Introducing
#ProjectMentalism
: A Renaissance in Psychiatry
Welcome to
#ProjectMentalism
, my ongoing audiogram series that aims to revolutionise the way we approach mental health and psychiatry. This series is grounded in the principles of socionics, offering a fresh, engaging
@DrHannahBelcher
It's called the "presenting condition" for a reason. Fortunately my next appointment has been pre-scheduled as over the telephone so I can only 'present' my voice and give a verbal update on how i'm doing as my deprescriptive journey continues.
@PSSDNetwork
Remember that neurochemical-altering drugs can disrupt the ongoing brain development till age 25. These substances may hinder decision-making, judgment, and impulse control.
So no 'pre-adult' should get any psyche drugs till 25+, and by then maturity may avert the 'need' anyhow.
@Darrensmith69
@Nadine_Writes
Welcome to the age of unreason where the reality is whatever opinions presented as fact are collectively accepted as the new reality even when it's based on anything but 🤦♂️
In short, an interesting case of theft and assault indeed 👍
🌟 Exploring My Idea with Visuals: 'Anti-Psychiatry for Kids' 🚪🎨
📘 Following the controversial release of 'Psychiatry for Kids', I'm developing a thought-provoking counterpoint. Accompanying my thoughts, I've created some concept art that vividly represents the themes of my
🧠 Psychiatry often invents 'disorders' without discovering real diseases, yet markets them as such. Like speculative psychology, they present opinions as facts, gaslighting us into accepting diagnoses. Result? Endless meds with no exit strategy. 🤔💊
#MentalHealthAwareness
The psychiatric industry has turned every negative human emotion and behavior into a disease. I'm going to keep talking about this problem, no matter how mad the outrage mob gets.
@gabby_frost
This is all sort of well and good (to glamourize something with stigma) but can we have less focus on one's prescription and more on what they're deprescribing from because the ultimate endgame in one's psychiatric (mis)treatment is
#deprescription
not perpetual drugging.
@JakeGoodmanMD
I appreciate efforts to educate about mental health, but I have concerns about the message in 'Psychiatry For Kids.' Treating children's developing brains with medication should be approached with extreme caution. It's crucial not to disempower children into thinking they 'need'
Gotzsche hits the nail on the head.
The best Psychiatric treatment is to avoid neurotoxic drugging altogether and to "talk" yourself out of whatever transient crisis experience you're having because it won't last forever and drugs will cause iatrogenic harm in the long run.
I have family members who actually believe I have a chemical imbalance in my brain, that 'psychosis' is a lifelong condition and never stopped since I had a transient case some 20 years ago, that brain scans and blood tests reveal 'mental illness' etc. 🤦
In short, gaslighting
So my recent blood test results came back for my 'invisible' iatrogenic harms from taking
#aripiprazole
previously at 10-15mg but thankfully now at 5mg I can confirm that my triglycerides and prolactin levels have normalised from their previous elevated levels so it just goes to
@thehealthb0t
Getting mRNA technology based vaccinated is like making toast, it can't be reverted back to bread, even if you scrape off the burnt bits.
@sanilrege
@psycheureka
Psychiatric intervention and mistreatment through overmedication leads to valid resentment towards the system reinforcing the demand for properly done deprescription.
I don't identify as 'mentally ill'. Not now, not then, not ever.
I do however acknowledge that I became mentally unwell (acting out of character at just the wrong time and long enough to scare those around me) some 20 years ago which got conjecturally observed as a supposedly
@Auras_Journey
Been there before so I don't find your experience unique. One of the disability benefit eligibility criteria is your hygiene ability given your state of mind etc.
In short, just roll with the healing process for now. Time is the best healer currently and psychiatric drugs may
It is insulting and rude to name call ex-patients as 'antipsychiatry' just because one disagreed with their
#prescribedharm
arguments and intense knowing from decades of lived experience.
🚨 Striking Art Alert! Check out this satirical image highlighting the impact of
#BigPharma
's influence in psychiatry. It features a psychiatrist dressed in drug logos, akin to a sponsored race car driver, and a patient turned zombie due to overmedication. A powerful visual
So let's be real for a second. It literally took a 15 to 20 minute consultation with a MH professional to effectively F me over for 10 years because I presented with a valid withdrawal symptom of induced mood swing misconstrued as 'bipolar' to 'confirm' a nonexistent disorder 🤕
@iluminatibot
That's interesting. I don't live in either and yet some of the worst policies come from those, especially around psychiatric services and 'forced' treatment etc.
If not for the years on a high dose of Aripiprazole, with its myriad of side effects, perhaps my journey with psychiatry wouldn't have turned to one of resentment.
It's not just a reduction I seek as I've found so far but full deprescription to reclaim my life beyond the grip
Psychiatry basically robs you of the ability to self-regulate and if you can't self-regulate you can't solve problems and if you can't solve problems you become dependant on the state and if you become dependant on the state then psychiatry has done its job
If your physical health records are sparse, fear not, the mental health system will provide plenty of iatrogenesis to boost the problems you never deserved or previously had 🤦
The anti-anti-psyche cohort is 'combing the desert' looking for traces of
#prescribedharm
or taper talk to misread as Anti-psychiatry to demonise these individuals who have valid lived experiences, to 'protect' the-system & continue doing harm in the face of those being 'helped'
I'm a bit overwhelmed by the response to 'Anti-Psychiatry for Kids' (book concept)!📚 I've had quite an incredible engagement and feedback received so far. It's a clear indicator that we're touching on something vital. Many of you highlight a critical aspect of the mental health
Nothing to see here..
