Do psychiatrists understand psychiatric drugs?



Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, a psychiatrist, responds: (short answer, NO. They do not)

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For more information that you very likely cannot get from your psychiatrist see: Psychiatric drug withdrawal and protracted withdrawal syndrome round-up

My story of having been gravely over-medicated is also sadly typical. People are routinely harmed and it’s widely denied.

See also Dr. Joanna Moncrieff’s blog: 

• Psychiatry has its head in the sand: Royal College of Psychiatrists rejects discussion of crucial research on antipsychotics
• Antipsychotics and brain shrinkage: an update
• Long-term Antipsychotics – making sense of the evidence
• How can Community Treatment Orders still be justified?
• Why there’s no such thing as an ‘antidepressant’

The book by Moncrieff: The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment

People are able to help themselves when information is made available. See: Drug free recovery from depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, etc…

And: If I Had Remained Med Compliant…

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