It’s something to be grateful for – the acceptance of the possibility of non disease “unhappiness”.
Stephen,
I think the drug companies are in a sense more powerful than the regulators or the government. I think if any politician steps out of line and becomes critical – they can be ‘got’.
If UK doctors are giving these medications out like sweets, then they have already witnessed dreadful outcomes, and would be bought into the “double talk”.
They’d need to do something. At the moment there’s an epidemic in Ireland of “out of character” suicide/homicide and almost nobody seems to be pointing the finger in the obvious direction.
Hi Someone Else,
My experience is that the drugs disable the body and the brain.
There are clear similarities in terms of “Prescribed Drug Induced Insanity” between this Case:-
When people “Act Out” in the community they are often presented as coming from the “Severely Mentally Ill” section. But the reality is often that they are on SSRIs – for no real medical reason.
In Ireland it’s very difficult to explain away the impacts of widespread SSRI usage.
“…..A former assistant state pathologist has expressed serious concern about the growing link between anti-depressants and suicide.
Dr Declan Gilsenan said in his 30-year experience carrying out postmortems, he had seen “too many suicides” after people had started taking the drugs and questioned whether GPs were over-prescribing them….”
Maybe “Buddhism” works for the distress of things we can’t acknowledge.
I can substantiate 30+ years of wellness as a result of not using these drugs.
Hi Dr Daniel (Ron/samruck2),
As your lifestory demonstrates successful “cures” for “Schizophrenia” already exist (- even though “schizophrenia” is classed as a dreadful “incurable” illness).
I’m definitely going to get your book.
Thanks Angela – It really is “Deadly Medicine and Organised Crime”.
Hi Dr Daniel,
I’ve seen you speak before on video. There’s a lot of resources being invested into a cure for “Schizophrenia”. Could I ask you what you would consider a cured person to be – what would the person have to achieve to be cured?
Hi Ron,
Thanks for the review. Daniels experience is very inspiring.
As regards medication my main problem was with the disabling side effects and severe adverse reactions, but I also found the drugs very dependency forming.
I came off injection type medicine in 1984 and I tapered with oral medication. By 1990 I was consuming 25 mg/day* of mellaril (a dose suitable for a 7 year old with hiccups). In 2005 I was switched to 25mg /day Seroquel, and I consumed about one quarter of this and then eventually nothing.
I was getting worrying “drops” on heartbeat with the Seroquel; plus my chest was bright pink and the rest of me white, on awakening.
*I believe Seroquel at under 150 mg /day is considered non thereuptic for “SMI”.
MEDICATION INCONGRUENCE
(from the Link above)
“…Under cross-examination by Michael O’Higgins SC, defending, Dr Linehan agreed that Ms Peters had not been taking her prescribed medication for several months before this event occurred….”
“…The defence then called Dr Aiden Corvin, Professor in Psychiatry at Trinity College, to give evidence….”
“..Dr Corvin said he had been Ms Peters’s treating psychiatrist for several years and had diagnosed her with schizophrenia. He said despite Ms Peters being treated and medicated over the last three years, her “belief system” was still entrenched…”
In April 1984 I had to practically break into a Psychiatric Unit in Western Ireland – nursing staff had been told not to admit me.
A day or two previously I had been given a first time injection of Depixol at twice the introductory dose, and released into the community. The lead up to this injection is Missing from the Records.
The Discharge Summary states the cause of this hospitalization to be a “Pre Psychotic Episode”. It Was Not – it was acute AKATHISIA. I’d had two Suicide attempts previously in the same state.
I left hospital of my own free will within 48hrs. The Prognosis stated “..we expect to see this gentleman back in the near future”
After this hospitalisation I stopped drugs suitable for Severe Mental Illness – and this was my last hospitalisation.
These would seem to be the best drugs to kill people quicker.
DEADLY MEDICINE AND ORGANISED CRIME.
AKATHISIA.
DOCTOR SURGERY RESPONSE TO ME
June 5, 2017:-
Dear Mr ….
Firstly may I apologize for the delay in our response to you. I have reviewed our prior correspondence and our prior consultations with our legal advisors.
We have been advised that we are not allowed to remove prior correspondence from the records as we would be considered negligent if we were to do that. As a practice I hope you can understand that we have followed the legal advice that we have been provided with.
However I do note there are no mental health ‘problems’ within your notes I would also point out that if you have letters from other medical sources indicating that our records were considered malpractice we would want it to be added to the medical records so that the situation is explained clearly.
I am aware that we have been discussing this matter for many years and I would like to make it clear that …. medical is not able to change this position due to the aforesaid legal advice. While we would like to continue to have you on our patients list if you find their position on acceptable you are within your rights to find another surgery that may be willing to do this.
Yours Sincerely
Dr ….
Managing Partner
ME TO DOCTOR SURGERY
April 27 2017
Dear Partners/Manager,
Please examine the email and attachments (below).
I am keen to challenge the 1986 Irish Record Summary and any Mental Health Diagnosis you might hold on me.
Please record the exact location of the attachments to this email trail on your information system, so that I can refer to them at a later date.
(Resent Emails dated 29 August 2013 + 16 October 2014 – also contain more background information).
N.B.
I would ask for the Amendment of the 1986 Irish Record Summary (not Removal).
Please acknowledge receipt of this email trail + attachments.
….
Please find attached:-
1. The Relevant Sections of my November 8, 1986 Handwritten Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter (3 pages).
2. The November 24, 1986 Irish Record Summary (2 pages) – With Requested Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Intentionally Omitted.
3. My January 13, 2012 ‘Near Fatal Modecate Experience’ – ‘Statement’, sent to;- G….. University, Depot Side Effect Research & Monitoring Team
4. Admitting Doctor, Dr F…. description of me ‘on presentation’ at G…. in November 1980.
5. The November 1986 False Reassurance Letter From Dr D….
MALPRACTICE AT G….1986
Please examine and reconcile the attachments to this email and please read through the background information to the offending drugs for perspective. My recovery after April 1984 was as a result of discontinuing these drugs.
MALPRACTICE & DIAGNOSIS
I don’t think a Medical environment engaging in Malpractice can be trusted to represent a Medical Opinion.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE OFFENDING DRUG
Suicide
Associated with Akathisia and depot Fluphenazine (Modecate) treatment
Dr A Frances went on to become Committee Chairperson to DSM 4.
Akathisia
I think I describe the symptoms of Akathisia fairly well in my November 1986 Handwritten ADR Request Letter + in My January 2012 ‘Statement’ to G.. University.
Wikipedia:- ‘Signs and Symptoms’
“….Neuro-psychologist Dr. Dennis Staker had drug-induced akathisia for two days. His description of his experience was this: “It was the worst feeling I have ever had in my entire life…”….”
“…The side effects most frequently reported with phenothiazine compounds are extrapyramidal symptoms including pseudoparkinsonism, dystonia, dyskinesia, akathisia….”
So if a person were to run into serious difficulty would they be judged to be relapsing?
Hi markps2,
It’s described as “with schizophrenia” –
who’d want to be on that list?
The 100 people wouldn’t need to disclose their identities at all – once the relevant facts were verifiable. It’d simply be about proving non drug recovery.
Thank You Robert,
I think we need to get a document together of 100 people that were diagnosed with “Schizophrenia” that can be substantiated to have gotten completely Well through non dependency on medication – to convince people that it’s possible.
(I believe present day Psychiatry promotes non Recovery “across the board” – regarding “Schizophrenia” – and a lot of people “buy into” this).
“…There are just a ‘small number’ of patients that may ‘recover from a first episode of psychosis without pharmacologic treatment or may discontinue medication and remain stable for extended periods of time.’…”
I rejected medication at the beginning.
I had 4 years of disability and suicide attempts on the medication, and I now have more than 30 years of established wellness off the medication. My Psychiatrist at the time was on the examining board of the Royal British College of Psychiatrists but he was incapable of telling the difference between the side effects of his own medications and genuine mental illness.
Ultimately he ended up on the Irish Medical Council …
Kindredspirit, I’d sooner die!
Googling in SSRI Side Effects can produce pages of SSRI disaster stories. But theres a taboo within medicine around admitting to any of this. The drugs can definitely drive a person mad but getting any kind of suitable help can be a frightening lottery.
It’s only after 30 years of non drug recovery that people believe me – but at the time I had no control whatsoever over my erratic behaviour.
My Mental Health experience was a prescribed drugs nightmare, with one suicidal hospitalization after another.
If I was on these drugs again I have no reason to believe that I would not behave in exactly the same way again.
Interesting.
“CBT/Mindfulness” got me away from Psychiatry, so for me it was good.
Hi Steve,
It’s fairly straightforward, isn’t it.
BMJ.
Antidepressants and Suicide in Ireland
“..In the context of the current debate on the efficacy of antidepressants the following may be of interest.Ireland’s suicide rate
has risen threefold since antidepressants became available with the
greatest increase occurring following the introduction of the SSRIs.
