r/Antipsychiatry

What's your take here?

And btw how are you ?

I have akathasia,emotional blunting,memory and concentration issues,alogia,blank mind,nervousness even after stopping the meds.After 1 year I developed a dystonia called oculogyric crisis but it has improved a lot for which I took an anticholinergic for 25 days which did nothing but after stopping the anticholinergic I developed insomnia going on for about 6 months now.I am losing hope.It feels like this is permanent.How long did it take for you all to recover fully from olanzapine?.Is there anyone who did not recover even after 10 years?.And if you recovered did you recover partially or fully?

I most likely have a few months left to live, and there is nothing I can do about it because nobody will help me. I have tried seeking medical help before and they refuse medical care once they read my file.

When I was a child, a primary care physician who is not even qualified to make a psychiatric diagnosis and never actually evaluated me somehow wrote a diagnosis in my file, they claimed I had anxiety. That misdiagnosis ruined my life. Now every single time I try to seek medical help for my chronic illnesses, they tell me "its just anxiety" and refuse to help me.

It doesn't help that I have a chronic illness which most doctors don't believe in and also usually doesn't show up on testing. I have MCAS and over the past 10 months I have been rapidly losing safe foods and can now only eat about two or three foods without getting anaphylaxis because I am allergic to everything else. My health is rapidly deteriorating and it is almost too late for intervention. I am severely malnourished and at the point where even if I do survive this, it will have irreversible effects on my body and organs.

And all I can do is suffer, waiting until I die, because of one doctor who decided to ruin my life with one word.

Yes, I know that lobotomies don’t happen now, however, given the context of involuntary treatment and the disgusting history of psychiatry, I find it ironic, that shrinks think it’s OK to go on social media and joke about this kind of thing….
I don’t know if I’m allowed to link the actual Instagram reel… or even mention the name of the shrink… it looks like he is quite popular.
I just wanted a few recipes for vegetarian lasagna and instead I see this garbage 🤡

Why do healthcare professionals think that it’s OK to go on social media and make fun of patience let alone situations in which people are forced to have barbaric surgical procedures???

Anyways be well comrads-

I had a traumatic experience when it came to mental health professionals. I constantly felt a caged animal because of how psychiatrists and therapist treated me. I want to improve my mental health without needing these shitty professionals. how do I do that?

I don't understand why every time someone reaches out for having suicidal thoughts, people's first advice is to give away their freedom and be isolated in a hospital with rude staff and be forcefully medicated with harmful medicine instead of giving them a community or a job or a solution to their problems or even I know that religion is problematic, but even sending them towards religious institutions is better. Also, I don't like it when people say that suicidal people are just sick when really they don't see any way out of their problems, and suicidal thoughts can't just be medicated away.

You realize they knew they were lying but at the same time believed their own bullshit. I honestly don't know were the line ended. If they were doing it to control the narrative or really thought they were in the right.

The doctor i had seemed to realize she couldn't control me or was just so stupid she had no clue how to interact with people. Like talking to a child. She was posh middle/upper class and extremely out of touch. Convinced she was the hero and anything that threatened that she would get angry/offended and it's dangerous to piss off someone who holds your fate in your hands. Nurse Ratched, Marie Barone, Dolores Umbridge personality type.

I am stuck on abilify for the time being, my left knee is starting to hurt and get messed up. Did abilify cause this? I used to be very active before I was put on a form against my will and injected. I don't think it's from past activity because honestly these days I am very sendentary.

If so, what was your experience? Was it difficult? Did you leave your home country/state? Was it worth it in the end?

My CTO just got extended another 6 months and I’m at my wits end with this treatment. I’m in the UK btw.

So, I got diagnosed with schizophrenia about 2 years ago. I was hospitalised for 3 weeks, and then they injected me with Abilify. They put me on a community treatment order and enforced monthly injections. Then a few months ago, the tribunal told me that I’m no longer on a CTO and I’m no longer obligated to take injections. But I’m still obligated to see the mental health team that was assigned to me. I have to see a psychiatrist team every month or so. My next appointment is in 5 days. I’m almost certain that they’re going to enforce medication. Should I accept oral tablets and then fake taking them? Should I leave the state immediately? If I fake taking the medication, will they be able to catch on? What will be the consequences of that? I realise that I’m not completely mentally balanced. But the antipsychotics give me horrible side effects, it’s unbearable. They make me obese, they make me feel dead inside. My narcissist mother is the one who’s responsible for me being put on the CTO, all she does is gaslight me and manipulate me. I’m currently living with her. So she may also rat me out. I don’t know what to do.

my pssd healed so i decided to fuck someone.

like a week ago i snuck out of the house and fucked a tweaker while high on speed and now my mom is trying to send me to a psych ward.

when i was 14 i got put on sertraline and abilify and i got put on it as a punishment by my parents for watching porn and getting high and having a secret phone cause my parents banned having a phone and i bought one anyways and that was literally the whole reason why it wasnt even to try to cure depression or anything.

i wonder how many fancy words and speeches my parents used to make my doctor ok with it.

