Mad In America is about the complete lack of success of the existing Mental Health system, and need for use of the alternative workable solutions (that are available).
Below is a research paper from my historical Psychiatrist from Ireland (1998) on the benefits of Psychiatric depot medication (in the community).
Over the years that I remained a Psychiatric Patient my Historical Psychiatrist had maintained occupational disability, to be my main problem.
But my Psychiatrist had been incapable of telling the difference between the effects of the drugs he was prescribing, and genuine mental illness.
While I consumed long acting depot injection drugs at Galway Southern Ireland I experienced suicidal hospitalization after suicidal hospitalization. When I attempted to stop these drugs (with permission) I ended up in hospital again fairly quickly. When I was offered an alternative (depot injection) I also ended up suicidal and in hospital again (1984).
I could ONLY come off these drugs very carefully and with suitable help, and when I did, my suicidal hospitalizations and disability ENDED.
I can describe the practical psychological process by which I was able to cope with the drug withdrawal, and how it worked in the long term. BUT any qualified psychologist might do the same.
Suicide and Homicide in Mental Health are often closely related, but from my own experience, I would say that “compulsory depot injections” are more likely to cause Suicide and Homicide than to prevent them.
“…With some notable exceptions, the professions of psychology, psychotherapy, counselling, social work, occupational tend to submit to the widespread belief that the body of knowledge espoused by mainstream psychiatry merits its place at the top of the mental health ‘knowledge’ pyramid…” they are wasting their own time.
Thank you for publishing this Article.
Nobody has ever Genuinely Recovered through taking their “medication”.
Dr Terry Lynch has helped people to Genuinely Recover, from “DSM Schizophrenia”. He can also explain how:
From Dr Terry Lynch s book “SELFHOOD” :-
“Prior to attending me in his late thirties, Stephen had been diagnosed five years previously as having paranoid schizophrenia.”
“…He saw threat and danger everywhere, when objectively there was none….
…His paranoia was entirely understandable as seen from his perspective, given that one of his main experiences was that he constantly felt unsafe, unprotected and unable to generate any personal security for himself….
…I focused on enabling Stephen to progressively raise his level of selfhood….
…I explained to him that his terror-filled, paranoid thoughts were an outward projection of his inner fear and self-doubt…
….People experiencing paranoia also experience their thinking speeding up, reflecting their terror. Thoughts keep coming, in an ever-more-frantic cascading sequence. The person creates an entire scenario in their minds based on their initial first thoughts. The initial thought may be somewhat based on reality. For example, a person across the bar happens to look in their direction. The person runs with this, creating a complicated sequence of events in their minds, a fantasy created under the influence of immense terror and great lack of inner safety. In a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds, they become convinced that there is a sinister plot to harm them in some way….
..I explained that he was relinquishing his power over himself to other people…
…When feeling unsafe, he would appraise the situation, see things and people as they were and be aware that any meaning he attached to them was entirely his creation and had little or nothing to do with other people or the situation. He reassured himself repeatedly every day that he was safe, that he could make himself safe and protect himself in any situation…
…This practise had the desired effect. His level of self-protection and self-generated security began to increase, slowly at first, then gathering pace…
…Stephen has been off all schizophrenia medication for over three years. He lives a full life, goes where he likes, thrives in social situations, and has a level of selfhood higher that at any previous time in his life…”
Thanks Greg, You explain things very well.
How much would you have cost $$$ even by now, if you hadn’t found your own way out?
The other thing is that psychiatric drugs cause more suicides and homicides than they prevent.
‘He said: “This drug is poisoning me. It’s giving me problems I never had before.”‘
‘He’s handing them the diagnosis on a plate, and the system is not listening.’
‘The evidence in SSRIs (the category of drugs to which sertraline belongs) is that they cause more suicides than they prevent,’ he said.
The Experts on Genuine Recovery are the people that have Genuinely Recovered or helped other people to Genuinely Recover.
My historical psychiatrist couldn’t tell the difference between the side effects of his own medication and genuine “mental illness”.
I demonstrated recovery (to him) as a result of very carefully stopping psychiatric drugs – and he went on to to promote the actual drugs that had disabled and nearly killed me.
Alex,
I’ve read complete books that haven’t got as much good advice as in your comment above.
(Remember the G20 Summit with the Leaders trying to trying to snub each other).
Someone Else,
We’d be better off “staying alive”.
We know for a Fact that the only effective solutions to the “so called” Severe Mental Illnesses are to be found outside the present day DSM BioMedical (Psychiatric Drug) Paradigm.
We don’t need to look for “new” drugs; we need to use what we already have.
(If anyone would like to know how a “Buddhist Approach” can get a person with “Severe Mental Illness” Well, I can explain – but Anyone familiar with “Buddhism” could probably do the same).
I don’t exactly understand the PTMF, but that’s okay!
Originally the question the Talk Therapists asked me was NOT “..what’s happened to you..” BUT “…What’s going on for you, and how can we help you….” and “..lets talk about things, and we’ll see if we can help you..”. Talk Therapy did help me.
Successful Talk Therapy for people “diagnosed” “with” “Schizophrenia” and “Bipolar” I would imagine, would be like Dr Terry Lynch s friendly and encouraging Approach.
From hindsight I understand my problem to have been “Neuroleptic Withdrawal Syndrome”, or as Robert Whitaker has coined it, Neuroleptic Withdrawal “High Anxiety”.
Ultimately I was able to find effective longlasting solutions to my “obstructions” through a “Buddhist Approach” .
“…I hope others can be spared the hell I went through with depression pills, by an NHS psychiatrist who says coming off them left him suicidal…”
There’s story after story on Mad In America of people that have Genuinely recovered from Schizophrenia/Bipolar Diagnosis through rejection of the Medical approach:- I notice a lot of this Genuine Recovery “has come about” through similar means.
I became WELL in 1984, as a result of stopping LAI Fluphenazine Decanoate.
Rachel777,
I hope you overcome any challenges left, very quickly!
Thanks Pacific Dawn,
In my own case I have no choice but to fight back as I’ve had the promotion of “Severe Mental illness” with me, decades after recovery and independance of the “MH” System.
I can also demonstrate “hole” after “hole” in my “MH” Records.
Pacific Dawn,
Feelings can very realistically invest themselves perfectly, externally. It’s only when I “feel the feelings” and they “blend” that I realise that there’s no real external problem, just things that need to be sorted out.
Thank You Tricia,
I really appreciate this Article.
What Marius Rhomme says about “voices” is quite interesting.
“…In the case of hearing voices, it seems as if there is a kind of ‘placing outside’ of emotions; and emotions are, in the beginning, felt to be provoked by the voices. Only in the process of recovery do emotions become recognized again as one’s own…”
I wondered if this was true and if lots of people felt like this, but that it didn’t take the form of hearing “voices”. If this is true then the voice hearer wouldn’t be much different from anyone else.
But if people can learn to deal with their “voices” then Voice Hearing is not really “Schizophrenia”; and “Schizophrenia” is a Misnomer.
I’m sure the future is bright!
Thank You,
First Class Article!
“…Technological change, including computerization, robotics, and the coming of artificial intelligence, has similarly begun to displace labor in significant ways, leaving Americans without college degrees, especially those 50 and older, in far more difficult straits when it comes to finding new jobs that pay well…”
IMO more technology might be used, and the benefits shared.
“…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…”
On my 1980 Mental Health Formulation of Schizophrenia (from my notes at Galway University Hospital Ireland).
“Preoccupation with Homosexuality” was entered as a symptom of Schizophrenia. (….the doctor asked about little else).
“Delusional perception” was recorded as another symptom (…the doctor had recorded me as living in the UK in the previous 6 months, whereas I had been living in Holland..)
“Auditory Hallucinations” was recorded as another symptom (…I had been referring to “normal social thought inside of my head…”).
Factually a person either suffers from a lifelong illness or they don’t. If they don’t have the circumstances attached to it, then they can’t really suffer from it, unless they want to.
In my own case my “illness” was “revived” in 2002 vis a vis a Severe Mental Illness Register. My notes were computerised as starting in 2002 with no obvious history (though I had recovered in 1984 and emigrated to the UK in 1986 and had been well for many years).
In 1980 I was in Amsterdam for several months and had returned to London (to end up in the Maudsley hospital), but there is NO Amsterdam anywhere, on the UK side of my notes.
There was also NO Admission Procedure to my 1980 Maudsley Hospital stay.
My “Discharge Summary” (as presented to the Irish Medical Council by my historical Psychiatrist) from my 1980 Maudsley Hospital stay has NO date of Admission.
I was transferred from the UK to Galway Regional Hospital Ireland in November 1980 where The UK “History + Formulation ” was written and signed for, by the Galway doctor.
The “Illness Revival” I believe, was to do with Amsterdam, (and the obvious “fiddling” of Records).
For Medical Diagnosis to be trusted doctors have got to be trusted to tell the truth. If a doctor can tell “any lie going”, and the UK General Medical Council will allow this – then Mental Health Diagnosis cannot be trusted in the UK.
I also complained (with evidence) in Ireland in 2013, and found that my Historical Irish Psychiatrist Dr PA Carney had been “on” and “around” the Irish Medical Council for a number of years. But The Irish Medical Council were not prepared – to act.
