My parents divorced and I was 10. We had moved to a new city right before that. I found myself in a new school with parents who were fighting and drunk. I later was diagnosed as having a problem of depression. I was given an antidepressant and like you was taking these and other drug cocktails to alleviate my pain. For 30 years I have taken some kind of pschiatric drug all the while feeling like I was the broken one. I one day listened to Dr. Kelly Brogan and she mentioned the book by Robert Whitaker and that maybe medication is not for everyone. I thought I am not going to take these anymore, I have not felt in optimal health and I have been afraid to go without because I thought I would be worse off. Getting off them was hard. The psychiatrist was mad at me, no support there. I finally was off them in 2017. I was not better over night, but today in 2022 I have a different perspetive. I realize that my sadness was situational which I then internalized for decades. My emotions were masked. I wish more people would realize that they are no broken and find that their lives can me good without the need for medication. I am happy for your.

@@beautifulrose8619 That's fantastic! You're absolutely right though, even once the withdrawal and post-acute withdrawal (which lasted almost five years!) went mostly away, it's not like you're fine and "happy" afterwards. But it's one less prison. Believing that you are biologically defective, "sick" for life, is no way to live. It's not true either. But realizing that humans are vastly complex beings and every experience leaves emotional energy and memories, is at least something every other person can relate to and usually overcome. That's a hell of a lot more optimistic.

@@beautifulrose8619 A question: do you happen to be white and middle-class? I’ve been writing about how white materially stable parents never get their kids taken away. In fact, a kid in a crazy or dangerous home will never even encounter a social worker unless that home is low-income. Maybe drugs are what we give middle-class abuse and neglect victims instead of advocacy. Convince them their brain chemistry is screwed up, because we KNOW their lily white parents couldn’t be doing anything bad! It’s gaslighting, and it adds insult (and more injury) to the injury of child abuse and neglect.

Dr. Peter Breggin Meds cause Far More Harm than Good ...just as you say. I bought his Driving Soldiers Crazy with Psych Meds and it helped me to understand what my veteran b.f. was going through. When he got off them many symptoms which had been attributed to his PTSD disappeared! The meds were Causing symptoms! Congratulations for you being in recovery.

@@beautifulrose8619 excellent. My late vet b.f. said the System had held him prisoner for 20 years.

Psychiatrists are very dangerous criminals.

Me too. I was misdiagnosed and in the last 3 years, I’m off everything after being on AP’s & AD’s for 20 years and I am doing so much better. Still have minor ups and downs but that’s just life and my life is so much better off of those drugs. I hate psychiatrists and big pharma.

@@eeeeks glad to hear.

I'm glad I'm not Robinson Crusoe in this respect. I was put on medication by a psychiatrist/criminal only seconds after he met me.

@@sharonjensen3016 Thats what they do to turn normal people into patients they can prescribe and make sick for profits/

Glad she is happy and if the meds helps her good but the meds does not help most. most psychotic people do not need medication need help from people who love and care more .,

My ex was a schyzophrenic who was refusing meds so wasn't under any influence. But both our opposed testimonies are only anecdotal

@@sofitocyn100 Disparaging “anecdotes” is exactly what Big Pharma wants all of us doing. You’re being played.

I have my own experience of seeing friends and family medicated when experiencing suffering. However we must all thank folks like RW who have taken results and given us the evidence we need to be informed . Especially when he has been attacked by the combined forces of big pharma and professional righteousness

@@sofitocyn100 These incidences are more than anecdotal and those of us who have lived with so called "schizophrenics" or seen what the MH system has done first hand and how much trauma and misdiagnosis goes on over and over again know that just because drugs may appear to work in terms they sedate people is not the same as curing someone from "schizophrenia"which is often diagnosed without any sifficient assessment and any background or personal hisotry or understanding of trauma is virtually if ever considered. So what is schizophrenia exactly? someone who hears certain auditory or visual hallucinations? and other unusual beliefs or strange behaviours. People refue meds for all sorts of reasons and often due to the cooercive way they are given.Telling people they have a disease and given them drugs without an open dialogue or interaction or more follow up and ongoing relationship is often the reason why most people refuse drugs,plus obviously their own "hallucinations"or personal subjective expereinces which might be telling them to not trust or be ina state of hyper vigliance/alert and not able to trust another person. Building relationship,establishing trust,engaging with the person about what their dlusions or voices or whatever might mean to them and a process called Open Dialogue has shown to be more effective than many drugs treatments. There maybe a place for meds but meds alone are far from the treatments thats needed especially when given with no other support or therapeutic input and when admistered forcibly and in traumatici circumstances.

