, LCSW is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years. A graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities and The New York Freudian Society, Ms. Komisar is a psychological consultant bringing parenting workshops to clinics, schools, corporations, and childcare settings.

Guest bio: Dr. Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard&Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, was named one of the “Top 25” by Streaming Media magazine and one of the “Top 100 Media Executives” by The Hollywood Reporter.

The author of six books, Margaret’s third book, "Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril" was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. Her TED talks have been seen by over 13 million people.

Guest bio: Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring is a board-certified psychiatrist who runs a private practice that specializes in helping patients safely discontinue psychiatric medications. Dr. Witt-Doerring interest in psychiatric drug withdrawal developed after he began researching the clinical experience of protracted withdrawal on the online withdrawal communities.

Dr. Witt-Doerring completed his psychiatry residency at Baylor College of Medicine and a fellowship in psychiatric drug development at Janssen Research & Development. Dr. Witt-Doerring, has also worked as a Medical Officer, at the FDA’s Division of Psychiatry Products. His broad experience in clinical, pharmaceutical, and regulatory settings, gives him a comprehensive understanding of risks and benefits of psychiatric medications.

Bio: Professor Peter C. Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975-1983, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984-95. Co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration (the founder is Sir Iain Chalmers), and established the Nordic Cochrane Centre in 1993. Became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen and has been a member of the Cochrane Governing Board twice. Co-founded Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry in the UK in 2014 and International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal in Sweden in 2016. Founded the Institute for Scientific Freedom in 2019. Currently works as researcher, lecturer, author and independent consultant, e.g. in lawsuits. Visiting professor, University of Newcastle.

Dr. Shannon Hughes teaches, consults, and conducts research on how we use psychoactive drugs and medicines in our society today. Dr. Hughes is also actively involved in supporting peer support movements in her state, with a particular interest in psychosocial alternatives to hospitalization for persons experiencing acute distress or extreme states. Dr. Hughes is currently an Associate Professor in Social Work at Colorado State University. She is also a founding member of a Colorado-based non-profit providing education and community organizing around psychedelics and drug policy reform. In her private practice, Dr. Hughes blends spirituality with life coaching and psycho-spiritual integration of psychedelic experiences.

Irving Kirsch is Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Relationship, and a lecturer on medicine at the Harvard Medical School (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). He has published 10 books, more than 250 scientific journal articles and 40 book chapters on placebo effects, antidepressant medication, hypnosis, and suggestion. He originated the concept of response expectancy.

Beverley Thomson is a writer and researcher and speaker with a focus on psychiatric medication including antidepressants, benzodiazepines and ADHD drugs; their history, how the drugs work, adverse effects, dependence, withdrawal and development of patient support services. Her aim is to help inform and empower the patient to make informed choices about medication.

Dr Anne Guy, UKCP (Reg), MBACP (Accred) is a psychotherapist in private practice, having previously worked as a lecturer at the University of Roehampton. She is a member of the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, the secretariat co-ordinator for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence and an associate member of the Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal.

Noël Hunter, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and director of MindClear Integrative Psychotherapy. She believes in a trauma-informed, humanistic, approach to understanding problems in living. Although specializing in trauma, dissociation and psychosis, Dr. Hunter views all problems in living as existing within the context of one’s life and on a continuum of suffering. She is also the author of the book “Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services.”

Selma J. M. Eikelenboom-Schieveld is a forensic scientist at Independent Forensic Services (IFS) in Santa Fe, NM. Through her forensic medical work, she became interested in a possible association between DNA variants, psychoactive medication and violence.

Raymond Singer, Ph.D., board certified by the American Board of Professional Neuropsychology, with Added Forensic Qualifications, and a full member of the Society of Toxicology, specializes in evaluating the effects of toxic substances on nervous system and behavioral function. He has adapted available technology and methods in behavioral and neural science to applied problems of toxicology, helping scientists, doctors and the public to understand the extent of toxic illness in our society.

Dr. John Read is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. He has published over 180 research papers, primarily on the relationship between adverse life events and psychosis. He also researches the negative effects of bio-genetic causal explanations on prejudice, the experiences of recipients of anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medication, electroconvulsive therapy, and the role of the pharmaceutical industry. John is Chair of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and on the Board of the Hearing Voices Network, England.

