Matt produced some brilliant insightful work on Personal Independence, on Mad In America and other platforms. I thought he had the potential to produce lots more. I didn’t believe the news that he had passed away.
Thank you Michael. Those email reproductions (above) are real and the dates are real. And what I have stated in them is real and can be substantiated.
My GP is a nice person (as are the other staff at the GP Sugery), but he is taking dishonest and unfair advantage.
(The “Diagnosis” from Southern Ireland was not “Schizophrenia” either – It was “SchizoAffective Disorder”).
Dear Michael,
I am very sorry to hear about Matt, I didn’t believe it initially.
EMAIL TO
My Member of Parliament
19 September at 13:28
SUBJECT:
MENTAL HEALTH MISREPRESENTATION
Dear Karen Buck MP,
I would like to attend your surgery to discuss Mental Health misrepresentation with you. I think this is a relevant issue.
Please read below.
NO 1
On the attached July 20 2016 Appointment information sheet in Capitals my GP Dr Simons has written:-
“…I SEE NO REASON WHY MR XXX COULD NOT WORK ON A BUILDING SITE..”
NO 2
On the attached Legal Advisers Information sheet (from Dr Simons during the July 20 interview) Newton Medicals Legal Adviser has written:-
“…The fact that this patient has a medical diagnosis of schizophrenia is a key part of his medical record and this cannot be removed as to do so could prove detrimental to his care…”
“..It does not seem in this case that the fact of the diagnosis is disputed and it is clearly relevant information for the purpose of the medical…”
IF THE 2 PARAGRAPHS ABOVE ACCURATELY REPRESENT ME, THEN I SHOULDN’T BE ANYWHERE NEAR A BUILDING SITE.
NO 3
ABOUT ME VERY BRIEFLY
I was disabled and in and out of hospital, between 1980 and 1984. I have been WELL since 1984 when I carefully stopped drug treatment suitable for any SMI.
Yours Sincerely
ME
Michael,
Thank you very much, this subject is very Pertinent to me right now!
EMAIL TO
My GP Surgery,
Newton Medical, Central London
18 September 2017 at 11:27
SUBJECT: MENTAL HEALTH FRAUD
Dear Manager/Partners,
Please find attached 9 attachments:-
1. A character reference from Ireland from 1986
2. An employer’s reference from Ireland 1986
3. A Subcontractors Inland Revenue ID Card from 1997
4. A House of Commons Subcontractors ID Card from 2003
5. A Construction Skills Certification Scheme ID Card from 2003
6. A Construction Skills Certification Scheme ID Card from 2008
7. A Construction Skills Certification Scheme ID Card from 2016
8. CSCS ID Card 2008 Reverse Side
9. CSCS ID Card 2016 Reverse Side
Please save these attachments to your system and please inform me of their location on your system, as I would like to refer to them again.
Please acknowledge receipt of this communication.
Yours Sincerely
ME
FORWARDED EMAIL TO :-
My Member Of Parliament
From 16 August 2017 at 12:32
SUBJECT: MENTAL HEALTH FRAUD
Dear Karen Buck MP
Severe Mental Illness is supposed to be more disabling than being blind or in a wheelchair.
My GP Surgery keeps playing around with terms like “schizophrenia” to the Point that I am now too frightened to go on to a building site.
(I sent you an email earlier today at 11.15 with the details).
Yours Sincerely
ME
“CBT” is not a “Cure All”, BUT It can work effectively with Withdrawal Syndrome.
The “mind” doesn’t operate in the same way after taking psychotropics as it did before the exposure, and this can present serious problems.
“CBT” can offer alternative regulatory approachs, and after a while the techniques can become second nature.
Don,
It’s not abnormal for a family member or even a doctor to tell a person threatening suicide – “..to go and kill themselves..”
“….One night in 1977, at the age of 29, after having suffered from long periods of depression, Tolle says he experienced an “inner transformation”.[5] That night he awakened from his sleep, suffering from feelings of depression that were “almost unbearable,” but then experienced a life-changing epiphany.[12] Recounting the experience, he says,…..”
“….He stopped studying for his doctorate, and for a period of about two years after this he spent much of his time sitting, “in a state of deep bliss,” on park benches in Russell Square, Central London, “watching the world go by.”…”
Whats termed “Severe Mental Illness” is supposed to be a long term condition – but this longterm idea comes from Psychiatry itself.
I notice that most people that depend on Psychiatry remain “mentally ill” and that most people that recover – recover as a result of leaving Psychiatry. So I would have to ask what a Psychiatrist does to justify their existence.
If there was no “mental health treatment” whatsoever like in some very poor countries I think society would be far better off.
In 1800 about .004 percent of the UK Population were identified Lunatics.
In 1900 about .04 percent of the UK population were identified Lunatics.
In 2017 about 2.5 percent of the UK population are identified Lunatics.
“..In Britain at the beginning of the 19th century, there were, perhaps, a few thousand “lunatics” housed in a variety of disparate institutions but by the beginning of the 20th century, that figure had grown to about 100,000…”
I found the CBT Buddhism Minfulness Meditation approach to be good for drug Withdrawal Syndrome. It doesn’t cost much and its easily accessible. Once you know it works you know you’re heading in the right direction!
I think Gradual Reduction is a good idea.
Once a person is off the most disabling levels they can take their time and allow the drugs to slowly phase out. One in three french people takes a psychotropic but not at the level of the poor “schizophrenic”.
The videos are scary.
Hi Bob,
I think the title is very appropriate.
I made my recovery from “Severe Mental Illness” as a result of stopping drug treatments suitable for “Severe Mental Illness”.
Below is a Research Paper from my former Psychiatrist on the offending drugs :-
My problems were drug induced suicidal reaction and extrapyrammidal disability.
ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM AKATHISIA
Email From Me To The UK Ombudsman :-
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 at 10:58,
Dear K.
Would you please pass this Information email on to J. D. I apologise for any unpleasantness attached to the contents.
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;- Galway University, Depot Side Effect Research & Monitoring Team
4. Admitting Doctor, Dr Fadels description of me ‘on presentation’ at Galway in November 1980.
5. The November 1986 False Reassurance Letter From Dr Donlon Kenny
MALPRACTICE AT GALWAY 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 Galway 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
Eckhart Tolle has brilliant and free advice on dealing with trauma (and it works).
I would like to attend your surgery to discuss Mental Health misrepresentation with you. I think this is a relevant issue.
Please read below.
NO 1
On the attached July 20 2016 Appointment information sheet in Capitals my GP Dr Simons has written:-
“…I SEE NO REASON WHY MR XXX COULD NOT WORK ON A BUILDING SITE..”
NO 2
On the attached Legal Advisers Information sheet (from Dr Simons during the July 20 interview) Newton Medicals Legal Adviser has written:-
“…The fact that this patient has a medical diagnosis of schizophrenia is a key part of his medical record and this cannot be removed as to do so could prove detrimental to his care…”
“..It does not seem in this case that the fact of the diagnosis is disputed and it is clearly relevant information for the purpose of the medical…”
IF THE 2 PARAGRAPHS ABOVE ACCURATELY REPRESENT ME, THEN I SHOULDN’T BE ANYWHERE NEAR A BUILDING SITE.
NO 3
ABOUT ME VERY BRIEFLY
I was disabled and in and out of hospital, between 1980 and 1984. I have been WELL since 1984 when I carefully stopped drug treatment suitable for any SMI.
Yours Sincerely
XXXX
WIKIPEDIA
In Britain at the beginning of the 19th century, there were, perhaps, a few thousand “lunatics” housed in a variety of disparate institutions but by the beginning of the 20th century, that figure had grown to about 100,000. This growth coincided with the development of alienism, now known as psychiatry, as a medical specialty.[1]:14
UK MEDICAL/REGULATORY DISHONESTY + UNRELIABILITY IN DIAGNOSIS
In October 2012 I discovered my UK GP Surgery claiming for me as a Severely Mentally Ill Person. I had made my Recovery nearly 30 years before in Ireland, as a result of stopping strong Psychiatric drugs, and moving to Psychotherapy. These drugs had nearly killed me and had caused me several years of disability – and I could reliably demonstrate the suppression of AKATHISIA.
I explained my situation with evidence to my GP, Dr Simons at Newton Medical, Central London in two 1 hour long interviews in October/November 2012. During these interviews Dr Simons began to sweat and by the end of both of these interviews his shirt was sticking to his body.
Dr Simons committed in writing to removing “Schizophrenia” from my Medical records.
But I discovered later in an interview with a different clinician that “schizophrenia” had not been removed – and I complained. The Doctor Surgery then attempted to ‘re inforce’ “schizophrenia”.
I complained to the UK General Medical Council in February 2013. But the UK Medical Council ignored the Dishonesty; The Abuse of position; and the Interference to Information – and Fobbed me off.
In July 2013 Dr Simons was involved in a Patient Homicide:-
The main feature in this Homicide seems to have been the Interference to Information; and the Apportionment of Responsibility.