Just another censoring NHS academician with 40 years experience, perpetually concerned about the
#prescribedharm
community apparently turning off would-be patients by sharing anecdotal reports of how psychiatric intervention has caused eventual iatrogenesis
1/🧵 I'm sharing a personal experience that had significantly impacted my life. It's about my previous struggle with problem gambling while on a 15mg maintenance dose of aripiprazole, a dopamine agonist medication.
#MentalHealth
#MedicationSideEffects
#PathologicalGambling
🧠💊🎰
Breaking News: Mental Illnesses are indeed real yet transient. Everyone can recover from them without Psychiatric intervention. Avoidance of the mental hell-th system is paramount for better outcomes and actual mental health.
Psychiatrists are a bit like 'tweets'. They make life altering decisions in fleeting moments of subjective thought about how you presented yourself to them. A Russian roulette style of prescribing w/ no clear idea of what drug you'll end up on. Everyone is an isolated experiment.
Dear Default Psychiatry,
Can we stop roping in, misdiagnosing and drugging the young, naive and vulnerable at the onset of mere problems in living? Thanks 👍
Kind regards,
JH
Is it me or are Psychiatry's professionals generally prideful and their victims, I mean, patients are humble by comparison?
This becomes even more evident in terms of how they present on social media.
Shrink-masters & Patient-slaves?
Or I could just be talking out my arse..?
'An SSRI antidepressant has nearly 200 side effects'
Beverley Thomson has written a new book delving into whether the pills taken by over 8.6 million Brits are even effective.
My Lived Experience with Aripiprazole: Unveiling the Iatrogenic Effects
Introduction:
When I was first prescribed Aripiprazole as a switch from Olanzapine, little did I know the journey that awaited me. Intended to address my supposed Bipolar 1 diagnosis and the weight gain
@DiedSuddenly_
What happens if you're unvaccinated for example and needed an emergency blood transfusion and had no informed consent on whether the blood given will be 'contaminated' with the mRNA vaccine or not?
If you had wasted approximately 10 years of your life due to a misdiagnosis, would you be deep down angry and what would you do when you finally figure it out and start the deprescription process?
@WallStreetSilv
Across the pond in the UK , the student loan debt is nothing more than a "graduate tax" automatically deducted via payroll with no impact on credit scores. It's either written off after 25 years or paid back through employment deductions over a particular salary threshold,
Absolutely trust the authorities who don't have direct lived experience of what they are 'treating' or should we relatively listen to patient-experts who might know something interesting 🤔
How the MH system works:
1. You experience a transient crisis experience
2. You get labelled with any number of speculative 'mental illness' diagnoses
3. You recover and want to stop your meds that make you feel worse
4. You default on tapering off badly, relapse severely enough
The reason why status quo psychiatry addicts are toxic towards
#prescribedharm
folk is because they have a preconceived notion of 'antipsychiatry' as a threat to their narrative or establishment that then gets projected onto this innocent cohort disavowing them inhibiting reform.
🌟 My 20-Year Mental Health Journey: A Reflection 🌟
In my early 20s, anxiety-induced psychosis led me to antipsychotic meds 🌀. Naively, I quit these meds cold turkey, causing severe relapses that were mislabelled as Bipolar 1 🔄. It was more about bad tapers than an inherent
I don't know who needs to hear this but all mental illness is transient & all treatments are prone to iatrogenic induced issues & harms you will be aware & unaware of irrespective of the lack of informed consent.
Mental hell-th care is punitive towards the public as dissenters.
Big changes ahead: I've decided to shift my focus and will be taking a step back from regularly documenting my deprescription journey and engaging with the anti-anti-psyche community. While my commitment to this path remains strong, I feel it's time to engage in a way that's more
@charliersmith1
Keep journaling...📖
That's one of the best things to do instead of remaining (too) quiet. It's very cathartic, like clearing out the junk of feeling crap to make room for something more positive/constructive.
Lastly, what happened to the book deal? Is it still in process?
Deprescribing journey: From 15mg Aripiprazole to 3mg - 80% progress towards zero. Resolved brain fog, leg cramps; normalised triglycerides & prolactin levels. Some weight gain remains. Tapering 50% quarterly. Beyond health its a poetic justice to break free from psychiatry's grip
Psychiatrists are usually doctors who upskilled in the dark arts of mentalism and conjecture etc with a dash of ignorance and arrogance. They record 'factual' issues all from one's presenting behaviour. Act with impunity to [mis]diagnose without reprimand for any prescribed harm
What does first generation antipsychotic Haloperidol and second generation Aripiprazole share in common?
They both work effectively at low dose yet Psychiatrists have normalised the art of over prescribing it to a high dose to deal, at least, in part, with dissenting voices
Of course i'm anti-psychiatry and anti-meds etc, I just can't say it loudly or proudly to otherwise stoke the anti-anti-psyche cohort fire up who want to protect their collectivist pseudoscientific system of counterfeit disorders with real iatrogenic effects on unsuspecting folk.
How psychiatry services work: An (unofficial) patient reference guide from
@rcpsych
1. You acted out of character once upon a time due to some reasonable event you were responding to
2. You don't get psychoanalysed (too time-consuming and expensive) to understand the root cause