Additionally, admission rates (first and readmission rates) for depressive
disorders to psychiatric units and hospitals have shown no decline (unlike
those for schizophrenia) nor has there been any decrease in length of stay
for those hospitalised for depression over these time periods….”
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests
21 July 2004
Dermot Walsh
Research Psychiatrist
Health Research Board, Dublin
SOURCE:-
Clinical Review
Antidepressants and suicide: what is the balance of benefit and harm
BMJ 2004; 329 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7456.34 (Published 01 July 2004)
Cite this as: BMJ 2004;329:34
“..often does make clients WORSE ..”
It does.The drugs disable the brain and also the complete person. More and more drugs then kill the person 25 years before their time.
(Whereas responsible not drug help can bring about full recovery)
If Research Psychiatrists are doctoring patients records and their own research – then the necessary information on the full effects of these drugs would not be available.
“…The judge rejected a theory of involuntary intoxication raised by psychiatrist Peter Breggin, a defense witness who testified that Carter’s own medication would have hindered her state of mind….”
Hi truth,
Psychotherapy might show people how to negotiate symptoms like ” High Anxiety”. I benefited from a CBT/Buddhist Meditation Mindfulness approach.
I’d imagine most recovering “schizophrenics” would suffer from neuroleptic drug induced withdrawal syndrome.
Olga is conducting pioneering work in the sense that she is opening the door to non drug workable solutions for “Schizophrenia”.
But so many more psychologists need to join the process using the skills they already have. All they have to do is to listen to the person express their ambitions and help them with the process.
A lot of anxiety is to do with “transference” (i.e. the anxiety is in the person and not in proportion to outside events). Fear is very persuasive though, and can only be let go of very slowly.
My experience is that psychiatric “medication” can definitely cause erratic and dangerous behaviour. I have never taken SSRI s but I have consumed neuroleptics and have attemted suicide twice as a direct result of these drugs.
My last hospitalization in the 1980s involved me practically breaking into a Psychiatric Unit in Western Ireland after being given a first time injection of Depixol, and released into the community. At this time I was a real risk to myself.
My suicidal reactions had been acute but I believe SSRIs can act on the brain in a more subtle manner – with a seemingly okay person – behaving in erratic and dangerous ways.
When I came off the strong neuroleptics my suicidal episidodes stopped, and my dependency on the Irish welfare state stopped as well. My Psychiatrist at the time was aware of the dangers, but was more interested in promoting his own interests (- even at the expense of other peoples lives):-
What I’ve heard is that when someone stops smoking skunk they often recover by themselves.
I think the fly in the ointment is the use of terms like “schizophrenia” and “psychosis” – t terms that suggest impossible situations.
I’ve never suffered from “voices” but I believe people can find ways of coping with them. To me paranoia is the same as anxiety the solution being to “stop worrying” very gradually and when this happens things seem very different.
My psychiatric difficulty in engaging with life stemmed from neuroleptics. I was neurologically disabled while I consumed them but I was able to engage straight away when I stopped (I withdrew carefully).
I think any decent therapist should be able to work with a “schizophrenic” and show them how to deal with their situations so that they don’t break down again (in the same way as they might work with anyone else).
Hi,
Surely we’re talking about people with problems and not “psychotic” people. I benefited from psychotherapy and there was no suggestion on the therapists part that I was mad or that I would not ‘recover’.
A person can have strange problems – but everyone’s problems are strange.
Supposing a person thinks they might have cancer or that they might be made redundant – this is an anxiety problem. Also if a person thinks that another person might kill them – this is also an anxiety problem (as in some environments people do resort to violence and the fear of being attacked is realistic).
If a person’s worries get completely out of hand I imagine they could have a breakdown – but if a person has an accommodation on problems I’d imagine they would be unlikely to breakdown.
My solution to anxiety was not to think about worrying prospects from a worried frame of mind – but to look at them later when I felt calm – and then they didn’t seem very frightening and I knew what to do about them. My “anxiety” stemmed from neuroleptic drug withdrawal and it was too much for me – so I needed tactics to get around it.
RESPONSE RECEIVED FROM GP SURGERY VIA RECORDED MAIL
Dated 05 June 2017
Dear Mr ….
Firstly may I apologize for the delay in our response to you. I have reviewed our prior correspondence and our prior consultations with our legal advisors.
We have been advised that we are not allowed to remove prior correspondence from the records as we would be considered negligent if we were to do that. As a practice I hope you can understand that we have followed the legal advice that we have been provided with.
However I do note there no mental health ‘problems’ within your notes I would also point out that if you have letters from other medical sources indicating that other records are considered malpractice we would want it to be added to the medical record so that the situation is explained clearly.
I am aware that we have been discussing this matter for many years and I would like to make it clear that ……Medical Centre is not able to change its position due to the aforesaid legal advice. While we would like to continue to have you on our patients list if you find our position unacceptable you are within your rights to find another surgery that may be willing to do this.
Yours Sincerely
Dr …….
Managing Partner
Gerard,
I think Neuroleptic treated “Mental Illness” eventually does become homogenous – the consumer becomes dependent on the drugs and drug withdrawal generally leads to “High Anxiety”.
Yep,
What I had was a type of withdrawal syndrome – and “CBT” gave me the skills to deal with this.
Feeling Discouraged,
With a bit of luck you’ll get all your stuff back. Just take it steady!
CBT / Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for “schizophrenia” – but how could anyone talk to a mad person? Obviously the “person” wouldn’t be all that mad If they could communicate and benefit from Psychotherapy.
I’ve used “CBT” and “Mindfulness” and “Buddhist Meditation” and they provided me with effective long term solutions.
(My situation at the time was fairly “homogenous”. I’d come off disabling and suicidal neuroleptics and I was having a lot of difficulty keeping my head together).
John,
The psychiatric drugs industry makes a lot of money – and Psychiatry brings a lot of this money into medicine.
It’s like one hand washing the other at the expense if the taxpayer.
Thanks for writing it up, Emily. I’m looking forward to more articles.
I remember a lady in Emotions Anonymous saying to me that “We might all want to go to heaven but that the problem is that – We have to die first”.
(I’m still in the 12 Step)
Hi,
My GP Surgery had already “asked me to leave” via the Manager, more than a year ago. Then the Manager themselves ended up leaving, so I don’t know what happened.
I have nothing to tie me in with Severe Mental Illness in my 30 years in the UK. My GP Surgery were working off an 1986 “unsafe” Irish Record – which I wasn’t prepared to be “fobbed off” about.
Hi Emily
I like the article. You write it in a humourous manner, but I’m sure at the time that it must have really irritated you .
I was wondering what the LGAT was. It’s Large Group. So if L was getting $1,500 from each person then I can see how she could afford a Lexus.
From GP Surgery June 2 2017
Dear (Me)
This is to confirm that the the Partners’ answer to your request will be sent to you on Monday 5/06/2016 via recorded mail.
Regards
Senior Administrator
If researchers want to know why “certain people” attempt suicide, then I think it’s important that they ask them why they do. Speaking from my own case it was the “medication”.
Hi Aaron,
Congratulations, and great result.
BY COINCIDENCE:- MY OWN IATROGENIC ILLNESS SAGA
(My Communication (below) was acknowledged by my GP Surgery on May 25 2017 – and they promised to respond in 5 working days)
Dear Partners/Manager,
I am keen to challenge the 1986 Irish Record Summary and any Mental Health Diagnosis you might hold on me.
Please find attached:-
1. The Relevant Sections of my November 8, 1986 Handwritten Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter (3 pages).
2. The November 24, 1986 Irish Record Summary (2 pages) – With Requested Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Intentionally Omitted.
3. My January 13, 2012 ‘Near Fatal Modecate Experience’ – ‘Statement’, sent to;- G…. University, Depot Side Effect Research & Monitoring Team
4. Admitting Doctor, Dr F….. description of me ‘on presentation’ at G…. in November 1980.
5. The November 1986 False Reassurance Letter From Dr D…. K….
MALPRACTICE AT G…. 1986
Please examine and reconcile the attachments to this email and please read through the background information to the offending drugs for perspective. My recovery after April 1984 was as a result of discontinuing these drugs.
MALPRACTICE & DIAGNOSIS
I don’t think a Medical environment engaging in Malpractice can be trusted to represent a Medical Opinion.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE OFFENDING DRUG
Suicide
Associated with Akathisia and depot Fluphenazine (Modecate) treatment
Dr A Frances went on to become Committee Chairperson to DSM 4.
Akathisia
I think I describe the symptoms of Akathisia fairly well in my November 1986 Handwritten ADR Request Letter + in My January 2012 ‘Statement’ to G…. University.
Wikipedia:- ‘Signs and Symptoms’
“….Neuro-psychologist Dr. Dennis Staker had drug-induced akathisia for two days. His description of his experience was this: “It was the worst feeling I have ever had in my entire life…”….”
“…The side effects most frequently reported with phenothiazine compounds are extrapyramidal symptoms including pseudoparkinsonism, dystonia, dyskinesia, akathisia….”
Yours Sincerely
(Me)
Thanks, LavenderSage
Hi Ron, this is a very worthwhile subject.
