In no way I mean to devaluate all your experiences, but I would not say that they are the reason a lot of people want to cbt. A lot of people get better on psychiatric drugs, but unfortunately a few suffer from sideeffects. I am myself on different meds and they seem to help me. In my experience its also often quite hard to distinguish which symptoms come from the underlying illness and which from the meds.
I agree it's not the reason a lot of people want to CTB but those who have been harmed by them often want to.
There is so much to say, question and reveal about this issue : the credibility of studies, Big Pharma, questionable marketing, backward and questionable concepts and theories, the psychiatric field as a whole, the DSM and the narrow practice of psychiatric diagnoses, psychiatrist training and its correlation with field practice, the passive hold of psychiatric theories on societies, and so on.
I just want to say that, of course, there are people who get better with them. But you can't say for sure it's because of the drug, hell we don't even know for sure how they work ! Why are you feeling better : is it placebo ? is it because of life changes ? new circumstances ? the therapy along the drugs ? or maybe you have just grown as an adult ? There are so many things impacting one mental health.
The main issue is the gaslighting, the negation of the inner symptoms and experiences of patients in the mental health system. It's the only medical area where you are infantilized like that and where your symptoms, your inner life and experience, can be dismissed so easily, blamed on previous mental disorder or create new psychiatric diagnoses, on the sole basis a psychiatric said so. This environment is woefully unethical and does not follow any best practices.
There are two places where you will be stripped of many of your rights : jail and mental hospital.
They give those drugs like candies : when I've been put on the AD which destroyed my life, I was not depressed. I was very anxious and burnt out from autistic masking at work, but that was all ! If I had been given some light breathing exercises and some tools to manage my emotions at the time, I would have been just fine and I'd be thrilling right now. But I was a good boy : I followed what was advised to me by everyone, family and doctors, I took the drug and trusted my GP and psychiatrist, for the worse...
They deny even the simple fact that it's very hard to quit : I've been hospitalized two times in September, each time they made me quit cold turkey a drug I've been taking for 11 years.
I always took very good care of my health : no alcohol, no cigarettes, sport every day, good sleeping hygiene, very healthy eating habits. I had regular check-up and I was in very good health. This s*** destroyed my precious health and on top of that, I'm not believed because it's invisible and because I took an AD, I'm a patient with mental health issues and therefore I can't be trust : everything I can say, because I'm a psychiatric patient, will be rejected as an invention of my mind, an invention of my mentally sick mind. I went to 7 doctors since those symptoms appeared : they all say it was in my head, they all gave me more harmful drugs without hesitation.
So who should we turn to ? The GP and psychiatrists who deny our symptoms, who deny the harm of the drugs they prescribed, who could force me into a mental hospital ?
Sorry for the ramble... I could go on and on forever... It's not right, it's not fair...
David Healey. Look him up. He's a renegade psychiatrist and a champion of people whose lives have been destroyed by medications, these days one of his major issues is their devastation of sexuality.
In my country, I can't find a single scientific paper or a single psychiatrist who recognize those issues. I can't even find a support group and a website acknowledging my existence as a sufferer ! And seeing that there are only a handful of psychiatrists aware and working on those issues in the USA, that there is only a couple of thousand of members on dedicated support groups online... I'm scared and I think we're screwed...
