Wayne Couzens was reported as behaving bizarrely before and during the conduct of this Crime.
Wayne Couzens must have been Drug Tested on arrest. But there doesn’t seem to have been the release of ANY drug test results indicating exactly what he was taking (- prescribed or unprescribed).
The only people that recover from ‘Schizophrenia’ are the people that reject the medical model.
The drug treatments “suitable” for “Schizophrenia” are classed as Major Tranquillisers. These drugs work through creating a state of indifference.
When a person attempts to withdraw from the Major Tranquillisers they are likely to find themselves reacting to lots of things that didn’t bother them before.
The solution would be for a person to be aware of the problems that need to be looked after but not emotionally invested in them: Equanamity. This is a “no loose state”.
Not mental Disorders, but maybe the internet doesn’t lead to an increase in overall happiness (but maybe it does).
Thank You Antonia,
I have an awful lot of identification with your drug withdrawal experience. It’s only very recently that Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal has been taken seriously. Prior to this it was left to Psychiatrists to promote what they liked.
Paternalism might be a lenient way for describing things.
I would wonder what people did about “Post Partum Anxiety” before Psychiatry and Psychiatric Drugs became available? I mean it must have been part of Real Life.
Psychiatry Continues to Pathologize Normality (and General Medicine).
At the start of the interview with no introduction – the doctor asked me if I was hearing voices. I told her I had never heard voices in my life.
On the Records my assertion on Voices was missing. But the doctor Pathogized: “..Eye Contact normal …Mildly Agitated but no sign ..of Thought Disorder …”
The Doctor could have equally Recorded:’ ” ..The patient presented well…they stated that they had never in their life “heard voices”, … they expressed dissatisfaction with elements of our performance….”
If a doctor leaves half the story out, i.e. tell lies; they can very easily pathologize normality.
A survey of over 7000 doctors conducted by the BMA in December found that, while many thought that their colleagues were coping with work during the covid-19 pandemic, most had concerns about the standard of patient care being delivered.
Of 7067 doctors in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland who answered a question on their mental health,1 58% (4067) said that they had symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, burnout, emotional distress, or another mental health condition related to or …
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Hi Sean
Thanks for writing this.
If I had recognised your Article, I would have commented sooner.
I am very happy that things turned out well for you in the end.
I learnt meditation in the 1990s with the Western Buddhist Fellowship and have practised since. I remember two friends of mine (both doctors) that I hadnt seen in some years telling me the same thing – that I looked happier – and both going on to take up meditation themselves.
I have attempted SUICIDE twice on Strong Psychiatric Drugs. I have NEVER attempted SUICIDE in the years before taking them; and NEVER in the years since discontinuing them.
(The DRUGS were the problem)
And….Good Luck!
Both Consuming and Discontinuing, drugs used to treat “Schizophrenia” can cause “disturbed states of mind” and “thought disorders” even in mentally well people.
But these problems can be successfully alleviated through straightforward non drug means. IMO the term “Schizophrenia” is obstructive.
I would get rid of “Schizophrenia” but I wouldn’t replace it with anything else. If pushed some type of vague term like ‘temperary burnout’ might be okay.
When I came off the drugs I suffered from Extreme Anxiety and this would have driven me back onto the drugs, had I not found a Psychological means to cope.
So ‘it’ does respond to Psychology – and this can be proven.
For me, the treatments had caused the problems.
What about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos – maybe she didn’t play the game according to the ‘rules’!
INSIGHTFUL RESEARCH EXPERIMENT – ANXIETY
Question 1
Q. If a person experiences ‘a worry’ during breathing meditation and continues to focus on their breathing is the the emotional content of the worry likely to subside?
A. FOR ME: Yes
Question 2
Q.What does ‘the worry’ seem like once the emotional content has subsided?
A. FOR ME: Not Very Distressing
Question 3
Q. Is a person likely to look after their responsibilities if they are NOT Distressed?
A. FOR ME: Yes
Dear Dr Peter
Has the Devil nearly taken over the World?
Is it true that in 2021 – 25% of All Adults in the UK take a Psychiatric Drug similar to an ‘anti depressant’. And that on top of this figure 17% of all UK Adults take an Opiod; and nearly 2% take an ‘Antipsychotic’?
In 2021, is nearly 50% of the UK population potentially under Psychiatric Control?
OCD
When a person comes off “medication” they often develop drug induced OCD. This is chemically induced but can still be accommodated for (with perseverance).
“Schizophrenia” Drug Withdrawal
While on psychiatric drugs – I had been disabled.
On Medication Withdrawal I experienced what Robert Whitaker has described as (drug withdrawal) “High Anxiety” . But I was able to get a picture of the anxiety problem, and successfully compensate for it.
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Thank you Rose for sharing your story.
I have been accused in the past of “Schizophrenia” and “Manic Depression”.
“Schizophrenia”
If you can get rid of the ridiculous wishful thinking disease model approach, and take a commonsense approach the so called problems of “schizophrenia” can usually be solved.
“Depression”
Genuine Depression is sometimes compared to an experience more distressing than fatal illness. I don’t believe I have ever suffered from anything like this.
“Elation”
I’m often happy to be happy.
County Kerry: Criminal investigation launched after three found dead:-
Nobody but Nobody mentions the Elephant in the Living Room (and it’s not Alcohol).
Brilliant Article
Attraction rather than Promotion:
What costs nothing, is reliably confidential, adaptable, available, voluntary, and proven to work is 12 Step fellowship.
The word ‘Whisky’ comes from ‘Uisce Beatha’ which means “Water of Life”. But if you treat ‘Whisky’ as the ‘Water of Life’ you mightn’t live long.
It’s only in the last 50 or 60 years that people have ‘come to believe’ that drugs can change things for the better MENTALLY in the Long Term. The Gimmick is to PRETEND the MH Drugs are Medicine. It’s a Confidence Trick.
Hi Ben,
Undermining by Pharma or by the Drug Regulators themselves?
Hi Richard,
FACTUALLY
A Black person in the UK is about 10 times more likely to be MISDiagnosed ‘Schizophrenic’ (than a white person), but NOT 10 times more likely to completely Recover.
BUT
It is possible – to LEARN to recognise the Psychological Withdrawal Effects of the ‘antipsychotics’, and to LEARN to compensate for them – and to regain WELLNESS.
(Similar techniques CAN be applied by someone in CRISIS seeking CALM, that has never taken Major Tranquilisers aka ‘Antipsychotics’).
Hopefully a lot of babies will recover, but some will go through life not knowing what’s wrong with them.
I’d imagine there’s been a lot of ‘free money’ generated from the opiod crisis by people who could easily predict its potential – and have now moved on.
Theres now probably several more Pharmaceutical Scams in the pipeline – so nobody’s going to go too hard on the ‘creators’.
I was wondering about the Mental Health Covid initiatives and Canada’s new fantastic Mental Health investment and what was involved in them – and now I think I have an idea. Once people start taking chemicals that enter the brain – they become ‘mental’ and their Depressions become ‘clinical’.
The MH drug industry employs people but it doesn’t really help anyone and can turn quite a few people into invalides.
There are lots of people that use “street drugs” in the UK anyway that would be happy to get psychedelics on a Nhs prescription.
Theres also a big market of people that would potentially use the drugs if they could.
If the psychedelic operation is effectively organised it could be very “successful”.
A writer once observed that in any big city it was possible to see old men talking to themselves in public, but not to see young men talking to themselves in public.
“…I first met Don in 1986, when I was 28 years old and still suffering from some pretty grim emotional after-effects of the psychiatric incarceration and torture I had endured at the beginning of my twenties. ..”