Dr. Campbell is a holistic psychiatrist who is passionate about bringing awareness to the harms caused by medicating the human experience. She founded the non-profit organization Free Range Psychiatry to empower people to heal dis-ease through connecting to their inner wisdom. She also founded the Free Range Fellowship to educate healers about holistic psychiatry and the mind-body connection.

Swapnil Gupta, MD (she/her) is a psychiatrist working in NYC. Her main interest is in psychiatric deprescribing or the systematic reduction/ cessation of superfluous medications. She has written papers and a book on the topic and hopes to foster transparent, medication-related conversations between practicing psychiatrists, patients, ex-patients, psychiatric survivors and the lay public.

Melanie Davis has more than 25 years of experience as the manager of REST (Recovery Experience Sleeping Pills & Tranquilisers). REST offers support, guidance and advocacy for people in Camden and Islington struggling with benzodiazepines and other Z drugs. Set up by Mind in 1988, the service is now provided by the health and social care charity Change Grow Live.

Melanie has used her expertise to shape government policy as a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependency and the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry. She has contributed to several committees and reports on the issue of prescribed drug dependency. Her insights have been featured in national media, including BBC Newsnight, The London Times, and the Daily Mail.

Through her work with REST, Melanie has supported over 3000 people to safely withdraw from benzodiazepines. Examples of REST’s work form part of Public Health England’s framework on prescribed drug dependency which is due to be published in 2022.

Kelli Foulkrod is a holistic and somatic psychotherapist, trauma informed yoga teacher, and healing arts practitioner in Austin, Texas. Kelli has worked in the mental health field for 20 years and for the past 11 years, has managed her private practice, Organic Mental Health Center, PLLC. Kelli’s specialties include working trauma, PTSD, and c-PTSD, Spiritual Emergencies, crisis intervention, and helping people find sustainable alternatives to psychotropic pharmaceuticals.

Awais Aftab, MD is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, USA. He has been actively involved in initiatives to educate psychiatrists and trainees on the intersection of philosophy, psychiatry, and history. He leads the popular interview series “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” for Psychiatric Times, which engages with commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status quo. He is an executive council member of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry and senior media editor for the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology.

Kristina became an advocate for public health and safety in 2013 after the avoidable death of her teenage daughter, Natalie. Kristina has provided FDA testimony, presented at national and international conferences focused on crisis and risk, and authored numerous articles relating to medical harm, informed consent, and akathisia. Kristina is a co-developer of the MISSD Akathisia 101 course which is available online and free to all.

Dr. Jeff Ball, a native of Los Angeles, received his BA summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA. Here, he earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology and completed research on both projective processes in marital relationships and an integrative treatment model of bipolar disorder. Dr. Ball was a psychologist at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital, and he worked for many years in private clinical practice. Dr. Ball has been on the UCLA faculty in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior as an assistant clinical professor for many years. In his role as CEO of Psychological Care & Healing Center, Dr. Ball supervises, teaches, and consults at PCH. He presents his model and vision for mental health both within the center as well as in the clinical and academic communities.

Join Nicole Lamberson, physician assistant and Medicating Normal outreach team member, for a conversation with Stuart Shipko, M.D.

Dr. Shipko is a psychiatrist and an author in private practice in Pasadena, California with a subspecialty interest in SSRI side effects and withdrawal problems.

Vesper Moore, is a mad liberation activist, trainer, writer, and psychiatric survivor. They have been advocating as a part of the mad movement for several years and have been the recipient of many social justice and diversity awards.

Vesper has brought the perspectives of mad people, disabled people, and psychiatric survivors to national and international spaces. They have experience working as a consultant for both the United States government and the United Nations in shaping strategies around trauma, intersectionality, and disability rights. They have been at the forefront of legislative reform to shift the societal paradigm around mental health. Vesper as a mad queer indigenous person has made it their life’s mission to rewrite the narrative psychiatry has enforced on our society.

Cindi Fisher is a mental health advocate and activist catalyzed by the harm her 43 year old son experienced, and continues to experience today, at the intersection of racial and psychiatric oppression. Today she is dedicated to Whole Health Community Transformation.

Professor Joanna Moncrieff has been writing about the over-use and misrepresentation of psychiatric drugs since the 1990s and she has also researched and written about the history, politics and philosophy of psychiatry more generally.

