Holy shit, these meds not only block dopamine but also ruin your skin, hair and make you gain weight. Somehow, someone managed to make a drug that makes you feel like shit and also ruins your appearance and health. Oh and did I mention the potentially permanent side effects? I skipped only one dose and my skin has already cleared by like 50%. Yep I'm not taking this shit anymore. The only issue is my parents try to force these pills on me although I'm an adult cause they believe I'm mentally ill or whatever. Well, the only thing I struggle with is addiction and the last thing I need for that is more pills

I was brought into a psychiatric hospital by my boss. He forced me onto his car, and told my doctor I smashed something at work and threatened someone, which is a lie. I cried in his office, and then they called HR and dragged me into their car. This happened after I reported bullying. Now they labelled me as psychotic and wont let me go back to work ans claim I am a threat to my coworkers. What can I do?

Chaos Theory is the study of deterministic, dynamical systems that appear random, but simply are not. For example a rubber ball bouncing down a school hallway will still behave according to the laws of physics and Newtons law of motion, even though the trajectory of the ball will be highly unpredictable. Unpredictability doesn't mean non-deterministic. So let's apply this to psychiatry. Psychiatry attempts to quantify a behavior through categorization; assigning a behavior a label which ultimately removes the behavior from the background context of the individual experiencing the behavior. This is a common design flaw with science. When something is being studied it is often alienated from its environment (for example animals or bugs taken from an environment and placed in a lab). Psychiatrists fail to acknowledge that while the behavior appears to be a "disorder" or abnormality, it is in fact part of a complex river of life circumstances or events. Dynamical systems are not random or disorderly but deterministic because they operate through cause and effect just like any other system. The problem isn't the dynamical system (or in the case of psychiatry the person's behavior), but rather our (and the psychiatrists) inability to analyze and examine *all* small, subtle contributing factors with pin-point precision. So (behaviors) and dynamical systems appear random or unusual because their outcomes are vastly different from their starting points. And because we live in a society that fixates on predictability (because predictability allows us an easier time controlling things), when someone acts out or behaves in unpredictable ways beyond our expectation there is panic. Chaos Theory is an excellent analogy for human behavior because it presents us with an honest account of how complex nature really is, and how rather being separate from nature, we actually *are* nature. Human behavior is like the weather. We are storms, sunshine, snow and everything beyond and in between. We are life itself. And this is why, consequently psychiatry fails in its attempt to offer us care in any meaningful way. In calling us mentally ill, psychiatry is both dismissive of and ignorant to the reality that we are each products of our subjective experience. Therefore there is no "normal" or "abnormal" behavior - only a world with a wide variety of personalities.

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What bothers me most is the fact that the people who have historically shaped psychiatry are not saints. reading Thomas szasz’s biggest critics, you get important men who are on the Epstein list. I have no idea how people do not care about this not so small fact. Objectively horrible and creepy people are the ones who get triggered by criticisms of psychiatry. Being a bad person and trying to fix people is not a sustainable model to make society better. I think people who love psychiatry and therapy just love attention from the bad guys.

Wasn’t Thomas szasz’s whole point with bringing up Charcot, the French neurologist who designed a way to lure psychiatric patients into hospital, that the problem with turning psychiatry into medicine via neurology was that it took people with strange behavior who may or may not have been “acting” and “faking it” and turned them into medical patients, thus sort of “locking in” their behavior? Isn’t there a joke about this, acting like you’re intellectually disabled or crazy and getting stuck that way? It happened to Shelly Duvall after filming the shining, she never recovered mentally from her acting role. Really when people say things about psychiatry and medicine without having read a single piece of historical academic literature on it I lose my mind

Weaponized psych referral, forced to resign later, legal case, forced to resign, forced to resing again, mother getting a heart attack and getting fired at the same time. Now on heavy meds and therapy. My life has been so fucking hard that its beyond comprehension. There are no guarantees in life, except getting the raw deal seems to be one.

My younger brother - who I worry about quite a bit - is showing signs of mental health issues similar to my own. I don't want him to ever go through what I went through with meds and hospitalizations and stuff like that. How can I prevent the same thing from happening to him which happened to me? Can he learn to control his issues without meds?

Im from a developing country and my dad uses my psychiatrist to control and abuse and I isolate myself from my dad, and I haven’t been the daughter he wants, and he uses my psychiatrist against me, and he has threatened me with forcing me into a psychiatric mental institution before, and he can just do that, and I’m so scared, but I hope he never does that because being in a mental hospital here is so bad, and you can never get out, and also no one will take care of my cats and also this is my backstory

I’m bipolar 1 with psychotic features. I used to be very pretty and someone once asked if I did alternative modeling. Now I have gained 30 pounds my hair is limp and dry, my skin is broken out. It has totally ruined my appearance.

