r/Antipsychiatry

I went from healthy average to categorically obese

There are so many doctors who don't care about human well being

There are so many doctors who mock and laugh and want to play god

There's going to come a day for the end of the modern healthcare system as we know it

I lost my mother due to a medical error a prescription pill

I remember I had p t s d for my mother passing away , and from my family abandoning me , and the therapist told me to go on an app for help

I remember going to the emergency room to try to get help for facial pain t m j

They refused to give me m r I because it was late at night

And then they mailed some pills to my house

It's wartime now

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I asked for a therapy - waited for months for this appointment - to be told that before that, she suggests to make an appointment for checking if I have an addiction to the internet which might needed to be treated first. And that I should make an appointment for an autism dx as well beforehand.

How many appointments do I need to secure before getting actual therapy?

FOR YEARS I have been trying to find and get help where I'm from only to be ghosted or to have to endlessly fight for getting help.

Yet people will try to tell you ' to seek help'

but the truth is when you are poor, there seems to be no help from the public sector - only punishment.

I (32F) have been struggling with intense regret, guilt, and shame about seeking mental health support and taking medication I never really wanted.

Over the past few years, I experienced a lot of stress at work due to conflicts between colleagues and management, a toxic atmosphere, and high staff turnover. Last year, I was unexpectedly told that my position would be eliminated.

I was overwhelmed and anxious, so I decided to see a mental health counselor through my GP. I mainly wanted someone to talk to and advice on how to cope with my work situation.

Because I mentioned having trouble sleeping, the counselor quickly suggested sleeping pills. No non-medication alternatives were discussed.

I had never taken sleeping medication before and felt uncomfortable about it, but I froze during the conversation and went along with the advice.

My GP prescribed a benzodiazepine (temazepam) After just a short period, I developed severe physical symptoms I had never experienced before, including shortness of breath, heart palpitations, severe panic attacks, and ataxia.

When I reported them, I was prescribed ambien instead, which made things worse. I even started experiencing strange jolts in my head.

My GP then suggested switching to the antidepressant mirtazapine. I said I didn’t want antidepressants, but eventually let myself be convinced.

I developed unexplained large bruises and visual disturbances, including eye floaters.

After experiencing these side effects, other medications were suggested, including Zoloft, an SSRI antidepressant, and Seroquel, an antipsychotic that was suggested off-label for sleep.

By that point, I had already experienced so many unpleasant reactions to different medications that I no longer wanted to try anything else. I refused Zoloft and Seroquel.

What made this experience even more distressing was that I often felt dismissed and not taken seriously when I reported my side effects. Both my GP and mental health counselor told me they had never heard of someone reacting so severely to these medications.

Instead of feeling heard and supported, I felt like my concerns were being minimized, while I kept being offered different medications despite the reactions I was experiencing.

Only afterward was I offered an online sleep program and psychological support, which was exactly what I had wanted in the first place.

I’ve now been off all medication for seven months, but I still haven’t recovered. I experience daily headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, and popping sensations in my ears. My physical health and fitness have deteriorated significantly.

Before all this, I exercised four times a week, including Hyrox and spinning. Now I can barely exercise, and my symptoms have seriously affected my ability to work.

I’ve tried several treatments, including acupuncture, hypnotherapy, psychosomatic physiotherapy, and psychological counseling. I recently started cognitive behavioral therapy after waiting almost a year.

What hurts the most is that I trusted my healthcare providers, yet I keep blaming myself for not listening to my instincts and setting stronger boundaries.

I recently also learned about pharmacogenetic testing, and I wish I had known about it before starting medication.

I originally sought help to cope with work stress, but now I feel like I’ve lost my health, fitness, ability to work, and trust in healthcare.

How can I accept what happened and move forward when I’m still dealing with physical symptoms every single day?

I find it baffling to see people in anti-psychiatry spaces repeat the story that autism is just something one is born with and die with, even though they have some awarness that this concept and its accompanying narratives are fabricated, promoted and perpetuated by psy disciplines with industry sponsporship or revolving doors between the sectors.

