“This is a brain injury situation.” ~~ (July 2, 2024 update: I spoke with this man today. In 2010 when he told me the psych drug damage was also a brain injury it was the first time it had been said. We all knew it was true. I reported it here and this pharmaceutical harms are now commonly referred to as brain injury.)
Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US - Part I by Evelyn Pringle-- The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world for kids with children being medicated at a younger and younger age. Medicaid records in some states show infants less than a year old on drugs for mental... Continue Reading →
(I've been visiting early posts from this site. A lot are diary-like and there is more involvement from readers since this predates social media getting really big.) Something that comes up quite often in discussions with my friends and readers who have been on meds and have come off of them is how many of the "psychiatric" symptoms they were being "treated" for disappear upon discontinuation of the medications. This is widely known and experienced among those of us who have decided to stop medicating ourselves. For me there are two most astonishing details. The first was when I discoveredI was being given more and more Risperdal to medicate away the akathisia that the Risperdal was causing! Once off the Risperdal the akathisia was gone and so was most of what we'd called anxiety which led me to take massive doses of benzos. This is tragic and disgusting.
Not approval yet but getting there. I covered this story last week. For continued coverage click on through to Furious Seasons. Update: More commentary by Philip Dawdy added after this post went up.
From CBS news here is a video I could not watch because my wireless is screwed right now. Please let me know what it says. Here is a comment from an email group reporting on it: Just watched coverage on mainstream media (CBS Evening News tonight) of dangers of Risperdal to address behavioral problems in... Continue Reading →
Sometimes I don't want to put on a brave face: (2025 update: this is an early piece that I've not read in years. It's still resonant! What can I say. Some things never change. One of those things is BEING HUMAN. In general I have a deep and abiding faith that I will get better. Sometimes, however, I'm so damn sick I just want to die. NOW. This is not about being suicidal. I'm simply not suicidal. It's about wanting the suffering to end. I probably have to repeat for the sake of clarity again, that this is not a psychiatric issue. I am profoundly physically disabled and the withdrawals make me profoundly ill at times. It goes up and down so I'm not always equally ill.
I correspond with the psychiatrist who medicated the hell out of me. I've been sending him bits and pieces from my blog and he's been pretty decent with me. It's been a terrifying process for me though. I loved my psychiatrist and still have warm feelings for him as a human being, misguided as he may have been. I have a dream that we might communicate. That he might hear me out. I don't expect some sort of miracle or conversion on his part, no, not at all. I would, however, like him to reflect on how our relationship worked out for me.
Well, there is a happy epilogue to the home care story. After the latest debacle, I never got back to the home care agency. Prior to that incident I'd had another bad experience. I had no interest in engaging with them after all this as I didn't feel like being honest and telling them they... Continue Reading →
I'm uploadiing a video to youtube as I write this which I will include in this post. I think it's pretty boring and really to long for how little I say. We'll see by the stats it gets. I felt like making a video but I really had nothing much to say. The video making... Continue Reading →
For those of you on the west coast I'm posting this just after midnight on the east coast, so today is Sunday. My birthday is tomorrow. I have been pretty much crippled with pain and nausea the last few days. I have not been able to eat or spend anytime out of bed. Every time... Continue Reading →
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