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    Occupy Psychiatry

    2004: Effexor-150mg
    2006: switch to paxil-up to 40mg
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    2009: quit effexor cold turkey. Switched to zoloft-100mg
    2010: zoloft taper failed, switched to celexa-30mg
    October 2011: tapered celexa in one week

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    Thanks for sharing, Bruno!
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    Cool! "Occupy Psychiatry"! Very good idea!
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    "An initiation into shamanic healing means a devaluation of all values, an overturning of the profane world, a peeling away of inveterate handed-down notions of the world, liberation from everything preconceived. For that reason, shamanism is closely connected with suffering. One must suffer the disintegration of one's own system of thought in order to perceive a new world in the higher space."
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    did anyone watch it? what are your thoughts? there was even an MD from here in texas who had a bad experience with psychiatric drugs because she wasnt properly evaluated.
    2004: Effexor-150mg
    2006: switch to paxil-up to 40mg
    2008: after paxil taper failed, went back on effexor-250mg
    2009: quit effexor cold turkey. Switched to zoloft-100mg
    2010: zoloft taper failed, switched to celexa-30mg
    October 2011: tapered celexa in one week

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    what is the back story? where was this? what was the triggering event that made them decide to protest?
    has anyone else read Colin Ross?
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    Here's some interesting info; http://occupypsychiatry.net/

    We recognize that the psychiatric industry, allied with Big Pharma have massively misled the public to people's and society's great detriment. In essence, psychiatry has sacrificed the lives of its victims on the alter of corporate profits.

    The story the American Psychiatric Association and individual psychiatrists (Psychiatry) have been telling their patients and the public is not true.

    There are no proven chemical imbalances or other known brain defects that result in what gets diagnosed as mental illnesses.

    Most of the drugs given to treat people diagnosed with mental illness are no better than placebo and many cause tremendous physical problems.

    The second generation of so-called "anti-psychotics" (neuroleptics) are effective for few and harmful to all. Contrary to drug company hype, they are not more effective than first generation neuroleptics and far more harmful.

    Largely as a result, the disability rate of people diagnosed with serious mental illness has increased 6-fold on a per capita basis since the introduction of the supposed miracle drug Thorazine in 1954.

    Largely due to the use of these drugs, the life expectancy of people diagnosed with serious mental illness is 25 years less than the general population.

    The stimulants used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the so-called antidepressants have dramatically increased the incidence of people diagnosed with bi-polar disorder and converted it from a good prognosis diagnosis to one that is quite poor.

    The ubiquitous use of psychiatric drugs is at least halving the percentage of people who recover after being diagnosed with a serious mental illness; it appears about 80% of the people presenting with an initial psychosis can recover if they are not given and maintained on psychiatric drugs.

    The American Psychiatric Association and individual psychiatrists are either fooled or complicit to the extent they do not publicly acknowledge and act onthese facts.

    Sources: Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, by Robert Whitaker; and Scientific Research by Topic on PsychRights' website.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Luc View Post
    Here's some interesting info; http://occupypsychiatry.net/

    We recognize that the psychiatric industry, allied with Big Pharma have massively misled the public to people's and society's great detriment. In essence, psychiatry has sacrificed the lives of its victims on the alter of corporate profits.
    In my opinion, I feel Big Pharma should have Federal Murder Charges brought against them from all the deaths they have caused by misleading people regarding these drugs.

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    12 years paxil(9 years only 10 mg) - cold turkey(1,5 month) and switch celexa tapered 1 year 20 mg
    62 years old - for GAD - 4 years 3 months meds free [since april 2009]

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    Oh my! What a great find, Sheila. Looks like Alto is healing. :)
    Last edited by Luc; 06-03-2013 at 12:29 PM.
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