Many dangerous drugs have been used to therapeutic effect

Another brief twitter commentary followed by documenting links and some additional comments as well:

lots of dangerous drugs have been used to therapeutic effect I don’t ever deny that…there is a time & place for most things under the sun

— Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) August 10, 2014

pharma dangerously, for capitalistic purposes, pushes drugs that should be used once in a blue moon to the masses…harming 1000s — Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) August 10, 2014

And killing many as well.

More info:

• Worse Than Vioxx: Zyprexa, Risperdal, Clozaril, And Paxil Killed Thousands Of Americans  — written in 2007 the death toll continues (from the brilliant, but no longer existent blog, Furious Seasons…this page is housed at PsychRights)

• Psychiatric Drugs Send 90,000 to the ER Yearly

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

• Antidepressants can cause long term chronic, debilitating physical illnesses

• Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare

• Mental illness shortens life. Should read: medications are neurotoxic

• We don’t have a healthcare system in this country. We have a disease management system.

• Bad Pharma: Ben Goldacre’s new book

• More Ben Goldacre: What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe (TED talk)

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

• Medically induced illness: iatrogenic injury

We can learn how to deeply and profoundly heal our bodies, minds and spirits. Exercise and diet and meditation and a myriad of other lifestyle changes that can help us heal (the combination will be different for every individual.)

Everything we do and think and eat and ingest matters and this is not something that is understood in the psychiatric system or in western medicine in general at this point. If we are not given the means to heal, we won’t. That doesn’t mean it’s not possible. I’ve communicated with 1000s now that have learned how to do it. 

See:  Drug free recovery from depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, etc…  and Psychosis recovery: stories, information and resources

Also: Please do not attempt to discontinue psych drugs without first very carefully educating yourself on the risks involved so that you might minimize the chances of developing grave iatrogenic illness if you decide to withdraw: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome Round-Up