I, too, am extremely lucky to have survived Poly-Pharmacy, Withdrawal, and am still surviving Withdrawal. I still have a couple of more years to go in order to get my otherwise perfect health back. I have not had an employable body in many many many years. I miss all of my old stressors/traumas/self-esteem issues as a 25 y/o.
I’m almost 40. I’ve made it this far thanks to Dr David Healey, Dr Mark Horowitz, Dr Joana Moncrieff, Dr Peter Breggins, Dr Josef Witt Doerring, Mad in America, and the rest of the Critical Psychiatry/Psychiatry survivor community.
I’m also Canadian. So, I’m ignoring all of this progressive vs. conservative stuff. Both sides don’t want harm done to their bodies & finances. End of discussion. Everyone wants to go back to romance/intimacy, hobbies, employment, enjoying the Earth/nature, etc.
“Here’s the thing about “informed consent”: Once you’ve been competently informed about the physical and psychic effects of these drugs the only way you would consent is if you were a masochist”
hahahahahahaha. 100%.
“both of which are contrary to the stated mission of psychiatry.”
“The mind is FAR LESS mysterious than most people make it out to be.”
Agreed. Keep things evidence-based: you’re born, you go through schooling, you work/contribute, you possibly mate, and that’s about it.
Parents can be terrible to their kids, because *they’re* stressed out with modern society’s unreasonable expectations. So, that causes the trauma/stress/self-esteem issues.
These Psychotropics disable us. They prevent us from doing much of anything in Modern Society at all.
Psychiatrist Dr Josef Witt-Doerring took a ‘selective’ SRI and experienced the injuries to his person (“adverse effects”) himself. So, he believes his patients.
Also, Dr Mark Horowitz is a survivor of Diagnostic Inflation (~5 different Psychotropics). So, he, too, believes his patients.
You can always tell which Psychiatrists/GP’s have tried 1 of these consumer products or not. They don’t believe in Protracted Withdrawal if they’ve never experienced it themselves.
Just as long as they can keep paying their mortgage, it’s a free-for-all blind-leading-the-blind. No consequences/repercussions/regulation, no care. Same as it ever was.
I, too, would’ve never believed survivors if I had never taken any of these Psychotropics (without Informed Consent) myself and experienced the iatrogenic-injuries to my person & soul. I’m not even religious. But evolution & natural selection don’t jive well with these Psychotropics.
You guys rock! I donated in late 2024 or so. My Canadian $ doesn’t go far, so I suppose I should’ve waited until it got higher. I donated to ALL of the Psychiatry-Survivor and Critical-Psychiatry initiatives all around the world. I’m familiar with everyone.
“Now, the irony is, one of the things that showed up here was that men took longer to ejaculate. This is obviously a sign that you’re disrupting things, but they said, oh great, now we can market SSRIs for premature ejaculation.”
Oh jesus. Could you imagine? A favourable iatrogenic-injury/Psychiatry-harm.
“Again, it’s like this betrayal of the public’s right to know about the risks and benefits.”
100%. None of us survivors ever gave Informed Consent to samples, Rx’s, Diagnostic Inflation, etc. I got sucked into Psychiatry in summer 2012 at age 25. It escallated in Fall 2021 until now, really.
Keep up the good work in helping people get their otherwise good physical health, finances, careers, housing, etc back. I don’t use social media. So, I still enjoy longer-writings. I could adapt to flashy content, but I’d rather wait & keep supporting thorough Investigative Journalism.
“our lives of suffering and difficulties doesn’t fit into a neat medical context. That’s the point. It really fits into a larger context of what it means to be human. broad exploration of this world we live in.”
We all often wonder if we lived in a different century, a different country, a different decade, a different economic climate, would we still turn to ‘selective’ SRI’s/NRI’s and the rest of the Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals?
I’m not convinced I would’ve had anxiety/self-esteem/stress if I grew up different.
Okay. I knew it. I fking knew it wasn’t psychosomatic. This is exactly what happened to me with Latuda (80mg?) in ~Feb 2022. I desperately wanted to drink alcohol. I don’t drink alcohol! I reported it to a Psychiatrist in Oct 2022, months after no longer being on Latuda, and he didn’t believe me. This Psychiatrist and another one didn’t believe anything I said about how horrifically my person is reacting to these Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals. They literally harmed my person.
