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Freedom from Pharma: healing, awakening
Drug-Induced Dementia: a Perfect Crime
This is not the first time psych drugs have been linked to dementia, but it's certainly not something we hear about often enough. With an aging generation of people who've been on psych meds for their entire adult lives it's an issue that needs to be faced. It's yet another serious adverse effect that psychiatric drugs can cause. In this current NBC piece they are speaking only about benzodiazepines. All psych drugs have been associated with various sorts of mental decline, however.
A harrowing odyssey of Effexor
A harrowing odyssey of Effexor. -- This is a popular archival page. I can see by the stats on the blog that sometimes people happen upon one of these posts via search and then they sit and click through one after another until they've read the whole thing! I've noticed this a few times now and I don't really look at my stats all that closely most of the time, so I imagine it happens with some frequency. People get glued to their computer for a few hours!
The accidental addict –documentary: benzodiazepines in the news
The Accidental Addict (NZ news magazine) Assignment programme from 1995 dealing with the issue of iatrogenic benzodiazepine dependence. This is a 15 year old documentary. Why in hell are doctors still handing this crap out like candy? This phenomena of severe benzodiazepine withdrawal and post-withdrawal syndrome has been known about for two decades at least! The... Continue Reading →
Beyond Meds and Beyond the Dosies
Spit, Bristle and Fury posted commentary on the Dosie's and the post I published about them yesterday: Gianna Kali’s always informative and often pharma-critical blog, Beyond Meds was up for a Dosie — a new award “created to find the best examples of social media in pharma and healthcare.” Out of the 550 nominees, not surprisingly,... Continue Reading →
Link Between Neuroleptics and Increased Breast Cancer
Metabolic syndromes are now being associated with doubling the risk of breast cancer. Neuroleptics (the atypical antipsychotics) often cause metabolic syndromes. SSRIs have more recently been implicated as well.
Suicidal ideation: medication and the effects
(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.
The good doctor
The doctor who led me to this point a year ago by cold-turkeying me off meds prematurely, wrote me a letter during that time. This must have been written a day or two into the cold-turkey before I started getting psychotic. This is just a small excerpt explaining to me why she took me off... Continue Reading →
Psych meds make you fat
I ate well and exercised and still gained 100 lbs. I was not a glutton nor was I lazy. The truth is you can do everything right and still gain weight on psych meds. The problem is a society that hates fat people, the problem is not you. I'm off all weight-gaining drugs now. Not because they made me gain weight---I actually got used to that --- but because they are neurotoxic in general and I realized the likelihood of dying early on a huge cocktail of these meds was likely. I also realized that my emotions and spirit and soul were muted to the point that I had a kind of deadness inside of me. I did not want to live like that anymore.
Beware new anxiety drug
This is exactly what they said about Xanax...and the benzos that followed Valium in general. They were safe and did not cause addiction, when in fact it's harder to come off the newer shorter acting drugs than it is to get off Valium. I lived in a generation that spit out new psychiatric drugs every... Continue Reading →
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