# @akathisiaalliance on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgvhAilA070
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/3080850-akathisiaalliance-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/5a561ab453.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-04-19T02:24:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** akathisiaalliance (@akathisiaalliance) — https://gondola.cc/akathisiaalliance

## Caption

https://akathisiaalliance.org ► Akathisia is an extremely distressing complication of many medications that can cause instant suicidality and/or violent behavior in anyone. Psychiatric medications are the leading cause, but it can also be brought on by other seemingly benign pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics and anti-nausea drugs. Symptoms of akathisia can last for many months or years after stopping the causative drug, or it can emerge when a person is withdrawing from or changing the dosage of a medication.

Akathisia is surprisingly common, yet it remains dangerously under-diagnosed and underreported today. Symptoms of akathisia are often misdiagnosed as a clinical worsening of the patient's original condition, when it is actually an entirely new problem created by medication. This can lead to further harm through the prescribing of additional drugs in an attempt to suppress akathisia, which can aggravate the injury even more. Together, by watching and sharing this video, we can increase public awareness of akathisia and prevent it from happening to more uninformed people.

The Akathisia Alliance is not anti-medication. However, we do believe that everyone deserves to have full informed consent when agreeing to a new medication regimen. Too often, information about risk is withheld from patients, partly because many medical professionals do not have full information regarding drug safety themselves. Patients and their families need to know about all possible adverse outcomes of drug treatment in order to decide what is best for them.

About the Akathisia Alliance

(The Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research) is a not-for-profit organization made up of people from all walks of life who have experienced akathisia. Our group includes biochemists, psychologists, nurses, attorneys, business owners, parents, and others who have survived akathisia and endured horrific personal losses due to akathisia related disability. We have come together to tell our stories and raise awareness of these drug-induced injuries to prevent them from happening to others. Our website includes pertinent information about akathisia for patients, families and clinicians.

Follow us on social media
Twitter ► https://twitter.com/akathisiaalli 
Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/akathisiaalliance

Credits

Animation by Nic Sweet 
VoiceOver by Chris Parnell
Soundtrack by Miles Kredich
Produced by Marcello Romano for the Akathisia Alliance

## Stats

- **Views:** 102,255
- **Likes:** 287
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 74

## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Akathisia Alliance | @Akathisia_Alliance | https://gondola.cc/Akathisia_Alliance | Music Composer |
| Miles Kredich | @icecreammiles | https://gondola.cc/icecreammiles | Creative |

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