$1.5M Award in Child Tardive Dyskinesia Malpractice Lawsuit

A Chicago jury awarded $1.5 million to an autistic child who developed irreversible and disabling tardive dyskinesia and tardive akathisia while treated with Risperdal, followed by Zyprexa. The boy had been diagnosed with autism as a child and started on SSRI antidepressants by the age of seven, which according to expert witness Peter Breggin caused his mental condition and behavior to deteriorate.

http://breggin.com/Verdict_Form_A.pdf

Dr. Breggin's complete trial testimony can be read here http://breggin.com/BregginTestimonyTran ... e_2014.pdf

The story is here http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com ... iew&id=308

I am still reading the trial testimony, check it out.

One of the few cases that goes public. Most dont, and its hard to. Psychiatrists have every trick in the book to cover up any shortcomings or accidents.


SSRI are among some of the most dangerous drugs on the planet. I know story after story of people taking them and becoming suicidal, violent, delusional... it goes on.


BTW, these medications were never intended in the first place to be given to young kids, but hey, were experts arent we?

Sad that these are considered the wins you should not have to die or be harmed to this point for the mental health field to admit that they have wronged a person and that there methods can be harmful.

3 cheers for Breggin!

I like how Dr Breggin explains this in detail rather the hocus pokus. His statements are true, some who take anti psychotics become agitated or develop ticks, IVe seen it. I like his analogy of the engines speeding up. Good way to prove the brain is trying to rework itself around the drugs, that the meds just replace on problem with another.

You watch it, they'll be forced drugging embryos next. At first, there'll be some resistance, but given time, people will be saying, "what's wrong with forced drugging an embryo?" That's how things work; something that once seemed aburd, becomes a reality, a part of the fabric of culture, enshrined in custom and law, with the leading lights in the intellectual, medical, legal, and scientific firmaments lending the weight of their names and their prestige to its legitimation. When this happens, as it has throughout history, the absurd becomes normal, and the masses, whose intellectual and imaginational horizons are so narrow and vision so myopic that they live hemmed in psychologically, spiritually and experientially by the laws, customs, recieved wisdom and axioms of their culture, will live in blindness, as they always have done.

Cledwyn Bulbs wrote:You watch it, they'll be forced drugging embryos next. At first, there'll be some resistance, but given time, people will be saying, "what's wrong with forced drugging an embryo?" That's how things work; something that once seemed aburd, becomes a reality, a part of the fabric of culture, enshrined in custom and law, with the leading lights in the intellectual, medical, legal, and scientific firmaments lending the weight of their names and their prestige to its legitimation. When this happens, as it has throughout history, the absurd becomes normal, and the masses, whose intellectual and imaginational horizons are so narrow and vision so myopic that they live hemmed in psychologically, spiritually and experientially by the laws, customs, recieved wisdom and axioms of their culture, will live in blindness, as they always have done.

Right on.