I think if a person is able to bring themselves out of nightmarish interpretation states of reality – then they are definitely of use to the community.
Also, maybe a lot of traditional wisdom was lost to the western world when the “witches” were eradicated.
My “medication” caused Suicide Attempts and several years of Taxpayer Funded Disability – as well.
Cat, there’s probably nothing wrong with your arithmetic. If the taxpayer knew what they were paying for there’d be a revolution.
Hi Olga,
“….I spent 10 years as a chronic ‘schizophrenic’ on the highest disability ..”
Iatriogenic illness keeps the pharmaceutical companies going and this money gets passed around – but at a very high price to the public purse.
(I was also, NOT “safer” on medication).
You’re 100% right,
I think “Recovery” should concentrate on what actually works – not on wishful thinking.
In the 1930s in parts of Europe people turned a blind eye to killings of the vulnerable as well – and afterwards once the scale was exposed
they hung their heads in shame.
Ireland has a large Pharmaceutical industry and this is sponsored by the Universities and Health Regulators – but it is also experiencing an Epidemic of Homicide Suicide from people taking these drugs.
All of this will have to be accounted for at a later date.
If someone’s homeless or doesn’t exactly fit in into the industrial model – do they have to go on drugs…?
….“Short-term studies did not show an increase in the risk of suicidality with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults beyond age 24.”…
I think If this statement is “rigged” – the people responsible should face prosecution as anyone else would.
Hi Someone Else,
It’s nice to see you again.
You’re Completely Right:-
By not taking their medication (very carefully, with support) the “Schizophrenics”can make Full Longterm Recovery – this can be proven.
It is Criminality.
Sandra,
I was diagnosed as a terrible case in 1980/81 with guarded prognosis in Ireland, due to a fairly obviously inaccurate account of me coming from England.
In the next few years I had suicidal hospitalization after suicidal hospitalization culminating in 1984 when I was judged to be absolutely hopeless.
Then I came off the drugs very carefully, engaged in community psychotherapy and have remained well since.
When I was leaving Ireland in 1986 I collected some references from people that had known me over the years. In contradiction to my psychiatric records these references were very positive.
…..note the Psychopathic tolerance towards loss of life.
Cat,
The killings are a Holocaust, and the perpetrators are psychopaths.
Hi Olga,
Your ‘mental health experience’ sounds very similar to mine.
Imagine if a person developing crisis was told “don’t worry we’re sure everything can be fixed up again” – instead of “unfortunately, your life is now over”.
Steve,
I think the power structure at the top needs to be challenged. It’s like groups of individuals are treating publicly funded organisations as their own property.
I think now is the time to challenge this abuse – because parts of Normal Medical Practice have crossed the line into criminality.
For Example:- I’ve attended two top UK Eye Research Hospitals with a serious eye condition; and when I’ve mentioned the historical ‘effects’ of psychotropic use on my eyesight – negative mental health comments have been entered into my notes instead of my own version of my own experience. All the doctors (as far as I could see) were under this influence.
Another example of power abuse would the promoted use of statins and the manipulation of heart disease risk in terms of (isolated) cholesterol. There are lots of similar examples….
I think the individual doctors have been weakened and need to keep their heads down to survive. So they’ve become enured to a culture of exploitation and power abuse.
It sounds like a type of wishful taxpayer funded money launder attempt.
CORRUPTION.
In 1980, in my original UK Maudsley/Kings College Hospital notes:- there is no mention of Amsterdam where I had spent the previous months; no doctor takes any real responsibility for suggestions or descriptions made; and details of my personal history are significantly inaccurate.
Two months later when I was transferred door to door to hospital in Western Ireland there were two admitting doctors one young Irish doctor and one young Non European doctor. Me and the accompanying English doctor were interviewed seperately.
The non European doctor describes me (in his notes) in terms of wellness – and the young Irish doctor ‘disappears’. The young Irish doctors notes (with brief reference to Amsterdam) are updated to several days later and copied in by the Consultant Psychiatrist (in his own hand).
I was in hospital in Ireland for two months but I never fully recovered from the heavy duty drug battering of that period.
In 1980 in Amsterdam I had stayed at the same address as a Northern Irishman by the name of Kevin McGrady who impressed me as being a genuine reborn again Christian:-
I think it’s possible Kevin McGrady was being “groomed” as early as 1980; and that there was interference to the “overall process”.
Dear Dr Kelly,
Thanks for the well written Article.
I support the description of drug induced suicidal reaction as “drug induced Violence” because I think the description is appropriate.
I’ve had two suicide attempts, several hospitalizations and several years of taxpayer funded disability which can be directly traced to Psychiatric “medications”.
Many years ago when I came to the UK I wrote an Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request letter to my previous psychiatric carers in Ireland. In reply, they sent a “history” of me over to the UK – but without any Adverse Drug Reaction Warning.
At the time the President of the British Association of Psychopharmacologists came from the Irish University that managed the Psychiatric Unit where I had been treated.
Very well expressed, Harper West.
Simulacrum:- Deadly but completely true, Matt.
truth793810,
I don’t believe there’s any such thing. When I was in hospital (years and years ago) I came across a lot of people with problems but not nothing too special.
Myself, when I stopped major tranquilizers / “medication” I suffered from terrible anxiety – but I found practical ways to cope.
But with the right kind of basic help, a person can get well and stay well.
Thanks for the Great Article.
Schizophrenia:-
Most doctors don’t seem to know what “Schizophrenia” is.
Todays understanding seems to be that “Schizophrenia” is a long term serious chronic and DISABLING mental disorder.
In 1980 I was happy to refuse medication – but In 1983 I could not go without it.
In 1984 I learned that I would have to withdraw very carefully from the Drugs . This was what I did – and this was when my longterm DISABILITY ended.
What I mean is, to conduct a Holocaust you need to see the people you kill, as subhuman.
uprising,
I think what you’re saying here is – (medically) factual.
I’m amazed that medical professionals deny it.
DIE UNTERMENSCHE
The Psychiatric Holocaust remains in Place. Part of the procesd involves a “Subhuman” stigmatisation.
I attempted suicide again and again on psychiatric drugs. After many years of recovery I investigated my records and found my “akathisia” complaints had been suppressed in records.
I did complain to the Irish Medical Council and my former Consultant Psychiatrist responded with fairly lame excuses. The Irish Medical Council swallowed the excuses whole and let him off the hook. It was as if they thought he was doing something funny.
I hope I’m not confusing the discussion!
“Somebody” told me that if a person has a drinking problem and stops drinking and can then get on with their lives then the AA mightn’t be for them.
This person told me that the AA might be for a person that stops drinking and finds that they have problems in lots of different areas.
But this person seemed to take it for granted that anybody could “stop” drinking.
I wouldn’t describe alcoholism as an illness or a disease. But I don’t know if this is a major issue, since successful treatment usually involves stopping drinking and ‘changing lifestyle’.
Also, ‘Disease’ in alcoholism is sometimes promoted as ‘dis-ease’ – an underlying circumstance that could cause imbalance.
Hi Dr Kelly,
A friend of mine told me his seven year old son once asked him why he didn’t go out to the pub like other people to have a few beers. So he explained to his son that once he started drinking he sometimes didn’t look after all the other things he should be looking after. His son then advised him, that it might be better if he stayed out of the pub.
Anti psychotic is a convenient term because if a person takes this drug then “they are taking antipsychotics”.
Neuroleptic Eye Effects And the Doctoring of Patients Records + Eye Research.
I developed a serious eye condition a few years ago and attended two Top UK Eye Hospitals for investigation.
Since Neuroleptic medication had, had bad effects on my eyes I explained this to the eye doctors, as part of my history. I also explained that my neuroleptic consumption had been many many years ago and I had made good Longterm Recovery since (through Psychotherapy).
On applying and receiving my clinical notes I was taken aback to see that reported Historical Neuroleptic Eye Effects were missing – and that negative ‘Mental Health’ comments had been entered into the notes instead.
Both Top Eye hospitals had automatically engaged in this type of record doctoring.
Nicely expressed Brett! Compulsive Anxiety was no pleasure for me and I was happy to be able to do something about it.
I went straight up when I stopped lithium – but it wasn’t genuine mania it was more a change in personality from flatness to enthusiasm. I my view I have never in my life been clinically depressed or clinically elated.
Anxiety was my main problem when I stopped medication. But this has changed now as I have worked my way through it.
Hi FeelingDiscouraged,
I think the notion about Hallucinations is changing thanks to – The Hearing Voices Network + other advancements.
DEADLY MEDICINE
When I moved to the UK in 1986 I wrote to “doctors” in Western Ireland asking for Adverse Drug Reaction Warning to be sent to the UK.
“Doctors” in response, sent over an account of me in the negative – with Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Intentionally Ommitted.
The November 8 1986 Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter was at the very back of my (FOI requested Irish Notes) and the November 24 1986 “negative account” of me was in my English notes.
I think what we need to promote is that people do recover – or maybe that there’s nothing too badly wrong with a lot of people to begin with – or that there’s no such thing as the disorders of “Schizophrenia” or “Bipolar”.