Someone Else,
I think it might be the “Regulators” treating the Health Service as their own Bank Account.
Mad In America is true:- Its possible to completely Recover from “Schizophrenia” but only through moving away from Psychiatry.
“Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime” is true as well.
Dr Peter Gøtzsche says that Doctors do not know how to use psychiatric drugs (and do more harm than good).
Thank You, Dr Kelmenson. This Article is very Pertinent.
Truth Serum:- when I complained about my own (historical) Near Fatal Drug Experience I was told by an Irish Psychiatrist that every where else was doing the same thing i.e. denying Akathisia. This psychiatrist was being honest.
This policy of Denial ties in with my GP Practice (Newton Medical) in Central Londons Approach; who are attempting to block any mention (from me) of Akathisia to my (historical) notes. Newton Medical would be under instruction (I would imagine) from their own “Superiors”.
Also Julie,
Briefly:- What I said about Akathisia being kept off records:- In the UK a person can enter their own Commentary into their notes and this is what I had been attempting to do with my dated notes. But my GP was blocking me.
(The less Akathisia recorded the less consciousness there is around it).
Hi Julie,
Brifly – Above is an example of a doctor that seriously misbehaved, that was prosecuted and the victims were to be officially compensated. This was my point.
The more Akathisia that gets hidden (by doctors) the more people that get killed (by doctors).
This is psychopathic or “Dr Shipman type behaviour”.
THE BBC TODAY
Classed as a psychopath – like “Dr Shipman”.
About 750 victims of rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson are to be paid compensation from a new £37m fund.
At the moment my GP Surgery (Newton Medical) in Central London is bending over backwards to avoid recording any mention of Akathisia on my very dated and foreign Medical Records. Though the evidence points to nothing other than Akathisia.
Dr K,
I think the “drugging” motivation has got to be MONEY, at some level. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise.
Dear Svava,
This sounds like something out of a Horror Film. I glad to hear you’re still alive.
I’ve had 4 suicidal hospitalizations while in treatment in Ireland in the 1980s and none since. The present day situation as regards suicide in Ireland has become a lot worse since psychotropic medications have come into common use.
bcharris
I agree that nutrition has a lot to do with emotional wellbeing, anyone eating fast food for a year could have a breakdown.
What the counsellors did was sucessfully help me with any problems I had as they cropped up. “Schizophrenia” was irrelevant.
I would recommend Buddhist Practice and Meditation as a safe and effective alternative to the use of ECT for “Depression” and “Schizophrenia”.
I am qualified to my opinion as I have a Diagnosis of “Schitzo Affective Disorder” and made recovery many years ago as a result of stopping psychiatric treatment.
I was also diagnosed as a fairly hopeless case while I remained within Psychiatry.
Ditch Schizophrenia for sure but please don’t replace it with a “Psychosis Spectrum Disorder”. The Psychosis approach would be “milking”.
When I reduced drastically on medication and sought psychothereuptic help to keep myself together, the Counsellors used a “Normal Approach” and this worked very well.
I was eventually able to lodge a complaint with the Irish Medical Council against my former Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychiatric Researcher (who at the time was on one of their committees, and who had been promoting the drugs that had caused my Akathisia).
During procedures my Former Consultant Psychiatrist tried to point the finger at his former colleague the “Professor” who had been previously “done” for Patient Homicide Suicide.
The Irish Medical Council did let my Former Psychiatrist off the hook (at the time) – but he left the Medical Council and Medicine shortly after.
In my estimation both of these “doctors” were “Dr Shipmans”.
It gets to a point where you’d imagine the dots would be joined and official action taken….
amnesia,
I think there’s a tolerance towards the killing of the “Mentally Ill”, within medicine.
Lots of people “die” shortly after leaving hospital. Not because of “mental illness” (I believe), but because of obvious and ignored effects of medication.
I’ve had electric shock treatment on account of my In hospital demonstration of Akathisia. One of the Clinicians that approved this procedure went on to eventually loose his own position as a result of a patient Homicide/Suicide:-
“…Jailing the youngster, His Honour Judge Andrew Lockhart QC said: “This is a dark day for you.
“It’s plain to me that this was outside the character you have exhibited your whole life.
“I now accept that in the run-up to this deed you had been suffering from severe depression and felt yourself to be hopeless. You should have shared that with your parents or anyone else…”
“…The Pill That Steals Lives, One Woman’s Terrifying Journey To Discover The Truth about Antidepressants, by Katinka Blackford Newman is published by John Blake Books, £8.99, Available UK bookshops, Amazon and in most countries.
The research from her book has prompted a 1 hour BBC Panorama Special that investigates whether an antidepressant could be the cause of one of the worst mass killings of this century. It is due to air on 26 July at 9 pm. …”
It’s not just teenagers that get sucked into a “spellbound” state there are so many people that become intoxicated without even realising it.
Everyone today knows somebody that used to be fairly okay, and over years has drifted into a long term severe mental illness state.
The UK disability figures reflect this. The disabled people are genuinely disabled but not because of any original mental illness.
Long Acting Injections like Modecate and Depixol are Forced Treatment instruments that can in my experience induce Acute Akathisia and Suicidal Reaction.
These drugs also disable people; and cause permanent neurological damage in the majority of people that consume them.
For me coming off these drugs meant an end to taxpayer funded disability and an end to suicidal hospitalizations.
I hope I’m not wandering off topic here.
Eating problems are supposed to be the most dangerous and life threatening of all the “illnesses” (I believe).
But its not just “anorexics” that endanger themselves. At least HALF the Population have eating problems – in the sense that their eating habits are likely to kill them.
“….The family of Clodagh Hawe, who was killed along with her three children, by her husband Alan, has been speaking about the tragedy and their decision to have his body exhumed….”
“…This was not the first tragedy suffered by Clodagh’s family. Her brother, Tadhg, took his life in September 2010. Three years later, Jacqueline Connolly’s husband, Richie, also took his life…”
“…The circumstances surrounding the tragedy in 2016 will be the subject of an inquest later this year….”
“…The family were all buried together side by side in the same plot in the small graveyard in St Mary’s Church in the town of Castlerahan.
But earlier today Alan Hawe’s body was was exhumed and later cremated in Dublin…”
Someone Else,
It doesnt exactly sound therapeutic.
Someone Else,
I think there’s more or less a tolerance within the Western Medical System, towards the killing of the “Mentally Ill”.
The Psychiatric Holocaust DID genuinely happen:- between 1935 and 1945, and 150, 000 people, might have been killed. But this is happening all the time:- Everywhere Else,
Today.
I have named my Doctors Surgery:- Newton Medical, Central London, in the UK (above). These doctors are, I would imagine, following orders.
The Research Doctors that treated me in Southern Ireland were injecting lots of people and covering up lots of deaths, while promoting the drugs as safe and economical for the Larger Markets.
All the other Research Universities everywhere else promoting these drugs, were covering up the deaths as well (in return for money).
But, Manufacturers of Long Acting Injection Drugs ” Modecate” and “Depixol”, DO acknowledge that these drugs are Extremely Unpredictable and Dangerous and Deadly.
Dear Dr Breggin,
I admire your persistence.
Unless people are prepared to speak out on behalf of the Prescribed Drug Brain Damaged People that can’t defend themselves, then this abuse will continue and continue.
THE REAL PROBLEM
I would say that there’s an overall Medical policy of suppressing Akathisia related Suicidal Reaction and Unpredictable Behaviour.
My Historical Irish Records from Galway Ireland suppressed Akathisia induced suicide attempts, putting me at risk. But my Present Day UK Records at Newton Medical Centre in Central London also suppress Akathisia induced Suicidal Reaction.
My attempts at rectifying my Safety situation through apropriate Regulatory means have also been seriously obstructed.
RISK
It’s the WELL people on SSRIs (for unsuitable reasons) that present the RISK to Society.
Evidence of this can be seen in the MEDIA again and again.
“Severely Mentally Ill” People might get very irritable but outside of Risky Drug treatment, I would believe present very little Risk. Whenever anything does happen it can usually be traced to starting, stopping, or changing medication – usually ending in self harm or suicide.
Hi,
What about the “Hearing Voices” Peer Support Groups. I was talking to a person last year at a British Psychological Society function who had joined this group and said it had “cured” them.
I attended a peer support in Ireland that was not pro medication and had had evidenced success within its members at Full Recovery from the so called Severe Mental Illnesses.
I attend peer group meetings in the UK but not specifically for “mental illness”. All groups are expected to be self supporting, and have a good success rate at helping any “insane members”.
People work for money don’t they?
Unfortunately in mental health medicine, Dr Shipman is always lingering somewhere in the background.
What happened to Natalie is quite similar to what led to my last hospitalization in Ireland, in April 1984. I had been given a first time Long Acting Injection at twice the introductory dose, and released into the community ( – and staff had been warned not to readmit me).