I know its part of her job but she is genuinely not helping. I want to cease all contact. The doctor is the only relevant person in my situation. These support staff suck and are trained in deflection and gaslighting.

As title says, I am an autistic man in his mid-twenties, when I was 20 I had a breakdown/freak out and everybody assumed I was psychotic, so I was sent to a psych ward for three months, placed on heavy antipsychotics, and then promptly placed in a group home for mental health patients. It was traumatic.

Then fast forward to 2021, November, I also had another autistic freakout except this time it was in a psychiatrist's office, again, they assumed I was psychotic when I was not, and placed in a psych ward for two months. I have to be supervised when taking my medication after that, I'm not allowed to take them on my own, it's humiliating, degrading. For five years I have had support workers who 'help' me, they give me my medication and watch me take them to ensure I take them.

Two months ago I was at my psychiatrist's, and when I asked to get rid of my workers, he said I would end up back in the hospital, he said it was not a opinion, it was a fact. As if he could see the future.

I don't like this. Is there anything I can do to get these workers and psychiatrists off my back? I had a psychiatrist in my old city, he was a kind, british gentleman, he was really the only person in my life who saw me as a bright individual, not as someone who is incapable of doing basic things.

Any advice appreciated,

Thanks.

Since there's no cure

This really sucks. My brain feels broken and I literally can’t get myself to complete any task that requires actual effort even just cleaning my room and writing out my thoughts right now feels so difficult too. I was diagnosed with bipolar 2 but at least I was functioning. I was exercising, had multiple hobbies, was making plenty of friends (something super rare for me), and overall just enjoying life. I only got stressed because of finals (in college) which led to my sadness that looked like depression. Idk man how and will my brain ever get back to normal again.

So, my psychiatrist currently has me on alprazolam, 1mg twice a day, so 60 pills for 30 days but i have been on and off benzodiazepines (and every other type of psychiatric drugs known to man) since i was 15 and im 35 now, and the 2mg of alprazolam a day is just not enough, im not saying i need even need 3mg a day but very often i do require more 2mg and sometimes more then 3.5mg a day, especially if i have to work. I get 60 1mg pills a month, but after doimg the math, i would require at minimum 70-75 pills a month just to be able to properly function and be able to work my job....but i don't know how to bring it up to my doctor without him immediately deflecting it or coming up with another type of anti-psychotic drug thag i have already taken many years ago that does not help my conditions whatsoever.

I am not a drug seeker, i am not doing this for fun in fact i fkin hate that i require medication/drugs just in order to function like everyone else around me....im tired of doctors acting like I have ulterior motives when all i want is just to stop suffering and be able to start handling my responsibilities.....

How do i talk to my psychiatrist to get a quantity increase for my alprazolam?

I have this after 2 pills I got a blank mind, no emotions, no thoughts just like a totally blank and empty slate

Ask yourself this, if God were in fact real & he were righteous, would he reward a man for good behavior? It only makes sense that a just & righteous God would reward a man for good behavior.

However let's say this actually did in fact happen, how do you think society would react to this? Society would say this man is mentally insane, he claims to have seen the face of God, he claims to have seen miracles & magic tricks with his own eyes. He is delusional, he has schizophrenia, he's hearing voices & seeing hallucinations in his head therefore he must be medicated with anti-psychotic & anti-depressant medication. They would say this man is scaring us, how do we know he won't hear a voice in his head that instructs him to harm or kill us? We don't trust him, he has a mental illness therefore he must be medicated.

However in this hypothetical philosophical scenario, God simply rewarded the man for good behavior because he has suffered for way too long. Meanwhile the government, the police, the doctors, the healthcare workers, the parents. They continue to oppress. The man has never wanted to hurt anyone, yet society treats him like he's stupid & they talk down to him.

So it would only make logical sense that a just & righteous God would send the schizophrenic man to heaven where he can live in peace with his loved ones. Meanwhile God would send the oppressors, the police, the government, the doctors, & the parents all to hell where they would not see their loved ones again.

If a man were rewarded for good behavior, it doesn't make sense for society to attempt to emasculate a good man when he only simply wanted what was best for everyone, however when society hardens their heart & refuses to drop their integrity & they baker act & do forced psychiatric medication with forced medical intervention, God would send these people to hell.

Luke 16:19-25 KJV

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.