I know what these feelings are like.
My own sleep schedule is strange, but I can survive with it.
$$$$
It must be like Dream to be able to put “Illegal Street Drugs” through the Medical System – to make lots of Money.
Thank you Dr Joanna, this is a very worthwhile article.
I suppose the psychedelic promoters would be using their professional medical standing to pass these drugs off as very useful. If the NHS and the other National Health bodies and Insurers are prepared to fund these drugs then lots of people will probably start taking them.
If anything goes wrong with the psychedelics at a later date, the professionals would still be able to use their ‘double talk’ to get themselves off the hook. They do this with ‘present day’ psychiatric drugs all the time – and get away with it.
Major Tranquilizers (aka ‘Antipsychotics’) have been on the market for the past 60 years and it’s only recently that their characteristics are being documented – and only by people like you.
This UK lady’s “psychosis” wasn’t originally seen as a Transformational Experience – though she didn’t appear to suffer from genuine psychosis until she came into contact with the Psychiatric Services.
evegreen,
(In my experience) the best way is to go as slow as possible so that you can do something about problems if you run into them.
The advice is also to be most careful coming to the end of the taper.
And figure out how to deal with Withdrawal Anxiety ( – in my case “Catastrophisation”).
And Thanks For the Useful Article Richard.
It’s very good to have all this information from experts like Mark Horowitz Joanna Moncrieff Robin Murray David Taylor.
But Psychiatry is not a convincing medicine if Doctors have not in 60 years catalogued how these Extremely Dangerous Drugs Function.
Psychiatrist:- “….The most typical patient is a man suffering from schizophrenia who has stopped taking his medication and has killed a family member – often a parent…”
Relevant Missing Information from the Psychiatrist is;- “..If a person comes off Psychiatric drugs abruptly they can go “stark raving mad” and do things that they would NEVER previously do. But if they withdraw from drugs very carefully they can often reduce, or come off drugs successfully or ‘relapse without much event’. The Danger is the Drugs NOT The Patient…”
One of the things that perplexes me is the expectation that a person can be treated with Major Tranquillisers – come off the Tranquilizers and still remain long term well – without any adjustment.
Theres a supposed 2% per year, long term relapse rate in this Study. Bearing in mind the cost of ‘Schizophrenia’ are there NO, NON DRUG means available to protect against this relapse rate?
The approach seems to be along the lines of a person withdrawing from the drugs and then ‘sinking or swimming’.
The safest way in my experience to withdraw from Neuroleptics / Major Tranquilizers / ‘Antipsychotics’ is through a very slow drug Taper. But I found that even with a very slow taper I still suffered from nearly disabling High Anxiety – and it was my ability to find effective ways to deal with this High Anxiety that made it possible for me to come off the ‘Antipsychotics’ and to remain long term well.
Exposure to ‘antipsychotics’ CAN CAUSE ‘schizophrenia’ in the same way that Anti Anxiety drugs can cause Anxiety. My original schizophrenic symptoms were ‘game played’ , but I still ended up in hospital the first time I attempted to withdraw abruptly (with permission) from ‘Antipsychotics’..
Hi Peter,
Thanks for exposing “misrepresentation” and for attaching quotation marks to “Relapse”.
Whats ‘Social Exclusion’? I thought there was only ‘Self Isolating’ or Nothing.
For example, a study published in 1982 reported that when a group of patients with schizophrenia were each given 20 mg of fluphenazine, the difference between the highest and lowest blood level of the drug was 40-fold.5
Psychiatist:- “….The most typical patient is a man suffering from schizophrenia who has stopped taking his medication and has killed a family member – often a parent…”
NOTE “…stopped taking his medication…”
i.e. there was NO “Dreadful Crime” PRIOR to going on the “Medication”.
i.e. The presence of the “medication” and then the STOPPING of the “medication” – DROVE the person MAD enough to KILL a family member.
..but any SANE PERSON taking this “medication” and then STOPPING this “medication” could do the SAME.
Problems like “Schizophrenia, BiPolar, Depression, and Anxiety” can be solved without Psychiatry and with minimal Psychotherapy/Psychology.
I recovered from “Schizophrenic Treatment” with a lot of application, but with minimal Psychotherapy. Most of what worked was to be found outside of the ‘Psychotherapy Psychology Framework’.
Thanks dmschlom, and rebel
I was off the worst of the “medication” fairly quickly and I took my time from there.
Trauma shows up in the present.
Eckhart Tolle has some very effective recommendations on how to deal with it :-
Deaths of police officer and son, 3, treated as suspected murder-suicide , more details : https://t.co/aO8hNiecO4
WE NEED TO COME OUT OF THE DARK AGES
With the length of time “Antipsychotic” Drugs have been around – at least 60 years – a person might think that the extremely important recent research conducted by – Doctors Murray, Horowitz, Taylor, Moncrieff (to name a few) – had already been done in the 1960s.
In my own case in 1983 when I attempted (with permission) to Abruptly Withdraw from my Modecate Depot Injection – I experienced 4 hospitalizations in 5 months, 1 Suicide Attempt and I near Suicide Attempt.
The reason I wanted to get off the Neuroleptic Depot Medication was because it was disabling me – and my Psychiatlist was interpreting my Disability as Mental Illness.
I’ve seen a paper on low dose “antipsychotic” prescribing at 200mg chloropromazine per day where none of the people “relapsed”. This makes sense to me, as – if the people were to start feeling uncomfortable, they could UP the dose slightly, or reduce the dose again, and remain OK.
I cut down to 25mg of Mellaril similar to 25mg Chloropromazine/day in a period of 6 years (1984 to 1990) – from 25mg / month of Modecate Depot (“suitable” for “schizophrenia”). And have remained well since.
I used Straightforward “Psychotherapy” as well, to deal with my Neuroleptic Withdrawal High Anxiety. If I hadn’t the “High Anxiety” would have Overwhelmed me.
But I didn’t learn either of these from Doctors or Psychologists!
FROM MY OWN CASE
DEAR SIR / MADAM
Briefly, my Situation concerns:
One:
Medically Dangerous Behaviour
Two:
My 1980 History in Amsterdam, Holland
Three:
My Recent Exposure to Asbestos
Four:
Strange Coincidence
Five:
Human Rights
One:
Medically Dangerous Behaviour
As far as I was concerned I had recovered in Southern Ireland in 1984 when I was no longer dependent on the Irish Medical System. In October 2018 I consulted a UK based Irish Psychiatrist – who’s OPINION was that I had NOT suffered from ‘Diagnosis’ to begin with.
Below is an Email from me to my GP Surgery with explanatory information:
“……………………………………………………
From: ME
To: Medical Newton (NHS CENTRAL LONDON (WESTMINSTER) CCG)
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2018, 00:42:07 GMT
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.
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
…………………………………………………….”
Two:
My 1980 History in Amsterdam, Holland
In the summer of 1980 I spent several months working in Amsterdam as a decorator, and staying at Barndesteeg 21, 1012 BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (prior to returning to London).
At Barndesteeg 21, I had been socially acquainted with a Northern Irish Born Again Christian who (closely) matches the description of the person below
“Kevin McGrady” had at the time, been concerned about a conversation we were supposed to have had that I couldn’t place.
There was NO mention of Amsterdam on the UK side of my Medical Records.
There was no Diagnosis from the (Maudsley Hospital UK) Psychiatrist but a strong suggestion of me taking ‘Street Drugs’, which I had continually denied. I had denied consuming street drugs; but in hindsight I can trace the circumstances of a “poisoning” (in Holland).
