Convincing me that my brain was broken was a brilliant strategy to convince me that I needed the drugs. Then convincing me that the withdrawals were actually my “disease”…also brilliant and this kept me dependent and compliant because I was terrified of what might happen if I did not follow “doctors orders”. Realizing the drugs were the actually causing the problem was the beginning of a truth that set me free.
This is a great post to learn more about withdrawal syndrome – which is important because many will take these symptoms of removing a drug from their body as evidence of mental defect/disorder thus justifying going back on or increasing the amount of chemicals being consumed. The trick to going of psychotropic drugs is: 1. Be informed. This article is a good way to do that so you understand what you are experiencing.
Yes. This is what it sounds like.
Further fraud on America and it has spread around the world like a nasty virus, incapacitating millions of unsuspecting individuals who believe their doctors do anything but push the pills that the pharma sales rep pushes to them.
Unsuspecting health care providers that believe they are doing right by their patients….patients who trust their doctors blindly…
Like I did for nearly 20 years.
Yes. Its true. These drugs cause the thing they are supposed to be curing.
I know this because I’ve been there and done that too.
Read the story here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mad-in-america/201106/now-antidepressant-induced-chronic-depression-has-name-tardive-dysphoria
A quick share today. From Dan Fisher, head of the National Empowerment Center.
Link to this article:http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2012-04-17/violence-in-psychiatric-hospitals-usually-triggered-by-staff-not-patients/
This would be a good article to forward to your local media….they love dissension and drama.
This piece will certainly give them plenty of mileage:)
This is a comment I recieved from a reader over at this post (click here to read Going of Psych Drugs is more than just stopping them)
Sharing….
Hi, Susan. This is a very important message, thank you for posting it.
As you know, I went off my anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds about a year ago. But I did it “right” — or so I thought at the time. I did it the way my prescribing psychiatrist told me to do it. He told me to take a couple of weeks to “taper off” my meds. I did it exactly the way he told me to, I took 3/4 of the dose for several days, and then went down to 1/2 of the dose for another few days, then 1/4 of the dose for a few more days, and then I stopped.
Well, as I found out the hard way, the psychiatrist was WRONG about that being a safe way to come off these powerful mind-bending drugs. My emotions became very raw and volatile. I’m sure it didn’t help that I was going into the final months of my menopause right at that time, too. But even so, I managed to keep my head together fairly well, until a few weeks after coming off my meds so fast, I ended up in the emergency room when the tragic death of a very close loved, coming less than a week after my primary childhood abuser had sent me an insanely long hate letter, and sent copies of the lie-filled letter to my family of origin… having those two deeply painful events happen back-to-back would have rocked my world on the best day, but having them happen at a time when I was already feeling really rocky due to having so recently gone off my psychotropic meds, way too fast… even though I followed my prescriber’s directions in the way I did it… it was enough to push me right to the brink of suicide.
SO, back on the meds I went. Back to being an emotionless, energyless, zombie.
Three months later, after doing a ton of research, both online and through books, I began tapering off my meds again. Only this time, I did it ultra ultra ultra slowly. This time, I only went off one med at a time, not both at once. And this time, I started out by taking just a tiny sliver off of one med, and this is the dose I took for 2 weeks. Then I took 2 tiny slivers off my med for another 2 weeks, and so on.
Any time I felt like my emotions were getting out of hand even a little bit, I bumped my dose back up for a few days.
Doing it this way has taken me a little over 6 months so far… although I still am not entirely off of the antidepressant. I am completely off the anti-anxiety med, and I’m down to about 1/8th of the original antidepressant dose I was taking, when I first started. Right now I am sticking with this small dose, because every time I go down below the 1/8th amount, I don’t do very well. I hope I don’t have to stay on the 1/8th dose forever… but, even if I do, I am still feeling and functioning much better than I have in years, overall, and for that I am very grateful.
Elaina
Thanks Elaina for being willing to put your experiences out there so others can know they are not alone in these experiences.
For more info on learning how to safely reduce or withdraw from psychotropic drugs you can visit the Proactive Planning site here.
About the Intrinsic Suicidal Effects of Neuroleptics: Towards breaking the taboo and fighting therapeutic recklessness
This piece needs nothing but a link.
Read this very interesting, vital and relevant piece by Peter Lehmann here: www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/neuroleptics-suicide.pdf
You are free to share and encouraged to share this with your mental health providers.
Susan
For those of you who have been following KIP…
Posting has slowed down here in recent weeks and at this time I wanted to let you know that I’ve not disapeared nor have I lost interest in sharing the news and info around the damage done by psychiatry or the alterantives that area available to create a life of well-being.
Yet…at the same time I need to narrow my focus and while I will at times post on the issues around the purpose of this site – for now my focus and desires are shifting to where I’m supporting those in their journey to well being.
Thus…posting here may continue on occasion for those who are interested to continue to follow.
And – over the next weeks I’ll be working on developing the Proactive Planning site to provide an online resource for those who are seeking to learn how to take a productive self empowered stance in learning to reduce reliance on or withdraw from psychotropic drugs.
So…where I’ll be spending my time?
www.facebook.com/empoweringsolutions
www.facebook.com/susankingsleysmith
And of course here at KIPCentral…there may continue to be some postings on interesting info around the issues related to psychiatry etc.
Thank you to those of you who have followed and commented.
I hope you’ll join me at my other sites.
Always,
Susan
Sharing today. This is good news…are the questions starting to make it to mainstream? Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker? | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network.
via Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker? | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network.
News from around the world and the British Medical Journal: A new report published in the British Medical Journal has found that dangerous antipsychotic drugs are responsible for killing at least 1,800 dementia patients a year, which means that more people are killed by U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA approved dementia drugs every two years than died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
via BMJ admits antipsychotic drugs kill far more people than terrorism.
via BMJ admits antipsychotic drugs kill far more people than terrorism.
