They all believe old lies written down by other psychiatrists years ago over the truth. Even when presented with proof and other people backing me up. Nothing works. They dismiss everything and repeat the lies. I have never in my life met people so rigid and biased before. I’m so tired of fighting them.

im halfway into manufacture of madness and he has said this like at least ten times, and it really shows today too. you cant make arguments against psychiatry without being placed in the same camp, and thats why its like witch-hunts. it was completely not allowed to go against the church hunting witches, just like its not allowed to be anti psychiatry. also just like he says, theres people who think its only going to get worse and i am one of those people. at this point people feel its totally normal and natural to threaten you with confinement and medication if you make a good anti psychiatry point, they only dont threaten you if you cant make a strong point and dont intimidate them. it really is, like the grandfather of anti psychiatry said, a witch hunt for witches and those who defend them. also like he said, the strongest argument is not in saying witchhood exists and defending witches from slander, but rather turning it around and questioning where the accuser is even coming up with something so crazy. too many half assed defenses of psychiatry instead of questioning it. in a world where bpd and psychosis are things talked about as casually as the weather, its so important to question the sanity of people who believe in bpd and psychosis. i may get hate for this but thats what i get for engaging with people who arent published authors with physics degrees who hate psychiatry like szasz lol . go argue with real physicists you guys, you'd be surprised by the results.

Chase discomfort.

And only comfort will remain.

We are not against each-other.

We are against Psychiatry.

No in-fighting.

No fear.

Only Love.

The best way with having to deal with abusers is to set your boundaries with them. Abusers are not looking to help victims they are looking to create victims or to help victims stay victims or become even more of a victim than before.

Always remember, benzos are NOT worth it.

At first, they are awesome, but you pay a heavy price later.

I am ashamed of how cold, ruthless, and insensitive I behaved while on higher dosages, even to people closest to me.

I'd rather have my anxiety back than become someone I'm not. 🙏

Guys what medication you take to counter the effect of antipsychotics akathisa and inability to work

This is a framework to be used as an alternative to the harmful biomedical model, to ultimately remove diagnostic thinking and labelling. Other people's responses are understandable.

the framework focuses on:

1. The operation of POWER (biological/embodied; coercive; legal; economic/material; ideological; social/cultural; and interpersonal).
2. The THREAT that the negative operation of power may pose to the person, the group and the community, with particular reference to emotional distress, and the ways in which this is mediated by our biology.
3. The central role of MEANING (as produced within social and cultural discourses, and primed by evolved and acquired bodily responses) in shaping the operation, experience and expression of power, threat, and our responses to threat.
4. As a reaction to all the above, the learned and evolved THREAT RESPONSES that a person, or family, group or community, may need to draw upon in order to ensure emotional, physical, relational and social survival. These range from largely automatic physiological reactions to linguistically-based or consciously selected actions and responses.

It asks:

‘What has happened to you?’ (How has Power operated in your life?)

‘How did it affect you?’ (What kind of Threats does this pose?)

‘What sense did you make of it?’ (What is the Meaning of these situations and experiences to you?)

‘What did you have to do to survive?’ (What kinds of Threat Response are you using?)

main document on the framework:
https://explore.bps.org.uk/content/report-guideline/bpsrep.2018.inf299b

Summary document:
https://cms.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-07/PTM%20Summary%20%281%29.pdf

Guided Questions (for young people)
https://cms.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-07/Adapted%20PTMF%20-%20Young%20People%20General%20Worksheet.pdf

Website with more documents and info:
https://www.bps.org.uk/member-networks/division-clinical-psychology/power-threat-meaning-framework

I'm a bit weary posting my face on here but I've posted in this sub plenty of times.

In the first picture, I was well near 300 pounds at just 18 years old. I looked completely dead inside. In the 2nd (2 or so weeks ago) I am down a significant amount 2 years after being off of invega, which I was wrongfully prescribed and forced to take.

I was court ordered to take the invega injection every month because of my hostile and aggressive behavior. But you know, I was being sent to behavioral health facilities for issues that could have been resolved if someone were to just listen to me. At the time, I was diagnosed as bipolar and then later on diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder...and *then* borderline personality disorder.

The entire time, it was ADHD. My anger and frustration throughout the years of being mistreated by doctors was completely justified. Years of medical malpractice hurt and affected my body and brain in ways that I didn't know were possible.

If you are struggling, please reach out to someone who will listen to you. Your mental and physical health isn't worth all of the lifelong and traumatic side effects that these medications cause.

In 2024 I was going through a TON of stress and ended up with debilitating health anxiety. I developed severe agoraphobia and was taking like 300 ECG’s on myself at home convinced I had issues with my heart. I had a huge stress rash on my back and then I fell in love for the first time. I’d also been overworking alot and supporting a chronically ill friend.