Victim Support off demon industry- Sean O'Dwyer- 140 Hobson Street.- Auckland City. 1010.- New Zealand.- South pacific.''

I am so glad for you. The meds they give us cause horrific things long term. Damage to the brain. Im going through it and its unbearbale. I believe we need to look at natural remedies to ease some things and mostly good theraphy and more information to families and the public, as many times they cause our symptoms and anguish to become deeper.

Hey, do you still suffer from symptons. What lifestyle changes did you make? Thanks for your reply

Or they just diagnose one with something else like manic, or bipolar.

Wow!

They also tell people to be "more compliant" and they will somehow magically get better.

Richard; the a--hole who said "I'm so sick of evidence-based medicine" must b sick of his job.

Ms. Stutz! I agree w/u RE: there'll NVR B PROGRESS w/in mental health.

But they fill their mouths speaking falsehoods, they claim that the research shows so and the medications along with therapy has great success rates and people live in Wellness.

@@madelynhernandez7453 Excuse me? Did I miss something here? NOBODY (btwn Ms. Stutz & me) said anything about psych meds being good @ all. Unless ur comment was directed 2wards some1 else IDK of, u misinterpreted something here.

Never say never… in the 2080s they’re gonna look back at these drugs as barbaric

Not in the US! Very slim chance of escaping the drug mill. I will go out on a limb and surmise that psychiatry in the US is only a distribution mechanism for big Pharma- and everyone gets rich. Broken - the American Medical Association is a mafia. There is no health care.

Ms. Q.; SPOT-ON U R!!!!! Couldn't have said it better myself.

Anatomy of an epidemic, mad in America, psychiatry under the influence

​@kotenoklelu3471 Anatomy of an Epidemic is an absolute must-read. Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters, also -- the cross-cultural study.

Parents are not educated on the fraud of psychiatry. They are duped too.

As a parent, I didn't know because I trusted the psychiatrists. I only realized there was something wrong when my daughter suffered side effects and the doctor only told us to quit cold turkey and she couldn't because of the withdrawal symptoms. Then, I finally searched the internet. But my daughter, who is now 21, still believes the doctors and she thought she only needed to find the right drugs, just without side effects. So she keeps looking, going to other psychiatrists on her own, believing her mental illness is permanent. I fail to convince her to find alternatives. She believes the doctors and Reddit more.

@@cuekinaja there's a good chance she's not even mentally ill. 90 to 95 percent of the psychiatric claims are made up shit, often only describing normal reactions/patterns of behavior. Psychiatry is, for the most part, a scam.

@@cuekinaja That's sad she has become brainwashed and conditioned by psychiatrists. Psychiatry is not a science, nothing they say is scientific, they symptoms of mental illness are created by them with their drugs.

not when you are forced into a psyc ward for 3 days andf they drug your food, tell you you cant leave without taking meds

Truth.

How sad. I don't know how you know this. Is it public information? Also Jordan Peterson had a problem with akathesia. I wish people would seek out more solutions to their mental health if they could avoid medication that would benefit them.

@@beautifulrose8619 Jordan Peterson got a taste of his own medicine. He's a psychologist, studies a destructive pseudoscience the same ideology as psychiatrists now he knows what benzo withdrawal feels like.

​@@capresti3537 don't wish it on anyone... it's an ugly look

Omg.. how can these things happen? I'm in benzos withdrawal right now. I can't even imagine the agony she must have been going through... It's just too sad. God help us all!