EXAMPLE OF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION
Excerpt from UK Information Commissioners Office
Email July 1 2016
“…..You have also raised concerns about the retention of information that you were previously advised had been removed….”
“…. I understand from Ms H. that this matter has been discussed with the Practice Manager who has advised that the medical professionals feel that it forms part of your ongoing care and therefore that it is still relevant to your medical records and must not be removed. ….”
Email 16 October 2014
GP Surgery Offers Cast Iron Guarantee of Removal of Historical Record and Diagnosis:-
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 at 11:21, Medical X
(NHS CENTRAL LONDON)
wrote:
Dear Mr (Me)
Thank you for your e-mail below.
1. As per your conversation with Dr S. in October 2012 (see attached entry from your medical record) and your written request dated 08th July 2013 (see attached) the Irish Record Summary was removed from your electronic medical record.
2. Your second issue was addressed by Ombudsman’s report. If you are not satisfied with our previous explanation and their conclusion on this matter you can appeal to Ombudsman directly.
3. Same as 1.
I spoke to X Medical Centre Partners at the clinical meeting yesterday and we all feel that this is now taking too much of everybody’s time. We did our best to address all your concerns over and over again. You had access to all your records whenever you requested it and from 10th January 2014 Dr G. even agreed to write all your future appointment notes jointly with you.
We responded numerous times to your complaints and we sincerely feel that no more can be done from our side.
Please note that this e-mail will be forwarded to Ombudsman for their record.
For any further complaints related to the issues you raised in the past and we previously already addressed please contact Parliamentary Service Ombudsman.
Kind regards,
S. R.
Practice Manager
From: Me [@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: 15 October 2014 16:38
To: Medical X (NHS CENTRAL LONDON)
Subject: Re: For The Attention of the Partners: The Unsafe 1986 Irish Record Summary (Me)
Dear Partners
I have asked before to be kept informed on anything that affects me and my personal information.
Can you tell me whats happened to the 1986 Irish Record Summary – the justification for putting my name on a Severe Mental Illness Register, the letter from Dr D. K.?
Can you please explain things clearly to me in such a way that I can fully understand, so that I know exactly where I am.
And can you please state your name on the email.
Yours Sincerely
(Me)
On Wednesday, 15 October 2014, 15:44, Medical X (NHS CENTRAL LONDON) wrote:
Dear Mr (Me),
Thanks you for your e-mail.
This is to confirm that no ‘Irish Record Summary’ is kept on your medical record.
Please find attached our response in regards to your complaint to Ombudsman. As per my e-mail dated 03rd October please do let me know how would you like me to forward £250.00 payment as per Ombudsman decision.
Kind regard
X Medical Centre
From: [email protected] [[email protected]]
Sent: 15 October 2014 13:24
To: Medical X (NHS CENTRAL LONDON)
Subject: For The Attention of the Partners: The Unsafe 1986 Irish Record Summary (Me)
Dear Partners
Below is the July 1, 2014 Commentary to the Ombudsman. Please read through and please focus on the 1986 Irish Record Summary, and the background to it.
I have spent over an hour discussing this Record Summary with Dr S. in October /November 2012. In these interviews I demonstrated with evidence the ‘inaccuracy’ of this Irish Record Summary. I did show Dr S. the attached copy of the 1986 Adverse Reaction Warning Request Letter, along with other documents.
I have written about this Irish Record Summary in my 29 August 2013 Email to the Practice. You have this Email on your system and you can see how I describe it.
Can you please tell me what you are doing about this Irish Record Summary. Is this Record Summary still on your system unprotected?
Would you please acknowledge this email.
Yours Sincerely
Me (DOB xxxx)
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COPIES TO SUPPORTIVE ATTACHMENTS FROM THE EMAIL OF OCTOBER 16 2014
ATTACHMENT 1.
Consultation Information Sheet
Specific Consultations
Mr Me
(Address Removed)
30 Oct 2012 Surgery: S. Entered: 29 Apr 2014
Discussion (Ua04o) – , patient is upset that we have a diagnosis of schizophrenia in our computer . He brings a letter from G. hospital showing several admissions for psychiatric problems in the 80’s . He says that he was misdiagnosed and that he suffered from side effects from medications prescribed. HE ahs been working ever since and leads a normal life in the community without psychiatric support He wishes that we delete this from our notes since he feels that this is detrimental Agreed to delete entries (Other Episode)
to Unknown – Medical Report to L. S. , saying that patient wishes all his hospital notes to be sent here and then transferred to him
docx: 00A7F00E.docx
ATTACHMENT 2.
From: Me
To: Medical X
Sent: Monday, 8 July 2013, 22:07
Subject: For The Attention of Dr G. Re Record Amendment (Me)
Dear Doctor G.
I hope you are well.
Re: Amendment of G. 1986 Record
I would like to amend the 1986 Irish Psychiatric Record held on your system on the grounds of it being Incomplete, Inaccurate, Misleading and
Altered: Would you be prepared to do this?
I have spent over an hour in discussion with Dr S.(Oct/Nov 2012) where I demonstrated with documentary evidence what was wrong (as above) with this record. I was given the impression that the matter had been resolved.
This 1986 Record is not suitable to remain on the system as it is.
A GP might instinctively notice – that ‘Chronic illness’ ends (April 1984) with an end to treatment.
Would you please acknowledge receipt of this email with an answer.
Yours Sincerely
Me
************************************
Once I Stopped taking the Delayed Neuroleptic Injection (in April of 1984):-
My Suicidal Reactions Stopped,
My Hospitalizations Stopped, and
My Expense to the Taxpayer Stopped.
Good Comment Steve,
In my estimation at least 50 per cent of the ‘Mental Health Cost’ to the UK is based on White Collar Professional Fraud –
In my own case once I stopped taking strong psychiatric drugs, my disability expense stopped.
I think the Right Wing approach is about personal responsibility. I support this but with a charitable understanding.
A lot of so called insurmountable personal problems have now been proven to be within the scope of personal initiative – The approach of the HVN is one and the approach of The AA is another.
In my own case I found I was able to deal with chronic drug withdrawal emotional dysregulation – but I needed help to get to this position.
Who are the 30% getting no treatment. Is this the people that dont fit in? If they survive without treatment then are they mentally Ill?
EXPOSURE TO PSYCHIATRY 1980 to 1984
My Experience is that these drugs can make people more Dangerous. That they can cause Suicidal Reaction and ‘Acting Out Behaviour’ – and that the scale of these reactions is being suppressed by the Professional Academics conducting neuroleptic Drug Research.
HOSPITALISATIONS
1980 – Western Ireland Diagnosis Acute Schizophrenic Episode + Prognosis must be guarded due to the severity and duration of symptoms.
LAST TIME
1984 – April Schizo Affective Disorder (Suicidal) “prepsychotic episode”… claiming medication reaction to first time injection of depixol at 40mg “..but this is highly unlikely..”
Prognosis ..”expected back in the near future” –
Stopped the offending medication (- and was never back)
END NOTE
1980 – Admitting Doctor at Western Ireland Dr F#del :- “..The patient was co operative well orientated with intact memory and no evidence of any psychotic features..”
It’s something to be grateful for – the acceptance of the possibility of non disease “unhappiness”.
Stephen,
I think the drug companies are in a sense more powerful than the regulators or the government. I think if any politician steps out of line and becomes critical – they can be ‘got’.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4061091/a-prescription-for-murder-on-bbc-one-shelley-jofre-documentary/amp/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zjyp1
Panorama:- A Prescription for Murder?
BBC 1 Wednesday July 26 2017 @ 21:00
Where I was treated, they knew about this in the early 1980s – but there was more money to be earned in denying it.
This policeman in Ireland “whistleblew” and they near enough finished him off.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda_whistleblower_scandal
Good information, kindredspirit!
If UK doctors are giving these medications out like sweets, then they have already witnessed dreadful outcomes, and would be bought into the “double talk”.
Why did this young man kill himself?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40647530
They’d need to do something. At the moment there’s an epidemic in Ireland of “out of character” suicide/homicide and almost nobody seems to be pointing the finger in the obvious direction.
Hi Someone Else,
My experience is that the drugs disable the body and the brain.
There are clear similarities in terms of “Prescribed Drug Induced Insanity” between this Case:-
https://youtu.be/JL6dHeRoUK0
and this Case:-
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/galway-man-trialled-for-murdering-his-brother-committed-to-central-mental-hospital-733788.html
When people “Act Out” in the community they are often presented as coming from the “Severely Mentally Ill” section. But the reality is often that they are on SSRIs – for no real medical reason.
In Ireland it’s very difficult to explain away the impacts of widespread SSRI usage.
From A Pathologist.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/health/too-many-suicides-linked-to-depression-tablets-186006.html
“…..A former assistant state pathologist has expressed serious concern about the growing link between anti-depressants and suicide.
Dr Declan Gilsenan said in his 30-year experience carrying out postmortems, he had seen “too many suicides” after people had started taking the drugs and questioned whether GPs were over-prescribing them….”