Three:
Recent Exposure to Asbestos
Asbestos Exposure is not a casual issue.
Exposure dates:
November 30, 2020 to December 7, 2020
And
January 4, 2021 to January 7, 2021
The email below will give you an idea of what I’m talking about.
I also have an email trail, and photographic evidence.
FTA RAY LUNT ASBESTOS EXPOSURE FULHAM COLLEGE SW6 6SN REF 561829/563230
ASBESTOS EXPOSURE
At:- Fulham College Boys School, Kingwood Road London SW6 6SN
Dear Mr Lunt
Concerns Officer Safety Reply
In her Email of January 20 2021 Concerns Officer Moira Caddick acknowledged the textured Ceilings in the rooms I had worked on, as containing Asbestos. She then claimed the ceilings to be safe, whereas (in parts) they were peeling.
ENVIROCHEM ASBESTOS SURVEY
You can take NO reassurance whatsoever that the areas I worked in were investigated as part of the “R+D Asbestos Survey” for the presence of Asbestos.
The R+D Survey makes it clear in its DISCLAIMER on Pg 2, that the Survey provided no re assurance to anybody other than the Client. It also indicated the Program and Scope of the Survey to be by agreement between the Client and Environchem.
“Following the issue of this survey report, responsibility to any parties for any matters arising, which may be considered outside of the agreed scope of work, will not be accepted by Envirochem”
The trust you put in Kate McAdam, seems inappropriate (and confused).
(It seems odd to me also, that the son of Kevin McLoughlin MBE, would direct me into the 1st Area of toxicity).
Yours Sincerely
ME
……………………………………………………”
Four –
Strange Coincidence
In 1980 prior to going to Amsterdam I shared a flat at 34 Fordingley Road, London W9, with individuals by the names of Farouque Abdillahi and Sahid Gheithy. In the 2000s I notice Farouque Abdillahi is “promoted” as having been Princess Dianas designer by people like ex President Clinton and Prince Charles.
Under Notable People
“..Farouque Abdillahi, who was Princess Diana’s designer.[143..”
I find this to be a strange coincidence.
Five –
Human Rights
Had I been Severely Mentally Ill for the past 35 years I would have cost Several Million Pounds – I have cost nothing.
Yours Sincerely
ME
PERSONAL TRANQUILLISER
If a person who’s worried “sits with their feelings” for long enough their feelngs will eventually subside – and their worries will not seem too frightening any more. A Lot Of People Don’t Know This.
(Psychiatrists, Psychologists and GPs are not needed).
People with lived experience are the best at helping other people experiencing the same situations – this makes sense. I would say it’ll save the taxpayer an awul lot as well.
I like that!
Hi Marie,
I was prescribed antidepressants in the 1980s. The reason I was probably prescribed them was because of my paradoxical drug reactions.
The antidepressants made no difference to my mood:- On going on them, on being on them, or on coming off them.
But my overal mood in independance has improved a lot over the years.
Thank you Dr. Gøtzsche,
Its flat out Fraud all the way through. The drugs are a Fraud and the illness is a Fraud.
Thank you Someone Else,
I remember trying to stop medications for a day or two once, but I had to go straight back on them. I was sure then that “the illness” existed. But I couldn’t figure out why I was okay without them at the start.
It was only through cutting down and cutting down that I discovered I could actually stop completely.
Like Dr Peter Gotzsche says, Neuroleptics are more usefully described as Major Tranquillisers. Because this is what they are!
I would also support the idea that the Pharmaceutical industry has more or less taken over a lot of areas we assumed were independent.
I think Fraud / Criminality is now a big part of the Medical Culture (especially at the top) and theres no getting away from this.
The Drugs cause the Illness!
Or even, if it’s a so called “big problem” it can still be dealt with through straightforward means.
THIS RESEARCH IS NOT FRAUDULENT
One:
Medically Dangerous Behaviour
Two:
My 1980 History in Amsterdam, Holland
Three:
Saving as a Result of Carefully Stopping Psychiatric Medication
One:
Medically Dangerous Behaviour
As far as I was concerned I had recovered in Southern Ireland in 1984 when I was no longer dependent on the Irish Medical System. In October 2018 I consulted a UK based Irish Psychiatrist – who’s OPINION was that I had NOT suffered from ‘Diagnosis’ to begin with.
Below is an Email from me to my GP Surgery with explanatory information:
“……………………………………………………
From: ME
To: Medical Newton (NHS CENTRAL LONDON (WESTMINSTER) CCG)
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2018, 00:42:07 GMT
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.
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
…………………………………………………….”
Two:
My 1980 History in Amsterdam, Holland
In the summer of 1980 I spent several months working in Amsterdam as a decorator, and staying at Barndesteeg 21, 1012 BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (prior to returning to London).
At Barndesteeg 21, I had been socially acquainted with a Northern Irish Born Again Christian who (closely) matches the description of the person below
“Kevin McGrady” had at the time, been concerned about a conversation we were supposed to have had that I couldn’t place.
There was NO mention of Amsterdam on the UK side of my Medical Records.
There was NO Diagnosis from the (Maudsley Hospital UK) Psychiatrist but a strong suggestion of me taking ‘Street Drugs’, which I had continually denied. I had denied consuming street drugs; but in hindsight I can trace the circumstances of a “poisoning” (in Holland).
Three:-
Saving as a Result of Carefully Stopping Psychiatric Medication
Had I been Severely Mentally Ill for the past 35 years I would have cost Several Million Pounds – I have cost nothing.
Yours Sincerely
ME
Most Psychiatrists and Doctors by NOW, will have prescribed Psychiatric Drugs that have killed Patients.
These patients would still be alive today (and probably quite well) had they NOT been prescribed Psychiatric Drugs by their Psychiatrist or Doctor.
MENTALLY ILL DOCTORS & PSYCHIATRISTS
Psychiatrists and Doctors would NOT be able to prescribe psychiatric drugs if they were to acknowledge the Homicidal and Suicidal Reactions caused by them.
This is why Doctors pretend not to fully know about the Risks.
In this day and age in medicine any other explanation would be ridiculous.
Psychiatry is a very effective ‘Neoliberism’ tool alongside ‘commercial’ control of the media and attitudes.
It’s not Just. Its Denial.
Psychologist Dr Peter Levine seems to have a good idea of what the problem is, and how to work through it. https://youtu.be/s1RnTipiU_Q
Hi Grace, I’m very sorry for your trouble.
I believe you, and am very uncomfortable reading your story. It sounds like state sponsored lunacy.
Hi Tabitha,
You’ve got a strong spirit. Thanks for writing this.
It’s not just Pharmaceuticals and Psychiatry, it’s Governments as well, supporting systems that completely ruin people.
Thank You Dr Gøtzsche,
These days we are often greeted, in the media, with injustices from Non 1st World Countries. But the unbelievable injustice and cruelty from present day Psychiatry is completely swept under the carpet.
I attempted Suicide several times on Long Acting Injections but I had never attempted Suicide when off Long Acting Injections (either before going on them or after coming off them).
I also made Full Recovery in 1984 as a result of responsibly coming permanently off LAI s – and eventually ALL medications suitable for “Schizophrenia”( – with the help of practical ‘psychotherapy’).
Theres so much “double meaning speech” around that people don’t honestly know what’s true or not true.
If the holistic approach works and can get people permanently well, then unless “the Country” wants to service lots of “Mentally Sick People”, then the Holistic Model is what should be used.
