Someone on Twitter challenged Kelly Brogan MD and me about her article about SSRIs and depression yesterday. She said that she and I were “ranting.” I posted the text on Facebook too where the post received lots of comments.
I responded with these tweets:
When people minimize or disbelieve the experience of people who’ve been harmed by psych drugs it’s a retraumatization because…
— Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) December 30, 2014
that is how people got harmed to begin with. Their doctors did’t believe them either and continued a regimen that harmed them… — Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) December 30, 2014
the entire mainstream system of psychiatry does this to those who’ve been harmed in an attempt to discredit their stories…
— Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) December 30, 2014
they cause further injury…leaving those of us harmed with no choice but to seek help as far away from psychiatry as possible… — Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) December 30, 2014
to do otherwise would be the height of masochism…in fact to continue seeking treatment in a system that tells us we are insane is insane.
— Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) December 30, 2014
we are challenged in a way that is inconceivable to most ppl and so made out to be hysterical…but the opposite is true.We’ve seen thru the BS — Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) December 30, 2014
and then I also tweeted:
I have great faith in the resiliency and healing power of the human being. It’s an incredibly wondrous thing. All I can say is Hallelujah.
— Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) December 30, 2014
I’m so glad to be healthy today after being heinously disabled for many years. I will do what I can to help others avoid such hell. For Love
— Monica Cassani (@BeyondMeds) December 30, 2014
If you, like me, and so many others need help in learning about the potential for harm in psychiatric drugs there are places to get information so that you might minimize harm in your lives.
I share my story and talk about alternatives because had I been given meaningful options when I was 19 years old rather than silenced with numerous neurotoxic drugs and dismissed, I could have been spared these decades of chronic illness. I will call the years I was deadened on drugs chronic illness too, because I certainly was not well. I want to give the option for choice and the human right of choice to young people today. I want people to know that it’s possible to heal and be free of psychiatric drugs both. On this blog there are many stories about people who were told they’d need to be on psych drugs for the rest of their lives, but proved psychiatry sorely wrong.
All my work is now motivated by the fact that I’ve worked with and corresponded with thousands of people who have been gravely harmed by psychiatry. The denial of the great potential for harm in psychiatry must end. The harming of so many innocent and vulnerable people must end. I’m happy to keep helping people find other ways until no one is being harmed any longer.
For a collection of articles and resources on this blog here are some links:
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Psychiatric drug withdrawal and protracted withdrawal syndrome round-up
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Antidepressant info
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Chemical imbalance myth and biopsychiatry links
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Benzodiazepine info, news, resources & recovery stories
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Lamictal (lamotrigine) redux: a collection
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Rethinking bipolar
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Rethinking Depression
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Psychosis recovery: stories, information and resources