Maybe “Buddhism” works for the distress of things we can’t acknowledge.
I think we need more of this.
https://youtu.be/pT0WYU4wjx8
He rubbishes “schizophrenia” and “bipolar”.
Welcome back Chrys. The out of hours doctor sounds handy!
PROFESSIONAL MALINGERING
In my opinion the disability and morbidity is caused by the lack of decent care.
“…Research on the immunological basis of schizophrenia is at the cutting edge of research into the causes of this highly disabling disorder..”
http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-archive/2017/june2017/nui-galway-to-host-immune-function-in-psychosis-ipsychosis-meeting-1.html
Papers writen on the safety and efficacy of the drugs promoted:-
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2044042/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0790966700014968
http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ps.49.10.1361-b
My experience:-
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2016/11/08/neuroleptic-drugs-akathisia-and-suicide-and-violence/&ved=0ahUKEwi5iq7Y5o3VAhXEJsAKHVjVCNgQFgghMAI&usg=AFQjCNFXEJ3SYEvSSlBEikvobkGVsyeLgQ
I can substantiate 30+ years of wellness as a result of not using these drugs.
Hi Dr Daniel (Ron/samruck2),
As your lifestory demonstrates successful “cures” for “Schizophrenia” already exist (- even though “schizophrenia” is classed as a dreadful “incurable” illness).
I’m definitely going to get your book.
Thanks Angela – It really is “Deadly Medicine and Organised Crime”.
Hi Dr Daniel,
I’ve seen you speak before on video. There’s a lot of resources being invested into a cure for “Schizophrenia”. Could I ask you what you would consider a cured person to be – what would the person have to achieve to be cured?
Hi Ron,
Thanks for the review. Daniels experience is very inspiring.
As regards medication my main problem was with the disabling side effects and severe adverse reactions, but I also found the drugs very dependency forming.
I came off injection type medicine in 1984 and I tapered with oral medication. By 1990 I was consuming 25 mg/day* of mellaril (a dose suitable for a 7 year old with hiccups). In 2005 I was switched to 25mg /day Seroquel, and I consumed about one quarter of this and then eventually nothing.
I was getting worrying “drops” on heartbeat with the Seroquel; plus my chest was bright pink and the rest of me white, on awakening.
*I believe Seroquel at under 150 mg /day is considered non thereuptic for “SMI”.
MEDICATION INCONGRUENCE
(from the Link above)
“…Under cross-examination by Michael O’Higgins SC, defending, Dr Linehan agreed that Ms Peters had not been taking her prescribed medication for several months before this event occurred….”
“…The defence then called Dr Aiden Corvin, Professor in Psychiatry at Trinity College, to give evidence….”
“..Dr Corvin said he had been Ms Peters’s treating psychiatrist for several years and had diagnosed her with schizophrenia. He said despite Ms Peters being treated and medicated over the last three years, her “belief system” was still entrenched…”
WHAT INFORMATION IS MISSING…?
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/criminal-court/woman-deemed-unfit-to-stand-trial-for-murder-of-man-1.3152495?mode=amp
AKATHISIA.
In April 1984 I had to practically break into a Psychiatric Unit in Western Ireland – nursing staff had been told not to admit me.
A day or two previously I had been given a first time injection of Depixol at twice the introductory dose, and released into the community. The lead up to this injection is Missing from the Records.
The Discharge Summary states the cause of this hospitalization to be a “Pre Psychotic Episode”. It Was Not – it was acute AKATHISIA. I’d had two Suicide attempts previously in the same state.
I left hospital of my own free will within 48hrs. The Prognosis stated “..we expect to see this gentleman back in the near future”
After this hospitalisation I stopped drugs suitable for Severe Mental Illness – and this was my last hospitalisation.
These would seem to be the best drugs to kill people quicker.
DEADLY MEDICINE AND ORGANISED CRIME.
AKATHISIA.
DOCTOR SURGERY RESPONSE TO ME
June 5, 2017:-
Dear Mr ….
Firstly may I apologize for the delay in our response to you. I have reviewed our prior correspondence and our prior consultations with our legal advisors.
We have been advised that we are not allowed to remove prior correspondence from the records as we would be considered negligent if we were to do that. As a practice I hope you can understand that we have followed the legal advice that we have been provided with.
However I do note there are no mental health ‘problems’ within your notes I would also point out that if you have letters from other medical sources indicating that our records were considered malpractice we would want it to be added to the medical records so that the situation is explained clearly.
I am aware that we have been discussing this matter for many years and I would like to make it clear that …. medical is not able to change this position due to the aforesaid legal advice. While we would like to continue to have you on our patients list if you find their position on acceptable you are within your rights to find another surgery that may be willing to do this.
Yours Sincerely
Dr ….
Managing Partner
ME TO DOCTOR SURGERY
April 27 2017
Dear Partners/Manager,
Please examine the email and attachments (below).
I am keen to challenge the 1986 Irish Record Summary and any Mental Health Diagnosis you might hold on me.
Please record the exact location of the attachments to this email trail on your information system, so that I can refer to them at a later date.
(Resent Emails dated 29 August 2013 + 16 October 2014 – also contain more background information).
N.B.
I would ask for the Amendment of the 1986 Irish Record Summary (not Removal).
Please acknowledge receipt of this email trail + attachments.
….
Please find attached:-
1. The Relevant Sections of my November 8, 1986 Handwritten Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter (3 pages).
2. The November 24, 1986 Irish Record Summary (2 pages) – With Requested Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Intentionally Omitted.
3. My January 13, 2012 ‘Near Fatal Modecate Experience’ – ‘Statement’, sent to;- G….. University, Depot Side Effect Research & Monitoring Team
4. Admitting Doctor, Dr F…. description of me ‘on presentation’ at G…. in November 1980.
5. The November 1986 False Reassurance Letter From Dr D….
MALPRACTICE AT G….1986
Please examine and reconcile the attachments to this email and please read through the background information to the offending drugs for perspective. My recovery after April 1984 was as a result of discontinuing these drugs.
MALPRACTICE & DIAGNOSIS
I don’t think a Medical environment engaging in Malpractice can be trusted to represent a Medical Opinion.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE OFFENDING DRUG
Suicide
Associated with Akathisia and depot Fluphenazine (Modecate) treatment
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16313058_Suicide_Associated_with_Akathisia_and_Depot_Fluphenazine_Treatment 1983 (Dr K Shearer, Dr A Frances..)
Dr A Frances went on to become Committee Chairperson to DSM 4.
Akathisia
I think I describe the symptoms of Akathisia fairly well in my November 1986 Handwritten ADR Request Letter + in My January 2012 ‘Statement’ to G.. University.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia
Wikipedia:- ‘Signs and Symptoms’
“….Neuro-psychologist Dr. Dennis Staker had drug-induced akathisia for two days. His description of his experience was this: “It was the worst feeling I have ever had in my entire life…”….”
Manufacturers Warning
Adverse Drug Reaction
https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/fdaDrugInfo.cfm?archiveid=7520
“…The side effects most frequently reported with phenothiazine compounds are extrapyramidal symptoms including pseudoparkinsonism, dystonia, dyskinesia, akathisia….”
Yours Sincerely
(Me)
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
RESEARCH PAPER
http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ps.49.10.1361-b
RESEARCH PARTNERS:- €9.6M
https://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/partners/
So if a person were to run into serious difficulty would they be judged to be relapsing?
Hi markps2,
It’s described as “with schizophrenia” –
who’d want to be on that list?
The 100 people wouldn’t need to disclose their identities at all – once the relevant facts were verifiable. It’d simply be about proving non drug recovery.
Thank You Robert,
I think we need to get a document together of 100 people that were diagnosed with “Schizophrenia” that can be substantiated to have gotten completely Well through non dependency on medication – to convince people that it’s possible.
(I believe present day Psychiatry promotes non Recovery “across the board” – regarding “Schizophrenia” – and a lot of people “buy into” this).
“…There are just a ‘small number’ of patients that may ‘recover from a first episode of psychosis without pharmacologic treatment or may discontinue medication and remain stable for extended periods of time.’…”
I rejected medication at the beginning.
I had 4 years of disability and suicide attempts on the medication, and I now have more than 30 years of established wellness off the medication. My Psychiatrist at the time was on the examining board of the Royal British College of Psychiatrists but he was incapable of telling the difference between the side effects of his own medications and genuine mental illness.
Ultimately he ended up on the Irish Medical Council …
Kindredspirit, I’d sooner die!
Googling in SSRI Side Effects can produce pages of SSRI disaster stories. But theres a taboo within medicine around admitting to any of this. The drugs can definitely drive a person mad but getting any kind of suitable help can be a frightening lottery.
It’s only after 30 years of non drug recovery that people believe me – but at the time I had no control whatsoever over my erratic behaviour.
My Mental Health experience was a prescribed drugs nightmare, with one suicidal hospitalization after another.
If I was on these drugs again I have no reason to believe that I would not behave in exactly the same way again.
Interesting.
“CBT/Mindfulness” got me away from Psychiatry, so for me it was good.