In my opinion, with the doctoring of Records in “Mental Health” in the UK and Ireland, Factually Speaking, “Mental Health” Diagnosis cannot be trusted; and all Deaths and Injury in Psychiatry must be seen as suspect.
5% of the UK population is now “Severely Mentally Disabled” and surviving on “Severe Mental Illness” Disability Benefit, and I would definitely say that the majority of this disability has been caused by the “antipsychotics” (+ the “antidepressants”).
Mad in Canada,
I empathise with you.
There is such a thing as serious and disabling mental distress.
A person on strong Psychiatric Drugs is, also, likely to be genuinely physically disabled; and a person can go completely mad purely as a result of coming off Strong Psychiatric drugs.
DOES MH DIAGNOSIS IN THE UK OR IRELAND STAND FOR ANYTHING, ANYWAY?
In October of 2012 I was horrified to discover my name on a Severe Mental Illness Register at My GP Surgery at London W2.
When my name was put on this SMI Register (2002/03) I was working as a subcontractor on the House of Commons Buildings, Norman Shawe House (on the windows below:-
GP DISHONESTY
A month later by chance I discovered “Schizophrenia” still on the GP information system. So I complained to my GP about this. My GP in Response presented me with a signed letter on practice paper, completely contradicting his previous 3 written guarantees; and placing Full Confidence in my Historical and Psychopathic Irish Psychiatrist (below).
THE UK GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.
I then complained to the UK General Medical Council as I considered my GP s behaviour to be unacceptable. But in May of 2013 the GMC politely refused to proceed with my complaint.
I showed my GP a November 8 1986 Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter sent by me to doctors at Ireland, concerning medications that had disabled and nearly killed me.
If a doctor is “allowed” to keep relevant information off a record (and in my experience they are), a doctor could Misdiagnose anybody with Severe Mental Illness.
I disagree with “psychotic” as well, it’s a very abused (and money making) term.
NEAR FATAL MODECATE EXPERIENCE
(FLUPHENAZINE DECOANATE)
“….Neuro-psychologist 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. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy….”
at least 50% of people on low doses of an antipsychotic
up to 80% or more people on higher doses of an antipsychotic
5% or more people on doxycycline, other antibiotics, and other medications
healthy volunteers as well as “patients”
RECOVERY + WELLNESS 1984 – 2018
Recovery in 1984 as a Result of tapering from the Modecate Depot Injection with the help of Inexpensive Psychotherapy – Disability cheque discontinued (permanently).
I got an awful lot out of Eckhart Tolles, Power of Now , as did so many other people.
But I think the young girl the writer is talking about is coping in a traditional Japanese way, which is influenced by Buddhism.
Irish Catholics might survive great trauma as well under the influence of Catholicism, but maybe not as effectively as Genuine Buddhists.
I also disagree with the term “antipsychotic” used to describe a Neuroleptic. Because “antipsychotics” are about as antipsychotic as paint fumes.
Its also quite a devious term to use, as anyone taking this drug even at a very low level can be described as a person taking an “antipsychotic”.
I don’t believe in “Schizophrenia” or “Bipolar”.
An anxious persons brain will always tell them the worst thing is going to happen, and countless people deal successfully with “hallucinations”.
The British Psychological Society claim they can accommodate “schizophrenia” and “bi polar” in the same way that they can accommodate “anxiety” and “social shyness”. I know myself, that the BPS is telling the truth because I recovered from “schizophrenia” and “bipolar” in 1984, as a result of discontinuing “medication” suitable for these “disorders”.
When I went to see the last “surviving” doctor from my 1980s past (now an acclaimed UK Psychiatrist) he reassured me that he was very confident that I had been Originally Misdiagnosed (and Mistreated).
My historical Records from The UK Maudsley Hospital/Kings College and Galway University Hospital Ireland are rotten, and obviously so.
What about negative social contact; or being part of a group that a person doesn’t want to be in; or having lower social status in a group or tribe; or having higher status in insincere relationships; or being in desperately co dependant relationships.
Thank You Sylvain,
I believe I can go some way to connecting suicide attempts to psychiatric drug consumption, and its medical suppression, from my own MH Records.
Lawrence,
The Neuroleptics are “addictive” as well in the sense that (even though they are unpleasant), they are dependency forming.
I refused “medication” in 1980, but by 1983 when I was given permission to discontinue all “medication”, I honestly couldn’t survive without it.
I had to come off the Neuroleptic “Medication” very carefully over a long period of time, and I had to learn how to deal with my Reactive High Anxiety (which was not my normal state).
Valium certainly causes Anxiety, but Neuroleptics also cause High Anxiety.
But the Good News is that even the High Anxiety (of withdrawing from drugs suitable for “schizophrenia”) responds to Practical Inexpensive Psychotherapy.
Helpstillneeded, Thank you very much.
It’s a message to any other doctors that question the (very peculiar) MH status quo.
I’m amazed, Dr Gordon’s treatment (when he’s tried to do the right thing as a doctor) is even worse than mine (when I made my own complaints). I fully believe and support him.
[I know what it's like trying to come off Psychotropic Medication; and it was only by good fortune that I managed to come off mine.]
The Psychiatric Drug Consumer ends up in the same situation as the Alcoholic:- “… they can’t live with substance, and they can’t live without it..”
Lauren, You are helping lots of people with this Article, and saving lives.
I’m very sorry for your years of chemically induced suffering, anyone consuming these drugs is guaranteed to become “ill”. This is factual.
The Article Below comes from a very brave Irish Public Representative
I can’t see electricity and a child’s brain (or anyones brain) working well together.
In the UK about 5% of the working population is now Mentally Disabled and surviving on Severe Mental Illness Disability Benefit. I was like this myself as a young man between the age of 20 and 24. It’s the treatments that cause the Disability.
Lawrence,
I am always amazed to see refined middle aged men with glasses talking in a very educated manner about the merits of the different psychiatric Drugs they prescribe, when in effect these drugs are just tranquillisers or antidepressants that any fool could dole out. These men are not qualified at anything.
One of the things that needs to be realised with Western “Schizophrenia” – is that the Psychiatric Drugs themselves create “Schizophrenia”.
I can attest to this from my own case of Drug Withdrawal and Recovery. I attended Psychotherapy for a number of years. I did gain from the support and charity of the therapists. BUT what honestly worked for me was a straightforward approach NOT going back memory lane and “dealing with my past”.
I had to learn how to adapt to the Previous Presence of the Psychiatric drugs, and the damage which they had caused. I achieved this through means of “Stress Management Techniques”, this was what worked – regardless of how Politically Incorrect it might sound.
Over a period of time my Protective System became Second Nature, and I was no longer Vulnerable.
Renowned Adviser Deepak Chopra frequently refers to “schizophrenia” as a brain illness (LINKS below) even though (in my own experience) – the “tools” he promotes work brilliantly in coming off medical “treatments” “suitable” for “schizophrenia”.
Hi Lawrence, Your Articles should be published everywhere!
Mankind has known for hundreds and hundreds of years that any drug taken to make a person feel better will eventually make them feel a lot worse. It’s the Doctors that are telling Lies.
BLACK MISDIAGNOSIS + CHEMICAL DEATH
It’s dreadful that in the UK a 2nd Generation Caribbean man is 10 times more likely to be diagnosed as “Schizophrenic” (than a White UK man) – because we all KNOW that this CANNOT be TRUE.
BUT, the Fact that 9 out of 10 Diagnosed UK Black Men DO NOT Recover demonstrates (In my opinion) that the Psychiatric Drug Treatments CAUSE the LONGTERM Psychiatric Illnesses.
The Psychiatric Drugs also eventually KILL the Patient.
My observation is that this is an area where leopards can change their spots, i.e. malingering young people can (eventually) adapt into becoming industrious young people.
Some parents kick “free loaders” out; other parents help (and sometimes indulge) them. I’ve seen the 2nd approach work (several times).
BUT, there is no such thing as ADHD.
It is a great letter and I’m very happy things turned out “reasonably” in the end. This letter will save childrens lives.
{In 1985/86 my Historical Irish Consultant Psychiatrist at Galway Psychiatric Unit praised my Recovery during an interview. After many years as a hopeless “Schizophrenic” I was now successfully holding down normal work (which was his main ambition for me). He wanted to know how my Recovery had come about.
I told him that my recovery was as a result of discontinuing the strong psychiatric drugs he had me on. That these drugs were causing impossible restlessness. And they they had also caused my Suicide Attempts. He told me I should never have been on these drugs.
I asked him what my problem was supposed to have been to begin with – and he said he didn’t know.
At my next interview he told me he was going on a Sabbatical to Canada; which he did.
He conducted Research on the drug Lithium (at Ontario) which I believe was published in 1988:-
We all know that Professionals and Non Professionals are not allowed to poison people. The idea that they can poison people or that poisoning people is open to debate – stems from institutionalised corruption.
When doctors In parts of Europe in the 1930s poisoned people to death, this was also probably “legal”- but after 1945 it was taken for granted that the behaviour wasn’t “okay”.
Schizophrenia Diagnosis
In my own case my original “schizophrenia diagnosis formulation” was “Peculiar”.
Relevant Factual information within the formulation pertaining to me, was inaccurate and vague, as if doctors were attempting to deny responsibility; while at the same time claiming “Severe Mental Illness”.