One is not born autistic; the diagnostic criteria do not even allow for a newborn to be autistic. What one may be born with are characteristics that put one at a higher risk of developing what is classed as ‘'autism'’ later in life. Just as a baby is not born schizophrenic, but born with traits that increase the chances of developing this condition (such as having eyes...yes, that is a schizo risk factor ), the same applies to autism.

Although these people claim that autism is ''multi-causal'' ''heterogenous'' and ''developmental'' , they view it in the same anti-developmental and monolithic way that ethno-nationalists perceive their own national identities: as an inherent, isolated and universal essence that remains unchanged across space and time. More irony as lot of these people are leftist, so you'd expect a more pluralistic, fluxy and relational outlook the condition...nope, they are strangely resistant to the idea autism can be the result of drugs, or be acquired much later in life, that autism is not necessarily a stable condition and can fluctuates for various reasons accross one's lifespan, that you can go from autistic to non-autistic (or much less autistic) or vice versa e.g Someone who got a diagnosis as a child, then choose to re-asses themsleves in adulthood and see that they no longer qualify as autistic...basically, they deny the plurality of autism, which is a quite odd line of thinking as people do not have the same individual biology & circumstancial risk factors. Some have higher personal risks of developing the condition at some point that others, other of loosing or lesseining their autistic traits, their bodies might respond differently to different substances & variables, some of the reponses might result in autism, loss or reduction of autism. That's what the idea of autism being ''multicausal and ''developemntal'' can entails, an idea that they reject based on how they react to its possible scenarios.

There isn't a single autism, there are various autisms, with different causes and different trajectoires, so drug-induced autism applies to some autisms. And autism isn't innate (nonsense concept considering newborns), it's an interaction between individual biology, innate traits and the environment.

The mental health system and the police are in bed with each other and there's a reason for that. It has nothing to do with healthcare. It's about behavioral control.

They don't treat the pain you're experiencing. They target the behavior your pain produces.

In their rotten worldview you're not even supposed to admit that you're feeling down or struggling, even while they keep telling you that you should talk about it. All they want is data and control. According to them you're not supposed to cry as an adult and stir the pot by showing tears outside your own home.

I am not talking about dangerous or "crazy" behavior here, the system even treats people that behave well but suffer as potential criminals.

Manipulation is their signature. It's stamped on every treatment plan.

So i had a severe bout of insomnia which caused a psychosis I was given 5 mg of olanzopine to take nightly.. it definitely worked how ever theres been some nasty side effects. Low energy weight gain memory problems. I feel dumber. I have been on it since august 20th and i have a psych appointment october 8th. I am going to request a tapering dose so I can get off this drug. What i worry is that they are going to be like “its helping you sleep so we are going to keep you on” if thats the case im just quitting cold turkey. Ive read complete horror stories about the drug and im super scared of what its done and doing to my brain. Has irreversible damage been done to my brain?

I've talked countless times with psychiatrists about how antipsychotics cease ejaculation by inhibiting pleasure centers in the brain. We should start framing them as murderers for all I care. Let them take those pills for the rest of their lives and we'll see. I've actually nearly thrown out a book that caused the nervous breakdown in 2007, I just have to find it among shelves in my father's house. After that I'll take not one pill. It will be over for good.

Dr has me on 10.5mg caplyta for
Last 3 weeks. I also been taking 5mg lexapro for 20 years and klonopin 1mg 20 years. The caplyta is giving me brain fog from hell at 3 weeks. The dr wants me to do a direct switch from lexapro to
Cymbalta . I have bad anxiety, depression. Is this a good idea ?

Some “behavior drugs” block α2 adrenergic receptors, these receptors normally act as a brake on norepinephrine release.

Block that brake and noradrenergic signaling can rise, driving arousal and sympathetic activation higher. That can feel like being painfully wired inside: restless, unable to settle, heart racing, unable to sleep, hyperadrenergic POTS like suffering while somehow still feeling physically and mentally drained from mostly dopamine, histamine and serotonin receptor blockade at the same time.

Antipsychotics with notable α2 blocking activity include clozapine, risperidone and quetiapine.