But even though theres a lot of destruction, early death, and human wastage in the Pharmaceutical model, maybe this is what “Governments” Want.
I chatted with a doctor once who wasn’t too happy with his own work experience, who related the usefullness of the UK NHS to me.
He said within private Medicine the Hotel Experience might be great, but the overall medical service wasn’t likely to be as good as the NHS Model.
He said Private Medicine is a business – so what would you expect?
“…Why do people people choose…?”
Because the drugs are very harmful, they cause disability and they manufacture mental illness. In contrast improvements made, from non drug means tend to be consistent.
I refused medication because I thought the idea was ridiculous. When I took the medication the drugs disabled me. And when I tried to come off the medication I suffered from terrible drug withdrawal symptoms – which I eventually overcame!
It’s a conundrum
Thank you Kendra,
You describe my experience of Psychiatry very accurately.
The article (below) from Psychology Today represents one of the methods I used to repair myself.
A person has to have the experience of going through this Process to SEE that it works.
Hi Maria,
Thanks for writing this.
I recovered from “Non Existent Schizophrenia” in 1984 as a result of not taking my medication (very carefully).
I stopped taking my Depot Injection medication on my 3rd attempt and switched to oral medication. The depot injection (which I had been taking since 1980) had been causing extrapyramidal disability.
I cut the oral medication down to a tiny dose over a period of 6 years; and the tiny dose eventually went of it’s own accord.
I used this type of Approach to deal with my Neuroleptic Withdrawal “High Anxiety”.
5,021 beds are occupied by patients who tested positive for Covid
3,855 of those patients are being treated primarily for Covid-19
This signifies that 1,166 are being treated primarily for something other than the virus..”
AKATHESIA: THE ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM
There’s a continuing Epidemic of Homicide, Familicide (and Suicide) in Ireland among the “Normal Population” – taking Psychiatric drugs for ‘Lifestyle Problems’.
Everybody in Ireland is extremely concerned about the situation. But there’s NO mention of the Obvious Cause:- A K A T H E S I A.
Well written Sir,
Her offence was much the same as any normal persons on a bad day.
Myself, after being forced to take drugs I didn’t want, I nearly went mad when I was given permission to come off them.
Thank You Dr Peter,
I couldn’t agree more:
“…Our citizens would be far better off if we removed all the psychotropic drugs from the market, as doctors are unable to handle them….”
:- “….For example, a study published in 1982 reported that when a group of patients with schizophrenia were each given 20 mg of fluphenazine, the difference between the highest and lowest blood level of the drug was 40-fold….”
The above drug Disabled and nearly Killed me. The Historical Psychiatrists logic for having me on the drug was that I was incapable of maintaining routine. When I pointed out to him (on advice) that the drug was physically disabling me – he took me off the drug (and I ended up in hospital).
But I made recovery as a result of carefully stopping Fluphenazine in 1984.
I think the ‘public safety’ reason is a gimmick because there are lots of so called ‘Mentally Ill’ people living independently. I think it’s about ‘Money’.
Yes Willowhead
Thank You Dr Les,
Yes, that’s what ‘antipsychotics’ do – they switch a person off.
What a person might do if they’re very anxious – is to sit with their uncomfortable feelings, until their feelings eventually calm down. From this State Of Mind – they will KNOW what to do.
When I stopped taking “my medication” I became sick, so I did believe in the Diagnosis. But then I noticed that if I carefully cut “the medication” I didn’t become sick – but I suffered from a terrible Anxiety – that I had never suffered from before.
Over the years I was able to accommodate the Anxiety with trial and error techniques. After this I was mostly able to overcome the Anxiety. But the process took years.
But the Hospitalizations, Suicide Attempts, Disability and Psychiatric Dependency stopped near enough as soon as I took charge of matters myself.
In 2018 I visited one of the doctors who came in at the end of my treatment in the 1980s at Galway Southern Ireland. His opinion was, that the treatments had been the problem.
Thank You Nijinsky
The chap I mentioned came off substance without medications, and has remained consistently well and operational.
When you mention medication through the “back door” I see what you mean. There seems to be a big drive in society to Diagnose and Medicate the population with trendy people being used to represent “Positive Mental Illness”.
In the Normal way people can be represented through the “Legal System” but in “Mental Health” they can be represented through “Doctors Opinion” (which in “Mental Health” can be anything).
Thanks for the Article,
I was talking to a chap last week who very coherently shared much the same as what this Article has represented! Substance was his solution, and he could only stop taking it when he found the source of his problem. He was very happy to discover that he had to adapt, and he professed at the age of almost 60 he was really happy in life! His message was one of joy!
(The World is still often geared up towards exploitation and lots of people suffer from one form or another of PTSD – but this chap also seemed to know how to negotiate his way through this).
Who Are The “Individuals With Long Term Psychosis”???
“…Individuals with long-term psychosis often do not share whether or how they are using APM [antipsychotic medication] nor the strategies they may utilize as alternatives to APM. In combination with overly simplistic, dichotomized measures of adherence, this tendency has arguably led to the impoverishment of research on APM use,” they write….”
If they are dealing with “Long Term Psychosis” – then they DON’T have “Long Term Psychosis”.
VERBODEN
Defense LAWYERS representing people charged with “Out of Character Homicide and Familicide” seem to rarely raise the possibility of Psychiatric Drug Induced Fallout i.e. Akathisia – even when the circumstances strongly suggest it.
The most scientific explanation is left missing.
“…He pointed out that many people had tried to warn against them for many years but had been silenced or fired from their positions from where they could reach the population…”
It’s difficult to do much against Criminality if the Criminality has Official Support.
I dont know if MIA has seen this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/11/us-students-digital-surveillance-schools
(..apologies for being off subject)
We know that drugs that block Dopamine “switch a person off” and that a person in this state is easily managed. But this doesn’t tell us an awful lot.
Armed UK Police Officer Wayne Couzens recently committed one of the worst crimes ever committed in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/30/sarah-everard-murder-wayne-couzens-whole-life-sentence
Wayne Couzens was reported as behaving bizarrely before and during the conduct of this Crime.
Wayne Couzens must have been Drug Tested on arrest. But there doesn’t seem to have been the release of ANY drug test results indicating exactly what he was taking (- prescribed or unprescribed).
The only people that recover from ‘Schizophrenia’ are the people that reject the medical model.
The drug treatments “suitable” for “Schizophrenia” are classed as Major Tranquillisers. These drugs work through creating a state of indifference.
When a person attempts to withdraw from the Major Tranquillisers they are likely to find themselves reacting to lots of things that didn’t bother them before.
The solution would be for a person to be aware of the problems that need to be looked after but not emotionally invested in them: Equanamity. This is a “no loose state”.
Not mental Disorders, but maybe the internet doesn’t lead to an increase in overall happiness (but maybe it does).
Thank You Antonia,
I have an awful lot of identification with your drug withdrawal experience. It’s only very recently that Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal has been taken seriously. Prior to this it was left to Psychiatrists to promote what they liked.
Paternalism might be a lenient way for describing things.
I would wonder what people did about “Post Partum Anxiety” before Psychiatry and Psychiatric Drugs became available? I mean it must have been part of Real Life.
Psychiatry Continues to Pathologize Normality (and General Medicine).
At the start of the interview with no introduction – the doctor asked me if I was hearing voices. I told her I had never heard voices in my life.
On the Records my assertion on Voices was missing. But the doctor Pathogized: “..Eye Contact normal …Mildly Agitated but no sign ..of Thought Disorder …”
The Doctor could have equally Recorded:’ ” ..The patient presented well…they stated that they had never in their life “heard voices”, … they expressed dissatisfaction with elements of our performance….”