But when I presented with Acute Akathisia nursing staff did readmit me. After 24 hours the crisis had abated and I left the next day. I finished with Psychiatry after that.
The policy at the University Hospital I attended, was to deny Adverse Drug Reaction at all costs, including life – while producing supportive Research Papers on behalf of the drug Manufacturers.
You are right about the Irish Trauma:- the man made Famines of the 1840s would also have contributed to a schizophrenic society. These famines resulted in the mass emigration from Ireland to America.
The thing also about the Famines was that some people ate well while other people starved.
Good Luck Bob,
You’re saving lives!
There’s an Official incentive in avoiding the SSRI issue, but I think its opening up.
My experience of (Suicidal) Akathisia was one of movement problem, but also one of Very Severe Mental Distress.
Thanks for getting back, I do see what you mean!
What about the other UK “Regulators” like The Information Commissioners Office, The UK Ombudsman, The General Medical Council, NICE etc.?
I see what you mean about the obnoxious discrimination, Sera. It’s a form of ignorance.
But I have to say again that Buddhist Meditation worked for me.
James,
If the Regulators and the MHRA are not acting, then what’s in it for the MHRA and the Regulators?
Are The UK Regulators totally funded by the Pharmaceutical Industry?
(I know all about Akathisia. I had a series of drug induced suicidal hospitalizations during the 1980s. I’m trying to clean my “mental health records” up at the moment, and I’m finding each regulator to be more dishonest than the next).
I got Well like you, through carefully moving away from prescribed drug dependency.
THE IRISH EPIDEMIC OF RISK
In Ireland if you look at the situation carefully, since the SSRIs came on the market and were consumed by large numbers of Normal People – the Out of Character Extreme behaviour of people taking SSRIs has far outweighed any other type of Homicidal Risk.
Hi Sera,
Thanks for the Article. Vipassana Meditation IS a Brilliant Substitue for “Psychiatric Treatment”, and offers lasting unharmful solutions.
“…Although Vipassana meditation is beneficial for most people, it is not a substitute for medical or psychiatric treatment and we do not recommend it for people with serious psychiatric disorders…”
Hi pdesilva,
I think there’s probably plenty of evidence around that people recover.
I think that the NHS is caught in a bind – “They’d love to find solutions” – “but they can’t cope with the idea that the only solutions are through non medical approachs”
(You probably know that there’s very little follow up of people that Recover – and that following up these people would be fairly easy).
It must be difficult for you to operate as a clinician with all the control tactics, but you seem optimistic!
Hi pdesilva,
Theres a lot of Research around. But the only people I’ve known with a “diagnosis” that got diabetes were on Psychiatric drugs.
The Consultant that treated me (years and years ago) was big on Research but he couldn’t tell the difference between the side effects of “medication” and genuine mental illness.
It’s said that antidepressants can cause people to develop “bi polar”. I believe drug exposure and drug withdrawal syndromes, cause most of the longterm psychiatric expense.
I suffered from withdrawal syndrome myself and my Recovery was dependent on learning how to survive with this.
I’ve seen David Oakes profile and on it he says that he Recovered as a result of leaving the Psychiatric System – I can identify with this.
David Oakes Recovery would have cost the country very little (- and this is what’s ndeeded).
Sympathy also for all those people in impossible relationships that can’t for one reason or another escape.
As regards forced treatment I would be curious as to what extent people are at “genuine risk” and to what extent the “forced treatment option” is being abused. If the system were open and adaptable, would people reject it?
Children can’t be beaten, but they can be drugged!
What these groups do is assist people with whatever they would like to be assisted with. They don’t relate to members on a “diagnoses” level. But people do Recover.
There’s no such thing as pathological schizophrenia, and theres also no such thing as pathological schizoform sub type. There might be such a thing as “madness” – but this is not schizophrenia either.
When I was in hospital after unsuccessfully attempting to stop medication, in 1983 in Ireland, a Psychologist there promised me that all clients without exception could make full recovery from whatever they suffered from without medication.
Successful Non Drug Recovery exists – it can cost very little, and it can be evidenced.
One group I attended in Ireland contained a Psychologist who attended for his own benefit and who chronicled Success or Full recovery from diagnoses like Schizophrenia and Bipolar as a result of Peer Group support.
He produced a PhD on the Story of Peer Group Success. His name is Dr Mike Watts and the name of the Group is GROW.
“…The research findings and stories have been published as a book entitled Narratives of Recovery from Mental Illness….”
GROW is only one peer support group (- there are many other peer support groups with the same success rate).
Most people are still in the dark about the real dangers of Psychiatric Drugs.
If 1 person per 100 is in danger of SSRI Induced Catastrophy, and 1 in 10 of the population consume SSRIs – then normal society has become quite dangerous.
“…A FAMILY doctor stunned a suicidal patient by telling her: ‘You can go and jolly well do it now,’ a medical tribunal was told.
Dr Arun Singhal, 65, is said to have twice advised the woman to kill herself during medical consultations, adding: ‘If you don’t know how to do it, it’s on the internet.’….”
If drug intoxicated behaviour of psychotropic consumers were officially acknowledged – could you imagine the outcome?
From my experience in Engand and Ireland a type of combined
medical/regulatory/statutory Denial System exists regarding the dangerous “Mental Health” effects of these drugs. The character assassination of those that speak out, doesn’t just come from one source it can come from lots of different sources; and it can be nasty.
When I was in my early twenties in Ireland, I experienced a series of medication induced suicidal hospitalisations. But on my mother’s side of the family I’ve had 4 male first cousins that were taking medication (for no real reason, other than bad advice) that did successfully kill themselves. Family presume a suicidal genetic connection as the reason – I would presume a metabolization of psychotropics genetic connection.
pdesilva,
The question I suppose would be – If the NHS would be interested in successful long term alternatives (for the ‘big disorders) not based on a Medical Model.
Would the NHS be prepared to drop “the Illness of Schizophrenia” and help people overcome “difficulties” through non drug means?
I’m joking!
Scintilla,
I think you are completely Paranoid.
Scintilla,
I SAID THIS:-
“..When I came to Galway Regional Hospital in November of 1980 I was seen by two young Doctors one of them Irish and one non European. The non European admitting doctor had recorded me on the notes as being quite sound mentally.
Me and the accompanying English doctor (who had a quantity of alcohol in his system) were interviewed separately.
Our accounts did not match on significant detail; and my account did contain direct reference to Amsterdam.
I was interviewed by the young Irish Doctor. But this young Irish doctors name never appeared on the records, his notes were copied by Consultant Psychiatrist P A Carney in his own hand and dated at several days later.
Consultant psychiatrist P A Carney at Galway over two months battered me with psychiatric drugs to the point that on leaving hospital I was about 3 stone heavier and a physical mess. I never recovered physically from this….”
I DIDNT SAY THIS :-
“…You suggested that you were psychiatrically detained and drugged after telling them about Amsterdam, not because you supposedly met criteria for a supposed disorder, but because the senior psychiatrists were involved in a conspiracy to cover up something unknown that presumably McGrady told you. I merely pointed out that it’s difficult to tell from what you said whether they might have had grounds under the criteria to detain/drug you…”
Scintilla,
I have to say I can’t really make that much sense out of what you’ve said here (- maybe you’re drunk).
In my initial post I mostly stated facts – that I could substantiate. You reinterpretated what I had stated inaccurately, and then went on to suggest “mental illness” in me, on the basis of your inaccurate reinterpretation.
In the final paragraph I carefully stated that the Kevin McGrady case might have been “corrupted”. In my opinion anyone could make a similar statement about any similar:-
1.”Supergrass” Case
2. Conducted In a Non Jury Court –
3. Without being considered Mentally Ill.
Thank you Scintilla, point taken. Would you please let me know what you believe me to be “Paranoid” about – so that I can answer you as politely as I can.
Pdsilva
Would you please allow Scintilla to say what I am supposed to be “paranoid” about so that I can answer.
You’re using your “mental” descriptions here again.
What have you missed?
I believe I qualified anything I said in my first post fairly carefully. But you seem to have entitled yourself to reinterpret what I did say and to add your own “mental” input.
Please tell me where the “paranoia” is outside of your own paranoid re interpretation?
Please tell me what you are suggesting I am “possibly” wrong on?
I do hope you don’t work in the “Mental Health System” as you strike me as being quite dishonest:-
What I said in my initial commentary I said. What you did was reinterpret what I said in your own “mental” manner with clinical terms included.
You expressed unrealistic shock at suggestions of abuse in UK Psychiatry and that the UK Police would not return of an Irish Passport (in 1980).
If what I said in the paragraph (below) is “acceptable” then I don’t know what’s so odd about anything else:-
“..If I can substantiate that I came from the same address as “the person referred” to, in Amsterdam in 1980, and that mention of Amsterdam is kept completely off the UK records – then I don’t see anything too strange with the idea that the two might be connected (considering the circumstances)…”
(I notice you’ve introduced more of your “mental” descriptions in your last comment!).