Psychiatrists like that have a lot of growing up to do. If they knew the harsh reality of the products in their profession, their inner child would tell them to get the fk out and do something else for a living. Or they know, but they have a mortgage to keep paying, and they don’t want to work in the Trades. They have a cushy office job Rx’ing Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals.
The medical gaslighting is even more unethical than the acute withdrawal and protracted withdrawal. It’s psychological torture. And it happened all 3 times I had to go to an in-patient facility within 6 months *because of* the Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals themselves that I was Rx’ed.
I just read this comment/this article in Jan 2026 for reference.
Thank you for confirming what I instinctually knew & that my soul was screaming at me about.
I had to taper off everything myself with peer-support (survivingantidepressants, beyondmeds, and I found this forum/his books shortly after. My face dropped. It confirmed everything I already knew. I found OutroHealth, Inner Compass Initiative, Dr Mark Horowitz/Dr Josef-Witt Doerring/Dr Peter Breggins/Dr David Healy/Dr Joana Moncrieff/etc later.
Honestly, it’s literally the exact same story for all of us. Didn’t get behavioural-change/tolerance/acceptance assistance from a legitimate Counsellor/Psychologist. Got samples of some bullshit SSRI/SNRI from a Walk-in Clinic/GP.
Then the mis-Dx of BP#2, BPD, etc comes. ie: The tranquilizers & anti-convulsants. & eventually, people remember how they used to be, how unbelievably sick they are now, and they seek out peer-support online. Dr’s/Psychi’s medically gas-light you about w/d & say that you’re relapsing. ie: asinine bollock. They say do c/t or linear taper, which goes horrifically.
There are so many survivors of Psychiatry. It’s just sad, because Healthcare is not supposed to harm you. (iatrogenic injuries.) All we needed was a proper Counsellor to deal with the abhorrent expectations of Modern-Day Society & the ridiculous broken people within it.
To ‘sleves’, who is a Family Doctor if I’m not mistaken?
I believe we’re talking about 2 different things: someone with a brain that legitimately has a brain chemistry imbalance that makes them delusional and therefore murders people (or a street-drug creating the chemical imbalance that makes them delusional and therefore murders people) vs. people who’ve been mis-Dx’ed/bizarre Cluster C personality disorders and childhood trauma (“Borderline Personality Disorder”), and have lost money/romantic relationships/careers/townhouses/permanent iatrogenic injuries in their nervous system because of the BiPolar Disorder/SSRI’s/SNRI’s/Tranquilizers (“anti-psychotics”/Anti-Convulsants (“mood stabilizers”), etc.
We’re talking about the lack of education and informed consent about HOW SNRI’s/SSRI’s “treat” supposed depression and anxiety, the side-effects while on the drugs (a lot of men cannot feel their penises anymore and cannot feel their penises anymore for years after – even doing an extremely slow taper off), and how severe the withdrawal/discontinuation is – even long-term.
People who legitimately have BiPolar Disorder #1/#2/#3 in their brains benefit from Anti-Convulsants and see an increase in their quality of life while on the Psychotropic Pharmaceutical(s). People who legitimately have Schizophrenia in their brains benefit from Tranquilizers and can stay sedated enough to have an incredibly low quality of life they’re stuck with, unfortunately.
We’re also talking about the legitimate medical gas-lighting about withdrawal/discontinuation, and permanent/long-term iatrogenic injuries in the Glutamate/Gaba/Serotonin/Norepinephrine/Endocrine/Histamine/Nervous/Digestive systems from Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals. Psychiatrists downplaying just how severe it is, how disabling it is, how financially devastating it is, and how long-term disabling it is.
We’re most-definitely talking about 2 different things.
” The blind spot is, in my opinion, due to the reality that, if a drug is acknowledged to cause withdrawal problems, then that strongly suggests that that substance has in fact caused a physical dependancy, and doctors generally are not terribly enthusiastic about acknowledging that their substances cause physical dependance.”
THANK YOU. There are absolutely zero consequences, too.
Each and every single time I’ve brought up Withdrawal/Discontinuation since 2012 and especially since 2021, Medical Professionals (Walk-in Clinic Doctors, Psychiatrists, Psychi RN’s have ALWAYS gotten skiddish, flustered, frustrated, coy, shy, and dismissive. It’s fucking hilarious and so obvious.