If a doctor leaves half the story out, i.e. tell lies; they can very easily pathologize normality.
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n22
Nearly two thirds of (UK) doctors have Anxiety or Depression, BMA survey finds
BMJ 2021; 372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n22 (Published 05 January 2021)
Cite this as: BMJ 2021;372:n22
A survey of over 7000 doctors conducted by the BMA in December found that, while many thought that their colleagues were coping with work during the covid-19 pandemic, most had concerns about the standard of patient care being delivered.
Of 7067 doctors in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland who answered a question on their mental health,1 58% (4067) said that they had symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, burnout, emotional distress, or another mental health condition related to or …
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Hi Sean
Thanks for writing this.
If I had recognised your Article, I would have commented sooner.
I am very happy that things turned out well for you in the end.
I learnt meditation in the 1990s with the Western Buddhist Fellowship and have practised since. I remember two friends of mine (both doctors) that I hadnt seen in some years telling me the same thing – that I looked happier – and both going on to take up meditation themselves.
I have attempted SUICIDE twice on Strong Psychiatric Drugs. I have NEVER attempted SUICIDE in the years before taking them; and NEVER in the years since discontinuing them.
(The DRUGS were the problem)
And….Good Luck!
Both Consuming and Discontinuing, drugs used to treat “Schizophrenia” can cause “disturbed states of mind” and “thought disorders” even in mentally well people.
But these problems can be successfully alleviated through straightforward non drug means. IMO the term “Schizophrenia” is obstructive.
I would get rid of “Schizophrenia” but I wouldn’t replace it with anything else. If pushed some type of vague term like ‘temperary burnout’ might be okay.
When I came off the drugs I suffered from Extreme Anxiety and this would have driven me back onto the drugs, had I not found a Psychological means to cope.
So ‘it’ does respond to Psychology – and this can be proven.
For me, the treatments had caused the problems.
What about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos – maybe she didn’t play the game according to the ‘rules’!
BBC News – Parents warn of tsunami of school-anxiety cases
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58474418
INSIGHTFUL RESEARCH EXPERIMENT – ANXIETY
Question 1
Q. If a person experiences ‘a worry’ during breathing meditation and continues to focus on their breathing is the the emotional content of the worry likely to subside?
A. FOR ME: Yes
Question 2
Q.What does ‘the worry’ seem like once the emotional content has subsided?
A. FOR ME: Not Very Distressing
Question 3
Q. Is a person likely to look after their responsibilities if they are NOT Distressed?
A. FOR ME: Yes
Dear Dr Peter
Has the Devil nearly taken over the World?
Is it true that in 2021 – 25% of All Adults in the UK take a Psychiatric Drug similar to an ‘anti depressant’. And that on top of this figure 17% of all UK Adults take an Opiod; and nearly 2% take an ‘Antipsychotic’?
In 2021, is nearly 50% of the UK population potentially under Psychiatric Control?
OCD
When a person comes off “medication” they often develop drug induced OCD. This is chemically induced but can still be accommodated for (with perseverance).
“Schizophrenia” Drug Withdrawal
While on psychiatric drugs – I had been disabled.
On Medication Withdrawal I experienced what Robert Whitaker has described as (drug withdrawal) “High Anxiety” . But I was able to get a picture of the anxiety problem, and successfully compensate for it.
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Thank you Rose for sharing your story.
I have been accused in the past of “Schizophrenia” and “Manic Depression”.
“Schizophrenia”
If you can get rid of the ridiculous wishful thinking disease model approach, and take a commonsense approach the so called problems of “schizophrenia” can usually be solved.
“Depression”
Genuine Depression is sometimes compared to an experience more distressing than fatal illness. I don’t believe I have ever suffered from anything like this.
“Elation”
I’m often happy to be happy.
County Kerry: Criminal investigation launched after three found dead:-
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58483201
Nobody but Nobody mentions the Elephant in the Living Room (and it’s not Alcohol).
Brilliant Article
Attraction rather than Promotion:
What costs nothing, is reliably confidential, adaptable, available, voluntary, and proven to work is 12 Step fellowship.
Adaptable and Proven to Work:-
https://youtu.be/YT2ecA6bJ1c
The word ‘Whisky’ comes from ‘Uisce Beatha’ which means “Water of Life”. But if you treat ‘Whisky’ as the ‘Water of Life’ you mightn’t live long.
It’s only in the last 50 or 60 years that people have ‘come to believe’ that drugs can change things for the better MENTALLY in the Long Term. The Gimmick is to PRETEND the MH Drugs are Medicine. It’s a Confidence Trick.
Hi Ben,
Undermining by Pharma or by the Drug Regulators themselves?
Hi Richard,
FACTUALLY
A Black person in the UK is about 10 times more likely to be MISDiagnosed ‘Schizophrenic’ (than a white person), but NOT 10 times more likely to completely Recover.
BUT
It is possible – to LEARN to recognise the Psychological Withdrawal Effects of the ‘antipsychotics’, and to LEARN to compensate for them – and to regain WELLNESS.
(Similar techniques CAN be applied by someone in CRISIS seeking CALM, that has never taken Major Tranquilisers aka ‘Antipsychotics’).
Hopefully a lot of babies will recover, but some will go through life not knowing what’s wrong with them.
I’d imagine there’s been a lot of ‘free money’ generated from the opiod crisis by people who could easily predict its potential – and have now moved on.
Theres now probably several more Pharmaceutical Scams in the pipeline – so nobody’s going to go too hard on the ‘creators’.
I was wondering about the Mental Health Covid initiatives and Canada’s new fantastic Mental Health investment and what was involved in them – and now I think I have an idea. Once people start taking chemicals that enter the brain – they become ‘mental’ and their Depressions become ‘clinical’.
The MH drug industry employs people but it doesn’t really help anyone and can turn quite a few people into invalides.
I think ‘SAM’ was lucky to get out, when he did.
This Approach Works for Anxiety
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/understanding-the-anxious-mind/202108/anxiety-and-the-art-doing-nothing
(It will turn out like the “Joker”)
There are lots of people that use “street drugs” in the UK anyway that would be happy to get psychedelics on a Nhs prescription.
Theres also a big market of people that would potentially use the drugs if they could.
If the psychedelic operation is effectively organised it could be very “successful”.
A writer once observed that in any big city it was possible to see old men talking to themselves in public, but not to see young men talking to themselves in public.
I think we all accept that it’s going to be a money maker:-
https://stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2021/09/03/blackhawk-growth-closes-investment-in-psychedelic-and-wellness-company-mindbio
Thanks Irit,
It looks like the good cause kept him going.
“…I first met Don in 1986, when I was 28 years old and still suffering from some pretty grim emotional after-effects of the psychiatric incarceration and torture I had endured at the beginning of my twenties. ..”
I know what these feelings are like.
My own sleep schedule is strange, but I can survive with it.
$$$$
It must be like Dream to be able to put “Illegal Street Drugs” through the Medical System – to make lots of Money.
Thank you Dr Joanna, this is a very worthwhile article.
I suppose the psychedelic promoters would be using their professional medical standing to pass these drugs off as very useful. If the NHS and the other National Health bodies and Insurers are prepared to fund these drugs then lots of people will probably start taking them.
If anything goes wrong with the psychedelics at a later date, the professionals would still be able to use their ‘double talk’ to get themselves off the hook. They do this with ‘present day’ psychiatric drugs all the time – and get away with it.