It is you yourself that are making suggestions of mental illness, and repeating them.
Not at all. You misrepresented me and attempted to make suggestions of mental illness.
Scintilla,
Very Briefly:-
If I can substantiate that I came from the same address as “the person referred” to, in Amsterdam in 1980, and that mention of Amsterdam is kept completely off the UK records – then I don’t see anything too strange with the idea that the two might be connected (considering the circumstances).
Do you get it?
Scintilla,
I think most Supergrass arrangements are likely to be (very) corrupt; and I think a Psychiatrist in the UK could probably get away with saying “anything”.
I suppose the real question would be if I could substantiate – what I have expressed above as “fact” (- and I believe I can).
The other thing is, that it would appear to me that you didn’t completely take on board what I actually did say (above).
Psychiatric Drugs Disable people and make them Dangerous so I can see why conservative republican Senator Grassley would speak out against them.
People often say of their diagnosed siblings that at one time they were the best performers in the family.
Good points.
We could still join forces with other successful Civil Rights Movements whose members are being taken advantage of by “Mental Health Systems”.
There’s probably 10 times the amount of Severely Diagnosed black men and black women in the UK as there justifiably should be; and we all know that Severe Diagnosis can lead to severe abuse. The death rates of black men in mental health systems would also appear to be much higher than “normal”.
Gay people are still far more represented in the UK mental health sysyem than they should be, even after taking life prejudice into account. The gay movement should still be looking for reasonable answers.
If Psychiatry was identified as too corrupt to exist it might have to be “struck off”.
In 1980 I spent several months living and working in Amsterdam. I mixed with different people; and remained in contact over the years with one Dutch friend.
I was acquainted in Amsterdam with a Northern Irishman by the name of Kevin from Belfast who stayed at the same address as me, and who I took to be a genuine reborn Christian.
Looking at the information on the Kevin McGrady Wikipedia Page
I can connect it to the Northern Irish Kevin I was acquainted with, nearly too easily.
About 10 days before leaving Amsterdam Northern Irish Kevin asked me if I could remember a conversation we’d had. I wasn’t aware we did have this conversation but then I remembered I had been out late one night and that he was the night doorman and that I hadn’t remembered even coming in that night.
I asked him what we talked about and he said that it wasn’t important at all.
I developed a certain caution after this, and I decided to leave Holland, though I didn’t associate my caution with Nothern Irish Kevin.
I came into contact with the police when I returned to London. The police removed my passport which was with me at the time and didn’t return it. Following arguments with the police I was charged non seriously and ended up in a bail hostel. From there I (casually) ended up in the Maudsley Hospital.
I wouldnt accept medication at the Maudsley. But was eventually injected and transferred to the Psychiatric Unit at the Regional Hospital Galway, Southern Ireland.
Looking at my FOI requested Irish notes I see no mention of Amsterdam on the attached English notes. All the English information on me is very vague, fairly inaccurate and at arms length.
When I came to Galway Regional Hospital in November of 1980 I was seen by two young Doctors one of them Irish and one non European. The non European admitting doctor had recorded me on the notes as being quite sound mentally.
Me and the accompanying English doctor (who had a quantity of alcohol in his system) were interviewed separately.
Our accounts did not match on significant detail; and my account did contain direct reference to Amsterdam.
I was interviewed by the young Irish Doctor. But this young Irish doctors name never appeared on the records, his notes were copied by Consultant Psychiatrist P A Carney in his own hand and dated at several days later.
Consultant psychiatrist P A Carney at Galway over two months battered me with psychiatric drugs to the point that on leaving hospital I was about 3 stone heavier and a physical mess. I never recovered physically from this.
When I left Ireland in 1986 both Psychiatrist P A Carney and his boss Professor T J Fahy were well established on the Royal British College of Psychiatrists and the Professor of Pharmacology at Galway was the President of the British Association of Psychopharmacologists.
I think it’s possible that Kevin McGrady was being groomed to give evidence as early as 1980 and did not turn up out of the blue in Belfast in January 1982 on account of a need to confess. The evidence presented in court was not convincing, and I think it’s possible in this case that the Diplock court system was corrupted.
There’s nothing wrong with publishing under a “pen name” providing what’s said by way of fact can be substantiated.
Should Doctors and Therapists get screened as well (in the overall screening of society), or are they outside of the “Wheel of Life”.
The previous original Mental Health doctor that “diagnosed” me was a “functioning” alcoholic who died an alcoholics death in middle age.
I believe my previous long term GP in Ireland had had MH problems himself.
My previous long term GP in London was asked to leave his partnership on account of an Episode of Psychosis (which he has described in medical magazine Pulse as “burn out”).
My previous Consultant Psychiatrist in Ireland Dr P A Carney and his boss Professor T J Fahy were both slung out of medicine on account of their handling of Akathisia induced Suicidal/Homicidal Events. In my opinion a lot of people would still be alive if these two men had been screened.
What would you recommend as a solution to the examples raised by Eric.
(I refused medication at the beginning but I wasn’t able to go without it after a number of years and I chose to take it at a low level – until it disapeared).
Thank you Dr Shipko,
I think the slower the better!
Slaying the Dragon,
I wonder who’s diagnosing the “Schizophrenia” in Rural China. I think if no-one was diagnosing the “Schizophrenia”, there wouldn’t be any.
In rural China marriages used to be arranged, and I think the brides family paid the dowry. Rural people have their own ways of measuring people up, and they are very good at it. In Ireland years ago the grooms personality was tested with alcohol.
My mother came from a farming background in Ireland and I was chatting to her before my sister’s wedding. She told me she liked her new son in law “to be”, that he was a very nice man, “…though, I asked him to help me lifting the tables in the church and he didn’t seem very strong…”
Hi Someone Else,
It seems like everybody is taken in with the uselessness of “schizophrenia”. I was taken in myself but I didn’t know the full facts.
My main problem was disability on “medication” and High Anxiety on “medication” discontinuation.
The real problem I think is the universal absence of Knowledge of the option of Full Recovery. A lot of non drug professionals also make very hard work out of a straightforward return to life.
Also in the medical profession they daren’t expose the “emperor with no clothes”. Because they would be targeted and exited.
Hi,
Its possible to overcome “Schizophrenia”
When I came off “medication” (even carefully) my main problem was Terrible Anxiety. The anxiety was worse than any previous emotional problem I’d ever had, and it was rebound anxiety not normal anxiety.
It didn’t respond to normal Psychotherapy either, but it did respond to Cognitive Behavioural (type) Therapy. Over the years with practice the anxiety reduced right down, and when it did – my problem was solved.
I would be interested in a Study on the rate of diagnosis of Schizophrenia of black men in Jamaica – in comparison to the rate of diagnosis of black men of Jamaican extraction in the UK.
I would predict there to be a very large difference but not for genuinely valid reasons.
I was told lots of times by girlfriends to throw away “my medication” – but when I did I ran into trouble. The test of time has proven though, that these were “Rebounds” not “Relapses”.
Its bollox!
The only thing more disabling than Severe Mental Illness is supposed to be being paralysed from the neck down.
Matt produced some brilliant insightful work on Personal Independence, on Mad In America and other platforms. I thought he had the potential to produce lots more. I didn’t believe the news that he had passed away.
Thank you Michael. Those email reproductions (above) are real and the dates are real. And what I have stated in them is real and can be substantiated.
My GP is a nice person (as are the other staff at the GP Sugery), but he is taking dishonest and unfair advantage.
(The “Diagnosis” from Southern Ireland was not “Schizophrenia” either – It was “SchizoAffective Disorder”).
Dear Michael,
I am very sorry to hear about Matt, I didn’t believe it initially.
EMAIL TO
My Member of Parliament
19 September at 13:28
SUBJECT:
MENTAL HEALTH MISREPRESENTATION
Dear Karen Buck MP,
I would like to attend your surgery to discuss Mental Health misrepresentation with you. I think this is a relevant issue.
Please read below.
NO 1
On the attached July 20 2016 Appointment information sheet in Capitals my GP Dr Simons has written:-
“…I SEE NO REASON WHY MR XXX COULD NOT WORK ON A BUILDING SITE..”
NO 2
On the attached Legal Advisers Information sheet (from Dr Simons during the July 20 interview) Newton Medicals Legal Adviser has written:-
“…The fact that this patient has a medical diagnosis of schizophrenia is a key part of his medical record and this cannot be removed as to do so could prove detrimental to his care…”
“..It does not seem in this case that the fact of the diagnosis is disputed and it is clearly relevant information for the purpose of the medical…”
IF THE 2 PARAGRAPHS ABOVE ACCURATELY REPRESENT ME, THEN I SHOULDN’T BE ANYWHERE NEAR A BUILDING SITE.
NO 3
ABOUT ME VERY BRIEFLY
I was disabled and in and out of hospital, between 1980 and 1984. I have been WELL since 1984 when I carefully stopped drug treatment suitable for any SMI.