David Healy has been raising concerns about withdrawal from antidepressants, dependence, suicide and behavioural problems, especially in children, since the mid-1990s. He figures we have made little or no progress sorting these issues out and now have several major public health crises on our hands.

Katinka Blackford Newman is an award winning BBC trained documentary film-maker who lives in London. Her interest in antidepressants began in 2012 when she nearly lost her life because of an adverse reaction to an antidepressant. She was hospitalised and prescribed more drugs which made her extremely ill. After a year she was lucky to be taken off all the drugs and made a full recovery.

She researched the side effects of antidepressants and interviewed some of the world's leading experts. Her best-selling book 'The Pill That Steals Lives' has been featured on Radio 5 Live, BBC London, Good Morning Britain, the Victoria Derbyshire Show and in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail and The British Journal of Psychiatry.

In 2017 her research was made into a BBC Panorama programme 'A Prescription for Murder' which investigated whether an antidepressant could be the cause of one of the worst mass killings of this century.

This year she co-founded a not for profit organisation to highlight the dangers of antidepressants. Antidepressantrisks.org is run by a team of experts including Professor David Healy, and people who have had first hand experience of antidepressants. In the Stolen Lives section it allows people to tell their stories in their own words.

Whitaker is the founder of madinamerica.com and continues to write and speak about the problems with psychiatric drugs and psychiatry. He appears as an expert in Medicating Normal-The Film.

Wendy Dolin, MSW, LSW, LCSW, is a certified family therapist with a private practice in the Chicago area and an internationally recognized health and safety advocate. She founded the Medication-Induced Suicide Prevention and Education Foundation (MISSD) following the 2010 death of her husband, Stewart, who died after suffering from an adverse drug effect called akathisia.

Kim Witczak is an international drug safety advocate and speaker with over 25 years professional experience in advertising and marketing communications. She became involved in pharmaceutical drug safety issues after the sudden death of her husband in 2003 due to an undisclosed drug side effect of antidepressants.

Jacob Stegenga is a Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Cambridge he taught in the United States and Canada, and he received his PhD from University of California San Diego. His research area is philosophy of science, including methodological problems of medical research, conceptual questions in biology, and fundamental topics in reasoning and rationality. His research employs empirical findings, analysis, and formal methods to establish prescriptive conclusions about science.

Michael L. Baum is the managing partner of the national law firm Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, based in Los Angeles. Experienced in pharmaceutical litigation and biological products' litigation since 1991, Michael concentrates on litigating plaintiff product liability consumer products, pharmaceutical cases and consumer class actions.

Shimon Katz (PhD, MSW) is an Israeli clinical social worker who has been working in the field of mental health for two decades. He was part of the team that established the first Soteria house in Israel (https://soteria.org.il/soteria-israel/), is a member in the international institute for psychiatric drug withdrawal (IIPDW) and has created "safe tapering"- an Israeli initiative designed to give unbiased, accessible up-to-date information about psychiatric medication and withdrawal, as well as support and counseling.

A pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, James M. Greenblatt, MD, has treated patients since 1988. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr. Greenblatt completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA and serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine. Dr. Greenblatt has lectured internationally on the scientific evidence for nutritional interventions in psychiatry and mental illness.

Braunwynn Franklin has been a peer specialist and advocate for more than 10 years. She has a heart for social justice change in the prison/justice system and supporting people to gain a better quality of life mentally, spiritually and physically. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare Administration and is a native of Detroit, Michigan.

She served 10 years in a Michigan prison where she was mandated to mental health treatment. However, her recovery would not come from inside prison walls, but from empowering herself to change the behaviors which led her there. She realized that trauma was at the root of her struggles.

Clive Sherlock studied and trained in medicine at the University of London, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School – now part of Imperial College, London. After three years working as a hospital doctor, he studied philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, and then returned to the National Health Service to specialise in psychiatry and clinical psychology, first at the University of London and then at Oxford.

To learn more about Chris Paige, LCSW, visit: www.chrispaigelcsw.com

Guest bio: "Altostrata" is a survivor of prolonged paroxetine withdrawal syndrome and is the founder of SurvivingAntidepressants.org. SurvivingAntidepressants.org was founded in 2011 for peer support in tapering off of all psychiatric drugs and currently has more than 15,000 registered members.