If I were a Psychiatrist or Psychiatric RN, I would have overwhelming guilt and quite literally have to end my life over what I’ve done to people’s health. It is extremely extremely extremely serious what they’ve done to our bodies. A huge chunk of us are so disabled now that we can no longer work/school or were unable to work/school very much during our time on these Pharmaceuticals. We won’t be receiving any money for our Iatrogenic Injuries/Long-Term Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome, either.
Withdrawal/discontinuation symptoms and synrome is severe and lots of people have chosen to end their lives rather than continue because of how severe it is.
I cannot believe that people are able to live with themselves for what they’ve done to other human beings’s bodies and brains.
I can 100% relate! I’m so thankful for the internet to finally learn everything. Everything since 2012 is finally making sense! EVERYTHING. It’s horrific to go so long being so confused without knowing.
I wish I had known this was what’s been going on since 2012/what this term is called and what to say. My body and brain cannot tolerate anything, except Pristiq, which I take for childhood abuse. In the past, all of the other SSRI’s/SNRI’s felt like I was taking poison. They’re junk for my body, my brain, my mood, and my quality of life. And no. That does NOT mean that I have BiPolar#1/#2/#3 (recently learned that there’s a 3rd one now).
I was Mis-dx’ed about 3 years ago now with BiPolar#2 out of the blue with zero explanation by an extremely ESL-Psychiatrist who completely misunderstood me when I said that I was completely unwell in withdrawal from a Tranquilizer that a local E.R. had to give me (Seroquel I.R.) a few months prior because I had a severe in my limbic system to LoLoestrin. 3 years later, back in July of this year, I finally learned why I lost control of my limbic system. It’s the type of Progestin in LoLoestrin and why nothing ever happened with the ~7 other b/c pills I’ve tried before: they’re all different types of Progestin. I was 38 when I learned that.
I had this Psychiatrist for many years with zero benefit and was put on Anti-Psychotics and Anti-convulsants (Mood stabilizers for people with legitimate BiPolar #1 & #2) that I have zero business being on. All these drugs did was land me in the Mental Health Unit of the Hospital for the very first time. I had to take myself 11x within 12 months because of the drugs themself or the discontinuation symptoms. I was just labelled as hysterical, attention-seeking, fearful, dramatic, histronic, possible Borderline Personality Disorder because I was so angry and so messed up in withdrawal, etc when I was really in withdrawal. They didn’t recognize that, even though it’s literally mandatory that Psychiatrists are required to recognize withdrawal symptoms. These drugs literally create a chemical imbalance, and you’re in a chemical imbalance during discontinuation, which could take years and years and years in agony to stop. That’s what’s I’m currently experiencing. Because of a drug my brain didn’t require and only made me worse in the first place. And this has happened many different times in the past as well.
I’m still stuck on a few drugs because the discontinuation symptoms are quite literally unsurvivable (even with a taper as slow as possible,) and these drugs negatively impact various systems in my body, my brain chemistry, my mood, and my quality of life. The side-effects are infuriating & dangerous.
I’ve had to research all of these new bizarre drugs thoroughly over the last few years, and I always came across the term “anti-cholinergic” or “cholinergic” in general, and I knew I was on to something in terms of how negatively/badly my body and brain are reacting and have reacted in the past.
I was never ever wrong about what’s been going on in my own body, and I was met with nothing but push-back, insulting, slander, and medical gaslighting. It’s quite literally devastated and broke my long-term partner’s heart. For 3 years, he has kept saying that someone like me has zero business being on any of these Pharmaceuticals and has helplessly watched me get worse because I blindly trusted someone whose job it is to know what they’re doing with brain chemistry. Psychiatrists have never ever been on these drugs themselves, been made worse mentally and physically by the Pharmaceuticals, and tried to get off of these Pharmaceuticals as slowly as possible without your brain and body noticing.
I will never ever get an apology, nor would I accept one. Only 1 Psychiatrist apologized on behalf of the medical community, and she was a woman. No surprise there. I treated everyone I came across, including 3 unnecessary in-patient visits within 6 months because of the drugs themselves or the discontinuation symptoms from them, with the utmost respect. I have lost 3 years of my life and on-going, a significant amount of money, and my job.
This website and survivingantidepressants forum are the best things on the internet for people to know that they were never ever wrong.
You can do a ctrl + F for ‘Zoloft’ on antidepressantrisks.org
Lots of victims and survivors of Zoloft and the others.
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I agree with you, Jasmine.
Greetings from Canada.
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You rock!