Yours Sincerely
ME
Michael,
Thank you very much, this subject is very Pertinent to me right now!
EMAIL TO
My GP Surgery,
Newton Medical, Central London
18 September 2017 at 11:27
SUBJECT: MENTAL HEALTH FRAUD
Dear Manager/Partners,
Please find attached 9 attachments:-
1. A character reference from Ireland from 1986
2. An employer’s reference from Ireland 1986
3. A Subcontractors Inland Revenue ID Card from 1997
4. A House of Commons Subcontractors ID Card from 2003
5. A Construction Skills Certification Scheme ID Card from 2003
6. A Construction Skills Certification Scheme ID Card from 2008
7. A Construction Skills Certification Scheme ID Card from 2016
8. CSCS ID Card 2008 Reverse Side
9. CSCS ID Card 2016 Reverse Side
Please save these attachments to your system and please inform me of their location on your system, as I would like to refer to them again.
Please acknowledge receipt of this communication.
Yours Sincerely
ME
FORWARDED EMAIL TO :-
My Member Of Parliament
From 16 August 2017 at 12:32
SUBJECT: MENTAL HEALTH FRAUD
Dear Karen Buck MP
Severe Mental Illness is supposed to be more disabling than being blind or in a wheelchair.
My GP Surgery keeps playing around with terms like “schizophrenia” to the Point that I am now too frightened to go on to a building site.
(I sent you an email earlier today at 11.15 with the details).
Yours Sincerely
ME
“CBT” is not a “Cure All”, BUT It can work effectively with Withdrawal Syndrome.
The “mind” doesn’t operate in the same way after taking psychotropics as it did before the exposure, and this can present serious problems.
“CBT” can offer alternative regulatory approachs, and after a while the techniques can become second nature.
Don,
It’s not abnormal for a family member or even a doctor to tell a person threatening suicide – “..to go and kill themselves..”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2757997/If-want-kill-jolly-What-doctor-allegedly-told-suicidal-patient-asked-sick-note-avoid-giving-evidence-rape-trial.html
It’s also established that psychotropic medications can seriously distort a person’s map of reality (in different ways).
http://www.thepillthatsteals.com/
“…She discovered it was luck that she didn’t kill herself or her kids, as often happens when people go into an antidepressant induced psychosis. ..”
Is this man Mentally Ill?
He makes a lot of sense to me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle
“….One night in 1977, at the age of 29, after having suffered from long periods of depression, Tolle says he experienced an “inner transformation”.[5] That night he awakened from his sleep, suffering from feelings of depression that were “almost unbearable,” but then experienced a life-changing epiphany.[12] Recounting the experience, he says,…..”
“….He stopped studying for his doctorate, and for a period of about two years after this he spent much of his time sitting, “in a state of deep bliss,” on park benches in Russell Square, Central London, “watching the world go by.”…”
Whats termed “Severe Mental Illness” is supposed to be a long term condition – but this longterm idea comes from Psychiatry itself.
I notice that most people that depend on Psychiatry remain “mentally ill” and that most people that recover – recover as a result of leaving Psychiatry. So I would have to ask what a Psychiatrist does to justify their existence.
If there was no “mental health treatment” whatsoever like in some very poor countries I think society would be far better off.
In 1800 about .004 percent of the UK Population were identified Lunatics.
In 1900 about .04 percent of the UK population were identified Lunatics.
In 2017 about 2.5 percent of the UK population are identified Lunatics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_psychiatric_institutions
“..In Britain at the beginning of the 19th century, there were, perhaps, a few thousand “lunatics” housed in a variety of disparate institutions but by the beginning of the 20th century, that figure had grown to about 100,000…”
I found the CBT Buddhism Minfulness Meditation approach to be good for drug Withdrawal Syndrome. It doesn’t cost much and its easily accessible. Once you know it works you know you’re heading in the right direction!
I think Gradual Reduction is a good idea.
Once a person is off the most disabling levels they can take their time and allow the drugs to slowly phase out. One in three french people takes a psychotropic but not at the level of the poor “schizophrenic”.
The videos are scary.
Hi Bob,
I think the title is very appropriate.
I made my recovery from “Severe Mental Illness” as a result of stopping drug treatments suitable for “Severe Mental Illness”.
Below is a Research Paper from my former Psychiatrist on the offending drugs :-
http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ps.49.10.1361-b
My problems were drug induced suicidal reaction and extrapyrammidal disability.
ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM AKATHISIA
Email From Me To The UK Ombudsman :-
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 at 10:58,
Dear K.
Would you please pass this Information email on to J. D. I apologise for any unpleasantness attached to the contents.
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;- Galway University, Depot Side Effect Research & Monitoring Team
4. Admitting Doctor, Dr Fadels description of me ‘on presentation’ at Galway in November 1980.
5. The November 1986 False Reassurance Letter From Dr Donlon Kenny
MALPRACTICE AT GALWAY 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 Galway 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
Eckhart Tolle has brilliant and free advice on dealing with trauma (and it works).
https://youtu.be/GoEE9_qo0kI
Sent Today
Dear Karen Buck MP,
I would like to attend your surgery to discuss Mental Health misrepresentation with you. I think this is a relevant issue.
Please read below.
NO 1
On the attached July 20 2016 Appointment information sheet in Capitals my GP Dr Simons has written:-
“…I SEE NO REASON WHY MR XXX COULD NOT WORK ON A BUILDING SITE..”
NO 2
On the attached Legal Advisers Information sheet (from Dr Simons during the July 20 interview) Newton Medicals Legal Adviser has written:-
“…The fact that this patient has a medical diagnosis of schizophrenia is a key part of his medical record and this cannot be removed as to do so could prove detrimental to his care…”
“..It does not seem in this case that the fact of the diagnosis is disputed and it is clearly relevant information for the purpose of the medical…”
IF THE 2 PARAGRAPHS ABOVE ACCURATELY REPRESENT ME, THEN I SHOULDN’T BE ANYWHERE NEAR A BUILDING SITE.
NO 3
ABOUT ME VERY BRIEFLY
I was disabled and in and out of hospital, between 1980 and 1984. I have been WELL since 1984 when I carefully stopped drug treatment suitable for any SMI.
Yours Sincerely
XXXX
WIKIPEDIA
In Britain at the beginning of the 19th century, there were, perhaps, a few thousand “lunatics” housed in a variety of disparate institutions but by the beginning of the 20th century, that figure had grown to about 100,000. This growth coincided with the development of alienism, now known as psychiatry, as a medical specialty.[1]:14
UK MEDICAL/REGULATORY DISHONESTY + UNRELIABILITY IN DIAGNOSIS
In October 2012 I discovered my UK GP Surgery claiming for me as a Severely Mentally Ill Person. I had made my Recovery nearly 30 years before in Ireland, as a result of stopping strong Psychiatric drugs, and moving to Psychotherapy. These drugs had nearly killed me and had caused me several years of disability – and I could reliably demonstrate the suppression of AKATHISIA.
I explained my situation with evidence to my GP, Dr Simons at Newton Medical, Central London in two 1 hour long interviews in October/November 2012. During these interviews Dr Simons began to sweat and by the end of both of these interviews his shirt was sticking to his body.
Dr Simons committed in writing to removing “Schizophrenia” from my Medical records.
But I discovered later in an interview with a different clinician that “schizophrenia” had not been removed – and I complained. The Doctor Surgery then attempted to ‘re inforce’ “schizophrenia”.
I complained to the UK General Medical Council in February 2013. But the UK Medical Council ignored the Dishonesty; The Abuse of position; and the Interference to Information – and Fobbed me off.
In July 2013 Dr Simons was involved in a Patient Homicide:-
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sailor-died-from-internal-bleeding-after-ae-sent-him-to-minor-care-unit-10288447.html
The main feature in this Homicide seems to have been the Interference to Information; and the Apportionment of Responsibility.
Someone Else,
I think it might be the “Regulators” treating the Health Service as their own Bank Account.
Mad In America is true:- Its possible to completely Recover from “Schizophrenia” but only through moving away from Psychiatry.
“Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime” is true as well.
Dr Peter Gøtzsche says that Doctors do not know how to use psychiatric drugs (and do more harm than good).
Thank You, Dr Kelmenson. This Article is very Pertinent.
Truth Serum:- when I complained about my own (historical) Near Fatal Drug Experience I was told by an Irish Psychiatrist that every where else was doing the same thing i.e. denying Akathisia. This psychiatrist was being honest.
This policy of Denial ties in with my GP Practice (Newton Medical) in Central Londons Approach; who are attempting to block any mention (from me) of Akathisia to my (historical) notes. Newton Medical would be under instruction (I would imagine) from their own “Superiors”.
