Its a very long story but it started with me going to a doctor looking for a pill to sleep so I could go to bed without a few drinks first, I went from the frying pan of drinking to much into the fire of prescription drugs. Insomnia quickly got labeled depression and I got some pills for that then Xanax and Clonopin then I am suddenly ADHD to and the Adderal is added then its Bipolar and more pills. 8 years of hell, I started getting anxiety attacks, worse insomnia , benzodiazepine dependency and horrible withdrawals from that they said was "non addictive". I came across a book "The myth of the chemical cure" then Robert Whitakers "Anatomy of an Epidemic". When I learned what psychiatry was and how it really works I said enough, I did detox for the last time and when they went to push more I just said I don't care what you think I "have" or what pills you think I "need" NO MORE. If I listened to them my life would still revolve around a pill bottles. There are no lab tests, brain scans, X-rays or chemical imbalance tests that can verify any mental disorder is a physical condition. This is not to say that people do not get depressed, or that people can’t experience emotional or mental distress, but psychiatry has repackaged these emotions and behaviors as "disease" in order to sell drugs. I used the term Antipsychiatry in my title but what I really am is pro informed consent, including, but not limited to, full informed consent regarding the medical legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of psychiatric treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives, and the right to refuse any treatment considered harmful. JUST TELL PEOPLE THE TRUTH. Psychiatry and "big pharma" is a dirty crooked corrupt business and you need to watch yourself and know what you are getting into. I have gotten kicked out of forums before for posting anti psychiatry otherwise known as the truth that saved me but I am going to post this it is how I pay it forward to other people who may be going through what I did.
