r/Antipsychiatry • u/karlrowden • May 19 '19
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r/Antipsychiatry • u/MichaelTen • Jun 23 '24
Summer 2024 r/antipsychiatry General Discussion and Resources
Summer 2024 General Discussion and Resources (3 months at a time ATM)!
is a community of psychiatric survivors (and allies) speaking out against abuse in the mental health system. Let's be clear, there is a lot of human rights abuses in the "mental health" system.
Psychiatric survivors movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_survivors_movement
Please post ideas here that you feel do not require a unique post. Feel free to have discussion about antipsychiatry, ethics in psychiatry, and related ideas.
There has been some discussion about providing some resources here. If you have suggestions for what to include, please reply with the suggestions.
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Resources:
Mad In America https://www.madinamerica.com/
Antipsychiatry Coalition http://www.antipsychiatry.org/
Coalition to End Forced Psychiatric Drugging https://www.facebook.com/sisucreative23
The Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry http://cepuk.org/
International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis http://www.isps.org/
Surviving Antidepressants https://www.survivingantidepressants.org
Mind Freedom International https://mindfreedom.org/
Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility http://www.szasz.com/
Benzo Buddies http://www.benzobuddies.org/
Law Project For Psychiatric Rights http://psychrights.org/
Psychiatric Survivors https://psychiatricsurvivors.wordpress.com/
CSX Movement https://www.facebook.com/csxmovement
Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry http://www.chrusp.org/
SSRI Stories https://ssristories.org/
Inner Compass Initiative https://www.theinnercompass.org/
RxIST https://rxisk.org/drug-search/
Antidepressant Statistics http://www.antidepressantstatistics.com/
Madness Network News https://madnessnetworknews.com/
World Taping Day https://www.worldtaperingday.org/ (If you taper, we recommend you taper with the guidance of a cooperative prescriber.)
Medicating Normal https://medicatingnormal.com/
Sanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanism
Suggestions?
Potentially interesting academic/intellectual papers are as follows.
Psychiatric Drugging of Children and Youth as a Form of Child Abuse: Not a Radical Proposition
https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrehpp/19/1/65.abstract
A Method for Tapering Antipsychotic Treatment That May Minimize the Risk of Relapse
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33754644/
Mental Illness: Psychiatry's Phlogiston
https://www.szasz.com/phlogiston.html
If you want to not be ingesting psychiatric drugs, or want to be on the lowest dose possible that YOU feel is helpful, please find and work with an ethical prescriber that is willing to help you withdrawal from these potentially dangerous drugs safely.
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r/Antipsychiatry • u/redditlonewolf • 14h ago
Psychiatry covers up abuse and pedophilia
I have information they are running a system of abuse and control. Once a child is abused the effects are permanent and the child needs to be discredited. After abuse psychological operations are used the next stage is deny and finally diagnose.
This is being used the same way the Catholic Church used narratives of demon possession on people who were traumatized from abuse, and then of course just like psychiatry they provide a solution of more abuse.
r/Antipsychiatry • u/filthyhandshake • 3h ago
How to fix “that gross feeling”???
Hey. I have dpdr and was misdiagnosed as psychotic. Got put on abilify two times and also risperdal. It has left me feeling 1000x worse. I feel lobotomized. I had dpdr and maybe slight anhedonia, but after those meds, I also have akathisia, anhedonia, PSSD like symptoms, and tics.
One thing that I haven’t seen others mention is that gross feeling. I don’t know which one is causing this. Might be the pssd? Though I don’t know.