I, too, am extremely lucky to have survived Poly-Pharmacy, Withdrawal, and am still surviving Withdrawal. I still have a couple of more years to go in order to get my otherwise perfect health back. I have not had an employable body in many many many years. I miss all of my old stressors/traumas/self-esteem issues as a 25 y/o.
I’m almost 40. I’ve made it this far thanks to Dr David Healey, Dr Mark Horowitz, Dr Joana Moncrieff, Dr Peter Breggins, Dr Josef Witt Doerring, Mad in America, and the rest of the Critical Psychiatry/Psychiatry survivor community.
I’m also Canadian. So, I’m ignoring all of this progressive vs. conservative stuff. Both sides don’t want harm done to their bodies & finances. End of discussion. Everyone wants to go back to romance/intimacy, hobbies, employment, enjoying the Earth/nature, etc.
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“Here’s the thing about “informed consent”: Once you’ve been competently informed about the physical and psychic effects of these drugs the only way you would consent is if you were a masochist”
hahahahahahaha. 100%.
“both of which are contrary to the stated mission of psychiatry.”
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.
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“The mind is FAR LESS mysterious than most people make it out to be.”
Agreed. Keep things evidence-based: you’re born, you go through schooling, you work/contribute, you possibly mate, and that’s about it.
Parents can be terrible to their kids, because *they’re* stressed out with modern society’s unreasonable expectations. So, that causes the trauma/stress/self-esteem issues.
These Psychotropics disable us. They prevent us from doing much of anything in Modern Society at all.
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Psychiatrist Dr Josef Witt-Doerring took a ‘selective’ SRI and experienced the injuries to his person (“adverse effects”) himself. So, he believes his patients.
Also, Dr Mark Horowitz is a survivor of Diagnostic Inflation (~5 different Psychotropics). So, he, too, believes his patients.
You can always tell which Psychiatrists/GP’s have tried 1 of these consumer products or not. They don’t believe in Protracted Withdrawal if they’ve never experienced it themselves.
Just as long as they can keep paying their mortgage, it’s a free-for-all blind-leading-the-blind. No consequences/repercussions/regulation, no care. Same as it ever was.
I, too, would’ve never believed survivors if I had never taken any of these Psychotropics (without Informed Consent) myself and experienced the iatrogenic-injuries to my person & soul. I’m not even religious. But evolution & natural selection don’t jive well with these Psychotropics.
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You guys rock! I donated in late 2024 or so. My Canadian $ doesn’t go far, so I suppose I should’ve waited until it got higher. I donated to ALL of the Psychiatry-Survivor and Critical-Psychiatry initiatives all around the world. I’m familiar with everyone.
“Now, the irony is, one of the things that showed up here was that men took longer to ejaculate. This is obviously a sign that you’re disrupting things, but they said, oh great, now we can market SSRIs for premature ejaculation.”
Oh jesus. Could you imagine? A favourable iatrogenic-injury/Psychiatry-harm.
“Again, it’s like this betrayal of the public’s right to know about the risks and benefits.”
100%. None of us survivors ever gave Informed Consent to samples, Rx’s, Diagnostic Inflation, etc. I got sucked into Psychiatry in summer 2012 at age 25. It escallated in Fall 2021 until now, really.
Keep up the good work in helping people get their otherwise good physical health, finances, careers, housing, etc back. I don’t use social media. So, I still enjoy longer-writings. I could adapt to flashy content, but I’d rather wait & keep supporting thorough Investigative Journalism.
“our lives of suffering and difficulties doesn’t fit into a neat medical context. That’s the point. It really fits into a larger context of what it means to be human. broad exploration of this world we live in.”
We all often wonder if we lived in a different century, a different country, a different decade, a different economic climate, would we still turn to ‘selective’ SRI’s/NRI’s and the rest of the Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals?
I’m not convinced I would’ve had anxiety/self-esteem/stress if I grew up different.
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“There should be a #MeToo movement for those harmed by psychiatry. It would be massive! ”
Agreed. If *I* hadn’t have gone through the system since July 2012, I would’ve never believed anyone.
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Okay. I knew it. I fking knew it wasn’t psychosomatic. This is exactly what happened to me with Latuda (80mg?) in ~Feb 2022. I desperately wanted to drink alcohol. I don’t drink alcohol! I reported it to a Psychiatrist in Oct 2022, months after no longer being on Latuda, and he didn’t believe me. This Psychiatrist and another one didn’t believe anything I said about how horrifically my person is reacting to these Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals. They literally harmed my person.