Major Tranquilizers (aka ‘Antipsychotics’) have been on the market for the past 60 years and it’s only recently that their characteristics are being documented – and only by people like you.
https://youtu.be/AgZHOSxN5cE
This UK lady’s “psychosis” wasn’t originally seen as a Transformational Experience – though she didn’t appear to suffer from genuine psychosis until she came into contact with the Psychiatric Services.
evegreen,
(In my experience) the best way is to go as slow as possible so that you can do something about problems if you run into them.
The advice is also to be most careful coming to the end of the taper.
And figure out how to deal with Withdrawal Anxiety ( – in my case “Catastrophisation”).
And Thanks For the Useful Article Richard.
It’s very good to have all this information from experts like Mark Horowitz Joanna Moncrieff Robin Murray David Taylor.
But Psychiatry is not a convincing medicine if Doctors have not in 60 years catalogued how these Extremely Dangerous Drugs Function.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity-inside-the-central-mental-hospital-1.3544665
Psychiatrist:- “….The most typical patient is a man suffering from schizophrenia who has stopped taking his medication and has killed a family member – often a parent…”
Relevant Missing Information from the Psychiatrist is;- “..If a person comes off Psychiatric drugs abruptly they can go “stark raving mad” and do things that they would NEVER previously do. But if they withdraw from drugs very carefully they can often reduce, or come off drugs successfully or ‘relapse without much event’. The Danger is the Drugs NOT The Patient…”
One of the things that perplexes me is the expectation that a person can be treated with Major Tranquillisers – come off the Tranquilizers and still remain long term well – without any adjustment.
Theres a supposed 2% per year, long term relapse rate in this Study. Bearing in mind the cost of ‘Schizophrenia’ are there NO, NON DRUG means available to protect against this relapse rate?
The approach seems to be along the lines of a person withdrawing from the drugs and then ‘sinking or swimming’.
The safest way in my experience to withdraw from Neuroleptics / Major Tranquilizers / ‘Antipsychotics’ is through a very slow drug Taper. But I found that even with a very slow taper I still suffered from nearly disabling High Anxiety – and it was my ability to find effective ways to deal with this High Anxiety that made it possible for me to come off the ‘Antipsychotics’ and to remain long term well.
Exposure to ‘antipsychotics’ CAN CAUSE ‘schizophrenia’ in the same way that Anti Anxiety drugs can cause Anxiety. My original schizophrenic symptoms were ‘game played’ , but I still ended up in hospital the first time I attempted to withdraw abruptly (with permission) from ‘Antipsychotics’..
Hi Peter,
Thanks for exposing “misrepresentation” and for attaching quotation marks to “Relapse”.
Whats ‘Social Exclusion’? I thought there was only ‘Self Isolating’ or Nothing.
Dear Dr Sandra
MODECATE mentioned beliow is FLUPHENAZINE
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/better-without-antipsychotic-drugs
For example, a study published in 1982 reported that when a group of patients with schizophrenia were each given 20 mg of fluphenazine, the difference between the highest and lowest blood level of the drug was 40-fold.5
MY BACKGROUND
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 (Fluphenazine) Experience 1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EY4XDLt04KgmCjg_5wXU-kbVezo_DxL4/view?usp=drivesdk
Near Fatal Modecate (Fluphenazine) 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.
SCHIZOPHRENIA TREATMENT CAN BE MORE HARMFUL THAN SCHIZOPHRENIA
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity-inside-the-central-mental-hospital-1.3544665
Psychiatist:- “….The most typical patient is a man suffering from schizophrenia who has stopped taking his medication and has killed a family member – often a parent…”
NOTE “…stopped taking his medication…”
i.e. there was NO “Dreadful Crime” PRIOR to going on the “Medication”.
i.e. The presence of the “medication” and then the STOPPING of the “medication” – DROVE the person MAD enough to KILL a family member.
..but any SANE PERSON taking this “medication” and then STOPPING this “medication” could do the SAME.
Problems like “Schizophrenia, BiPolar, Depression, and Anxiety” can be solved without Psychiatry and with minimal Psychotherapy/Psychology.
I recovered from “Schizophrenic Treatment” with a lot of application, but with minimal Psychotherapy. Most of what worked was to be found outside of the ‘Psychotherapy Psychology Framework’.
Thanks dmschlom, and rebel
I was off the worst of the “medication” fairly quickly and I took my time from there.
Trauma shows up in the present.
Eckhart Tolle has some very effective recommendations on how to deal with it :-
https://youtu.be/Fzj7R9IB48s
His recommendations work.
UK: No Mention (that I can see) Of Possibility Of MH Drug Induced Murder Suicide
#plymouthincident
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-58195419
https://t.co/GDApr3d0tH
Deaths of police officer and son, 3, treated as suspected murder-suicide , more details : https://t.co/aO8hNiecO4
WE NEED TO COME OUT OF THE DARK AGES
With the length of time “Antipsychotic” Drugs have been around – at least 60 years – a person might think that the extremely important recent research conducted by – Doctors Murray, Horowitz, Taylor, Moncrieff (to name a few) – had already been done in the 1960s.
In my own case in 1983 when I attempted (with permission) to Abruptly Withdraw from my Modecate Depot Injection – I experienced 4 hospitalizations in 5 months, 1 Suicide Attempt and I near Suicide Attempt.
The reason I wanted to get off the Neuroleptic Depot Medication was because it was disabling me – and my Psychiatlist was interpreting my Disability as Mental Illness.
I’ve seen a paper on low dose “antipsychotic” prescribing at 200mg chloropromazine per day where none of the people “relapsed”. This makes sense to me, as – if the people were to start feeling uncomfortable, they could UP the dose slightly, or reduce the dose again, and remain OK.
I cut down to 25mg of Mellaril similar to 25mg Chloropromazine/day in a period of 6 years (1984 to 1990) – from 25mg / month of Modecate Depot (“suitable” for “schizophrenia”). And have remained well since.
I used Straightforward “Psychotherapy” as well, to deal with my Neuroleptic Withdrawal High Anxiety. If I hadn’t the “High Anxiety” would have Overwhelmed me.
Hi Diane,
This is the type of approach I use for Anxiety..
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/understanding-the-anxious-mind/202108/anxiety-and-the-art-doing-nothing
..it can be painful but it works.
Leonard Cohen used Buddhist Meditation…
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/what-leonard-cohen-can-teach-us-about-depression
…I do Buddhist Meditation as well.
But I didn’t learn either of these from Doctors or Psychologists!
FROM MY OWN CASE
DEAR SIR / MADAM
Briefly, my Situation concerns:
One:
Medically Dangerous Behaviour
Two:
My 1980 History in Amsterdam, Holland
Three:
My Recent Exposure to Asbestos
Four:
Strange Coincidence
Five:
Human Rights
One:
Medically Dangerous Behaviour
As far as I was concerned I had recovered in Southern Ireland in 1984 when I was no longer dependent on the Irish Medical System. In October 2018 I consulted a UK based Irish Psychiatrist – who’s OPINION was that I had NOT suffered from ‘Diagnosis’ to begin with.
Below is an Email from me to my GP Surgery with explanatory information:
“……………………………………………………
From: ME
To: Medical Newton (NHS CENTRAL LONDON (WESTMINSTER) CCG)
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2018, 00:42:07 GMT
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
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Two:
My 1980 History in Amsterdam, Holland
In the summer of 1980 I spent several months working in Amsterdam as a decorator, and staying at Barndesteeg 21, 1012 BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (prior to returning to London).
