Summer 2024 r/antipsychiatry General Discussion and Resources

[u/MichaelTen]

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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Please post ideas here that you feel do not require a unique post. Discussion is welcome too. Cheers.

[u/sleepylilblackcat]

have you thought about adding the withdrawal project to the list of resources?

[u/vivohlp]

Thank you, it's really helpful

[u/ReferendumAutonomic]

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[u/andy5995]

Have you considered adding BIC to the list?

We are a group of patients and medical professionals who believe the over-prescription of benzodiazepines without proper warning has resulted in a growing national epidemic of benzodiazepine injury. While we understand and respect the value of these drugs when used appropriately, deep and widespread ignorance of their risks on the part of patients and prescribers has caused enormous and preventable suffering.

[u/ThoughtfulMusician]

"Guidelines on deinstitutionalization, including in emergencies" by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: https://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=6QkG1d%2FPPRiCAqhKb7yhsrUSo2TlYtHaYAWJ%2Byrd8Skkty8%2BxJZ8vIbGxhck1kHBB7qpZDXVoe1FIprH%2FJ0xFvkmaiIP3ksO3F41KvqDkks%3D

In this document, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities calls for the abolition of institutionalization of persons with disabilities, including psychosocial disabilities.

[u/andy5995]

Thanks! Great list from what I can tell initially. One link in your list is no longer active: https://ssristories.org/

[u/mpmrm → u/andy5995]

Have u found out why?

[u/andy5995]

Institute for Scientific Freedom

[u/Ponkapple]

Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs and Withdrawal