Hi Steve,
It’s fairly straightforward, isn’t it.
BMJ.
Antidepressants and Suicide in Ireland
“..In the context of the current debate on the efficacy of antidepressants the following may be of interest.Ireland’s suicide rate
has risen threefold since antidepressants became available with the
greatest increase occurring following the introduction of the SSRIs.
Additionally, admission rates (first and readmission rates) for depressive
disorders to psychiatric units and hospitals have shown no decline (unlike
those for schizophrenia) nor has there been any decrease in length of stay
for those hospitalised for depression over these time periods….”
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests
21 July 2004
Dermot Walsh
Research Psychiatrist
Health Research Board, Dublin
SOURCE:-
Clinical Review
Antidepressants and suicide: what is the balance of benefit and harm
BMJ 2004; 329 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7456.34 (Published 01 July 2004)
Cite this as: BMJ 2004;329:34
“..often does make clients WORSE ..”
It does.The drugs disable the brain and also the complete person. More and more drugs then kill the person 25 years before their time.
(Whereas responsible not drug help can bring about full recovery)
If Research Psychiatrists are doctoring patients records and their own research – then the necessary information on the full effects of these drugs would not be available.
“…The judge rejected a theory of involuntary intoxication raised by psychiatrist Peter Breggin, a defense witness who testified that Carter’s own medication would have hindered her state of mind….”
Hi truth,
Psychotherapy might show people how to negotiate symptoms like ” High Anxiety”. I benefited from a CBT/Buddhist Meditation Mindfulness approach.
I’d imagine most recovering “schizophrenics” would suffer from neuroleptic drug induced withdrawal syndrome.
Olga is conducting pioneering work in the sense that she is opening the door to non drug workable solutions for “Schizophrenia”.
But so many more psychologists need to join the process using the skills they already have. All they have to do is to listen to the person express their ambitions and help them with the process.
A lot of anxiety is to do with “transference” (i.e. the anxiety is in the person and not in proportion to outside events). Fear is very persuasive though, and can only be let go of very slowly.
My experience is that psychiatric “medication” can definitely cause erratic and dangerous behaviour. I have never taken SSRI s but I have consumed neuroleptics and have attemted suicide twice as a direct result of these drugs.
My last hospitalization in the 1980s involved me practically breaking into a Psychiatric Unit in Western Ireland after being given a first time injection of Depixol, and released into the community. At this time I was a real risk to myself.
My suicidal reactions had been acute but I believe SSRIs can act on the brain in a more subtle manner – with a seemingly okay person – behaving in erratic and dangerous ways.
When I came off the strong neuroleptics my suicidal episidodes stopped, and my dependency on the Irish welfare state stopped as well. My Psychiatrist at the time was aware of the dangers, but was more interested in promoting his own interests (- even at the expense of other peoples lives):-
http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ps.49.10.1361-b
What I’ve heard is that when someone stops smoking skunk they often recover by themselves.
I think the fly in the ointment is the use of terms like “schizophrenia” and “psychosis” – t terms that suggest impossible situations.
I’ve never suffered from “voices” but I believe people can find ways of coping with them. To me paranoia is the same as anxiety the solution being to “stop worrying” very gradually and when this happens things seem very different.
My psychiatric difficulty in engaging with life stemmed from neuroleptics. I was neurologically disabled while I consumed them but I was able to engage straight away when I stopped (I withdrew carefully).
I think any decent therapist should be able to work with a “schizophrenic” and show them how to deal with their situations so that they don’t break down again (in the same way as they might work with anyone else).
Hi,
Surely we’re talking about people with problems and not “psychotic” people. I benefited from psychotherapy and there was no suggestion on the therapists part that I was mad or that I would not ‘recover’.
A person can have strange problems – but everyone’s problems are strange.
Supposing a person thinks they might have cancer or that they might be made redundant – this is an anxiety problem. Also if a person thinks that another person might kill them – this is also an anxiety problem (as in some environments people do resort to violence and the fear of being attacked is realistic).
If a person’s worries get completely out of hand I imagine they could have a breakdown – but if a person has an accommodation on problems I’d imagine they would be unlikely to breakdown.
My solution to anxiety was not to think about worrying prospects from a worried frame of mind – but to look at them later when I felt calm – and then they didn’t seem very frightening and I knew what to do about them. My “anxiety” stemmed from neuroleptic drug withdrawal and it was too much for me – so I needed tactics to get around it.
RESPONSE RECEIVED FROM GP SURGERY VIA RECORDED MAIL
Dated 05 June 2017
Dear Mr ….
Firstly may I apologize for the delay in our response to you. I have reviewed our prior correspondence and our prior consultations with our legal advisors.
We have been advised that we are not allowed to remove prior correspondence from the records as we would be considered negligent if we were to do that. As a practice I hope you can understand that we have followed the legal advice that we have been provided with.
However I do note there no mental health ‘problems’ within your notes I would also point out that if you have letters from other medical sources indicating that other records are considered malpractice we would want it to be added to the medical record so that the situation is explained clearly.
I am aware that we have been discussing this matter for many years and I would like to make it clear that ……Medical Centre is not able to change its position due to the aforesaid legal advice. While we would like to continue to have you on our patients list if you find our position unacceptable you are within your rights to find another surgery that may be willing to do this.
Yours Sincerely
Dr …….
Managing Partner
Gerard,
I think Neuroleptic treated “Mental Illness” eventually does become homogenous – the consumer becomes dependent on the drugs and drug withdrawal generally leads to “High Anxiety”.
Yep,
What I had was a type of withdrawal syndrome – and “CBT” gave me the skills to deal with this.
Feeling Discouraged,
With a bit of luck you’ll get all your stuff back. Just take it steady!
CBT / Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for “schizophrenia” – but how could anyone talk to a mad person? Obviously the “person” wouldn’t be all that mad If they could communicate and benefit from Psychotherapy.
I’ve used “CBT” and “Mindfulness” and “Buddhist Meditation” and they provided me with effective long term solutions.
(My situation at the time was fairly “homogenous”. I’d come off disabling and suicidal neuroleptics and I was having a lot of difficulty keeping my head together).
John,
The psychiatric drugs industry makes a lot of money – and Psychiatry brings a lot of this money into medicine.
It’s like one hand washing the other at the expense if the taxpayer.
Thanks for writing it up, Emily. I’m looking forward to more articles.
I remember a lady in Emotions Anonymous saying to me that “We might all want to go to heaven but that the problem is that – We have to die first”.
(I’m still in the 12 Step)
Hi,
My GP Surgery had already “asked me to leave” via the Manager, more than a year ago. Then the Manager themselves ended up leaving, so I don’t know what happened.
I have nothing to tie me in with Severe Mental Illness in my 30 years in the UK. My GP Surgery were working off an 1986 “unsafe” Irish Record – which I wasn’t prepared to be “fobbed off” about.
Hi Emily
I like the article. You write it in a humourous manner, but I’m sure at the time that it must have really irritated you .
I was wondering what the LGAT was. It’s Large Group. So if L was getting $1,500 from each person then I can see how she could afford a Lexus.
From GP Surgery June 2 2017
Dear (Me)
This is to confirm that the the Partners’ answer to your request will be sent to you on Monday 5/06/2016 via recorded mail.
Regards
Senior Administrator
If researchers want to know why “certain people” attempt suicide, then I think it’s important that they ask them why they do. Speaking from my own case it was the “medication”.
Hi Aaron,
Congratulations, and great result.
BY COINCIDENCE:- MY OWN IATROGENIC ILLNESS SAGA
(My Communication (below) was acknowledged by my GP Surgery on May 25 2017 – and they promised to respond in 5 working days)
Dear Partners/Manager,
I am keen to challenge the 1986 Irish Record Summary and any Mental Health Diagnosis you might hold on me.
Please find attached:-
1. The Relevant Sections of my November 8, 1986 Handwritten Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter (3 pages).
2. The November 24, 1986 Irish Record Summary (2 pages) – With Requested Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Intentionally Omitted.
3. My January 13, 2012 ‘Near Fatal Modecate Experience’ – ‘Statement’, sent to;- G…. University, Depot Side Effect Research & Monitoring Team
4. Admitting Doctor, Dr F….. description of me ‘on presentation’ at G…. in November 1980.
5. The November 1986 False Reassurance Letter From Dr D…. K….
MALPRACTICE AT G…. 1986
Please examine and reconcile the attachments to this email and please read through the background information to the offending drugs for perspective. My recovery after April 1984 was as a result of discontinuing these drugs.
MALPRACTICE & DIAGNOSIS
I don’t think a Medical environment engaging in Malpractice can be trusted to represent a Medical Opinion.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE OFFENDING DRUG
Suicide
Associated with Akathisia and depot Fluphenazine (Modecate) treatment
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16313058_Suicide_Associated_with_Akathisia_and_Depot_Fluphenazine_Treatment 1983 (Dr K Shearer, Dr A Frances..)
Dr A Frances went on to become Committee Chairperson to DSM 4.