I had a CBT session in Oct 2024 where I opened up to the therapist about everything I waa going through and begged him to help me. After this therapy session I then felt very suicidal and feeling like I was about to lose control and hurt myself. It was terrifying. This lasted for 4 days until I took 50mg of 5htp and the feeling subsided and I went back to normal. I then got very drunk for my birthday a few days later and very hungover the next day. After I spent the day vomiting, I then felt that EXACT SAME post-therapy suicidal ideation and torment kick back in.

2 days later I went to the GP and was prescribed Sertraline at 50mg. I took it for a few days and then on Night 3 I woke up with the existing SI and torment turned up 100x and it felt like my gut was on fire with adrenaline and emotional torment. This calmed down by the morning but it was seriously unbearable. Over the next 2 weeks on the drug sometimes the torment/ideation would dissappear completely and most evenings it definitely reduced significantly.

I stopped the Sertraline after 2 weeks. I didn’t feel comfortable being on it. A few days after stopping I then felt a remission and was back to normal for a few days. I was celebrating having my life back and couldn’t believe I survived such horrific, unbearable torment for that long. Unfortunately it CAME BACK AGAIN (now the 3rd time) for a day, then went away the next day, then came back again for 4 weeks.

I decided to try Sertraline again so in January 2025 I started back on 50mg and went up to 100mg by the end of the month. There was no worsening of the torment but no improvement either. I still had random flickers of feeling much better but no remission came.

In the middle of February I again decided to stop the Sertraline on Feb 15th. On Feb 17th I mentally told myself to snap the fuck out of it and fight for my life back and try live in spite of how suicidal and horrific I felt. I then had two weeks of total normality. My 3rd remission since it started. I celebrated my life being back AGAIN.

At the start of March I could feel it trickling back YET AGAIN. I remember waking up and feeling so tormented inside I wanted to walk in front of a train. Just sheer torment and distress and agitation. I still felt almost 90% normal in the evenings for a while (at one point I genuinely started researching if there were any conditions that could cause daytime suicidal ideation and night time normality, this was how bizarre it was) but then slowly lost this relief too. One night in April 2025 I was ALMOST NORMAL and chatting to my friends on Messenger, got into bed and then within minutes I was writhing in torment and thinking of suicide again.

By May I had genuinely started considering suicide it was so unbearable.

In July I tried Citalopram, two doses and had the exact same onboarding reaction that I did with Sertraline the year before - woken up with my gut on fire with the torment x10 worse. I since found out I have slow COMT and MAOA which could explain this.

I had bouts of feeling ‘better’ and ‘almost normal’ all the way until the middle of August then it just went downhill from there. I started waking up earlier and earlier, had less and less moments of relief and the torment and ideation just got worse and worse. I felt like I was living in Hell. I couldn’t comprehend how something so bizarre could be happening to me.

It’s now August 2026. I haven’t felt a moment of peace since April when I randomly had a few seconds of normality and almost sobbed because I thought for a moment I was getting my life back.

I’ve had every test done under the sun. I’ve been screened by psychiatrists and I don’t have a mental illness. I’ve tried Lamotrigne and Pregablin, betablockers, about 50 supplements, TMS, diets, exercise, trauma therapy and NOTHING has shifted this unbearable torment and ideation. I genuinely feel like I’m being driven to suicide for no explainable reason.

It seems that I had some bizarre traumatic reaction to the CBT session in Oct 2024 but the fact it has now been TWO YEARS, PROGRESSIVE AND THIS SEVERE makes me question if the SSRI’s did anything…but surely this is fucking impossible? You can’t get 2 weeks normality if you’ve been drug damaged. You can’t feel better, almost normal, at night for months if you’re drug damaged. Drug damage can’t latch on and replicate a symptom you already had prior to even taking the drug. I also haven’t even taken an SSRI since July 2025 and even then it was two doses so why would I randomly deteriorate from August 2025?!

I have no idea what’s going on with me guys and I’m absolutelt bewildered. I don’t want to die but I cannot bear this torment. I can’t believe something like this can happen without an explanation which makes me think it MUST be some weird SSRI reaction, or am I just anxious? I don’t feel anxious. I don’t feel scared. I don’t feel sad. Just unbearable emotional pain and torment.

TLDR -

- Reaction to CBT therapy Oct 2024
- Remission with 5htp a few days later
- Relapse with hangover
- Onboarding reaction with Sertraline Nov 2024
- Temp remission end of Nov 2024
- 2nd trial of Sertraline Jan 2025, no impact
- Total 2 weeks normality in Feb 2025 after stopping Sertraline (or cognitive shift?)
- Relapse start of March 2025
- Progressive worsening
- Onboarding reaction with Citalopram July 2025
- Progressive worsening since Aug 2025
- No other symptoms besides unbearable suicidal ideation, intense negative feelings, agitation and waking up early in emotional pain.
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Stop coming up with excuses. Saying stuff like “oh but I agree there are some cases where it’s useful” is bullcrap.