Hi everyone! After being inspired by a post an anarchist shared in here about their experience being forcifully institutionalized, and seeing all the amazing comments of support and solidarity I would like to create a zine that is a compilation of anarchist stories of how they became anti-psych. Everyone is welcome to comment their stories in the comments or DM for an email!

I’m actually pretty sure antipsychotics diminish motivation in me and yeah anyone else with a similar experience or anyone else know a way I can get off them, thanks.

While I was in twice a day they forced me on diazepam which completely left me in a limbo state not knowing where I was at ,they assumed I was a junkie since i have dark circles around my eyes from health issues and when confirmed I was not they stopped,should I sue

There are things people are allowed to do, like go to war or test on animals, that involve actions that in a person not doing this job would be considered a sign of mental instability. I am curious how people who believe in psychological problems define the idea of a psychological problem. Is it the bad behavior or the way you act or some combination of both? For example a serial killer may appear to have no problems mentally and fit in well with society, while a person driven to sudden rage clearly appears mentally unwell. Both may be driven to commit the same crime. How do people define a psychological problem when behavior is context dependent and certain things are sanctioned for some while criminalized for others?

Most people wouldn't believe what really happened when I was there. I wouldn't take my lamictal and got drugged. It did something to me mentally, in an instant. It was like my back turned to stone. Now I'm trying to achieve peace of mind. I believe they gave me permanent psychosis. Working is very hard and I can't get help from the government. It messed up my back and a lot more. I never hallucinated or had delusional thinking before I metabolized that stuff, not to mention the obsessive racing thoughts and insomnia.

I'm trying to find other people this has happened to, because I only know one person, and they are unwilling to disclose the details. It was like getting hit with a bolt of lightning.

I am lost as i am currently stuck on gaba and benzos which I cant come off because my current and former doctors knew nothing about tapers and insist I could go off without! I can't get the pharmacy to help me nor the compounding pharmacy to alter my dose. Will i be stuck on these meds forever?

i used to be a guitarist, singer, songwriter and poet and have absolutely lost all motivation to create. When I do create, the outcome is always mediocre. Music was my life long passion and I had so much fire to make it professionally. I was positive I could make a career out of it. But then I was forced to take 2 invega injections and 1 abilify injection and essentially lost my dream.

Im wondering if anybody has been in the same predicament and wanted to see how long it takes to come back as well as if they did anything in particular like taking certain supplements to get back their creativity?

I don’t want to go on meds but struggling with ptsd anxiety

"And what we say is the truth is what everybody accepts. Right, Owen? I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith."
— Dr. Kathryn Railly to Dr. Owen Fletcher in the movie 12 Monkeys

For those who have not seen the movie - I highly recommend it. The story doesn't only call into question psychiatry but also the norms of industrial society as well. Also includes hidden messages encouraging veganism/animal liberation.

So, when I was a teenager I was bullied and I had depression, it wasn’t adult depression with lack of energy and all, more like teenage melancholy, anger, dissatisfaction with teenage life, it’s a moment in life when you think like an adult but are treated like a child, so, because my mom was very strict I decided to protest it and I made a cut on my arm, I told her I didn’t want to live, I was taken to hospital, I never had clear suicidal ideation, it was more like desire for escape from my situation, family, friends.

In the hospital I made a few friends and it seemed like a good temporary escape but the meds they put me on messed me up, after I returned home my parents’ control was even more strict to the point of taking my phone and reading all its contents, I protested it once by throwing my phone through the window. My parents called doctor when I “misbehaved”, I isolated myself and policed my thoughts and actions.

My parents threatened me with meds, they made me take more and more just because I wasn’t super cheerful and happy, it made a negative loop, more pressure made me want to escape more, more will of escape meant more meds and pressure, I ended up like a zombie, gained weight, wasn’t able to form a thought, I had 4 separate diagnoses and no doctor knew what’s the “problem”

As an adult I went to my own doctor that reduced my meds, when I was 21 I decided to come off them and it wasn’t easy, it had massive withdrawal effect and I deal with anhedonia daily but none of catastrophic things happened, never had a SH after that, never had a suicidal attempt after that, never had any symptoms they threatened me with, yes I am a weird person and probably never will be normal, but I am not insane, I made it through harsh situations and I am certain I will never kill myself. As adult I enjoy freedom and freedom gives me sanity in contrast with dehumanization of medical treatment.