Akathisia
I think I describe the symptoms of Akathisia fairly well in my November 1986 Handwritten ADR Request Letter + in My January 2012 ‘Statement’ to G…. University.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia
Wikipedia:- ‘Signs and Symptoms’
“….Neuro-psychologist Dr. Dennis Staker had drug-induced akathisia for two days. His description of his experience was this: “It was the worst feeling I have ever had in my entire life…”….”
Manufacturers Warning
Adverse Drug Reaction
https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/fdaDrugInfo.cfm?archiveid=7520
“…The side effects most frequently reported with phenothiazine compounds are extrapyramidal symptoms including pseudoparkinsonism, dystonia, dyskinesia, akathisia….”
Yours Sincerely
(Me)
Thanks, LavenderSage
Hi Ron, this is a very worthwhile subject.
I think if a person is able to bring themselves out of nightmarish interpretation states of reality – then they are definitely of use to the community.
Also, maybe a lot of traditional wisdom was lost to the western world when the “witches” were eradicated.
My “medication” caused Suicide Attempts and several years of Taxpayer Funded Disability – as well.
Cat, there’s probably nothing wrong with your arithmetic. If the taxpayer knew what they were paying for there’d be a revolution.
Hi Olga,
“….I spent 10 years as a chronic ‘schizophrenic’ on the highest disability ..”
Iatriogenic illness keeps the pharmaceutical companies going and this money gets passed around – but at a very high price to the public purse.
(I was also, NOT “safer” on medication).
You’re 100% right,
I think “Recovery” should concentrate on what actually works – not on wishful thinking.
In the 1930s in parts of Europe people turned a blind eye to killings of the vulnerable as well – and afterwards once the scale was exposed
they hung their heads in shame.
Ireland has a large Pharmaceutical industry and this is sponsored by the Universities and Health Regulators – but it is also experiencing an Epidemic of Homicide Suicide from people taking these drugs.
All of this will have to be accounted for at a later date.
If someone’s homeless or doesn’t exactly fit in into the industrial model – do they have to go on drugs…?
….“Short-term studies did not show an increase in the risk of suicidality with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults beyond age 24.”…
I think If this statement is “rigged” – the people responsible should face prosecution as anyone else would.
Hi Someone Else,
It’s nice to see you again.
You’re Completely Right:-
By not taking their medication (very carefully, with support) the “Schizophrenics”can make Full Longterm Recovery – this can be proven.
It is Criminality.
Sandra,
I was diagnosed as a terrible case in 1980/81 with guarded prognosis in Ireland, due to a fairly obviously inaccurate account of me coming from England.
In the next few years I had suicidal hospitalization after suicidal hospitalization culminating in 1984 when I was judged to be absolutely hopeless.
Then I came off the drugs very carefully, engaged in community psychotherapy and have remained well since.
When I was leaving Ireland in 1986 I collected some references from people that had known me over the years. In contradiction to my psychiatric records these references were very positive.
…..note the Psychopathic tolerance towards loss of life.
Cat,
The killings are a Holocaust, and the perpetrators are psychopaths.
Hi Olga,
Your ‘mental health experience’ sounds very similar to mine.
Imagine if a person developing crisis was told “don’t worry we’re sure everything can be fixed up again” – instead of “unfortunately, your life is now over”.
Steve,
I think the power structure at the top needs to be challenged. It’s like groups of individuals are treating publicly funded organisations as their own property.
I think now is the time to challenge this abuse – because parts of Normal Medical Practice have crossed the line into criminality.
For Example:- I’ve attended two top UK Eye Research Hospitals with a serious eye condition; and when I’ve mentioned the historical ‘effects’ of psychotropic use on my eyesight – negative mental health comments have been entered into my notes instead of my own version of my own experience. All the doctors (as far as I could see) were under this influence.
Another example of power abuse would the promoted use of statins and the manipulation of heart disease risk in terms of (isolated) cholesterol. There are lots of similar examples….
I think the individual doctors have been weakened and need to keep their heads down to survive. So they’ve become enured to a culture of exploitation and power abuse.
It sounds like a type of wishful taxpayer funded money launder attempt.
CORRUPTION.
In 1980, in my original UK Maudsley/Kings College Hospital notes:- there is no mention of Amsterdam where I had spent the previous months; no doctor takes any real responsibility for suggestions or descriptions made; and details of my personal history are significantly inaccurate.
Two months later when I was transferred door to door to hospital in Western Ireland there were two admitting doctors one young Irish doctor and one young Non European doctor. Me and the accompanying English doctor were interviewed seperately.
The non European doctor describes me (in his notes) in terms of wellness – and the young Irish doctor ‘disappears’. The young Irish doctors notes (with brief reference to Amsterdam) are updated to several days later and copied in by the Consultant Psychiatrist (in his own hand).
I was in hospital in Ireland for two months but I never fully recovered from the heavy duty drug battering of that period.
In 1980 in Amsterdam I had stayed at the same address as a Northern Irishman by the name of Kevin McGrady who impressed me as being a genuine reborn again Christian:-
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McGrady
I think it’s possible Kevin McGrady was being “groomed” as early as 1980; and that there was interference to the “overall process”.
Dear Dr Kelly,
Thanks for the well written Article.
I support the description of drug induced suicidal reaction as “drug induced Violence” because I think the description is appropriate.
I’ve had two suicide attempts, several hospitalizations and several years of taxpayer funded disability which can be directly traced to Psychiatric “medications”.
Many years ago when I came to the UK I wrote an Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request letter to my previous psychiatric carers in Ireland. In reply, they sent a “history” of me over to the UK – but without any Adverse Drug Reaction Warning.
At the time the President of the British Association of Psychopharmacologists came from the Irish University that managed the Psychiatric Unit where I had been treated.
Very well expressed, Harper West.
Simulacrum:- Deadly but completely true, Matt.
truth793810,
I don’t believe there’s any such thing. When I was in hospital (years and years ago) I came across a lot of people with problems but not nothing too special.
Myself, when I stopped major tranquilizers / “medication” I suffered from terrible anxiety – but I found practical ways to cope.
But with the right kind of basic help, a person can get well and stay well.
Thanks for the Great Article.
Schizophrenia:-
Most doctors don’t seem to know what “Schizophrenia” is.
Todays understanding seems to be that “Schizophrenia” is a long term serious chronic and DISABLING mental disorder.
In 1980 I was happy to refuse medication – but In 1983 I could not go without it.
In 1984 I learned that I would have to withdraw very carefully from the Drugs . This was what I did – and this was when my longterm DISABILITY ended.
What I mean is, to conduct a Holocaust you need to see the people you kill, as subhuman.
uprising,
I think what you’re saying here is – (medically) factual.
I’m amazed that medical professionals deny it.
DIE UNTERMENSCHE
The Psychiatric Holocaust remains in Place. Part of the procesd involves a “Subhuman” stigmatisation.
I attempted suicide again and again on psychiatric drugs. After many years of recovery I investigated my records and found my “akathisia” complaints had been suppressed in records.
I did complain to the Irish Medical Council and my former Consultant Psychiatrist responded with fairly lame excuses. The Irish Medical Council swallowed the excuses whole and let him off the hook. It was as if they thought he was doing something funny.
I hope I’m not confusing the discussion!
“Somebody” told me that if a person has a drinking problem and stops drinking and can then get on with their lives then the AA mightn’t be for them.
This person told me that the AA might be for a person that stops drinking and finds that they have problems in lots of different areas.
But this person seemed to take it for granted that anybody could “stop” drinking.
I wouldn’t describe alcoholism as an illness or a disease. But I don’t know if this is a major issue, since successful treatment usually involves stopping drinking and ‘changing lifestyle’.
Also, ‘Disease’ in alcoholism is sometimes promoted as ‘dis-ease’ – an underlying circumstance that could cause imbalance.
Hi Dr Kelly,
A friend of mine told me his seven year old son once asked him why he didn’t go out to the pub like other people to have a few beers. So he explained to his son that once he started drinking he sometimes didn’t look after all the other things he should be looking after. His son then advised him, that it might be better if he stayed out of the pub.
http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/alan-hawes-family-say-they-did-not-delay-exhumation-of-his-body-35701491.html
What about the toxicology results?
Anti psychotic is a convenient term because if a person takes this drug then “they are taking antipsychotics”.
Neuroleptic Eye Effects And the Doctoring of Patients Records + Eye Research.
I developed a serious eye condition a few years ago and attended two Top UK Eye Hospitals for investigation.
Since Neuroleptic medication had, had bad effects on my eyes I explained this to the eye doctors, as part of my history. I also explained that my neuroleptic consumption had been many many years ago and I had made good Longterm Recovery since (through Psychotherapy).
On applying and receiving my clinical notes I was taken aback to see that reported Historical Neuroleptic Eye Effects were missing – and that negative ‘Mental Health’ comments had been entered into the notes instead.
Both Top Eye hospitals had automatically engaged in this type of record doctoring.
Nicely expressed Brett! Compulsive Anxiety was no pleasure for me and I was happy to be able to do something about it.