I was recorded as living in the UK in the previous 6 months to hospitalization when in fact I had been living in Holland. And the Irish Doctor that identified this, kept his name completely off the records.
It’s clear that “Stephen” was “incurable” prior to non drug help, and that it was the non drug help that that got him back into life again.
Why do we pay for billions in disability for this ..
Because the Political System has been rigged through means of Bribery.
NON DRUG (NON GENETIC) “SCHIZOPHRENIA” SOLUTION
From SELFHOOD By Dr Terry Lynch
“..I could see how Stephen was diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia. He saw threat and danger everywhere, when objectively there was none. Stephen’s level of selfhood was at rock bottom, and this was a fundamental underlying reason for his problems. His paranoia was entirely understandable as seen from his perspective, given that one of his main experiences was that he constantly felt unsafe, unprotected and unable to generate any personal security for himself. This was borne out in his second session with me. As I mentioned briefly in the section on self-generated security, ten minutes into the session, Stephen looked terrified, and I asked him why. He replied ‘I’m not sure I can get out of this place alive’….”
“…I focused on enabling Stephen to progressively raise his level of selfhood…”
“….Stephen was now aware of his own terror and inability to make himself feel safe, whereas previously he was not aware of this and instead was entirely focused on the dangers that lay waiting relentlessly for him everywhere. …”
“…I used these experiences to get Stephen thinking about the accuracy of his interpretations of these episodes…”
“…His level of self-protection and self-generated security began to increase, slowly at first, then gathering pace….”
“…Because he was doing well, his psychiatrist agreed to reduce his medication slightly, and I subsequently continued the process of gradually reducing Stephen’s medication…”
“…Stephen has been off all schizophrenia medication for over three years. He lives a full life, goes where he likes, thrives in social situations, and has a level of selfhood higher that at any previous time in his life…”
In my Experience the answers lie within the Non Drug Approach.
My Experience of “High Anxiety” or Neuroleptic Drug Withdrawal Syndrome (anxiety at its “worst”); is that it can be accommodated through careful drug withdrawal and straightforward psychological means.
Below is a Research Paper produced by my historical Psychiatrist and “Neuroscientist” Dr PA Carney at NUIG on the merits of long term Neuroleptic depot injection drugging of “Schizophrenics” in the community in Ireland.
I was diagnosed by Dr PA Carney as a hopeless case of “Schizophrenia” (1980 to 1984). But I made Full Recovery as a result of coming off the ABOVE medication (very carefully) with help of Practical Psychology.
I can Factually Represent what I say to be TRUE with Evidence of 35 Years, of Wellness and Independence (1984 to 2019), of the Psychiatric and Disability System.
Someone Else,
This has been my experience:- that “Schizophrenia” is an iatrogenic “illness” – regardless of how a person is at the beginning.
I also believe that this can be substantiated through basic honest research.
After 4 years on Psychiatric Drugs in the Community in Ireland I was like an Alcoholic:- “I couldn’t live with substance and couldn’t live without it”. In this state I would have been lucky to end up in jail (only that I found a route out).
At Some Stage Psychiatry + General Medicine Has Given Itself The Right To Kill It’s Patients (I don’t just mean in parts of Europe in the 1930s).
Psychopath Dr Donlon Kenny from Galway even sent me a personal letter of (False) Reassurance.
“Doctors” in the UK have kept the 1986 ADR Warning Request out of my Records while placing Full confidence in the “Doctors” from Galway.
dmshanin83,
I heard something similar at first hand. A young man expressed his wish to put his head in a vice and to tighten the vice. But the people listening to him, did care.
This young man was on medication for depression and I would have liked to express my opinion on what might be causing his grief but I held back for a suitable opportunity. I have experienced lots of distressing emotions but never felt as he did “When Off My Medication”.
As regards “Schizophrenia”, I believe there are plenty of people that have made full recovery from “schizophrenia” through one means or another. I believe Dr Pat Bracken himself has helped people through the “maze”.
Every psychiatric hospitalization I had, bar the first one, was a suicidal event. I was never suicidal prior to my “psychiatric experience” and never suicidal in my 35 years since leaving “psychiatry”:- The treatment was causing the problem.
After a number of years I was capable of expressing my experience BUT the situation is likely to be a lot different for those that can’t.
BBC News – Cameroon atrocity: What happened after Africa Eye found who killed this woman
….and the System appears to be getting worse, not better.
It helps and it doesn’t harm and its inexpensive (and it works for “Schizophrenia” and “Bipolar” as well).
Yes, but it’s worthwhile that it’s being medically acknowledged!
I discuss my personal feelings with people in (anonymous) 12 Step Fellowship. They can’t do anything with my Information as the setting is within an “Anonymous” Fellowship.
What I share is more or less what everyone else within fellowship shares – the content is suitable for “Fellowship” but not very suitable outside.
[In reference to my comment above – I initially attempted to come off strong psychiatric drugs abruptly (with permission); and this resulted in disaster. I then carefully tapered (with help) -and this was successful.]
[I also managed to figure out the dynamic of my "High Anxiety" and to adapt around this].
Thank you very much for posting this; and it doesn’t surprise me at all!
Yes, but not successfully.
The large scale promotion of anti depressant drug usage, could be part of a broader overall campaign to to get most people onto a psychiatric drug.
Slaying the Dragon,
I fully support your contentions.
Coming off strong psychiatric drugs “triggers” a condition of “High Anxiety”, and its how a person can accommodate this, that determines the result (I nearly died in the process).
I believe the “Hearing Voices Network” is operational in Canada and I wonder where it fits in here?
If people are open about the “phenomenon” then how can it be a “crime”.
Dear Alan,
You are helping your son and lots of other people with the publication of this Article.
In my own experience once a person takes “medications” for a period of time, they become “schizophrenic” – (beyond this, I don’t believe there’s any such thing).
According to Dr Alan Frances (I believe) to be mentally ill a person has got to suffer from distress.
Psychiatric hospitals came with the Industrial Reveloution when a person wasn’t of much use Industrially if they weren’t “normal” – but there are completely legitimate environments in the real world where to be “normal” a person is not likely to survive (very well).
(Medicine today, (I believe) itself is now a completely industrial environment where to question anything can mean automatic “death”).
If people can get successfully better through normal human contact, then the “system” in place has got to be worse than useless.
Mindfulness is inexpensive and “therapy” is expensive.
Alcoholics Anonymous is inexpensive and rehab is expensive. A friend of mine attends the AA regularly and remains abstinent and happy. But his medical notes state that he is now a social drinker.
rasselas,
Nice to see you again.
Living in the real world might very frightening for lots of people that don’t at all have “schizophrenia”.
“….What is called recurrence when the patients no longer receive the drug is very often withdrawal symptoms that appear because the brain has been accustomed to the drug. …”
I Completely Agree:-
In 1980 I was happy to “decline” psychiatric drugs and to ask for psychotherapy, but by 1983 when I was given permission to discontinue Modecate depot injection, I quickly found that I could not survive without it.
By 1984 after a number of further hospitalizations I managed to stop taking the Modecate depot injection. To do this I had to switch to oral medication and to taper carefully, with psychotherapy.
It took me 6 years to reduce from 25mg of Modecate depot injection per month, to 25mg of Mellaril per day (which eventually became nothing).
What was the Irish Suicide Rate prior to Large Scale “Anti Depressant” Exposure?
“…Fine Gael TD and chairman of the Irish Association of Suicidology, Dan Neville, told the forum the average annual suicide rate in Ireland in the 1960s was 64-65.
He said: “Last year, 483 people died by suicide and if you add the 123 undetermined deaths, the suicide number is over 600.”…”
You can be scared and “catastrophising” and overcome this without tranquillizers (once somebody shows you how).
Lots of people have done this before you!
PIG IN THE KITCHEN.
In my own case there was NO Official Admission Procedure to my Original Maudsley Hospital UK Stay of 1980. The name of the ‘social worker’ that accompanied me to the Maudsley is NOWHERE to be found in my Records. I walked through one door and then through another door – and then, I was IN.
After this I wandered around the Hospital coming and going as I liked, without interference.
Several Maudsley “patients” even invited me to their houses, and I accepted, and one of them cooked me dinner.
At a later date (following a visit to an Irish ‘Social Worker”, at Kilburn ) Maudsley Staff attempted to “raise” a Section on me – but I wasn’t Officially “THERE” to begin with!
My Maudsley Hospital “Discharge Summary” of 1980 (as presented to the Irish Medical Council by my historical Psychiatrist Dr PA Carney) – contains NO Admission Date.
RECOVERY FROM AKATHISIA
My Reply to My GP Surgery “Delisting” Letter:-
To: Newton Medical (London W2)
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2018
Subject: Att. All Partners and Dr Baluch
Dear Sirs/(Madams)
In your Letter dated October 17 2018 – you seriously misrepresent me.
TRUST
My trust in Newton Medical was broken in October of 2012 when (to my horror) I discovered my name had been on a Severe Mental Illness Register since 2002. At this time (2002) I had been working as a Building Subcontractor in the House of Parliament Buildings (and can substantiate this).
