my new neighbour (on risperadone)

Hi, I've just recently had a new neighbor move in upstairs and we've had a few ccups of tea and smokes and hes told me he has had a 'schizophrenic breakdown' once and takes one tablet of risperidone everynight. It has absolutely no side effects (visible) on him, hes skinny, lean, no other problems and says it just 'calms' him and helps him get heaps of sleep.

I've broached the subject of the oppression of psychiatry several times and tried to get him to speak about any negative experiences hes had with them, hes with a mh group that r sposed to help but don't do much except they come over to his house 3 times a week, oh now its once a week but he wants to sign off from them, which hes allowed to do, its not the mental health team its a separate voluntary organization.

Every time I bring up my bad experiences he never says anything, I mean I told him abit about my abusive mother and hes said a bit about that but nothing about psychiatry.

How do I broach this subject? I was thinking of asking "what is your opinion of the oppression and human rights violations in psychiatry?"
But what I really need help with is, what kinds of things can I say to him to explain in a good manner not a forceful way that psychiatry really harms some ppl., it may have been allright for him but it wasn't for me and many others, how do I make him aware of our movement here what words or phrases should I use that sound ok? I know copy cat has conversations with ppl explaining the impacts of harmful psychiatry, whats a good way to explain what I want to say without him looking at me like im using 'to many big words' or im weird or something (I don't care if he thinks that, its a part of my life and I just want to know what he thinks when he hears the truth, that's ok isn't it? its not like im going to go on about it all the time)

Mabye some statistics, facts? Can u guys help???

Devilock wrote:that psychiatry really harms some ppl., it may have been allright for him but it wasn't for me and many others

I would throw this sentence in there. I would hold off on the statistics at such an early state of getting to know someone. How about:
"You know, I think it's great that you have gotten such positive effects from your mental health treatment, I just wanted to let you know though that not all people have, particularly myself. (then go on to explain how psychiatry has hurt you if he's interested)

I find that personal experience hits home a lot more than facts and statistics.

My social skills wouldn't will any awards. Starting off with oppression and human rights violations in psychiatry is a good idea. I messed up once by doing a real good job explaining the SSRI " low serotonin" marketing scam to someone before I knew they were taking SSRIs essentially calling them stupid.

I could have said how SSRIs may work for some but the reason they don't work for all is... and avoided offending them.

I had just watched this video , Truth About Antidepressants & Chemical Imbalance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIjOZq_AUeE

A must see for critics of psychiatry .

No need in messing up a good thing. If it is working for him leave him alone. My personal opinion which is based on my personal experience is that it is a game of labels because they can not tell you who is really sick and who is not so they end up putting labels on a lot of people that don't deserve them.