I went straight up when I stopped lithium – but it wasn’t genuine mania it was more a change in personality from flatness to enthusiasm. I my view I have never in my life been clinically depressed or clinically elated.
Anxiety was my main problem when I stopped medication. But this has changed now as I have worked my way through it.
Hi FeelingDiscouraged,
I think the notion about Hallucinations is changing thanks to – The Hearing Voices Network + other advancements.
hallucinations-much-more-prevalent-than-previously-thought/view-all/
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/when-the-past-is-present-the-multiple-meanings-of-hearing-voices-1.3060941?mode=amp
DEADLY MEDICINE
When I moved to the UK in 1986 I wrote to “doctors” in Western Ireland asking for Adverse Drug Reaction Warning to be sent to the UK.
“Doctors” in response, sent over an account of me in the negative – with Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Intentionally Ommitted.
The November 8 1986 Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter was at the very back of my (FOI requested Irish Notes) and the November 24 1986 “negative account” of me was in my English notes.
I think what we need to promote is that people do recover – or maybe that there’s nothing too badly wrong with a lot of people to begin with – or that there’s no such thing as the disorders of “Schizophrenia” or “Bipolar”.
EXAMPLE OF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION
Excerpt from UK Information Commissioners Office
Email July 1 2016
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 at 14:52, [email protected]
wrote:
“…..You have also raised concerns about the retention of information that you were previously advised had been removed….”
“…. I understand from Ms H. that this matter has been discussed with the Practice Manager who has advised that the medical professionals feel that it forms part of your ongoing care and therefore that it is still relevant to your medical records and must not be removed. ….”
Email 16 October 2014
GP Surgery Offers Cast Iron Guarantee of Removal of Historical Record and Diagnosis:-
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 at 11:21, Medical X
(NHS CENTRAL LONDON)
wrote:
Dear Mr (Me)
Thank you for your e-mail below.
1. As per your conversation with Dr S. in October 2012 (see attached entry from your medical record) and your written request dated 08th July 2013 (see attached) the Irish Record Summary was removed from your electronic medical record.
2. Your second issue was addressed by Ombudsman’s report. If you are not satisfied with our previous explanation and their conclusion on this matter you can appeal to Ombudsman directly.
3. Same as 1.
I spoke to X Medical Centre Partners at the clinical meeting yesterday and we all feel that this is now taking too much of everybody’s time. We did our best to address all your concerns over and over again. You had access to all your records whenever you requested it and from 10th January 2014 Dr G. even agreed to write all your future appointment notes jointly with you.
We responded numerous times to your complaints and we sincerely feel that no more can be done from our side.
Please note that this e-mail will be forwarded to Ombudsman for their record.
For any further complaints related to the issues you raised in the past and we previously already addressed please contact Parliamentary Service Ombudsman.
Kind regards,
S. R.
Practice Manager
From: Me [@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: 15 October 2014 16:38
To: Medical X (NHS CENTRAL LONDON)
Subject: Re: For The Attention of the Partners: The Unsafe 1986 Irish Record Summary (Me)
Dear Partners
I have asked before to be kept informed on anything that affects me and my personal information.
Can you tell me whats happened to the 1986 Irish Record Summary – the justification for putting my name on a Severe Mental Illness Register, the letter from Dr D. K.?
Can you please explain things clearly to me in such a way that I can fully understand, so that I know exactly where I am.
And can you please state your name on the email.
Yours Sincerely
(Me)
On Wednesday, 15 October 2014, 15:44, Medical X (NHS CENTRAL LONDON) wrote:
Dear Mr (Me),
Thanks you for your e-mail.
This is to confirm that no ‘Irish Record Summary’ is kept on your medical record.
Please find attached our response in regards to your complaint to Ombudsman. As per my e-mail dated 03rd October please do let me know how would you like me to forward £250.00 payment as per Ombudsman decision.
Kind regard
X Medical Centre
From: [email protected] [[email protected]]
Sent: 15 October 2014 13:24
To: Medical X (NHS CENTRAL LONDON)
Subject: For The Attention of the Partners: The Unsafe 1986 Irish Record Summary (Me)
Dear Partners
Below is the July 1, 2014 Commentary to the Ombudsman. Please read through and please focus on the 1986 Irish Record Summary, and the background to it.
I have spent over an hour discussing this Record Summary with Dr S. in October /November 2012. In these interviews I demonstrated with evidence the ‘inaccuracy’ of this Irish Record Summary. I did show Dr S. the attached copy of the 1986 Adverse Reaction Warning Request Letter, along with other documents.
I have written about this Irish Record Summary in my 29 August 2013 Email to the Practice. You have this Email on your system and you can see how I describe it.
Can you please tell me what you are doing about this Irish Record Summary. Is this Record Summary still on your system unprotected?
Would you please acknowledge this email.
Yours Sincerely
Me (DOB xxxx)
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COPIES TO SUPPORTIVE ATTACHMENTS FROM THE EMAIL OF OCTOBER 16 2014
ATTACHMENT 1.
Consultation Information Sheet
Specific Consultations
Mr Me
(Address Removed)
30 Oct 2012 Surgery: S. Entered: 29 Apr 2014
Discussion (Ua04o) – , patient is upset that we have a diagnosis of schizophrenia in our computer . He brings a letter from G. hospital showing several admissions for psychiatric problems in the 80’s . He says that he was misdiagnosed and that he suffered from side effects from medications prescribed. HE ahs been working ever since and leads a normal life in the community without psychiatric support He wishes that we delete this from our notes since he feels that this is detrimental Agreed to delete entries (Other Episode)
to Unknown – Medical Report to L. S. , saying that patient wishes all his hospital notes to be sent here and then transferred to him
docx: 00A7F00E.docx
ATTACHMENT 2.
From: Me
To: Medical X
Sent: Monday, 8 July 2013, 22:07
Subject: For The Attention of Dr G. Re Record Amendment (Me)
Dear Doctor G.
I hope you are well.
Re: Amendment of G. 1986 Record
I would like to amend the 1986 Irish Psychiatric Record held on your system on the grounds of it being Incomplete, Inaccurate, Misleading and
Altered: Would you be prepared to do this?
I have spent over an hour in discussion with Dr S.(Oct/Nov 2012) where I demonstrated with documentary evidence what was wrong (as above) with this record. I was given the impression that the matter had been resolved.
This 1986 Record is not suitable to remain on the system as it is.
A GP might instinctively notice – that ‘Chronic illness’ ends (April 1984) with an end to treatment.
Would you please acknowledge receipt of this email with an answer.
Yours Sincerely
Me
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Once I Stopped taking the Delayed Neuroleptic Injection (in April of 1984):-
My Suicidal Reactions Stopped,
My Hospitalizations Stopped, and
My Expense to the Taxpayer Stopped.
Good Comment Steve,
In my estimation at least 50 per cent of the ‘Mental Health Cost’ to the UK is based on White Collar Professional Fraud –
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/news.sky.com/story/amp/cancer-drugs-fund-a-16313bn-waste-of-money-finds-study-10853854#ampshare=http://news.sky.com/story/cancer-drugs-fund-a-16313bn-waste-of-money-finds-study-10853854
In my own case once I stopped taking strong psychiatric drugs, my disability expense stopped.
I think the Right Wing approach is about personal responsibility. I support this but with a charitable understanding.
A lot of so called insurmountable personal problems have now been proven to be within the scope of personal initiative – The approach of the HVN is one and the approach of The AA is another.
In my own case I found I was able to deal with chronic drug withdrawal emotional dysregulation – but I needed help to get to this position.
Who are the 30% getting no treatment. Is this the people that dont fit in? If they survive without treatment then are they mentally Ill?
EXPOSURE TO PSYCHIATRY 1980 to 1984
My Experience is that these drugs can make people more Dangerous. That they can cause Suicidal Reaction and ‘Acting Out Behaviour’ – and that the scale of these reactions is being suppressed by the Professional Academics conducting neuroleptic Drug Research.
HOSPITALISATIONS
1980 – Western Ireland Diagnosis Acute Schizophrenic Episode + Prognosis must be guarded due to the severity and duration of symptoms.
1982 – Chronic Schizophrenia (Suicide Attempt) + Prognosis guarded
1983 – Schizophrenia + Prognosis guarded
1983 – Schizophrenia (Suicidal) + Prognosis of Further intervention expected
1984 – February Schizo Affective Disorder (Suicide Attempt) + Prognosis guarded
LAST TIME
1984 – April Schizo Affective Disorder (Suicidal) “prepsychotic episode”… claiming medication reaction to first time injection of depixol at 40mg “..but this is highly unlikely..”
Prognosis ..”expected back in the near future” –
Stopped the offending medication (- and was never back)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16313058_Suicide_Associated_with_Akathisia_and_Depot_Fluphenazine_Treatment
Alternatively
http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ps.49.10.1361-b?mobileUi=0&
https://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/partners/
@ €9.6 million (Bristol Myers Squibb)
END NOTE
1980 – Admitting Doctor at Western Ireland Dr F#del :- “..The patient was co operative well orientated with intact memory and no evidence of any psychotic features..”