But the Deaths continue:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4884330/Ex-Choirboys-singer-jumped-train.html
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/health/north-essex-mental-health-trust-25-deaths/
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/15533528.Government_urged_to_improve_care_of_mental_health_patients_after_death_of_man_at___39_young_age_in_most_unexpected_circumstances__39_/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/15/his-death-still-hurts-the-pfizer-anti-smoking-drug-ruled-to-have-contributed-to-suicide
Also Julie,
Briefly:- What I said about Akathisia being kept off records:- In the UK a person can enter their own Commentary into their notes and this is what I had been attempting to do with my dated notes. But my GP was blocking me.
(The less Akathisia recorded the less consciousness there is around it).
Hi Julie,
Brifly – Above is an example of a doctor that seriously misbehaved, that was prosecuted and the victims were to be officially compensated. This was my point.
The more Akathisia that gets hidden (by doctors) the more people that get killed (by doctors).
This is psychopathic or “Dr Shipman type behaviour”.
THE BBC TODAY
Classed as a psychopath – like “Dr Shipman”.
About 750 victims of rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson are to be paid compensation from a new £37m fund.
https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41255962&ved=0ahUKEwicu66K5qLWAhWlF8AKHUD_DMgQFgg3MAI&usg=AFQjCNFdj7vXnmtzqVbOKOtIkb7T3UUZgg
At the moment my GP Surgery (Newton Medical) in Central London is bending over backwards to avoid recording any mention of Akathisia on my very dated and foreign Medical Records. Though the evidence points to nothing other than Akathisia.
Dr K,
I think the “drugging” motivation has got to be MONEY, at some level. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise.
Dear Svava,
This sounds like something out of a Horror Film. I glad to hear you’re still alive.
Suicide Prevention in Ireland
http://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0910/903564-people-encouraged-to-offer-support-on-suicide-preventio/
I’ve had 4 suicidal hospitalizations while in treatment in Ireland in the 1980s and none since. The present day situation as regards suicide in Ireland has become a lot worse since psychotropic medications have come into common use.
bcharris
I agree that nutrition has a lot to do with emotional wellbeing, anyone eating fast food for a year could have a breakdown.
What the counsellors did was sucessfully help me with any problems I had as they cropped up. “Schizophrenia” was irrelevant.
I would recommend Buddhist Practice and Meditation as a safe and effective alternative to the use of ECT for “Depression” and “Schizophrenia”.
I am qualified to my opinion as I have a Diagnosis of “Schitzo Affective Disorder” and made recovery many years ago as a result of stopping psychiatric treatment.
I was also diagnosed as a fairly hopeless case while I remained within Psychiatry.
Ditch Schizophrenia for sure but please don’t replace it with a “Psychosis Spectrum Disorder”. The Psychosis approach would be “milking”.
When I reduced drastically on medication and sought psychothereuptic help to keep myself together, the Counsellors used a “Normal Approach” and this worked very well.
I was eventually able to lodge a complaint with the Irish Medical Council against my former Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychiatric Researcher (who at the time was on one of their committees, and who had been promoting the drugs that had caused my Akathisia).
During procedures my Former Consultant Psychiatrist tried to point the finger at his former colleague the “Professor” who had been previously “done” for Patient Homicide Suicide.
The Irish Medical Council did let my Former Psychiatrist off the hook (at the time) – but he left the Medical Council and Medicine shortly after.
In my estimation both of these “doctors” were “Dr Shipmans”.
It gets to a point where you’d imagine the dots would be joined and official action taken….
amnesia,
I think there’s a tolerance towards the killing of the “Mentally Ill”, within medicine.
Lots of people “die” shortly after leaving hospital. Not because of “mental illness” (I believe), but because of obvious and ignored effects of medication.
I’ve had electric shock treatment on account of my In hospital demonstration of Akathisia. One of the Clinicians that approved this procedure went on to eventually loose his own position as a result of a patient Homicide/Suicide:-
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/husband-awarded-110000-for-triple-tragedy-26022308.html
If there was no homicide – I don’t believe anything more would have been said!
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/nuneaton-boy-school-shotgun-jailed-13591686
“…Jailing the youngster, His Honour Judge Andrew Lockhart QC said: “This is a dark day for you.
“It’s plain to me that this was outside the character you have exhibited your whole life.
“I now accept that in the run-up to this deed you had been suffering from severe depression and felt yourself to be hopeless. You should have shared that with your parents or anyone else…”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4726134/Can-pills-depression-turn-killer.html
“…David has always believed that his psychosis was caused by a type of antidepressant known as a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) ..”
http://www.thepillthatsteals.com
“…The Pill That Steals Lives, One Woman’s Terrifying Journey To Discover The Truth about Antidepressants, by Katinka Blackford Newman is published by John Blake Books, £8.99, Available UK bookshops, Amazon and in most countries.
The research from her book has prompted a 1 hour BBC Panorama Special that investigates whether an antidepressant could be the cause of one of the worst mass killings of this century. It is due to air on 26 July at 9 pm. …”
It’s not just teenagers that get sucked into a “spellbound” state there are so many people that become intoxicated without even realising it.
Everyone today knows somebody that used to be fairly okay, and over years has drifted into a long term severe mental illness state.
The UK disability figures reflect this. The disabled people are genuinely disabled but not because of any original mental illness.
Long Acting Injections like Modecate and Depixol are Forced Treatment instruments that can in my experience induce Acute Akathisia and Suicidal Reaction.
These drugs also disable people; and cause permanent neurological damage in the majority of people that consume them.
For me coming off these drugs meant an end to taxpayer funded disability and an end to suicidal hospitalizations.
I hope I’m not wandering off topic here.
Eating problems are supposed to be the most dangerous and life threatening of all the “illnesses” (I believe).
But its not just “anorexics” that endanger themselves. At least HALF the Population have eating problems – in the sense that their eating habits are likely to kill them.
Work in What Sense?
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-39877325#ampshare=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39877325
“….The family of Clodagh Hawe, who was killed along with her three children, by her husband Alan, has been speaking about the tragedy and their decision to have his body exhumed….”
“…This was not the first tragedy suffered by Clodagh’s family. Her brother, Tadhg, took his life in September 2010. Three years later, Jacqueline Connolly’s husband, Richie, also took his life…”
“…The circumstances surrounding the tragedy in 2016 will be the subject of an inquest later this year….”
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/irish-news/news/alan-hawes-family-say-they-did-not-delay-exhumation-of-his-body-35701491.html#ampshare=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/alan-hawes-family-say-they-did-not-delay-exhumation-of-his-body-35701491.html
“…The family were all buried together side by side in the same plot in the small graveyard in St Mary’s Church in the town of Castlerahan.
But earlier today Alan Hawe’s body was was exhumed and later cremated in Dublin…”
Someone Else,
It doesnt exactly sound therapeutic.
Someone Else,
I think there’s more or less a tolerance within the Western Medical System, towards the killing of the “Mentally Ill”.
The Psychiatric Holocaust DID genuinely happen:- between 1935 and 1945, and 150, 000 people, might have been killed. But this is happening all the time:- Everywhere Else,
Today.
I have named my Doctors Surgery:- Newton Medical, Central London, in the UK (above). These doctors are, I would imagine, following orders.
The Research Doctors that treated me in Southern Ireland were injecting lots of people and covering up lots of deaths, while promoting the drugs as safe and economical for the Larger Markets.
All the other Research Universities everywhere else promoting these drugs, were covering up the deaths as well (in return for money).
But, Manufacturers of Long Acting Injection Drugs ” Modecate” and “Depixol”, DO acknowledge that these drugs are Extremely Unpredictable and Dangerous and Deadly.
Dear Dr Breggin,
I admire your persistence.
Unless people are prepared to speak out on behalf of the Prescribed Drug Brain Damaged People that can’t defend themselves, then this abuse will continue and continue.
THE REAL PROBLEM
I would say that there’s an overall Medical policy of suppressing Akathisia related Suicidal Reaction and Unpredictable Behaviour.
My Historical Irish Records from Galway Ireland suppressed Akathisia induced suicide attempts, putting me at risk. But my Present Day UK Records at Newton Medical Centre in Central London also suppress Akathisia induced Suicidal Reaction.
My attempts at rectifying my Safety situation through apropriate Regulatory means have also been seriously obstructed.
RISK
It’s the WELL people on SSRIs (for unsuitable reasons) that present the RISK to Society.
Evidence of this can be seen in the MEDIA again and again.
“Severely Mentally Ill” People might get very irritable but outside of Risky Drug treatment, I would believe present very little Risk. Whenever anything does happen it can usually be traced to starting, stopping, or changing medication – usually ending in self harm or suicide.
Hi,
What about the “Hearing Voices” Peer Support Groups. I was talking to a person last year at a British Psychological Society function who had joined this group and said it had “cured” them.
I attended a peer support in Ireland that was not pro medication and had had evidenced success within its members at Full Recovery from the so called Severe Mental Illnesses.
I attend peer group meetings in the UK but not specifically for “mental illness”. All groups are expected to be self supporting, and have a good success rate at helping any “insane members”.
People work for money don’t they?
Unfortunately in mental health medicine, Dr Shipman is always lingering somewhere in the background.