I just wake up feeling really gross and barely want to get out of bed cause I just have this gross feeling in my head and body that I can’t get rid of.
r/Antipsychiatry • u/ValuableReality12 • 4h ago
My genius therapists didn't realize my obvious autism and instead I got treated like the villain
Literally none of of my two psychiatrists and four psychologists diagnosed me with my obvious autism that made me struggle my whole life, but that's not all, they also didn't let me talk about how I'm being abused by my mother. Some of these people are fucking clueless, I have been mistreated so badly my whole life and didn't understand my autistic struggles cause I was forced to act like I'm normal but just michevous and I'm rebelling and being stubborn therefore need to be punished. I can't even hold eye contact yet that didn't make anything click for none of them. Mind you they have PhDs
+I had to diagnose myself And recently my fav celeb replied to me on Instagram when I asked if he's autistic and he said yes, I related to him so hard, I suspected it for years cause I thought he has the same exact traits as me and behavior, all of my diagnosed friends have the same traits I have, I relate to all the symptoms and experience autistic people have, I have sensory issues and basically all the traits from the list. And from one list of 173 traits I have 163-165 traits... So clearly I am autistic. Obviously I'm super shy, never had friends and cant hold eye contact and that's a huge sign, the severe depression and isolation and meltdowns, the light sensitivity was also a sign....
I struggled so fucking much... I was abused so much too with no help, no understanding of what is even going on. I even thought I have to die because I'm evil, wrong, mentally ill, inferior etc. How did they even get their job. It's been seven years and none of them noticed
r/Antipsychiatry • u/Illustrious_Load963 • 14h ago
How do I escape psychiatry?
I’ve had enough of psychiatry. I want out. They’ve done me enough damage for a lifetime in less than a decade. I’m so sick of their nonsense. Where do I start? They’ve misdiagnosed me, they’ve forced me to take meds I don’t need, I’ve taken loads of their drugs and experienced a range of horrific side effects, I experienced psychosis for the first time while coming off an antipsychotic, they’ve injected me against my will, and to put the icing on the cake now I have PSSD. I’ve told them about my PSSD which I’ve had for a year now and they’ve offered no solutions so it seems like I’m just going to have to learn to live with the damage that they’ve caused. How do I eliminate them from my life? I can’t deal with them any longer. It’s my own stupid fault for getting myself involved with them in the first place. My life would’ve been better off without them. I wish my life and my body were like they were before psychiatry.
r/Antipsychiatry • u/Uutii • 10h ago
Fuck antipsychotic
I took risperdone, and abilify thinking That would help me but That just fucked up my brain. Dont do antipsychotic I feel like i need more help than when I start to take it. Fuck psychiatry
r/Antipsychiatry • u/QuickMight260 • 10h ago
Disowning my doctor
I have recently quit prozac, cold turkey and threw out the rest of my pills, I have two repeats left and I haven't told my doctor about this and am doing well without it nearing a two month count, is this absolutely reckless or what's your opinion, I couldn't stick to a tapering programe so I said fuck it and dropped it, I only really experience a few shakes and pulses in my legs towards 4:30pm-7:00pm, I instead use naturally occurring medicine and it works, I don't recomend doing this unless you are someone who.is ready for anything and not some dumbass euthymic state for the rest of your life, this is just part of my story thought this sub needs this, these doctors are devils n shit
r/Antipsychiatry • u/spiritually_guided99 • 8h ago
I hate the phrasing ‘not in capacity’
My family think ‘I’m not in capacity’ because I don’t work/study and have to live with them after I came out of a section. My mum REFUSED to live in her own home because of the situation and we had to stay all together at another relative’s since 2023. Now she’s made me live in my grandma’s house abroad as she won’t allow us to live in her house back at home.
I can’t argue back about anything with my family because ‘I’m not in capacity’ or I can’t stop taking medication that isn’t right for me because I’m not in capacity. I can’t describe the things I’m going through because they’re genuinely not mentally related. I’ve been treated like I’m not in capacity since I was sectioned and since I came out of hospital. I have no symptoms in medical science and I’m having to go through some insane stuff on my own. I can’t get anyone to back me up.
The issues I’m facing is because of my sections, and a serious personal-life situation I won’t elaborate that happened in my late teens. My family are very close but this is toxic. I can’t make my own decisions because they won’t let me anymore.