Psychiatrists like that have a lot of growing up to do. If they knew the harsh reality of the products in their profession, their inner child would tell them to get the fk out and do something else for a living. Or they know, but they have a mortgage to keep paying, and they don’t want to work in the Trades. They have a cushy office job Rx’ing Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals.
The medical gaslighting is even more unethical than the acute withdrawal and protracted withdrawal. It’s psychological torture. And it happened all 3 times I had to go to an in-patient facility within 6 months *because of* the Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals themselves that I was Rx’ed.
I just read this comment/this article in Jan 2026 for reference.
Thank you for confirming what I instinctually knew & that my soul was screaming at me about.
I had to taper off everything myself with peer-support (survivingantidepressants, beyondmeds, and I found this forum/his books shortly after. My face dropped. It confirmed everything I already knew. I found OutroHealth, Inner Compass Initiative, Dr Mark Horowitz/Dr Josef-Witt Doerring/Dr Peter Breggins/Dr David Healy/Dr Joana Moncrieff/etc later.
Honestly, it’s literally the exact same story for all of us. Didn’t get behavioural-change/tolerance/acceptance assistance from a legitimate Counsellor/Psychologist. Got samples of some bullshit SSRI/SNRI from a Walk-in Clinic/GP.
Then the mis-Dx of BP#2, BPD, etc comes. ie: The tranquilizers & anti-convulsants. & eventually, people remember how they used to be, how unbelievably sick they are now, and they seek out peer-support online. Dr’s/Psychi’s medically gas-light you about w/d & say that you’re relapsing. ie: asinine bollock. They say do c/t or linear taper, which goes horrifically.
There are so many survivors of Psychiatry. It’s just sad, because Healthcare is not supposed to harm you. (iatrogenic injuries.) All we needed was a proper Counsellor to deal with the abhorrent expectations of Modern-Day Society & the ridiculous broken people within it.
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To ‘sleves’, who is a Family Doctor if I’m not mistaken?
I believe we’re talking about 2 different things: someone with a brain that legitimately has a brain chemistry imbalance that makes them delusional and therefore murders people (or a street-drug creating the chemical imbalance that makes them delusional and therefore murders people) vs. people who’ve been mis-Dx’ed/bizarre Cluster C personality disorders and childhood trauma (“Borderline Personality Disorder”), and have lost money/romantic relationships/careers/townhouses/permanent iatrogenic injuries in their nervous system because of the BiPolar Disorder/SSRI’s/SNRI’s/Tranquilizers (“anti-psychotics”/Anti-Convulsants (“mood stabilizers”), etc.
We’re talking about the lack of education and informed consent about HOW SNRI’s/SSRI’s “treat” supposed depression and anxiety, the side-effects while on the drugs (a lot of men cannot feel their penises anymore and cannot feel their penises anymore for years after – even doing an extremely slow taper off), and how severe the withdrawal/discontinuation is – even long-term.
People who legitimately have BiPolar Disorder #1/#2/#3 in their brains benefit from Anti-Convulsants and see an increase in their quality of life while on the Psychotropic Pharmaceutical(s). People who legitimately have Schizophrenia in their brains benefit from Tranquilizers and can stay sedated enough to have an incredibly low quality of life they’re stuck with, unfortunately.
We’re also talking about the legitimate medical gas-lighting about withdrawal/discontinuation, and permanent/long-term iatrogenic injuries in the Glutamate/Gaba/Serotonin/Norepinephrine/Endocrine/Histamine/Nervous/Digestive systems from Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals. Psychiatrists downplaying just how severe it is, how disabling it is, how financially devastating it is, and how long-term disabling it is.
We’re most-definitely talking about 2 different things.
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” The blind spot is, in my opinion, due to the reality that, if a drug is acknowledged to cause withdrawal problems, then that strongly suggests that that substance has in fact caused a physical dependancy, and doctors generally are not terribly enthusiastic about acknowledging that their substances cause physical dependance.”
THANK YOU. There are absolutely zero consequences, too.
Each and every single time I’ve brought up Withdrawal/Discontinuation since 2012 and especially since 2021, Medical Professionals (Walk-in Clinic Doctors, Psychiatrists, Psychi RN’s have ALWAYS gotten skiddish, flustered, frustrated, coy, shy, and dismissive. It’s fucking hilarious and so obvious.