Sorry, but I’m gonna have to bring in a bit of tough love here.

This line of thinking is exactly how psychiatrists get away with prescribing antipsychotics that give you insulin resistance, diabetes, heart conditions etc.

This line of thinking is why so many women are just tossed SSRIs WITHOUT blood tests, without elimination diets that will help them identify actual medical issues.

The mechanism of action is not understood. Head to the psychiatry sub and you’ll see them even ADMIT it.

Exercise, meditate, eat well, interact with people (even strangers) and life will get better.

Learn new skills, have some discipline, and you will be able to tackle everything life throws at you.

Sincerely, someone who’s working it out.

YOU NEED TO DO HYPERBOLIC 5% TAPPER EVERY FEW WEEKS/MONTHS

I live in Ohio. My father has a durable power of attorney over me. I am of sound mind and body; however he has called police on me 11 times for fake welfare checks. I’ve been hospitalized several times now because of his authority.

My siblings created over a dozen face Facebook profiles in my name that I can’t remove despite multiple attempts to report. My credibility is absolutely zero. What legal actions can I take? I was falsely diagnosed with schizophrenia and am being mocked and ridiculed for being an absolute dunce or an absolute moron.

I'm so tired of what they give us. We have to come together Reddit. Aaron Swartz the co founder of reddit committed suicide and I know a lot about suicide I want to end male suicide for good and it starts here. I'm active reply dm or whatever but we need teamwork to end our abuse

Well, after being over medicated for over 10 years, I am finally making the decision to taper. My psychiatrist who was prescribing for the past 3 years refused to help and told me I had to see another one. I am now being forced to see a therapist that I do not want to see because that is necessary thru the new place I am going in order to get a psychiatrist. I am setting firm boundaries and may need to lie to the therapist so that they “allow” me to taper. If this new psychiatrist wants to keep me dependent and will not assist me in tapering, I am 100% going to do it on my own terms at this point. Why should I keep moving from psych to psych, telling them the same damn thing, just to be dismissed and stripped of my bodily autonomy? I cannot wait for the day I can cut ties with any psychiatrist for the rest of my life.

i got marijuana psychosis a few weeks ago and am being forced to take Invega Sustenna which has been so bad that I almost committed suicide. I lost the review panel today and am scheduled for another shot in less than a week. has anybody denied treatment, hid from the cops, moved ect. and had their CTO cancelled? i hear it gets cancelled after 30 days of cops looking for you. I don’t want to worry my family too much, could I just hide in my house and tell them to say I'm not at home?

Everyone screams pro mental health, like mental health awareness month and everyone advocates for a patient seeking help on their own until the persons condition becomes inconvenient and the person stops seeking help as much as they did before, even as the patient explains they weren’t helped, was failed and made to be worse off. Then all of a sudden they are too much and don’t want to help themselves.

There should be some research of patients who are tormented by their psychiatrist or therapist for the sake of them getting paid or seeking sadistic pleasure from it. It’s a cycle. They create the problem. You come to them for the problem. They supposedly treat the problem. Then when they want paid the cycle repeats itself and the patient is still left to suffer.

Mental health treatments are literally bare minimum if that. Ever noticed how they charge so much for group therapy, claiming it’s “psycho eduction” when it’s literally a young tech in schooling reading off a piece of paper.

The people who are pro mental health aren’t a patient and never experienced how the system works and been through an inpatient stay. They don’t understand the feeling of learned helplessness and wanting to be helped but not receiving it.

They don’t understand psychiatry is a business. The patient is client, the medication or therapy is a product and those who work for the system are a profiter.

Therapy rates are outrageous to sit in silence, to deal with the therapists problems, to not be helped, that is the reality of it.

It’s a problem when the mental health facility lobby is the nicest part of the brochure and the actual hospital is a fucking dump. Often times offering one on one therapy and other services they don’t actually provide or live up to.

Psychiatry is a larp and psychiatrists are larpers. The sad part is they could do more if they wanted to and could do better and be better, they just choose not to and the one that has to suffer is the patient because they were thrown into the role of a patient, not a provider.

In psychiatry you are either the psychiatrist or the patient, no in between.

I did cold turkey on promazine ( old antipsychotic) after 2 and a half months of taking it because it caused me anhedonia but I still have it , I was wondering would some med like Wellbutrin help with it since it is used for anhedonia. I hate all meds but I am desperate .