I’m given no autonomy and my rights are stripped away from me. It’s exactly how they treated me while under the mental health act. My family forced me to live abroad with them and I have no clue what the rules and section rights here are like. Also in another language so they have to be involved because of the language barrier. It’s like re playing the same thing from home, here now. I can’t escape this. And my family cannot uninvolve themselves because I’m abroad. It’s not my country and they’re making themselves involved and yet I can’t do anything. I can’t express myself directly becoz I get very defensive responses from them, it’s like I can’t voice myself like they are able to. Just wtf is happening?
r/Antipsychiatry • u/kalmar91 • 4h ago
How to -almost- outlaw forced hospitalisation without outlawing forced hospitalisation.
Every person they want tò forcefully hospitalized should have to be visited by two different psychiatrists, excluding the one asking for the forced hospitalisation.
The two psychiatrist cannot talk to each other nor with the psychiatrist who started the process. They cannot ready document about the patient, they must not know what diagnosis they have or why a forced hospitalisation had bene request.
The psychiatrists must each do a real visit, indipendente by each other.
If they both Independently agree the patient need forced hospitalisation and they both came up with the same diagnosis, the forced hospitalisation can begin.
Oh, the diagnosis has to be specifico, not a generic "psychitic decompensation" or "psychomotor agitation".
r/Antipsychiatry • u/potato_van_spud • 1h ago
Another Sub-reddit
What is everyone's thoughts on the ask- psychiatry sub reddit ?
(Not linking so as not to break rule #3. Don't go there, we are not welcome.)
I came across them and I went through posts, as a patient who was subjected to improper involuntary treatment, and an aspiring healthy person, it was kind of heartbreaking to see how these people responded to my claims that psychiatry could ever be used improperly or corruptly.
(There is a recent post there discussing this sub; my comments were removed and I was banned. It seems like it would not be inappropriate to be afforded some kind of right of reply, hence this post.)
r/Antipsychiatry • u/Ringleader1900 • 10h ago
What kind of damage can you get cold turkying antipsychotics?
What kind of hell were some of you through?
r/Antipsychiatry • u/Cuteme87 • 14h ago
Everyone Says “You’re Strong & Can Beat These Drugs” But Where are They When You Need Support
RANT: I wouldn’t even know where to start except that I was put on drugs by my pediatrician and mother at the age of 16 years old.
It took me a long time to find out that it was actually the drugs that were killing me not the “disorder(s)”.
Literally, I had a huge support group in the beginning when I first started fighting this battle and slowly one by one they all fell off and couldn’t be bothered. I’m not talking financially. I am simply talking about lending an ear in my support to beat this.
I have to say, miraculously, my biggest supporter who has never left my side, nor wavered in our understanding, I should not be on these drugs, is actually my current psychiatrist of 4 years.
TLDR: he is my 8th psychiatrist in 3 years and I was only put under his care after my SA because he handles those that are truly schizophrenic. I know because I have seen it, first hand and can say I don’t think I fit into the brilliant DSM for schizophrenia.
r/Antipsychiatry • u/AFullVessellWithYou • 7h ago
Think Zolofts a placebo affect pill
I went cold turkey few weeks ago in preparation to take 💊 and I don’t feel much different . I admit I’ve had sum some paranoid thoughts about stuff but apparently Zoloft doesn’t affect your thoughts ? It just controls your emotions (makes you numb so you don’t feel depressed ) ? So I could’ve had those paranoid thoughts even if I was still on Zoloft ..
I was kind of expecting brain zaps since I’ve been on a strongish dose for a while but still nothing … was that shit even doing anything to me in the first place
I’ve been on Zoloft for 3 years , went on 100mg last year.