OCTOBER 8 2018 VISIT TO NEWTON MEDICAL. REGARDING HEALTH AND SAFETY ON BUILDING SITES
On October 8 2018 I explained (and showed ) to the Reception Manager and to Dr Baluch at Newton Medical, that at my last appointment on July 20 2016 Dr Simons had given me in writing a sheet of paper from the Appointment Notes stating that – “he could see no reason that I could NOT work on a Building Site” . While at the same time Dr Simons had provided me with another sheet of paper from a “Legal Adviser” (July 20 2016)
(which made reference to the historical 1986 Irish Record Summary) but also at the the bottom of the page stated – that I had a “Diagnosis of Schizophrenia…” and “had NOT DISPUTED this diagnosis..”.
I explained on October 8 2018 that I had shown and discussed both of these contradictory statements received in July 20 2016 with a Building Health and Safety Officer who advised me to get this contradictory situation resolved – as the medical suggestions could undermine my credibility, and could affect me in the event of an accident on a Building Site.
I have not suffered any disability in my 30 years in the UK; but Medical Claims of Present day Severe Mental Illness are invalidating. I presumed Newton Medical (promoting the disability) to be the first place to approach – this is why I called to the Surgery on October 8 2018.
DISTRESS
When I clearly demonstrated the Malpractice properties of the 1986 Irish Record Summary to Dr Simons in two interviews in October/November 2012 – at the end of both of these interviews Dr Simons shirt was completely saturated and sticking to his body (he was genuinely traumatised).
But, there is no mention anywhere on my records of this Malpractice.
MY BACKGROUND.
I made Full Recovery in 1984 as a Result of carefully tapering from the Modecate Depot Injection with the help of Practical Psychotherapy – and returned to normal life and independence.
“….In 2006, ÆSOP reported a ninefold increase in the risk of developing schizophrenia in black Caribbeans when compared with the white British population..”
Julie,
There’s lots of different ways of Stopping Treatment and getting Better. And there’s lots of pitfalls in the system.
Lenora,
It makes me cringe as well. Once a talking therapist goes down the road of “diagnosis” , the “therapy” becomes a waste of time (at best).
Frank,
As far as I know Long term Mental Health Disability in the UK is at about 5% of the population.
1 in 20 Adults are claiming Severe Mental Illness Benefit in the UK.
I believe Genuine Research into this Area would identify Serious Failings in the UK Justice System, and the “Creation of Severe Mental Illness” through exposure to Strong Psychiatric Drugs.
With the Removal of “Schizophrenia” most people could make Full Recovery.
I think UK Research should focus on the “Creation of “Schizophrenia”” in the majority of Black People (9 out of 10) originally misdiagnosed with “Schizophrenia”, and subsequently exposed to Strong Psychiatric Drugs.
A UK Black person is more than 10 times more likely to be diagnosed with “Schizophrenia” than a white person in the the UK. And many more times more likely again, to be diagnosed with “Schizophrenia” than a black person in the Caribbean.
(At 10 times the National Average, UK University Kings College (I believe) were considering researching as to why “Rates of Schizophrenia” were so high in Black people in the UK).
Thanks dfk,
This is understandable and really worth reading. It’s 1000 times more worthy than a psychiatric paper.
I like Rufus May (as well) because he has personal experience, and he also has solutions. Voices are the mainstay of “Schizophrenia” and Rufus and Others are showing people how to practically accommodate them.
I’m amazed to see this getting into the NHS!
I consumed 25mg of Mellaril per day by choice. This is maybe 5% of a maintenance dose.
Hi Frank,
Human Beings have now developed technology to the point that we can replace most jobs with machines, and we have birth control which limits population size. There’s no reason not to share these benefits with everyone.
Mad In America is about the complete lack of success of the existing Mental Health system, and need for use of the alternative workable solutions (that are available).
Below is a research paper from my historical Psychiatrist from Ireland (1998) on the benefits of Psychiatric depot medication (in the community).
https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ps.49.10.1361-b
Over the years that I remained a Psychiatric Patient my Historical Psychiatrist had maintained occupational disability, to be my main problem.
But my Psychiatrist had been incapable of telling the difference between the effects of the drugs he was prescribing, and genuine mental illness.
While I consumed long acting depot injection drugs at Galway Southern Ireland I experienced suicidal hospitalization after suicidal hospitalization. When I attempted to stop these drugs (with permission) I ended up in hospital again fairly quickly. When I was offered an alternative (depot injection) I also ended up suicidal and in hospital again (1984).
I could ONLY come off these drugs very carefully and with suitable help, and when I did, my suicidal hospitalizations and disability ENDED.
I can describe the practical psychological process by which I was able to cope with the drug withdrawal, and how it worked in the long term. BUT any qualified psychologist might do the same.
Suicide and Homicide in Mental Health are often closely related, but from my own experience, I would say that “compulsory depot injections” are more likely to cause Suicide and Homicide than to prevent them.
“…With some notable exceptions, the professions of psychology, psychotherapy, counselling, social work, occupational tend to submit to the widespread belief that the body of knowledge espoused by mainstream psychiatry merits its place at the top of the mental health ‘knowledge’ pyramid…” they are wasting their own time.
Thank you for publishing this Article.
Nobody has ever Genuinely Recovered through taking their “medication”.
Dr Terry Lynch has helped people to Genuinely Recover, from “DSM Schizophrenia”. He can also explain how:
From Dr Terry Lynch s book “SELFHOOD” :-
“Prior to attending me in his late thirties, Stephen had been diagnosed five years previously as having paranoid schizophrenia.”
“…He saw threat and danger everywhere, when objectively there was none….
…His paranoia was entirely understandable as seen from his perspective, given that one of his main experiences was that he constantly felt unsafe, unprotected and unable to generate any personal security for himself….
…I focused on enabling Stephen to progressively raise his level of selfhood….
…I explained to him that his terror-filled, paranoid thoughts were an outward projection of his inner fear and self-doubt…
….People experiencing paranoia also experience their thinking speeding up, reflecting their terror. Thoughts keep coming, in an ever-more-frantic cascading sequence. The person creates an entire scenario in their minds based on their initial first thoughts. The initial thought may be somewhat based on reality. For example, a person across the bar happens to look in their direction. The person runs with this, creating a complicated sequence of events in their minds, a fantasy created under the influence of immense terror and great lack of inner safety. In a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds, they become convinced that there is a sinister plot to harm them in some way….
..I explained that he was relinquishing his power over himself to other people…
…When feeling unsafe, he would appraise the situation, see things and people as they were and be aware that any meaning he attached to them was entirely his creation and had little or nothing to do with other people or the situation. He reassured himself repeatedly every day that he was safe, that he could make himself safe and protect himself in any situation…
…This practise had the desired effect. His level of self-protection and self-generated security began to increase, slowly at first, then gathering pace…
…Stephen has been off all schizophrenia medication for over three years. He lives a full life, goes where he likes, thrives in social situations, and has a level of selfhood higher that at any previous time in his life…”
Thanks Greg, You explain things very well.
How much would you have cost $$$ even by now, if you hadn’t found your own way out?
The other thing is that psychiatric drugs cause more suicides and homicides than they prevent.
‘He said: “This drug is poisoning me. It’s giving me problems I never had before.”‘
‘He’s handing them the diagnosis on a plate, and the system is not listening.’
‘The evidence in SSRIs (the category of drugs to which sertraline belongs) is that they cause more suicides than they prevent,’ he said.
The Experts on Genuine Recovery are the people that have Genuinely Recovered or helped other people to Genuinely Recover.
My historical psychiatrist couldn’t tell the difference between the side effects of his own medication and genuine “mental illness”.
I demonstrated recovery (to him) as a result of very carefully stopping psychiatric drugs – and he went on to to promote the actual drugs that had disabled and nearly killed me.
Alex,
I’ve read complete books that haven’t got as much good advice as in your comment above.
(Remember the G20 Summit with the Leaders trying to trying to snub each other).
Someone Else,
We’d be better off “staying alive”.
We know for a Fact that the only effective solutions to the “so called” Severe Mental Illnesses are to be found outside the present day DSM BioMedical (Psychiatric Drug) Paradigm.
We don’t need to look for “new” drugs; we need to use what we already have.
(If anyone would like to know how a “Buddhist Approach” can get a person with “Severe Mental Illness” Well, I can explain – but Anyone familiar with “Buddhism” could probably do the same).
I don’t exactly understand the PTMF, but that’s okay!
Originally the question the Talk Therapists asked me was NOT “..what’s happened to you..” BUT “…What’s going on for you, and how can we help you….” and “..lets talk about things, and we’ll see if we can help you..”. Talk Therapy did help me.
Successful Talk Therapy for people “diagnosed” “with” “Schizophrenia” and “Bipolar” I would imagine, would be like Dr Terry Lynch s friendly and encouraging Approach.
From hindsight I understand my problem to have been “Neuroleptic Withdrawal Syndrome”, or as Robert Whitaker has coined it, Neuroleptic Withdrawal “High Anxiety”.
Ultimately I was able to find effective longlasting solutions to my “obstructions” through a “Buddhist Approach” .
From Honest Doctor, Dr Peter Gordon,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7202413/I-hope-spared-hell-went-depression-pills-says-NHS-psychiatrist.html
“…I hope others can be spared the hell I went through with depression pills, by an NHS psychiatrist who says coming off them left him suicidal…”
There’s story after story on Mad In America of people that have Genuinely recovered from Schizophrenia/Bipolar Diagnosis through rejection of the Medical approach:- I notice a lot of this Genuine Recovery “has come about” through similar means.