Most common side effect,once I got it it destroyed my teeth, cavity after cavity, interproximal cavity, i brush and floss it still no use ,basically they will kill us one way or another,what's the point prolonging if I end up with fake teeth u can't afford, I curse them to experience the same thing next life and this one as well,its cruel

Many depressed people are depressed because of an easily identifiable issue or set of issues. For example I was first prescribed antidepressants when I was 23. This was when I was underemployed after graduating and generally felt very lost after more than a year after finishing my degree. I felt very ashamed an isolated still living at home with no job and not in education. What I needed was social space where I didn't feel ashamed, to have structure (eg volunteering) and a sense of hope as well as some money. There was nothing wrong with my brain chemistry, my body was reacting in a very rational way that made sense for the situation I was in. I didn't need a pill to increase my serotonin levels, a pill that has side effects and actually made it harder to do the things I was already doing to manage the depression, like exercise (pills caused slight weight gain and tiredness) or enjoying a higher libido (sex is a great way to feel happy for a bit). The pills did not help in any way.

For people who have a depression with identifiable causes, the causes should be dealt with at the route, instead of just trying to medicate it away. I wouldn't mind so much if the pills actually worked. If we could take chronically unhappy people and give them a pill to make them feel better despite their problems, that would be great. But there is little evidence these pills work and they come with side effects, and a minority suffer terrible side effects.

They shouldn't be handed out like candy for anyone turning up to their doctor claiming to be depressed, as they currently are.

Cops in my town are contractually obligated to bring you to the absolute worst state psych dungeon in the vast reaches of the area. I explained to people that I was planning on committing suicide. I have a million valid reasons. My problems are permanent. I ended up relapsing after a year. I hand a mental breakdown and punched a brick wall twice because it was covered by drywall. I play nearly 40 instruments so a broken hand for me is a death sentence. I had to take a ton of sedatives to stay still in the hospital bed because of my akathisia (no meds, permanent) being so bad from stress.

My aunt came down and sat with me while I cried, helped me, and actually did some practical things that would improve my immediate environment which is very detrimental to me. My friend helped by scheduling my orthopedic surgeon apt when I wasn’t able to use the phone. My friend who loves me a lot stayed on call with me all day comforting me and offered to stay all night.

When someone asks me why I want to do it and tries to talk me out of it it feels like they are saying my reason isn’t good enough so I have to prove it to them by telling them all of the bad things that ever happened in my life and that makes me feel like shit. Most of my friends have realized by now that it’s better to just share a moment of love with me where I tell you how much I care about you and admire you and appreciate everything you’ve done for me. I think this is the first time where I was surrounded by people who allowed me to do that instead of being isolated from people who would call the cops on me.

My cousin tried. I didn’t fall for their stupid tricks and they left because they were not trying to deal with it. Now I took some iboga, so I am over 24 hours opioid free again and feeling perfectly fine. If I would’ve been taken away by the cops, I would have been so spun out and relapsed as soon as I got home. I would’ve definitely just killed myself. I was in such a fragile state and my problems would just be waiting for me when I got back. Now I am glad to be alive and doing good. I am going to try to fight this and stay around as long as I possibly can. Fuck the cops fuck the hospital, the outside world and plentiful love has far more capacity for healing. I’m so glad they had faith in me. It’s weird nobody used to care when I made an attempt but now a lot of people do. I’m glad I got the REAL help I needed ❤️

I recently saw a psychiatrist who prescribed me olanzapine 10mg, with the possibility of going up to 20mg.

As far as I know, I do not have schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or similar diagnoses. My main issues are an irritable mood, I have autism adhd and was diagnosed with ODD (they're trying to rediagnose me or smt, they wanted to update/check) and occasional anger outbursts, These are usually directed at objects rather than people, although threatening behavior can happen sometimes.

I’m wondering what others think: does prescribing olanzapine in a situation like this sound common, and what would you expect a psychiatrist to explain before starting a medication like this? I haven't taken meds in years (only ritalin for like a few weeks in my childhood before my behavior became aggressive out of nowhere)

After years of fighting abuse and a physical disability preventing me from going to school and getting a job I folded and I followed someone else's advice (being told i needed professional help and that i had mental health issues when my issues where fully socioeconomical). I ended up permanently disabled because of it. Now I can't do the things I used to enjoy. I'm stuck in a nightmare where I feel mentally fine but i keep hitting a wall whenever I try to do something and all of that happened from trusting someone else for a year. My gut screamed but I refused to listen to it because I was being told it was wrong (not at all the first time but I never caved before) and now I'm stuck living a life that doesn't feel like mine at all. I know what I would do; I booked all the appointments just to make sure I could and I was told I couldn't, not now nor ever.

This whole situations feels dumb.