What happened to Natalie is quite similar to what led to my last hospitalization in Ireland, in April 1984. I had been given a first time Long Acting Injection at twice the introductory dose, and released into the community ( – and staff had been warned not to readmit me).
But when I presented with Acute Akathisia nursing staff did readmit me. After 24 hours the crisis had abated and I left the next day. I finished with Psychiatry after that.
The policy at the University Hospital I attended, was to deny Adverse Drug Reaction at all costs, including life – while producing supportive Research Papers on behalf of the drug Manufacturers.
You are right about the Irish Trauma:- the man made Famines of the 1840s would also have contributed to a schizophrenic society. These famines resulted in the mass emigration from Ireland to America.
The thing also about the Famines was that some people ate well while other people starved.
Good Luck Bob,
You’re saving lives!
There’s an Official incentive in avoiding the SSRI issue, but I think its opening up.
My experience of (Suicidal) Akathisia was one of movement problem, but also one of Very Severe Mental Distress.
Thanks for getting back, I do see what you mean!
What about the other UK “Regulators” like The Information Commissioners Office, The UK Ombudsman, The General Medical Council, NICE etc.?
I see what you mean about the obnoxious discrimination, Sera. It’s a form of ignorance.
But I have to say again that Buddhist Meditation worked for me.
James,
If the Regulators and the MHRA are not acting, then what’s in it for the MHRA and the Regulators?
Are The UK Regulators totally funded by the Pharmaceutical Industry?
(I know all about Akathisia. I had a series of drug induced suicidal hospitalizations during the 1980s. I’m trying to clean my “mental health records” up at the moment, and I’m finding each regulator to be more dishonest than the next).
I got Well like you, through carefully moving away from prescribed drug dependency.
THE IRISH EPIDEMIC OF RISK
In Ireland if you look at the situation carefully, since the SSRIs came on the market and were consumed by large numbers of Normal People – the Out of Character Extreme behaviour of people taking SSRIs has far outweighed any other type of Homicidal Risk.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/state-inaction-means-no-understanding-of-murder-suicide-1.1919478
amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/woman-who-lost-family-in-murder-suicide-says-people-have-right-to-know-1.3055193%3fmode=amp
amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/murder-suicide-now-a-regular-phenomenon-1.2772334%3fmode=amp
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/fermanagh-murder-suicide-man-stabs-10430802
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-20/patients-forced-to-have-ect-without-legal-representation/8030996
Hi Sera,
Thanks for the Article. Vipassana Meditation IS a Brilliant Substitue for “Psychiatric Treatment”, and offers lasting unharmful solutions.
“…Although Vipassana meditation is beneficial for most people, it is not a substitute for medical or psychiatric treatment and we do not recommend it for people with serious psychiatric disorders…”
Hi pdesilva,
I think there’s probably plenty of evidence around that people recover.
I think that the NHS is caught in a bind – “They’d love to find solutions” – “but they can’t cope with the idea that the only solutions are through non medical approachs”
(You probably know that there’s very little follow up of people that Recover – and that following up these people would be fairly easy).
It must be difficult for you to operate as a clinician with all the control tactics, but you seem optimistic!
Hi pdesilva,
Theres a lot of Research around. But the only people I’ve known with a “diagnosis” that got diabetes were on Psychiatric drugs.
The Consultant that treated me (years and years ago) was big on Research but he couldn’t tell the difference between the side effects of “medication” and genuine mental illness.
It’s said that antidepressants can cause people to develop “bi polar”. I believe drug exposure and drug withdrawal syndromes, cause most of the longterm psychiatric expense.
I suffered from withdrawal syndrome myself and my Recovery was dependent on learning how to survive with this.
I’ve seen David Oakes profile and on it he says that he Recovered as a result of leaving the Psychiatric System – I can identify with this.
David Oakes Recovery would have cost the country very little (- and this is what’s ndeeded).
Sympathy also for all those people in impossible relationships that can’t for one reason or another escape.
As regards forced treatment I would be curious as to what extent people are at “genuine risk” and to what extent the “forced treatment option” is being abused. If the system were open and adaptable, would people reject it?
Children can’t be beaten, but they can be drugged!
What these groups do is assist people with whatever they would like to be assisted with. They don’t relate to members on a “diagnoses” level. But people do Recover.
There’s no such thing as pathological schizophrenia, and theres also no such thing as pathological schizoform sub type. There might be such a thing as “madness” – but this is not schizophrenia either.
When I was in hospital after unsuccessfully attempting to stop medication, in 1983 in Ireland, a Psychologist there promised me that all clients without exception could make full recovery from whatever they suffered from without medication.
Successful Non Drug Recovery exists – it can cost very little, and it can be evidenced.
One group I attended in Ireland contained a Psychologist who attended for his own benefit and who chronicled Success or Full recovery from diagnoses like Schizophrenia and Bipolar as a result of Peer Group support.
He produced a PhD on the Story of Peer Group Success. His name is Dr Mike Watts and the name of the Group is GROW.
http://connachttribune.ie/highlighting-power-peer-support-mental-illness-recovery-300/
“…The research findings and stories have been published as a book entitled Narratives of Recovery from Mental Illness….”
GROW is only one peer support group (- there are many other peer support groups with the same success rate).
Most people are still in the dark about the real dangers of Psychiatric Drugs.
If 1 person per 100 is in danger of SSRI Induced Catastrophy, and 1 in 10 of the population consume SSRIs – then normal society has become quite dangerous.
FROM THE UK:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2757997/If-want-kill-jolly-What-doctor-allegedly-told-suicidal-patient-asked-sick-note-avoid-giving-evidence-rape-trial.html
“…A FAMILY doctor stunned a suicidal patient by telling her: ‘You can go and jolly well do it now,’ a medical tribunal was told.
Dr Arun Singhal, 65, is said to have twice advised the woman to kill herself during medical consultations, adding: ‘If you don’t know how to do it, it’s on the internet.’….”
OUTCOME:- 3 MONTH SUSPENSION
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-29254609
If drug intoxicated behaviour of psychotropic consumers were officially acknowledged – could you imagine the outcome?
From my experience in Engand and Ireland a type of combined
medical/regulatory/statutory Denial System exists regarding the dangerous “Mental Health” effects of these drugs. The character assassination of those that speak out, doesn’t just come from one source it can come from lots of different sources; and it can be nasty.
When I was in my early twenties in Ireland, I experienced a series of medication induced suicidal hospitalisations. But on my mother’s side of the family I’ve had 4 male first cousins that were taking medication (for no real reason, other than bad advice) that did successfully kill themselves. Family presume a suicidal genetic connection as the reason – I would presume a metabolization of psychotropics genetic connection.
pdesilva,
The question I suppose would be – If the NHS would be interested in successful long term alternatives (for the ‘big disorders) not based on a Medical Model.
Would the NHS be prepared to drop “the Illness of Schizophrenia” and help people overcome “difficulties” through non drug means?
I’m joking!
Scintilla,
I think you are completely Paranoid.
Scintilla,
I SAID THIS:-
“..When I came to Galway Regional Hospital in November of 1980 I was seen by two young Doctors one of them Irish and one non European. The non European admitting doctor had recorded me on the notes as being quite sound mentally.
Me and the accompanying English doctor (who had a quantity of alcohol in his system) were interviewed separately.
Our accounts did not match on significant detail; and my account did contain direct reference to Amsterdam.
I was interviewed by the young Irish Doctor. But this young Irish doctors name never appeared on the records, his notes were copied by Consultant Psychiatrist P A Carney in his own hand and dated at several days later.
Consultant psychiatrist P A Carney at Galway over two months battered me with psychiatric drugs to the point that on leaving hospital I was about 3 stone heavier and a physical mess. I never recovered physically from this….”
I DIDNT SAY THIS :-
“…You suggested that you were psychiatrically detained and drugged after telling them about Amsterdam, not because you supposedly met criteria for a supposed disorder, but because the senior psychiatrists were involved in a conspiracy to cover up something unknown that presumably McGrady told you. I merely pointed out that it’s difficult to tell from what you said whether they might have had grounds under the criteria to detain/drug you…”
Scintilla,
I have to say I can’t really make that much sense out of what you’ve said here (- maybe you’re drunk).
In my initial post I mostly stated facts – that I could substantiate. You reinterpretated what I had stated inaccurately, and then went on to suggest “mental illness” in me, on the basis of your inaccurate reinterpretation.
In the final paragraph I carefully stated that the Kevin McGrady case might have been “corrupted”. In my opinion anyone could make a similar statement about any similar:-
1.”Supergrass” Case
2. Conducted In a Non Jury Court –
3. Without being considered Mentally Ill.
Thank you Scintilla, point taken. Would you please let me know what you believe me to be “Paranoid” about – so that I can answer you as politely as I can.
Pdsilva
Would you please allow Scintilla to say what I am supposed to be “paranoid” about so that I can answer.
You’re using your “mental” descriptions here again.