At Barndesteeg 21, I had been socially acquainted with a Northern Irish Born Again Christian who (closely) matches the description of the person below
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McGrady
“Kevin McGrady” had at the time, been concerned about a conversation we were supposed to have had that I couldn’t place.
There was NO mention of Amsterdam on the UK side of my Medical Records.
There was no Diagnosis from the (Maudsley Hospital UK) Psychiatrist but a strong suggestion of me taking ‘Street Drugs’, which I had continually denied. I had denied consuming street drugs; but in hindsight I can trace the circumstances of a “poisoning” (in Holland).
Three:
Recent Exposure to Asbestos
Asbestos Exposure is not a casual issue.
Exposure dates:
November 30, 2020 to December 7, 2020
And
January 4, 2021 to January 7, 2021
The email below will give you an idea of what I’m talking about.
I also have an email trail, and photographic evidence.
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From: ME
To : Health and Safety Executive Appeals
[email protected]
5 Mar at 08:26
FTA RAY LUNT ASBESTOS EXPOSURE FULHAM COLLEGE SW6 6SN REF 561829/563230
ASBESTOS EXPOSURE
At:- Fulham College Boys School, Kingwood Road London SW6 6SN
Dear Mr Lunt
Concerns Officer Safety Reply
In her Email of January 20 2021 Concerns Officer Moira Caddick acknowledged the textured Ceilings in the rooms I had worked on, as containing Asbestos. She then claimed the ceilings to be safe, whereas (in parts) they were peeling.
ENVIROCHEM ASBESTOS SURVEY
You can take NO reassurance whatsoever that the areas I worked in were investigated as part of the “R+D Asbestos Survey” for the presence of Asbestos.
The R+D Survey makes it clear in its DISCLAIMER on Pg 2, that the Survey provided no re assurance to anybody other than the Client. It also indicated the Program and Scope of the Survey to be by agreement between the Client and Environchem.
“Following the issue of this survey report, responsibility to any parties for any matters arising, which may be considered outside of the agreed scope of work, will not be accepted by Envirochem”
The trust you put in Kate McAdam, seems inappropriate (and confused).
(It seems odd to me also, that the son of Kevin McLoughlin MBE, would direct me into the 1st Area of toxicity).
Yours Sincerely
ME
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Four –
Strange Coincidence
In 1980 prior to going to Amsterdam I shared a flat at 34 Fordingley Road, London W9, with individuals by the names of Farouque Abdillahi and Sahid Gheithy. In the 2000s I notice Farouque Abdillahi is “promoted” as having been Princess Dianas designer by people like ex President Clinton and Prince Charles.
Zanzibars Wikipedia Page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar
Under Notable People
“..Farouque Abdillahi, who was Princess Diana’s designer.[143..”
I find this to be a strange coincidence.
Five –
Human Rights
Had I been Severely Mentally Ill for the past 35 years I would have cost Several Million Pounds – I have cost nothing.
Yours Sincerely
ME
PERSONAL TRANQUILLISER
If a person who’s worried “sits with their feelings” for long enough their feelngs will eventually subside – and their worries will not seem too frightening any more. A Lot Of People Don’t Know This.
(Psychiatrists, Psychologists and GPs are not needed).
People with lived experience are the best at helping other people experiencing the same situations – this makes sense. I would say it’ll save the taxpayer an awul lot as well.
I like that!
Hi Marie,
I was prescribed antidepressants in the 1980s. The reason I was probably prescribed them was because of my paradoxical drug reactions.
The antidepressants made no difference to my mood:- On going on them, on being on them, or on coming off them.
But my overal mood in independance has improved a lot over the years.
Thank you Dr. Gøtzsche,
Its flat out Fraud all the way through. The drugs are a Fraud and the illness is a Fraud.
Thank you Someone Else,
I remember trying to stop medications for a day or two once, but I had to go straight back on them. I was sure then that “the illness” existed. But I couldn’t figure out why I was okay without them at the start.
It was only through cutting down and cutting down that I discovered I could actually stop completely.
Like Dr Peter Gotzsche says, Neuroleptics are more usefully described as Major Tranquillisers. Because this is what they are!
I would also support the idea that the Pharmaceutical industry has more or less taken over a lot of areas we assumed were independent.
I think Fraud / Criminality is now a big part of the Medical Culture (especially at the top) and theres no getting away from this.
The Drugs cause the Illness!
Or even, if it’s a so called “big problem” it can still be dealt with through straightforward means.
THIS RESEARCH IS NOT FRAUDULENT
One:
Medically Dangerous Behaviour
Two:
My 1980 History in Amsterdam, Holland
Three:
Saving as a Result of Carefully Stopping Psychiatric Medication
One:
Medically Dangerous Behaviour
As far as I was concerned I had recovered in Southern Ireland in 1984 when I was no longer dependent on the Irish Medical System. In October 2018 I consulted a UK based Irish Psychiatrist – who’s OPINION was that I had NOT suffered from ‘Diagnosis’ to begin with.
Below is an Email from me to my GP Surgery with explanatory information:
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From: ME
To: Medical Newton (NHS CENTRAL LONDON (WESTMINSTER) CCG)
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2018, 00:42:07 GMT
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
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Two:
My 1980 History in Amsterdam, Holland
In the summer of 1980 I spent several months working in Amsterdam as a decorator, and staying at Barndesteeg 21, 1012 BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (prior to returning to London).
At Barndesteeg 21, I had been socially acquainted with a Northern Irish Born Again Christian who (closely) matches the description of the person below
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McGrady
“Kevin McGrady” had at the time, been concerned about a conversation we were supposed to have had that I couldn’t place.
There was NO mention of Amsterdam on the UK side of my Medical Records.
There was NO Diagnosis from the (Maudsley Hospital UK) Psychiatrist but a strong suggestion of me taking ‘Street Drugs’, which I had continually denied. I had denied consuming street drugs; but in hindsight I can trace the circumstances of a “poisoning” (in Holland).
Three:-
Saving as a Result of Carefully Stopping Psychiatric Medication
Had I been Severely Mentally Ill for the past 35 years I would have cost Several Million Pounds – I have cost nothing.
Yours Sincerely
ME
Most Psychiatrists and Doctors by NOW, will have prescribed Psychiatric Drugs that have killed Patients.
These patients would still be alive today (and probably quite well) had they NOT been prescribed Psychiatric Drugs by their Psychiatrist or Doctor.
MENTALLY ILL DOCTORS & PSYCHIATRISTS
Psychiatrists and Doctors would NOT be able to prescribe psychiatric drugs if they were to acknowledge the Homicidal and Suicidal Reactions caused by them.
This is why Doctors pretend not to fully know about the Risks.
In this day and age in medicine any other explanation would be ridiculous.
Psychiatry is a very effective ‘Neoliberism’ tool alongside ‘commercial’ control of the media and attitudes.
It’s not Just. Its Denial.
Psychologist Dr Peter Levine seems to have a good idea of what the problem is, and how to work through it.
https://youtu.be/s1RnTipiU_Q
Hi Grace, I’m very sorry for your trouble.
I believe you, and am very uncomfortable reading your story. It sounds like state sponsored lunacy.
Hi Tabitha,
You’ve got a strong spirit. Thanks for writing this.
It’s not just Pharmaceuticals and Psychiatry, it’s Governments as well, supporting systems that completely ruin people.
Thank You Dr Gøtzsche,
These days we are often greeted, in the media, with injustices from Non 1st World Countries. But the unbelievable injustice and cruelty from present day Psychiatry is completely swept under the carpet.
I attempted Suicide several times on Long Acting Injections but I had never attempted Suicide when off Long Acting Injections (either before going on them or after coming off them).
