The editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry, in a comment on Morrison et al.’s “Antipsychotics: is it Time to Introduce Patient Choice,” announces “the time has now come to call an end to the psychopharmacological revolution of 1952… The combination of extrapyramidal symptoms, dangers of tardive dyskinesia and the neuromalignant syndrome, weight gain and the metabolic syndrome, sedation, postural hypotension, and interference in sexual function … would need to be offset by massive symptomatic and social functioning improvement to make the benefit/risk ratio positive.” The editor proposes an equal place for environmental and psychological with pharmacological strategies.
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How nice that the British psychiatric establishment now says the risk/benefit ratio of antipsychotics might be unfavorable.
How about admitting that what their profession has done is ruin hundreds of thousands of lives?
How about admitting that their profession has been a total failure in its supposed mission?
Cloaked in this guarded academic language is the same old arrogance and amorality. Do the people reading this really think that any real change in the way people in emotional distress are treated is going to come from the same people who are responsible for these abuses in the first place?
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There are people who write for this very website who believe that real change is going to come from slicing up dead rat brains. People who claim to be critics of the medical model, who believe in slicing up dead rats to prove people with the schizophrenia label are diseased is research worth of great respect.
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There is simply no way for the psychiatric establishment to get the toothpaste back in the tube…
Conventional bio-psychiatry is dead.
Period.
Duane
http://discoverandrecover.wordpress.com/warning
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It may be dead, but you need to tell them this fact because it’s still going strong and hard where I live.
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Psyvhiatry IS dead.
It’s just taking time (in spite of high-tech communication) to get the word out.
History: Juneteenth
President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was ordered on January 1, 1963.
Due to few Union troops here in Texas to deliver the order, the Proclamation was not formally made in Texas until June 19th, 1865 (Juneteenth), when Union Major General Gordon Granger made a public announcement on Galveston Island.
The slaves in Texas had been “free” for two and a half years! … They just hadn’t gotten the formal announcment.
Psychiaty is dead.
It has been dead for a while now.
It’s just gonna take time to get the word out.
And we are all free from psychiatry by force.
We have always been.
We just need to get a law passed. –
http://discoverandrecover.wordpress.com/mental-health-freedom-and-recovery-act/
And we need to make the proclamation worlwide, to every island!
Duane
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typo – 1863
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The use of rodents is a long-standing tradition in bio-psychiatry. The field creates drugs that disabled the brains of rats, and then markets the product as “therapeutic”… The field then looks closely at the brains of rats who have been on the drugs, and points to disease (caused by brain-damaging drugs)!
It calls the process, and the drugs used in the process, “medicine”.
“Astrology is to astronomy what psychiatry is to medicine.” – Leonard Roy Frank
Duane
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inverted
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I’m hoping for change and working for change. Not by slicing up dead rats brains or by putting the toothpaste back in the tube. Also not forgetting the past. But by doing what I can to bring change about.
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Yes, you are!
As are a growing number of us!
Thank you, Chrys!
Duane
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They’ll come up with something else. If there is something that has been a constant with the psychiatric establishment is their ability to fabricate scams that supersede the old ones. Typically, the evilness of their new quackeries is always an order of magnitude worse than that of the older ones. So while I find relief in that some voices within the establishment are calling for a end to pharmacopsychiatry I am fearful about their next scam.
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About time too: somebody from the establishment pipes up and says it loud and clear. I believe in change even if the change won’t happen over night.First of all what gets taught in medical school needs to change.
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Psychiatry may be dead, but it is not going anywhere.
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