What have you missed?
I believe I qualified anything I said in my first post fairly carefully. But you seem to have entitled yourself to reinterpret what I did say and to add your own “mental” input.
Please tell me where the “paranoia” is outside of your own paranoid re interpretation?
Please tell me what you are suggesting I am “possibly” wrong on?
I do hope you don’t work in the “Mental Health System” as you strike me as being quite dishonest:-
What I said in my initial commentary I said. What you did was reinterpret what I said in your own “mental” manner with clinical terms included.
You expressed unrealistic shock at suggestions of abuse in UK Psychiatry and that the UK Police would not return of an Irish Passport (in 1980).
If what I said in the paragraph (below) is “acceptable” then I don’t know what’s so odd about anything else:-
“..If I can substantiate that I came from the same address as “the person referred” to, in Amsterdam in 1980, and that mention of Amsterdam is kept completely off the UK records – then I don’t see anything too strange with the idea that the two might be connected (considering the circumstances)…”
(I notice you’ve introduced more of your “mental” descriptions in your last comment!).
It is you yourself that are making suggestions of mental illness, and repeating them.
Not at all. You misrepresented me and attempted to make suggestions of mental illness.
Scintilla,
Very Briefly:-
If I can substantiate that I came from the same address as “the person referred” to, in Amsterdam in 1980, and that mention of Amsterdam is kept completely off the UK records – then I don’t see anything too strange with the idea that the two might be connected (considering the circumstances).
Do you get it?
Scintilla,
I think most Supergrass arrangements are likely to be (very) corrupt; and I think a Psychiatrist in the UK could probably get away with saying “anything”.
I suppose the real question would be if I could substantiate – what I have expressed above as “fact” (- and I believe I can).
The other thing is, that it would appear to me that you didn’t completely take on board what I actually did say (above).
Psychiatric Drugs Disable people and make them Dangerous so I can see why conservative republican Senator Grassley would speak out against them.
People often say of their diagnosed siblings that at one time they were the best performers in the family.
Good points.
We could still join forces with other successful Civil Rights Movements whose members are being taken advantage of by “Mental Health Systems”.
There’s probably 10 times the amount of Severely Diagnosed black men and black women in the UK as there justifiably should be; and we all know that Severe Diagnosis can lead to severe abuse. The death rates of black men in mental health systems would also appear to be much higher than “normal”.
Gay people are still far more represented in the UK mental health sysyem than they should be, even after taking life prejudice into account. The gay movement should still be looking for reasonable answers.
If Psychiatry was identified as too corrupt to exist it might have to be “struck off”.
In 1980 I spent several months living and working in Amsterdam. I mixed with different people; and remained in contact over the years with one Dutch friend.
I was acquainted in Amsterdam with a Northern Irishman by the name of Kevin from Belfast who stayed at the same address as me, and who I took to be a genuine reborn Christian.
Looking at the information on the Kevin McGrady Wikipedia Page
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McGrady
I can connect it to the Northern Irish Kevin I was acquainted with, nearly too easily.
About 10 days before leaving Amsterdam Northern Irish Kevin asked me if I could remember a conversation we’d had. I wasn’t aware we did have this conversation but then I remembered I had been out late one night and that he was the night doorman and that I hadn’t remembered even coming in that night.
I asked him what we talked about and he said that it wasn’t important at all.
I developed a certain caution after this, and I decided to leave Holland, though I didn’t associate my caution with Nothern Irish Kevin.
I came into contact with the police when I returned to London. The police removed my passport which was with me at the time and didn’t return it. Following arguments with the police I was charged non seriously and ended up in a bail hostel. From there I (casually) ended up in the Maudsley Hospital.
I wouldnt accept medication at the Maudsley. But was eventually injected and transferred to the Psychiatric Unit at the Regional Hospital Galway, Southern Ireland.
Looking at my FOI requested Irish notes I see no mention of Amsterdam on the attached English notes. All the English information on me is very vague, fairly inaccurate and at arms length.
When I came to Galway Regional Hospital in November of 1980 I was seen by two young Doctors one of them Irish and one non European. The non European admitting doctor had recorded me on the notes as being quite sound mentally.
Me and the accompanying English doctor (who had a quantity of alcohol in his system) were interviewed separately.
Our accounts did not match on significant detail; and my account did contain direct reference to Amsterdam.
I was interviewed by the young Irish Doctor. But this young Irish doctors name never appeared on the records, his notes were copied by Consultant Psychiatrist P A Carney in his own hand and dated at several days later.
Consultant psychiatrist P A Carney at Galway over two months battered me with psychiatric drugs to the point that on leaving hospital I was about 3 stone heavier and a physical mess. I never recovered physically from this.
When I left Ireland in 1986 both Psychiatrist P A Carney and his boss Professor T J Fahy were well established on the Royal British College of Psychiatrists and the Professor of Pharmacology at Galway was the President of the British Association of Psychopharmacologists.
I think it’s possible that Kevin McGrady was being groomed to give evidence as early as 1980 and did not turn up out of the blue in Belfast in January 1982 on account of a need to confess. The evidence presented in court was not convincing, and I think it’s possible in this case that the Diplock court system was corrupted.
There’s nothing wrong with publishing under a “pen name” providing what’s said by way of fact can be substantiated.
Last Minutes of Woman Tormented
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/last-minutes-of-a-woman-tormented-1.1131911%3fmode=amp#ampshare=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/last-minutes-of-a-woman-tormented-1.1131911
Should Doctors and Therapists get screened as well (in the overall screening of society), or are they outside of the “Wheel of Life”.
The previous original Mental Health doctor that “diagnosed” me was a “functioning” alcoholic who died an alcoholics death in middle age.
I believe my previous long term GP in Ireland had had MH problems himself.
My previous long term GP in London was asked to leave his partnership on account of an Episode of Psychosis (which he has described in medical magazine Pulse as “burn out”).
My previous Consultant Psychiatrist in Ireland Dr P A Carney and his boss Professor T J Fahy were both slung out of medicine on account of their handling of Akathisia induced Suicidal/Homicidal Events. In my opinion a lot of people would still be alive if these two men had been screened.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/amp/HELL%20TORMENT%20OF%20PIER%20DIVE%20MUM%3B%20Last%20note%20of%20wife%20who%20drowned%20her%202
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thefreelibrary.com/amp/HELL+TORMENT+OF+PIER+DIVE+MUM%253B+Last+note+of+wife+who+drowned+her+2…-a062758315
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/damages-for-man-whose-wife-drove-off-galway-pier-1.1131888%3fmode=amp#ampshare=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/damages-for-man-whose-wife-drove-off-galway-pier-1.1131888
There’s no argument it’s just – RUBBISH.
CAFFEE60
What would you recommend as a solution to the examples raised by Eric.
(I refused medication at the beginning but I wasn’t able to go without it after a number of years and I chose to take it at a low level – until it disapeared).
Thank you Dr Shipko,
I think the slower the better!
Slaying the Dragon,
I wonder who’s diagnosing the “Schizophrenia” in Rural China. I think if no-one was diagnosing the “Schizophrenia”, there wouldn’t be any.
In rural China marriages used to be arranged, and I think the brides family paid the dowry. Rural people have their own ways of measuring people up, and they are very good at it. In Ireland years ago the grooms personality was tested with alcohol.
My mother came from a farming background in Ireland and I was chatting to her before my sister’s wedding. She told me she liked her new son in law “to be”, that he was a very nice man, “…though, I asked him to help me lifting the tables in the church and he didn’t seem very strong…”
Hi Someone Else,
It seems like everybody is taken in with the uselessness of “schizophrenia”. I was taken in myself but I didn’t know the full facts.
My main problem was disability on “medication” and High Anxiety on “medication” discontinuation.
The real problem I think is the universal absence of Knowledge of the option of Full Recovery. A lot of non drug professionals also make very hard work out of a straightforward return to life.
Also in the medical profession they daren’t expose the “emperor with no clothes”. Because they would be targeted and exited.
Hi,
Its possible to overcome “Schizophrenia”
When I came off “medication” (even carefully) my main problem was Terrible Anxiety. The anxiety was worse than any previous emotional problem I’d ever had, and it was rebound anxiety not normal anxiety.
It didn’t respond to normal Psychotherapy either, but it did respond to Cognitive Behavioural (type) Therapy. Over the years with practice the anxiety reduced right down, and when it did – my problem was solved.
I would be interested in a Study on the rate of diagnosis of Schizophrenia of black men in Jamaica – in comparison to the rate of diagnosis of black men of Jamaican extraction in the UK.
I would predict there to be a very large difference but not for genuinely valid reasons.
I was told lots of times by girlfriends to throw away “my medication” – but when I did I ran into trouble. The test of time has proven though, that these were “Rebounds” not “Relapses”.
Its bollox!
The only thing more disabling than Severe Mental Illness is supposed to be being paralysed from the neck down.
If people are able to work are they Shizophrenic?