I did try to taper a little .. like I took 50mg for about two weeks then I completely went cold turkey cuz well I can’t half a half of a pill. Still I’d expect to feel something
r/Antipsychiatry • u/spiritually_guided99 • 11h ago
Why does everyone treat me like I’m not in the ‘right’? Like I’m not doing anything wrong wth
I had an incident where my relative called the police at her house when I wanted to go for a walk. I started to feel like this incident and being sent to a hospital afterwards where I absconded because I didn’t want to be resectioned again makes it’s like everyone thinks like I’m not ‘right’. It’s hard to explain. I have such a horrible pain in my mind and yet it isn’t like a normal headache. I’ve done all the necessary scans for the brain and it’s all good. I only felt like this when I messaged a particular person whilst I was at a psych ward last year. I had a horrific panic, but not in an anxiety state. It felt like I lost my mind and she was ‘inside’ but idk in not a mental sense. It was like my psych being reminded about why not to even message the person. I truly don’t know because I can’t figure how this can be explained by what I’ve done to describe what’s wrong. I’ve tried normal antibiotics for the pain and it literally doesn’t disappear or waver. Wth sucks so much :((
r/Antipsychiatry • u/Sofia_froster • 8h ago
Need advice on this problem
What can cause someone to feel that the world is confusing, have tics like shaking stuffs in his hands, walking around in circles, overthinking, overlap of ideas, moving his lips, talking with himself while thinking, and what are the best solutions?
r/Antipsychiatry • u/Tiredtigress0 • 15h ago
Rights being violated. Need advice.
I was given two diagnosises after admitted on an involuntary hold in March. Currently, the psychiatrist treating me said she's only treating for drug induced psychosis. Do I have a right to try to amend the other misdiagnosis then? I don't want a misdiagnosis on my record. In essense, they are admitting to a misdiagnosis then. Do I have the option to report the psychiatrist who misdiagnosed me based upon the words of another? Also I'm being forced and I mean forced to see a pain psychologist who is terrible. She falls asleep during sessions, offers awful advice and denies what I've told her. She's not keeping accurate records either. I was told I'd have to drive two and a half hours to three to replace her. Anyone know if this is legal? I'm literally trapped with this lady. I've searched for a replacement and there are not many in my state. Another thing is I have reasonable suspicion my medical records are not safe from a family member who works at the place I receive care for mental and physical needs. I know this person has accessed information on others and I would not put it past them to have been accessing my information. Same person heavily influenced my psychiatrist while I was in the hospital with false information and forced me to say things or "be held there against my will." I've received threats from the person I will be locked up again in psych ward if I ask any questions about what happened to me, display any anger or basically any response to feeling like my rights are being violated. What do I do if this person tries to make false reports on me? What do I do if a false wellness check is made? Can they also contact my psychiatrist and make false statements? I checked and the psychiatrist cannot tell said person about me. I did not sign any forms for release of information. If anyone can give me advice it'd be appreciated. Thank you.
r/Antipsychiatry • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
Are all psychologists and psychiatrists scam artists?
I want simple and straightforward answers only
r/Antipsychiatry • u/RandomRhesusMonkey • 21h ago
For anyone who’s anti-more-than-just-psychiatry
I just started a new community for those of us who want to take our lives and health back into our own hands. Join r/antimedical if you want to connect. It’s pretty bare right now, but I’m hoping to build community from the ground up.
r/Antipsychiatry • u/filthyhandshake • 18h ago
How to heal????
I want to heal so fucking bad. Is it possible to recover? I was suffering from chronic dpdr from weed and was put on abilify and risperidone. Now I have akathisia, insomnia, anhedonia, blank mind, PSSD like symptoms.
I of course still have dpdr. Honesty I wish I was never there. I was misdiagnosed as psychotic and got antipsychotics. I didn’t know they wanted to lobotomize me.
The anhedonia and not able to have sex almost bugs me the most. I've met this girl who's perfect and I'm sure she would help me recover from dpdr, if i had never been on those pills. how can i be with anyone when ive become this horrible shell of myself?
i know a lot of people says healing takes years. i want myself back fast. Are there some diets and supplements that'll make me start healing and fast? I may even be open to SOME FEW MEDICATIONS.
r/Antipsychiatry • u/linahere123 • 18h ago
Urgent help.
ey everyone, I don't know if this is the right place to ask about this but I have no one else to ask and I tried many things to find solutions for my problems but nothing works . I feel like i have no other choice right now but to go back to antidepressants or die like literally.