Criminality is Criminality:-
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fentanyl-60-people-die-overdose-uk-national-crime-agency-painkiller-opioid-epidemic-a7871536.html
https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/11/neuroleptic-drugs-akathisia-suicide-violence/
Dr Steingard, I support your skepticism.
My own Experience of LAI and Haloperidal (Below) :-
https://www.madintheuk.com/2018/08/a-disorder-for-everyone/#comment-49
I became WELL in 1984, as a result of stopping LAI Fluphenazine Decanoate.
Rachel777,
I hope you overcome any challenges left, very quickly!
Thanks Pacific Dawn,
In my own case I have no choice but to fight back as I’ve had the promotion of “Severe Mental illness” with me, decades after recovery and independance of the “MH” System.
I can also demonstrate “hole” after “hole” in my “MH” Records.
Pacific Dawn,
Feelings can very realistically invest themselves perfectly, externally. It’s only when I “feel the feelings” and they “blend” that I realise that there’s no real external problem, just things that need to be sorted out.
Thank You Tricia,
I really appreciate this Article.
What Marius Rhomme says about “voices” is quite interesting.
“…In the case of hearing voices, it seems as if there is a kind of ‘placing outside’ of emotions; and emotions are, in the beginning, felt to be provoked by the voices. Only in the process of recovery do emotions become recognized again as one’s own…”
I wondered if this was true and if lots of people felt like this, but that it didn’t take the form of hearing “voices”. If this is true then the voice hearer wouldn’t be much different from anyone else.
But if people can learn to deal with their “voices” then Voice Hearing is not really “Schizophrenia”; and “Schizophrenia” is a Misnomer.
I’m sure the future is bright!
Thank You,
First Class Article!
“…Technological change, including computerization, robotics, and the coming of artificial intelligence, has similarly begun to displace labor in significant ways, leaving Americans without college degrees, especially those 50 and older, in far more difficult straits when it comes to finding new jobs that pay well…”
IMO more technology might be used, and the benefits shared.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunatic_asylum
“…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…”
On my 1980 Mental Health Formulation of Schizophrenia (from my notes at Galway University Hospital Ireland).
“Preoccupation with Homosexuality” was entered as a symptom of Schizophrenia. (….the doctor asked about little else).
“Delusional perception” was recorded as another symptom (…the doctor had recorded me as living in the UK in the previous 6 months, whereas I had been living in Holland..)
“Auditory Hallucinations” was recorded as another symptom (…I had been referring to “normal social thought inside of my head…”).
https://www.ireland.com/en-gb/ireland-stories/people-and-culture/articles/ireland-pride/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/ireland-becomes-first-country-to-approve-same-sex-marriage-by-popular-vote-1.2223646?mode=amp
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/when-leo-varadkar-came-out-delays-hesitation-and-then-courage-37229592.html
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/08/25/last-time-pope-visited-ireland-homosexuality-was-crime-now-irish-prime-minister-is-gay/?outputType=amp
https://www.thejournal.ie/history-gay-pride-parade-ireland-1537474-Jun2015/
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2096753/leo-varadkar-set-become-irelands-first-openly-gay-prime-minister
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/08/31/leo-varadkar-coming-out/
Rachel777,
Factually a person either suffers from a lifelong illness or they don’t. If they don’t have the circumstances attached to it, then they can’t really suffer from it, unless they want to.
Take Dr Elanor Longden as an Example:-
http://www.psychosisresearch.com/news/dr-eleanor-longden-joins-psychosis-research-unit/
Or Dr Rufus May
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_May
In my own case my “illness” was “revived” in 2002 vis a vis a Severe Mental Illness Register. My notes were computerised as starting in 2002 with no obvious history (though I had recovered in 1984 and emigrated to the UK in 1986 and had been well for many years).
In 1980 I was in Amsterdam for several months and had returned to London (to end up in the Maudsley hospital), but there is NO Amsterdam anywhere, on the UK side of my notes.
There was also NO Admission Procedure to my 1980 Maudsley Hospital stay.
My “Discharge Summary” (as presented to the Irish Medical Council by my historical Psychiatrist) from my 1980 Maudsley Hospital stay has NO date of Admission.
I was transferred from the UK to Galway Regional Hospital Ireland in November 1980 where The UK “History + Formulation ” was written and signed for, by the Galway doctor.
The “Illness Revival” I believe, was to do with Amsterdam, (and the obvious “fiddling” of Records).
For Medical Diagnosis to be trusted doctors have got to be trusted to tell the truth. If a doctor can tell “any lie going”, and the UK General Medical Council will allow this – then Mental Health Diagnosis cannot be trusted in the UK.
I also complained (with evidence) in Ireland in 2013, and found that my Historical Irish Psychiatrist Dr PA Carney had been “on” and “around” the Irish Medical Council for a number of years. But The Irish Medical Council were not prepared – to act.
In my opinion, with the doctoring of Records in “Mental Health” in the UK and Ireland, Factually Speaking, “Mental Health” Diagnosis cannot be trusted; and all Deaths and Injury in Psychiatry must be seen as suspect.
5% of the UK population is now “Severely Mentally Disabled” and surviving on “Severe Mental Illness” Disability Benefit, and I would definitely say that the majority of this disability has been caused by the “antipsychotics” (+ the “antidepressants”).
Mad in Canada,
I empathise with you.
There is such a thing as serious and disabling mental distress.
A person on strong Psychiatric Drugs is, also, likely to be genuinely physically disabled; and a person can go completely mad purely as a result of coming off Strong Psychiatric drugs.
DOES MH DIAGNOSIS IN THE UK OR IRELAND STAND FOR ANYTHING, ANYWAY?
In October of 2012 I was horrified to discover my name on a Severe Mental Illness Register at My GP Surgery at London W2.
When my name was put on this SMI Register (2002/03) I was working as a subcontractor on the House of Commons Buildings, Norman Shawe House (on the windows below:-
https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/06/20/rory-stewart-climbed-out-fifth-floor-window-after-locking-himself-out-of-office-10017309/amp/
I also decorated the Offices! )
GP APPOINTMENT
I made an appointment with my GP, and discussed my 26 years of WELLNESS in the UK plus my *HISTORICAL IRISH MH EXPERIENCE with him.
By the end of the interview my GP s shirt was completely saturated – and sticking to his body.
My GP then Guaranteed me the Removal of “Schizophrenia” from my Records 3 times in writing, and the Removal of my name from the SMI Register:-
REMOVAL 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cP_smYn2khLimaiWaJdPO_vGcY-j9_Bl/view?usp=drivesdk
REMOVAL 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F6ArumseTVc3djX09hJf1kc0AJfRvg06/view?usp=drivesdk
REMOVAL 3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u2u-VbCCg5BeDJk7H2xGoKqKgZM8qf-H/view?usp=drivesdk
GP DISHONESTY
A month later by chance I discovered “Schizophrenia” still on the GP information system. So I complained to my GP about this. My GP in Response presented me with a signed letter on practice paper, completely contradicting his previous 3 written guarantees; and placing Full Confidence in my Historical and Psychopathic Irish Psychiatrist (below).
GP COMPLETE CONTRADICTION LETTER
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HPB_xRRJ1cdG0AmkyAXvwrphYYpEwNEe/view?usp=drivesdk
THE UK GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.
I then complained to the UK General Medical Council as I considered my GP s behaviour to be unacceptable. But in May of 2013 the GMC politely refused to proceed with my complaint.
UK GMC LETTER pg1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pAQ-35raoR6-QfwKddQ4kgWU5FUbbkJY/view?usp=drivesdk
UK GMC LETTER pg2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UtVo6amME3bRF4WZJqyis4zfHI-79fQO/view?usp=drivesdk
They stated that in their opinion that the doctors behaviour would not affect their ability to work safely.
*( HISTORICAL IRISH MH EXPERIENCE
Near Fatal Modecate Experience Pg 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EY4XDLt04KgmCjg_5wXU-kbVezo_DxL4/view?usp=drivesdk
Near Fatal Modecate Experience Pg 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YTWxPJTtNeTDM9eewkHoSUJr0WpBpu4b/view?usp=drivesd
SUICIDAL AKATHISIA RESEARCH PAPER 1983. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16313058_Suicide_Associated_with_Akathisia_and_Depot_Fluphenazine_Treatment
I showed my GP a November 8 1986 Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter sent by me to doctors at Ireland, concerning medications that had disabled and nearly killed me.
ADR Warning Request ltr Pg 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAZlVTbHdBRDFFSHc/view?usp=drivesdk
ADR Warning Request ltr Pg 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAZ0otNjFyN0NJajA/view?usp=drivesdk
ADR Warning Request Ltr Pg 3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAcExwMzhEMVRzdm8/view?usp=drivesdk
and Demonstrated to him, the complete ABSENCE of any Adverse Drug Reaction Warning on the November 24 1986 Irish Record Summary,
1986 Irish Record Summary Pg 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBATlNoNTlpYy11X28/view?usp=drivesdk
1986 Irish Record Summary Pg 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAMmlqS18xQVZlcms/view?usp=drivesdk )
If a doctor is “allowed” to keep relevant information off a record (and in my experience they are), a doctor could Misdiagnose anybody with Severe Mental Illness.