I also made Full Recovery in 1984 as a result of responsibly coming permanently off LAI s – and eventually ALL medications suitable for “Schizophrenia”( – with the help of practical ‘psychotherapy’).
Not exactly, but not too far away:-
https://youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M
Theres so much “double meaning speech” around that people don’t honestly know what’s true or not true.
If the holistic approach works and can get people permanently well, then unless “the Country” wants to service lots of “Mentally Sick People”, then the Holistic Model is what should be used.
But even though theres a lot of destruction, early death, and human wastage in the Pharmaceutical model, maybe this is what “Governments” Want.
I chatted with a doctor once who wasn’t too happy with his own work experience, who related the usefullness of the UK NHS to me.
He said within private Medicine the Hotel Experience might be great, but the overall medical service wasn’t likely to be as good as the NHS Model.
He said Private Medicine is a business – so what would you expect?
“…Why do people people choose…?”
Because the drugs are very harmful, they cause disability and they manufacture mental illness. In contrast improvements made, from non drug means tend to be consistent.
I refused medication because I thought the idea was ridiculous. When I took the medication the drugs disabled me. And when I tried to come off the medication I suffered from terrible drug withdrawal symptoms – which I eventually overcame!
It’s a conundrum
Thank you Kendra,
You describe my experience of Psychiatry very accurately.
The article (below) from Psychology Today represents one of the methods I used to repair myself.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/understanding-the-anxious-mind/202108/anxiety-and-the-art-doing-nothing
This would be the most recent tragic familicide – though the background circmstances are not clear.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1469931/mother-baby-northern-ireland-arrested-police-liam-okeefe
Worldwide Discontinuation of Fluphenazine began at about 2015 – for reasons of ‘supply unreliability’.
This Drug has Killed many many people – forced to take it against their wishes.
At times the drug “might” have been used as a means of Medical Execution.
Why do expensive and sometimes useless medications get promoted in European countries with National Health Systems?
Is it because Pharmaceutical Companies can at one level or another, Reward The People that Govern these National Health Systems?
It certainly looks like lots of people over the age of 50 really need to be on these drugs for their own long term security – I DON’T think.
You’re right Sam,
Its animalistic.
Psychiatrist Dr David R Hawkins describes the “sitting with feelings” Process in the Youtube Video (below):-
https://youtu.be/YWvIZ9Dcyb8
A person has to have the experience of going through this Process to SEE that it works.
Hi Maria,
Thanks for writing this.
I recovered from “Non Existent Schizophrenia” in 1984 as a result of not taking my medication (very carefully).
I stopped taking my Depot Injection medication on my 3rd attempt and switched to oral medication. The depot injection (which I had been taking since 1980) had been causing extrapyramidal disability.
I cut the oral medication down to a tiny dose over a period of 6 years; and the tiny dose eventually went of it’s own accord.
I used this type of Approach to deal with my Neuroleptic Withdrawal “High Anxiety”.
https://youtu.be/YWvIZ9Dcyb8
(Dr David R Hawkins)
It Works!
BBC News – Covid: Up to one in four admitted to hospital for other reasons:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58025045
“..The latest statistics, for 27 July 2021, show:
5,021 beds are occupied by patients who tested positive for Covid
3,855 of those patients are being treated primarily for Covid-19
This signifies that 1,166 are being treated primarily for something other than the virus..”
AKATHESIA: THE ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM
There’s a continuing Epidemic of Homicide, Familicide (and Suicide) in Ireland among the “Normal Population” – taking Psychiatric drugs for ‘Lifestyle Problems’.
Everybody in Ireland is extremely concerned about the situation. But there’s NO mention of the Obvious Cause:- A K A T H E S I A.
Well written Sir,
Her offence was much the same as any normal persons on a bad day.
Myself, after being forced to take drugs I didn’t want, I nearly went mad when I was given permission to come off them.
Thank You Dr Peter,
I couldn’t agree more:
“…Our citizens would be far better off if we removed all the psychotropic drugs from the market, as doctors are unable to handle them….”
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/better-without-antipsychotic-drugs
:- “….For example, a study published in 1982 reported that when a group of patients with schizophrenia were each given 20 mg of fluphenazine, the difference between the highest and lowest blood level of the drug was 40-fold….”
The above drug Disabled and nearly Killed me. The Historical Psychiatrists logic for having me on the drug was that I was incapable of maintaining routine. When I pointed out to him (on advice) that the drug was physically disabling me – he took me off the drug (and I ended up in hospital).
But I made recovery as a result of carefully stopping Fluphenazine in 1984.
Dr Allen Frances (DSM IV) 1983
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16313058_Suicide_Associated_with_Akathisia_and_Depot_Fluphenazine_Treatment
I think the ‘public safety’ reason is a gimmick because there are lots of so called ‘Mentally Ill’ people living independently. I think it’s about ‘Money’.
Yes Willowhead
Thank You Dr Les,
Yes, that’s what ‘antipsychotics’ do – they switch a person off.
What a person might do if they’re very anxious – is to sit with their uncomfortable feelings, until their feelings eventually calm down. From this State Of Mind – they will KNOW what to do.
BBC News – Daily Covid cases down for third day in UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57942217
When I stopped taking “my medication” I became sick, so I did believe in the Diagnosis. But then I noticed that if I carefully cut “the medication” I didn’t become sick – but I suffered from a terrible Anxiety – that I had never suffered from before.
Over the years I was able to accommodate the Anxiety with trial and error techniques. After this I was mostly able to overcome the Anxiety. But the process took years.
But the Hospitalizations, Suicide Attempts, Disability and Psychiatric Dependency stopped near enough as soon as I took charge of matters myself.
In 2018 I visited one of the doctors who came in at the end of my treatment in the 1980s at Galway Southern Ireland. His opinion was, that the treatments had been the problem.
Thank You Nijinsky
The chap I mentioned came off substance without medications, and has remained consistently well and operational.
When you mention medication through the “back door” I see what you mean. There seems to be a big drive in society to Diagnose and Medicate the population with trendy people being used to represent “Positive Mental Illness”.
In the Normal way people can be represented through the “Legal System” but in “Mental Health” they can be represented through “Doctors Opinion” (which in “Mental Health” can be anything).
Thanks for the Article,
I was talking to a chap last week who very coherently shared much the same as what this Article has represented! Substance was his solution, and he could only stop taking it when he found the source of his problem. He was very happy to discover that he had to adapt, and he professed at the age of almost 60 he was really happy in life! His message was one of joy!
(The World is still often geared up towards exploitation and lots of people suffer from one form or another of PTSD – but this chap also seemed to know how to negotiate his way through this).
Who Are The “Individuals With Long Term Psychosis”???
“…Individuals with long-term psychosis often do not share whether or how they are using APM [antipsychotic medication] nor the strategies they may utilize as alternatives to APM. In combination with overly simplistic, dichotomized measures of adherence, this tendency has arguably led to the impoverishment of research on APM use,” they write….”
If they are dealing with “Long Term Psychosis” – then they DON’T have “Long Term Psychosis”.
VERBODEN
Defense LAWYERS representing people charged with “Out of Character Homicide and Familicide” seem to rarely raise the possibility of Psychiatric Drug Induced Fallout i.e. Akathisia – even when the circumstances strongly suggest it.
The most scientific explanation is left missing.
“…He pointed out that many people had tried to warn against them for many years but had been silenced or fired from their positions from where they could reach the population…”
It’s difficult to do much against Criminality if the Criminality has Official Support.