Tag: psychiatric drugs

Goodbye psychiatry

Today I’m going to see the shrink who prescribed for me while I was coming off psychiatric drugs. What is interesting about this man is that he believed me when I told him my experience and so he prescribed the multiple changing dosages I needed for all the six drugs I came off of. At the same time, however, he managed to show little or no interest in what was happening to me in that it was a mirror of what 1000s of other folks were going through. I became gravely ill as I watched 1000s of others becoming gravely ill in the process too. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Antidepressants can cause long term chronic, debilitating physical illnesses

Psychiatrists don't generally tell you about this when they prescribe them, do they? if it happens to anyone it should be part of informed consent. That it's happening to many thousands of us, we now know. We talk to one another. We're here and we've experienced this. It's important to know what is happening to people who take psychiatric drugs and not just to those who perceive their experience as helpful. It's always nice when national newspapers dare to tell the truth about psychiatric drugs. The below article is about antidepressants. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Help study dependence & withdrawal from benzos, antidepressants etc. Take a survey

We desperately need to seed the medical establishment with the indisputable facts about what have happened to us as a result of taking psychiatric drugs. Please help The Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry with this data collection. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry

Got the heads up from a friend of mine who has also gone through a heinous psychiatric drug withdrawal experience. He's involved in this effort in the UK: "I wanted to announce the launch of the website of a new organisation called the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry. You can visit at cepuk.org for lots of recovery videos, interviews with withdrawal charities and much more. I'm hoping that over time it will become a really helpful resource for those of us who have been harmed, and for the people in the UK who ought to be doing something to reduce this harm in the future. CEP has a full launch at the end of April at the Houses of Parliament, and we expect more publicity then. In the meantime, please visit the site, tweet, share, like and all the rest!" … [click on title to read the rest]

Yoga for fear/anxiety: includes video of session I did today

As my body heals from the iatrogenic injury caused by psychiatric drugs, the process of healing the autonomic nervous system demands the continual working with fear in the body. This morning I did the below yoga session. Yoga is wonderful for training us to be with the sometimes uncomfortable sensations in our body, which is a skill that can be transferred to our lives in a multiple number of ways. Practicing and learning to be with discomfort is an important skill to have. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

What are the risks of short-term use of psychiatric drugs?



Another very important thing to consider from CEP. This video further describes the dangers of having psych meds prescribed by psychiatrists that don't understand the risks involved. I think that short-term use is in some cases indicated for crisis situations (at least at this time when there are no meaningful alternatives supported by whatever meager infrastructure of care exists), but the fact remains that without MDs who actually understand the very real risks and dangers even short-term use can be a dangerous. We see many people on the withdrawal boards who find themselves having a hell of a time coming off psych meds even after short-term use. It's not as common as folks having trouble coming off long-term meds, but it's not rare either. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

The quick fix is almost always a lie

When one understands the interconnectedness of everything it becomes clear that healing must borrow from all corners of experience... "Cure" is rarely one thing applied to the whole. Healing is instead a dance of many things synergistically coming together for wholeness.... [click on title to read more]

Losing 85 lbs, buying new clothes…

A little update on the body front. Sometimes I do have fun and quite enjoy the positive changes that have come into my life. It's good to share the silly stuff too. […]

The poop project (yes, for real!)

This is a very important project! Among other things our gut health and the quality of our waste is of utmost important to our physical and mental well-being, but as Shawn Shafner points out the implications of the taboo on speaking about poop goes much farther than that. I've been researching the gut and ultimately how to achieve profoundly healthy poop for many years now. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

You know we shouldn’t tell anyone about the grave harm psych drugs cause so many of us…

You know we shouldn't tell anyone about the grave harm psych drugs cause so many of us because heaven forbid someone who *should* take meds hears us...That's the message one gets in response from people who are sadly filled with so much fear and terror...the truth becomes their casualty... … [click on title for the rest of the post]

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