I disagree with “psychotic” as well, it’s a very abused (and money making) term.
NEAR FATAL MODECATE EXPERIENCE
(FLUPHENAZINE DECOANATE)
Near Fatal Modecate Experience Pg 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EY4XDLt04KgmCjg_5wXU-kbVezo_DxL4/view?usp=drivesdk
Near Fatal Modecate Experience Pg 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YTWxPJTtNeTDM9eewkHoSUJr0WpBpu4b/view?usp=drivesd
RESEARCH PAPER 1983. DR A FRANCES (DSM IV)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16313058_Suicide_Associated_with_Akathisia_and_Depot_Fluphenazine_Treatment
MALPRACTICE
November 8, 1986 Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter concerning Modecate Sent to Doctors at Galway Southern Ireland:-
ADR Warning Request ltr Pg 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAZlVTbHdBRDFFSHc/view?usp=drivesdk
ADR Warning Request ltr Pg 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAZ0otNjFyN0NJajA/view?usp=drivesdk
ADR Warning Request Ltr Pg 3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAcExwMzhEMVRzdm8/view?usp=drivesdk
Psychopathic Doctors False Reasurrance Letter November 18 1986
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAeUFLam5rYmtXd3c/view?usp=drivesdk
MALPRACTICE
November 24 1986 Irish Record Summary sent over to UK in RESPONSE with Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Deliberately OMITTED.
1986 Irish Record Summary Pg 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBATlNoNTlpYy11X28/view?usp=drivesdk
1986 Irish Record Summary Pg 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAMmlqS18xQVZlcms/view?usp=drivesdk
“Depot Antipsychotic Revisited Research Paper 1998” From Historical Galway Psychiatrist
https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ps.49.10.1361-b.
4 out of 10 of the people on these drugs attempt Suicide.
PAYOFF FROM MANUFACTURER
€ 9.6 million from Bristol Myers Squibb http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/partners/
AKATHISIA
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia
“….Neuro-psychologist 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. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy….”
HOW COMMON IS AKATHISIA?
https://rxisk.org/akathisia/
How common is akathisia?
Significant symptoms of akathisia occur in:
around 20% of people on an antidepressant
at least 50% of people on low doses of an antipsychotic
up to 80% or more people on higher doses of an antipsychotic
5% or more people on doxycycline, other antibiotics, and other medications
healthy volunteers as well as “patients”
RECOVERY + WELLNESS 1984 – 2018
Recovery in 1984 as a Result of tapering from the Modecate Depot Injection with the help of Inexpensive Psychotherapy – Disability cheque discontinued (permanently).
Recovered 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PW-wn9GOkiyWAbdzgXuC8cDS-7UPEj0-/view?usp=drivesdk
Recovered 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19xYpA4O4h9h45b_H2PtSBTNFx3ErE-MK/view?usp=drivesdk
1985/86 Irish Psychiatrist Registers as a Non Specialist Doctor in Ontario
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rca_pEdngRg8EfBgShSfyMnLyU3Zjz6O/view?usp=drivesdk
I got an awful lot out of Eckhart Tolles, Power of Now , as did so many other people.
But I think the young girl the writer is talking about is coping in a traditional Japanese way, which is influenced by Buddhism.
Irish Catholics might survive great trauma as well under the influence of Catholicism, but maybe not as effectively as Genuine Buddhists.
I also disagree with the term “antipsychotic” used to describe a Neuroleptic. Because “antipsychotics” are about as antipsychotic as paint fumes.
Its also quite a devious term to use, as anyone taking this drug even at a very low level can be described as a person taking an “antipsychotic”.
I don’t believe in “Schizophrenia” or “Bipolar”.
An anxious persons brain will always tell them the worst thing is going to happen, and countless people deal successfully with “hallucinations”.
The British Psychological Society claim they can accommodate “schizophrenia” and “bi polar” in the same way that they can accommodate “anxiety” and “social shyness”. I know myself, that the BPS is telling the truth because I recovered from “schizophrenia” and “bipolar” in 1984, as a result of discontinuing “medication” suitable for these “disorders”.
When I went to see the last “surviving” doctor from my 1980s past (now an acclaimed UK Psychiatrist) he reassured me that he was very confident that I had been Originally Misdiagnosed (and Mistreated).
My historical Records from The UK Maudsley Hospital/Kings College and Galway University Hospital Ireland are rotten, and obviously so.
What about negative social contact; or being part of a group that a person doesn’t want to be in; or having lower social status in a group or tribe; or having higher status in insincere relationships; or being in desperately co dependant relationships.
Thank You Sylvain,
I believe I can go some way to connecting suicide attempts to psychiatric drug consumption, and its medical suppression, from my own MH Records.
Lawrence,
The Neuroleptics are “addictive” as well in the sense that (even though they are unpleasant), they are dependency forming.
I refused “medication” in 1980, but by 1983 when I was given permission to discontinue all “medication”, I honestly couldn’t survive without it.
I had to come off the Neuroleptic “Medication” very carefully over a long period of time, and I had to learn how to deal with my Reactive High Anxiety (which was not my normal state).
Valium certainly causes Anxiety, but Neuroleptics also cause High Anxiety.
But the Good News is that even the High Anxiety (of withdrawing from drugs suitable for “schizophrenia”) responds to Practical Inexpensive Psychotherapy.
Helpstillneeded, Thank you very much.
It’s a message to any other doctors that question the (very peculiar) MH status quo.
I’m amazed, Dr Gordon’s treatment (when he’s tried to do the right thing as a doctor) is even worse than mine (when I made my own complaints). I fully believe and support him.
[I know what it's like trying to come off Psychotropic Medication; and it was only by good fortune that I managed to come off mine.]
The Psychiatric Drug Consumer ends up in the same situation as the Alcoholic:- “… they can’t live with substance, and they can’t live without it..”
Lauren, You are helping lots of people with this Article, and saving lives.
I’m very sorry for your years of chemically induced suffering, anyone consuming these drugs is guaranteed to become “ill”. This is factual.
The Article Below comes from a very brave Irish Public Representative
http://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/others/fleming.htm
Congratulations on the “court victory”.
I can’t see electricity and a child’s brain (or anyones brain) working well together.
In the UK about 5% of the working population is now Mentally Disabled and surviving on Severe Mental Illness Disability Benefit. I was like this myself as a young man between the age of 20 and 24. It’s the treatments that cause the Disability.
Lawrence,
I am always amazed to see refined middle aged men with glasses talking in a very educated manner about the merits of the different psychiatric Drugs they prescribe, when in effect these drugs are just tranquillisers or antidepressants that any fool could dole out. These men are not qualified at anything.
One of the things that needs to be realised with Western “Schizophrenia” – is that the Psychiatric Drugs themselves create “Schizophrenia”.
I can attest to this from my own case of Drug Withdrawal and Recovery. I attended Psychotherapy for a number of years. I did gain from the support and charity of the therapists. BUT what honestly worked for me was a straightforward approach NOT going back memory lane and “dealing with my past”.
I had to learn how to adapt to the Previous Presence of the Psychiatric drugs, and the damage which they had caused. I achieved this through means of “Stress Management Techniques”, this was what worked – regardless of how Politically Incorrect it might sound.
Over a period of time my Protective System became Second Nature, and I was no longer Vulnerable.
Renowned Adviser Deepak Chopra frequently refers to “schizophrenia” as a brain illness (LINKS below) even though (in my own experience) – the “tools” he promotes work brilliantly in coming off medical “treatments” “suitable” for “schizophrenia”.
I wonder why he takes this approach?
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2012/11/09/health/reinventing-brain-chopra/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/the-difference-between-mental-illness-and-enlightenment-ask-deepak
Hi Lawrence, Your Articles should be published everywhere!
Mankind has known for hundreds and hundreds of years that any drug taken to make a person feel better will eventually make them feel a lot worse. It’s the Doctors that are telling Lies.
BLACK MISDIAGNOSIS + CHEMICAL DEATH
It’s dreadful that in the UK a 2nd Generation Caribbean man is 10 times more likely to be diagnosed as “Schizophrenic” (than a White UK man) – because we all KNOW that this CANNOT be TRUE.
BUT, the Fact that 9 out of 10 Diagnosed UK Black Men DO NOT Recover demonstrates (In my opinion) that the Psychiatric Drug Treatments CAUSE the LONGTERM Psychiatric Illnesses.
The Psychiatric Drugs also eventually KILL the Patient.
My observation is that this is an area where leopards can change their spots, i.e. malingering young people can (eventually) adapt into becoming industrious young people.
Some parents kick “free loaders” out; other parents help (and sometimes indulge) them. I’ve seen the 2nd approach work (several times).
BUT, there is no such thing as ADHD.
It is a great letter and I’m very happy things turned out “reasonably” in the end. This letter will save childrens lives.
{In 1985/86 my Historical Irish Consultant Psychiatrist at Galway Psychiatric Unit praised my Recovery during an interview. After many years as a hopeless “Schizophrenic” I was now successfully holding down normal work (which was his main ambition for me). He wanted to know how my Recovery had come about.
I told him that my recovery was as a result of discontinuing the strong psychiatric drugs he had me on. That these drugs were causing impossible restlessness. And they they had also caused my Suicide Attempts. He told me I should never have been on these drugs.