If I were a Psychiatrist or Psychiatric RN, I would have overwhelming guilt and quite literally have to end my life over what I’ve done to people’s health. It is extremely extremely extremely serious what they’ve done to our bodies. A huge chunk of us are so disabled now that we can no longer work/school or were unable to work/school very much during our time on these Pharmaceuticals. We won’t be receiving any money for our Iatrogenic Injuries/Long-Term Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome, either.
Withdrawal/discontinuation symptoms and synrome is severe and lots of people have chosen to end their lives rather than continue because of how severe it is.
I cannot believe that people are able to live with themselves for what they’ve done to other human beings’s bodies and brains.
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I can 100% relate! I’m so thankful for the internet to finally learn everything. Everything since 2012 is finally making sense! EVERYTHING. It’s horrific to go so long being so confused without knowing.
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“I’m allergic to the anticholinergic drugs”
I wish I had known this was what’s been going on since 2012/what this term is called and what to say. My body and brain cannot tolerate anything, except Pristiq, which I take for childhood abuse. In the past, all of the other SSRI’s/SNRI’s felt like I was taking poison. They’re junk for my body, my brain, my mood, and my quality of life. And no. That does NOT mean that I have BiPolar#1/#2/#3 (recently learned that there’s a 3rd one now).
I was Mis-dx’ed about 3 years ago now with BiPolar#2 out of the blue with zero explanation by an extremely ESL-Psychiatrist who completely misunderstood me when I said that I was completely unwell in withdrawal from a Tranquilizer that a local E.R. had to give me (Seroquel I.R.) a few months prior because I had a severe in my limbic system to LoLoestrin. 3 years later, back in July of this year, I finally learned why I lost control of my limbic system. It’s the type of Progestin in LoLoestrin and why nothing ever happened with the ~7 other b/c pills I’ve tried before: they’re all different types of Progestin. I was 38 when I learned that.
I had this Psychiatrist for many years with zero benefit and was put on Anti-Psychotics and Anti-convulsants (Mood stabilizers for people with legitimate BiPolar #1 & #2) that I have zero business being on. All these drugs did was land me in the Mental Health Unit of the Hospital for the very first time. I had to take myself 11x within 12 months because of the drugs themself or the discontinuation symptoms. I was just labelled as hysterical, attention-seeking, fearful, dramatic, histronic, possible Borderline Personality Disorder because I was so angry and so messed up in withdrawal, etc when I was really in withdrawal. They didn’t recognize that, even though it’s literally mandatory that Psychiatrists are required to recognize withdrawal symptoms. These drugs literally create a chemical imbalance, and you’re in a chemical imbalance during discontinuation, which could take years and years and years in agony to stop. That’s what’s I’m currently experiencing. Because of a drug my brain didn’t require and only made me worse in the first place. And this has happened many different times in the past as well.
I’m still stuck on a few drugs because the discontinuation symptoms are quite literally unsurvivable (even with a taper as slow as possible,) and these drugs negatively impact various systems in my body, my brain chemistry, my mood, and my quality of life. The side-effects are infuriating & dangerous.
I’ve had to research all of these new bizarre drugs thoroughly over the last few years, and I always came across the term “anti-cholinergic” or “cholinergic” in general, and I knew I was on to something in terms of how negatively/badly my body and brain are reacting and have reacted in the past.
I was never ever wrong about what’s been going on in my own body, and I was met with nothing but push-back, insulting, slander, and medical gaslighting. It’s quite literally devastated and broke my long-term partner’s heart. For 3 years, he has kept saying that someone like me has zero business being on any of these Pharmaceuticals and has helplessly watched me get worse because I blindly trusted someone whose job it is to know what they’re doing with brain chemistry. Psychiatrists have never ever been on these drugs themselves, been made worse mentally and physically by the Pharmaceuticals, and tried to get off of these Pharmaceuticals as slowly as possible without your brain and body noticing.
I will never ever get an apology, nor would I accept one. Only 1 Psychiatrist apologized on behalf of the medical community, and she was a woman. No surprise there. I treated everyone I came across, including 3 unnecessary in-patient visits within 6 months because of the drugs themselves or the discontinuation symptoms from them, with the utmost respect. I have lost 3 years of my life and on-going, a significant amount of money, and my job.
This website and survivingantidepressants forum are the best things on the internet for people to know that they were never ever wrong.
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