Pill Shaming

We neither encourage, nor discourage anyone to take, discontinue, or switch prescribed medications. Please discuss your choice concerning all medications with a trusted licensed medical provider. We offer an accessible digest of facts about commonly used medications, based on the official FDA documents and peer-reviewed medical publications. We also share our personal experiences, but we do not discuss anyone else’s individual choices. Looking back at the time when our loved ones were first prescribed psychotropic medication, many of us feel that this happened without true informed consent, which requires a full explanation of the treatment’s risks and benefits to adults and to parents/guardians of minors. We did not always receive such an explanation from doctors, nor could we easily find it on our own. We seek to correct what we perceive as an informational imbalance: facts about risks, side effects, and adverse events associated with medications are difficult to find, while information about the positive aspects of medications is widely available.

We do our utmost to ensure that all our statements are evidence-based. We invite all the website visitors, and especially health professionals and researchers, to send us their corrections if they see mistakes, inaccuracies, or use of non-valid sources. If you contact us about corrections, please provide an explanation and cite relevant studies. ‍ ‍