I asked him what my problem was supposed to have been to begin with – and he said he didn’t know.
At my next interview he told me he was going on a Sabbatical to Canada; which he did.
He conducted Research on the drug Lithium (at Ontario) which I believe was published in 1988:-
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3406048/?i=4&from=/2748877/related
}
We all know that Professionals and Non Professionals are not allowed to poison people. The idea that they can poison people or that poisoning people is open to debate – stems from institutionalised corruption.
When doctors In parts of Europe in the 1930s poisoned people to death, this was also probably “legal”- but after 1945 it was taken for granted that the behaviour wasn’t “okay”.
Schizophrenia Diagnosis
In my own case my original “schizophrenia diagnosis formulation” was “Peculiar”.
Relevant Factual information within the formulation pertaining to me, was inaccurate and vague, as if doctors were attempting to deny responsibility; while at the same time claiming “Severe Mental Illness”.
I was recorded as living in the UK in the previous 6 months to hospitalization when in fact I had been living in Holland. And the Irish Doctor that identified this, kept his name completely off the records.
It’s clear that “Stephen” was “incurable” prior to non drug help, and that it was the non drug help that that got him back into life again.
Why do we pay for billions in disability for this ..
https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ps.49.10.1361-b
…when practical solutions are available?
Because the Political System has been rigged through means of Bribery.
NON DRUG (NON GENETIC) “SCHIZOPHRENIA” SOLUTION
From SELFHOOD By Dr Terry Lynch
“..I could see how Stephen was diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia. He saw threat and danger everywhere, when objectively there was none. Stephen’s level of selfhood was at rock bottom, and this was a fundamental underlying reason for his problems. His paranoia was entirely understandable as seen from his perspective, given that one of his main experiences was that he constantly felt unsafe, unprotected and unable to generate any personal security for himself. This was borne out in his second session with me. As I mentioned briefly in the section on self-generated security, ten minutes into the session, Stephen looked terrified, and I asked him why. He replied ‘I’m not sure I can get out of this place alive’….”
“…I focused on enabling Stephen to progressively raise his level of selfhood…”
“….Stephen was now aware of his own terror and inability to make himself feel safe, whereas previously he was not aware of this and instead was entirely focused on the dangers that lay waiting relentlessly for him everywhere. …”
“…I used these experiences to get Stephen thinking about the accuracy of his interpretations of these episodes…”
“…His level of self-protection and self-generated security began to increase, slowly at first, then gathering pace….”
“…Because he was doing well, his psychiatrist agreed to reduce his medication slightly, and I subsequently continued the process of gradually reducing Stephen’s medication…”
“…Stephen has been off all schizophrenia medication for over three years. He lives a full life, goes where he likes, thrives in social situations, and has a level of selfhood higher that at any previous time in his life…”
In my Experience the answers lie within the Non Drug Approach.
My Experience of “High Anxiety” or Neuroleptic Drug Withdrawal Syndrome (anxiety at its “worst”); is that it can be accommodated through careful drug withdrawal and straightforward psychological means.
Below is a Research Paper produced by my historical Psychiatrist and “Neuroscientist” Dr PA Carney at NUIG on the merits of long term Neuroleptic depot injection drugging of “Schizophrenics” in the community in Ireland.
https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ps.49.10.1361-b
I was diagnosed by Dr PA Carney as a hopeless case of “Schizophrenia” (1980 to 1984). But I made Full Recovery as a result of coming off the ABOVE medication (very carefully) with help of Practical Psychology.
I can Factually Represent what I say to be TRUE with Evidence of 35 Years, of Wellness and Independence (1984 to 2019), of the Psychiatric and Disability System.
Someone Else,
This has been my experience:- that “Schizophrenia” is an iatrogenic “illness” – regardless of how a person is at the beginning.
I also believe that this can be substantiated through basic honest research.
Removed for moderation.
Removed for moderation.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/bitter-pill-that-comes-with-having-large-drugs-sector-1.3223
..And I believe that I can prove it!
After 4 years on Psychiatric Drugs in the Community in Ireland I was like an Alcoholic:- “I couldn’t live with substance and couldn’t live without it”. In this state I would have been lucky to end up in jail (only that I found a route out).
At Some Stage Psychiatry + General Medicine Has Given Itself The Right To Kill It’s Patients (I don’t just mean in parts of Europe in the 1930s).
Dr Allen Frances Identified Suicide + Homicide Risk concerning the Drugs (below) in 1983:-
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16313058_Suicide_Associated_with_Akathisia_and_Depot_Fluphenazine_Treatment
I described Akathisia to Doctors at Galway, Southern Ireland in 1986 in a (ADR Warning Request Letter) concerning Depot Fluphenazine. In Response, an Inaccurate Account of me was sent over to the UK by doctors at Galway with requested ADR Warning Deliberately OMMITTED.
Details:-
https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/05/forced-drugging-antipsychotics-against-law/#comment-154815
Psychopath Dr Donlon Kenny from Galway even sent me a personal letter of (False) Reassurance.
“Doctors” in the UK have kept the 1986 ADR Warning Request out of my Records while placing Full confidence in the “Doctors” from Galway.
dmshanin83,
I heard something similar at first hand. A young man expressed his wish to put his head in a vice and to tighten the vice. But the people listening to him, did care.
This young man was on medication for depression and I would have liked to express my opinion on what might be causing his grief but I held back for a suitable opportunity. I have experienced lots of distressing emotions but never felt as he did “When Off My Medication”.
As regards “Schizophrenia”, I believe there are plenty of people that have made full recovery from “schizophrenia” through one means or another. I believe Dr Pat Bracken himself has helped people through the “maze”.
Every psychiatric hospitalization I had, bar the first one, was a suicidal event. I was never suicidal prior to my “psychiatric experience” and never suicidal in my 35 years since leaving “psychiatry”:- The treatment was causing the problem.
After a number of years I was capable of expressing my experience BUT the situation is likely to be a lot different for those that can’t.
BBC News – Cameroon atrocity: What happened after Africa Eye found who killed this woman
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-48432122
My Own Experience in the System
https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/05/forced-drugging-antipsychotics-against-law/#comment-154815
….and the System appears to be getting worse, not better.
It helps and it doesn’t harm and its inexpensive (and it works for “Schizophrenia” and “Bipolar” as well).
Yes, but it’s worthwhile that it’s being medically acknowledged!
I discuss my personal feelings with people in (anonymous) 12 Step Fellowship. They can’t do anything with my Information as the setting is within an “Anonymous” Fellowship.
What I share is more or less what everyone else within fellowship shares – the content is suitable for “Fellowship” but not very suitable outside.
[In reference to my comment above – I initially attempted to come off strong psychiatric drugs abruptly (with permission); and this resulted in disaster. I then carefully tapered (with help) -and this was successful.]
[I also managed to figure out the dynamic of my "High Anxiety" and to adapt around this].
Thank you very much for posting this; and it doesn’t surprise me at all!
Yes, but not successfully.
The large scale promotion of anti depressant drug usage, could be part of a broader overall campaign to to get most people onto a psychiatric drug.
Slaying the Dragon,
I fully support your contentions.
Coming off strong psychiatric drugs “triggers” a condition of “High Anxiety”, and its how a person can accommodate this, that determines the result (I nearly died in the process).
I believe the “Hearing Voices Network” is operational in Canada and I wonder where it fits in here?
If people are open about the “phenomenon” then how can it be a “crime”.
Dear Alan,
You are helping your son and lots of other people with the publication of this Article.
In my own experience once a person takes “medications” for a period of time, they become “schizophrenic” – (beyond this, I don’t believe there’s any such thing).
According to Dr Alan Frances (I believe) to be mentally ill a person has got to suffer from distress.
Psychiatric hospitals came with the Industrial Reveloution when a person wasn’t of much use Industrially if they weren’t “normal” – but there are completely legitimate environments in the real world where to be “normal” a person is not likely to survive (very well).
(Medicine today, (I believe) itself is now a completely industrial environment where to question anything can mean automatic “death”).
Cabinet approves research over family homicides:-
http://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2019/0513/1049266-cabinet-familicide/
Body Exhumed (and Cremated)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-northern-ireland-39867970
Dear Michael,
If people can get successfully better through normal human contact, then the “system” in place has got to be worse than useless.
Mindfulness is inexpensive and “therapy” is expensive.
Alcoholics Anonymous is inexpensive and rehab is expensive. A friend of mine attends the AA regularly and remains abstinent and happy. But his medical notes state that he is now a social drinker.
rasselas,
Nice to see you again.
Living in the real world might very frightening for lots of people that don’t at all have “schizophrenia”.
“….What is called recurrence when the patients no longer receive the drug is very often withdrawal symptoms that appear because the brain has been accustomed to the drug. …”
I Completely Agree:-
In 1980 I was happy to “decline” psychiatric drugs and to ask for psychotherapy, but by 1983 when I was given permission to discontinue Modecate depot injection, I quickly found that I could not survive without it.
By 1984 after a number of further hospitalizations I managed to stop taking the Modecate depot injection. To do this I had to switch to oral medication and to taper carefully, with psychotherapy.
It took me 6 years to reduce from 25mg of Modecate depot injection per month, to 25mg of Mellaril per day (which eventually became nothing).
