Treatment resistant mental illness? or Iatrogenic (drug-induced) illness?

Everyone who is told they are treatment resistant would do well to consider this.

Below the tweets is a list of posts that offer documentation:

What gets called treatment resistant mental illness is often drug iatrogenesis…people made worse by drugs…it’s a sad loop to hell.

— Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) August 8, 2014

What happens is that the drugs make people worse. Different drugs are added to the cocktail and it spirals out of control.

— Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) August 8, 2014

People are made to believe it’s something inherently wrong with them and not the drugs causing more symptoms and exacerbating existing ones — Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) August 8, 2014

This is a tragedy when it happens. It happens a lot. Sometimes we figure it out and get off the drug merry-go-round and find our selves.

— Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) August 8, 2014

See: Medically induced illness: iatrogenic injury

For more documentation see:

• Antidepressants can worsen long term course of depression

• Monica’s story: the aftermath of polypsychopharmacology

• Before excessive drug treatments NIMH declared depression “on the whole” a diagnosis with best prognosis for recovery: not so anymore

• Bipolar before the psychopharmacology era

• Benzodiazepines, too cause chronic issues and rebound “anxiety” that is a much worse monster than anything initially treated

• The studies laid out: antipsychotics often cause chronicity/long-term disability

• Alarming report on persistent side effects of antidepressant drugs published online

• Children — ADHD & bipolar (history etc) Robert Whitaker – Psychiatric Epidemic

• Andrew Solomon, poster child for psychiatric misdiagnosis

• Antidepressants can cause long term chronic, debilitating physical illnesses

• Why I think antidepressants cause more harm than good (The Lancet, by Peter Gøtzsche)

Below are links to stories of recovery (or the word I prefer is transformation) that involve freedom from drugs/medications. Most everyone on these pages were told they would need psychiatric drugs for the rest of their lives and proved psychiatry sorely wrong.

• Drug free recovery from depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, etc…

• Psychosis recovery: stories, information and resources

*it is potentially dangerous to come off medications without careful planning. Please be sure to be well educated before undertaking any sort of discontinuation of medications. If your MD agrees to help you do so, do not assume they know how to do it well even if they claim to have experience. They are generally not trained in discontinuation and may not know how to recognize withdrawal issues. A lot of withdrawal issues are misdiagnosed to be psychiatric problems. This is why it’s good to educate oneself and find a doctor who is willing to learn with you as your partner in care.  Really all doctors should always be willing to do this as we are all individuals and need to be treated as such. See: Psychiatric drug withdrawal and protracted withdrawal syndrome round-up

For a multitude of ideas about how to create a life filled with safe alternatives to psychiatric drugs visit the drop-down menus at the top of this page.  

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