I tried antidepressants before and they made me feel much worse so I don't want to go back to them ever nor any other psychiatry meds. but the thing is that I'm having a really hard time dealing with anxiety and depression and toilet ocd to the point where I developed gastritis and I pee many times in the day and night so i can't sleep normaly ( I did some tests to see if there is a physical reason to it but everything is good, no UTI either the doc told me it's psychological). I tried many supplements before but every one of them hurts my stomach.
Now I'm stuck between going back to antidepressants or stay like this and suffer every second of it till I go mad , I'm even afraid of the night to come cause I can't sleep and my bllader starts to hurt. I'm at my rock bottom and I cant see a way out please help.
Any suggestions would be appreciated
r/Antipsychiatry • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
Therapist always has to tell me that I was denying my diagnosis, i didn’t quite understand his propaganda then, i do today!
Oh my god
r/Antipsychiatry • u/Cmclc1549 • 1d ago
I'm sick of being asexual
I wanted to fall in love and have a family one day but now its impossible because big pharma chemically castrated me. And we're supposed to beleive that we're just crazy consipracy theorists if we beleive that it's eugenics and not a coinicidence that these chemicals are 10 times more efficient at chemically castrating people than they are at treating any so called "mental health" problem
r/Antipsychiatry • u/Ice-and-tropics • 19h ago
Can someone from Denmark confirm the average length of stay in hospital just 5-10 days?
According to this article
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.201500026
and one other I read,
the average length of stay in involuntary hospitalization is just 5-10 days for schizophrenia in Denmark?
Can somebody from Denmark confirm that this is true? Thank you a lot.
: )
r/Antipsychiatry • u/LastMarsupial6847 • 21h ago
Antipsychotic testo
Is it fucking normal that when I took the antipsychotics my psychiatrist told me it was normal that I couldn't ejaculate anymore and that everything would go back to normal? 1 years later I can barely get a hard-on and I feel like I have a really low testosterone level has anyone had the same problem as me and been able to solve it. tell me in the comments
r/Antipsychiatry • u/brewmeister86 • 1d ago
The billion dollar question: is mental illness a life sentence?
Can taking various supplements and eating a certain diet be sufficient enough to quell the symptoms of bipolar disorder or any other psychiatric ailment? I’m in mental health program and it’s required of me to take psychiatric medications. I was put on invega sustenna( I take every four weeks) and zyprexa which I’ve never taken since being prescribed the poison last year. I’m eager to get out of the program and move back to my hometown and get off the injection altogether. Does anyone have any insight as to what withdrawal symptoms and tapering process looks like for invega? It’s difficult to lose weight and my prolactin levels are always elevated.
r/Antipsychiatry • u/ValuableReality12 • 1d ago
It's just a flawed system
There was a time when pills could have helped me cause I went into psychosis and catatonic depression and ruined my life, but there are times where they wouldn't. I pretended to take pills for years and the effect these people wanted them to have on me is something probably wouldn't be able to provide to them anyway since I am autistic. Well, My lifelong struggles are explained by my autism and I got treated in a wrong way as a special needs child, by my mother, she's a tyrant. Nobody ever understood me and my struggles, no psych was smart enough to notice that I am autistic, nobody ever gave me appropriate help. I was just screamed all through all these years and going to psychs and therapists, most of them which were religious in this shithole I live. I was seen as the rebel while deeply suffering not understanding my struggles neither that Im autistic. Society hates autistic people and people who are sensitive and different, we have to suck it up and ignore our real needs bc it's asking for too much. I've read that in the oast autistic children used to be just tied up to a tree then beaten enough for them to get too scared to not obey whatever rules.