What about:-
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/psychiatrist-calls-for-lithium-to-be-added-to-water-1.6272
What was the Irish Suicide Rate prior to Large Scale “Anti Depressant” Exposure?
“…Fine Gael TD and chairman of the Irish Association of Suicidology, Dan Neville, told the forum the average annual suicide rate in Ireland in the 1960s was 64-65.
He said: “Last year, 483 people died by suicide and if you add the 123 undetermined deaths, the suicide number is over 600.”…”
You can be scared and “catastrophising” and overcome this without tranquillizers (once somebody shows you how).
Lots of people have done this before you!
PIG IN THE KITCHEN.
In my own case there was NO Official Admission Procedure to my Original Maudsley Hospital UK Stay of 1980. The name of the ‘social worker’ that accompanied me to the Maudsley is NOWHERE to be found in my Records. I walked through one door and then through another door – and then, I was IN.
After this I wandered around the Hospital coming and going as I liked, without interference.
Several Maudsley “patients” even invited me to their houses, and I accepted, and one of them cooked me dinner.
At a later date (following a visit to an Irish ‘Social Worker”, at Kilburn ) Maudsley Staff attempted to “raise” a Section on me – but I wasn’t Officially “THERE” to begin with!
My Maudsley Hospital “Discharge Summary” of 1980 (as presented to the Irish Medical Council by my historical Psychiatrist Dr PA Carney) – contains NO Admission Date.
RECOVERY FROM AKATHISIA
My Reply to My GP Surgery “Delisting” Letter:-
To: Newton Medical (London W2)
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2018
Subject: Att. All Partners and Dr Baluch
Dear Sirs/(Madams)
In your Letter dated October 17 2018 – you seriously misrepresent me.
TRUST
My trust in Newton Medical was broken in October of 2012 when (to my horror) I discovered my name had been on a Severe Mental Illness Register since 2002. At this time (2002) I had been working as a Building Subcontractor in the House of Parliament Buildings (and can substantiate this).
OCTOBER 8 2018 VISIT TO NEWTON MEDICAL. REGARDING HEALTH AND SAFETY ON BUILDING SITES
On October 8 2018 I explained (and showed ) to the Reception Manager and to Dr Baluch at Newton Medical, that at my last appointment on July 20 2016 Dr Simons had given me in writing a sheet of paper from the Appointment Notes stating that – “he could see no reason that I could NOT work on a Building Site” . While at the same time Dr Simons had provided me with another sheet of paper from a “Legal Adviser” (July 20 2016)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s-mEHH5pLC5EzWpxjnOLKcylQOTJ-Kvw/view?usp=drivesdk
(which made reference to the historical 1986 Irish Record Summary) but also at the the bottom of the page stated – that I had a “Diagnosis of Schizophrenia…” and “had NOT DISPUTED this diagnosis..”.
I explained on October 8 2018 that I had shown and discussed both of these contradictory statements received in July 20 2016 with a Building Health and Safety Officer who advised me to get this contradictory situation resolved – as the medical suggestions could undermine my credibility, and could affect me in the event of an accident on a Building Site.
I have not suffered any disability in my 30 years in the UK; but Medical Claims of Present day Severe Mental Illness are invalidating. I presumed Newton Medical (promoting the disability) to be the first place to approach – this is why I called to the Surgery on October 8 2018.
DISTRESS
When I clearly demonstrated the Malpractice properties of the 1986 Irish Record Summary to Dr Simons in two interviews in October/November 2012 – at the end of both of these interviews Dr Simons shirt was completely saturated and sticking to his body (he was genuinely traumatised).
But, there is no mention anywhere on my records of this Malpractice.
MY BACKGROUND.
I made Full Recovery in 1984 as a Result of carefully tapering from the Modecate Depot Injection with the help of Practical Psychotherapy – and returned to normal life and independence.
Recovered 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PW-wn9GOkiyWAbdzgXuC8cDS-7UPEj0-/view?usp=drivesdk
Recovered 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19xYpA4O4h9h45b_H2PtSBTNFx3ErE-MK/view?usp=drivesdk
Adverse Drug Reaction Warning Request Letter sent to Galway Nov. 8 1986
ADR Request ltr Pg 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAZlVTbHdBRDFFSHc/view?usp=drivesdk
ADR Request ltr Pg 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAZ0otNjFyN0NJajA/view?usp=drivesdk
ADR Request Ltr Pg 3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAcExwMzhEMVRzdm8/view?usp=drivesdk
MALPRACTICE:
The Irish Record Summary dated November 24 1986 was Sent To UK In Response:- but WITHOUT Requested ADR WARNING
Irish Record Summary Pg 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBATlNoNTlpYy11X28/view?usp=drivesdk
Irish Record Summary Pg 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAMmlqS18xQVZlcms/view?usp=drivesdk
Wellness Presentation at Galway in November 1980, according to Dr Fadel https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBANjBTZEtkbjBhMkU/view?usp=drivesdk
Dr Donlon Kenny False Reasurrance Letter November 1986
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zhbh8V4MBAeUFLam5rYmtXd3c/view?usp=drivesdk
AKATHISIA.
Near Fatal Modecate Experience 1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EY4XDLt04KgmCjg_5wXU-kbVezo_DxL4/view?usp=drivesdk
Near Fatal Modecate Experience Pg 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YTWxPJTtNeTDM9eewkHoSUJr0WpBpu4b/view?usp=drivesdk
Dr Allen Frances (DSM IV) 1983 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16313058_Suicide_Associated_with_Akathisia_and_Depot_Fluphenazine_Treatment
https://rxisk.org/akathisia/
“…Significant symptoms of akathisia occur in:
around 20% of people on an antidepressant.
at least 50% of people on an antipsychotic. On higher doses, this rises to 80% or more..”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia
“..Around half of people on antipsychotics develop the condition…”
“…..Neuro-psychologist 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. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy…” ”
Drug induced Akathisia is medically acknowledged to cause suicide.
“Depot Antipsychotic Revisited Research Paper 1998” From Galway Psychiatrist Dr PA Carney.
https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ps.49.10.1361-b.
About 4 out of 10 of the people on these drugs will attempt Suicide.
I notice that both Dr Simon Gordon and Dr Balucha are on the GP Commissioning Governing Board.
Yours Sincerely
(ME)
I presume you wouldn’t recommend poisoning the water supply:-
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/psychiatrist-calls-for-lithium-to-be-added-to-water-1.6272%3fmode=amp
Thanks Julie,
You’re writing is excellent, and you’re doing a great service.
I was on lithium myself and had my first suicide attempt when I came off it, but I never went back on it. And I’m happy I didn’t.
It proves the “drugs” cause the “illness” – as UK Black people are NOT 9 times more likely to be “Schizophrenic”.
Hi,
Sorry to intrude,
The comments section doesn’t seem to be moving (according to my iphone).
Fiachra
Misdiagnosis and the “Creation of “Schizophrenia”” through Strong Psychiatric Drugs (IMO).
“Schizophrenia in black Caribbeans living in the UK: an exploration of underlying causes of the high incidence rate”:-
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2418996/
“….In 2006, ÆSOP reported a ninefold increase in the risk of developing schizophrenia in black Caribbeans when compared with the white British population..”
Julie,
There’s lots of different ways of Stopping Treatment and getting Better. And there’s lots of pitfalls in the system.
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0430-depression-medication-20190429-story.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTIwNzQwMjQzODQ1NDM3MjI2MjUyGjExZjJkY2YyYjJkOTJiNWM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFhcUuifgRSQ_UrLJnIP4XA3WJ9gw
People need the Advice.
Graciela,
The best of life is ahead of you!
Lenora,
It makes me cringe as well. Once a talking therapist goes down the road of “diagnosis” , the “therapy” becomes a waste of time (at best).
Frank,
As far as I know Long term Mental Health Disability in the UK is at about 5% of the population.
1 in 20 Adults are claiming Severe Mental Illness Benefit in the UK.
I believe Genuine Research into this Area would identify Serious Failings in the UK Justice System, and the “Creation of Severe Mental Illness” through exposure to Strong Psychiatric Drugs.
With the Removal of “Schizophrenia” most people could make Full Recovery.
I think UK Research should focus on the “Creation of “Schizophrenia”” in the majority of Black People (9 out of 10) originally misdiagnosed with “Schizophrenia”, and subsequently exposed to Strong Psychiatric Drugs.
A UK Black person is more than 10 times more likely to be diagnosed with “Schizophrenia” than a white person in the the UK. And many more times more likely again, to be diagnosed with “Schizophrenia” than a black person in the Caribbean.
(At 10 times the National Average, UK University Kings College (I believe) were considering researching as to why “Rates of Schizophrenia” were so high in Black people in the UK).
Thanks dfk,
This is understandable and really worth reading. It’s 1000 times more worthy than a psychiatric paper.
I like Rufus May (as well) because he has personal experience, and he also has solutions. Voices are the mainstay of “Schizophrenia” and Rufus and Others are showing people how to practically accommodate them.
I’m amazed to see this getting into the NHS!
I consumed 25mg of Mellaril per day by choice. This is maybe 5% of a maintenance dose.
Hi Frank,
Human Beings have now developed technology to the point that we can replace most jobs with machines, and we have birth control which limits population size. There’s no reason not to share these benefits with everyone.