Why I'm off psych meds

If you google Peter R. Breggin, M.D. many of the articles he has written about psychiatric medications, as well as more general articles about him will appear on your screen.

He is an expert on psychiatric medications. He teaches clinical psychology at Harvard. He has a private practice of clinical psychology. Courts in the USA as well as the Department of Health accept him as an expert. He has testified before Congress as an expert on psychiatric medications.

His testimony in damage suit trials has resulted in drug companies paying millions of dollars of damages to people whose relatives have either died, become totally disabled, or had accidents because of taking psychiatric medications. His numerous research articles are loaded with evidence psychiatric medication causes numerous problems in those who take them. One article gives research data showing being on psychiatric meds makes patients' reaction time slower. All patients on psychiatric meds who drive are a danger to themselves and others. That's only one effect psychiatric medications have. Breggin has done experiments and gives data on many other negative effects.

I believe all patients taking psychiatric meds should read about Breggin and his research findings. Then they can make an informed decision: continue on psychiatric medication or get off it. Breggin also has written articles on how to safely withdraw from psychiatric medications.

Drug companies and others whose income and profits come from prescribing and dispensing psychiatric meds spend vast amounts of money promoting the use of psychiatric meds. I know who I choose to believe. Breggin.

I'll be here to read what you choose to do and offer what help I can no matter which choice you make. Let me hear either way you choose."

Breggin is great, I really like him. Ive read Toxic Psychiatry and Your drug may be your problem. Both very interesting and good books.

Peter Breggin named what happened to me "medication spellbinding".

It does explain how the memory of the way I felt before psych meds was forgotten and caused me to keep taking them only to get worse/dependent and end up in places like a psych hospital. I never had anything really wrong with me until the psych pills came along.

Hi, new to this forum,so forgive fauxpas b4 i start.
i really only want to tell my story once ,and as it happened 1990
it may seem like a long time ago ,and many have said i should let it go
but i or nobody else knows how different life would be if the so called
"professionals" hadnt done what i am about to tell you .

ok i had resigned from my job as an offsider to a woman who is totally rich
and i found her to be of bad character (will leave that there )
my intention was to return to my homeland NZ with my 7yr old daughter
was in the process of packing Saturday of a long wkend , my daughter was ( i thought)
outdoors playing with her friend , i told her to come home in 30mins to come shopping
I called her in ... then went to her friends house - no daughter ... i began to worry and rang my ex boss
if she had seen her cos if i hadnt found her in 5mins was going to call police (big mistake)
within 5mins she and her brother pulled up and assaulted me ,threw me thru my front window
and called the ambulance to have me attended to for cuts .
Thats where the real damage started .
the ambulance took me to the main hospital A&E and there as i hadnt any real injuries expected
to be released , i needed to get to my daughter (anxiety levels rising ) my ex boss haf rung the hospital
told them my daughter was in good hands (hers) which they informed me - my friend was "concerned"
and i should stay and talk to a social worker -
this i agreed to ,but my anxiety at my daughters welfare was totally "unfounded"
(i will mention now ,ex-boss was a psyche nurse at 1time)
the social-worker was decidedly unhelpful and revommended i see a psych - on tues as was long-wkend
Anxiety further escalates ... now enter drugs Some supposed calmitive ,and a bed in the psych ward "just til you are seen by the dr"
However i am now in the system i had no idea wot was going to happen with me or my daughter
The first drug of a psych nature was Trifluoperizine followed by haliperidol 4 times /day "just til u see the dr" ...
by tuesday i had displayed all types of anxiety ,and for good reason .
i hadnt told them wot i am about to say here , but the reason i quit and was going home ,was my ex boss was the head of the local mafia .,she was connected.
tuesday couldnt come quick enuf .
however wen the dr saw me a diagnosis was needed
i rejected the labels and said i was fine my daughter was my concern plus my home was now insecure.
they allowed me a pass to attend to that but my ex boss had gone thru it taken my passport and other
things mostly my daughters things .
however now i was under airport watch becos i asked for passport
making it all sound very dramatic
the labels were paraded past me , and one by one i said no ,which they said wouldnt go in my favour
if i had to at some stage go to court for custody of my child What !!
i was a single mother and an unmarried spinster was going to fight me for my own child ??
Bizarre! absurd as it sounds All too true
i accepted the label of bipolar as the lesser of the labels ,one i felt sure i could get lifted ,even with
the lithium . i took the lithium the label and was subject to their scrutiny and detention "until we get the levels right" + it would go in my favour to be cooperating and complying with the dr and staff.
it took 2months and in that time my ex boss had arrayed a custody battle ,waited for my release and
snapped the noose of the "family" court whereby she took complete custody guardianship no access
Again i was under the illusion the hospital system would aid as i had complied
but as long as i took the lithium and all the other prescribed poison.
i did only to get a tick in the self-help box .
it only took my exboss 7months to get my daughter signed over to her ,and as soon as that happened i
took 76 haliperidol plus handfulls of the other junk ,but was unsuccessful.
very sick tho ... apart from those and the lithium i used to take 3days before my blood tests , the remainder i put into a large garbage bag after i gone back to original hospital assessed as coping in society" medicated tho" ( they thought) and dumped them on their desk
that why i dont take their drugs

That is one of the most horrible stories iv'e ever heard. I don't know what to say. Have you got your daughter back now?

I have had my own daughter taken off me by an abusive family member who has several times detained me at a psych hospital, they got me diagnosed by telling the dr's made up symtpoms and then took my daughter and used those medical records to show I was a 'bad' mother.

What you must have gone thru. We'd like to think stories like these are rare but they happen all too often and the public has no idea. One person starts the ball rolling (or even just one person wanting your destruction) and all these horrible things happen when we are forced into psychiatry.

I hope u get your child back and hope everything works out, God that is horrible.

Hi devilock ,
no i didnt , she was in "bad" company and a child is easily brainwashed.
i guess i didnt have much to offer her ,and children ,are wee survivors.
yes it comes as huge shock to find so called "do-gooders" have agendas .,
other than we can grasp at such a time .
im sorry to hear u too have been thru the system , to our credit tho ,
we still here , and yes to Gods credit ,cos it certainly wasnt me that kept me going.
i hope u r able to see ur child ,im not ,as i said full custody , guardianship , no access ,within 7 months and no history of abuse Ever .
a cautionary tale ,sad but true .
i would like to see my psyche file tho ,to see how they covered their deeds on paper .

no access?? that's wrong, what country is this in? you havnt done anything wrong and your getting no access, that's illegal. That would have traumatised your daughter just going to some strangers house and never seeing you again, I don't understand that.

Australia ,
and before u say "thats impossible"... just think
it was the country that started the "stolen generation"
its laws of secrecy are in place to cover such acts .
violations of human rights are well entrenched .

Hi pheonix. Sounds like she might have had a bit of leverage on you. And if it's who I think it is she had connections with bent police as well. Was it in Melbourne?

Hi Rod ,
no in Western Australia , yes she was much better as she got the drop on me
as they say in the cowboy movies ,
she was 100% aware of wot was going on , i was merely being
a mother , fighting the daily chores of life , she on the other-hand knew the arena , tactics , had my daughter hostage , and had an agenda ,personnel at her disposal ,
Game set and match .