from the blog post: "The authors conclude that “The induction of doubt and the dampening of emotion may be one reason why antipsychotics reduce positive symptoms” and note that their findings of reported antipsychotic effects including cognitive and emotional numbing, and social withdrawal are “disquieting”." ---- (Monica's comments) anyone who has been on these drugs... Continue Reading →
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. ~ St. Augustine … [click on title for the rest of the post]
John Nash in the below video says explicitly he never used psychiatric drugs again after an initial period of crisis and the movie was purposely misleading because the screenwriter's mother was a psychologist enamored with psych meds and feared people would go off their meds if they knew the truth. Horrifying, isn't that? So, John Nash recovered from what is often labeled schizophrenia. The fact is there are countless others who also recover every day and are simply forgotten -- the system and those who support long-term maintenance psychotropic drug use denies they were ever sick if they are mentioned. But this is untrue. People recover and move on from such crisis all the time. There is a long list of such folks who share such stories here on Beyond Meds. … [click on title for the rest of the post]
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