News of Anti-Psych Forum

Probably everyone has heard the myth that mental illness is caused by a chemical imbalance and drugs correct this. Polls find 80% of people believe this myth. The fact is no study has found that non-drudged depressed people have less serotonin or that schizophrenic people have too much dopamine. The non-drugged part is important because the drugs actually create a chemical imbalance. You don’t start with a chemical imbalance you are given one by the ...

Let’s start with the evidence for antipsychotics and move to the evidence against them. There are two types of studies touted showing the benefits of these drugs. The first kind is short term studies that look at a period around 6 weeks. These studies find that 1 out of 6 people put on the drugs will have a reduction in their symptoms from the drugs. This means you have a 5 out of 6 chance ...

during the past sixteen years, i've moved home 34 times

and immigrated back and forth between two countries for 12 times in total

all the sockal workers and psychiatrist did nothing to stop my parents from moving around so much

not only that, but they blamed me for being the cause of my parents moving around so much

so those idiots figured that, by giving me counseling services, i would naturally stop moving around.

it ...

The Rosenhan Experiment is to me one of the most significant studies done on the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. The study was actually conducted by a psychologist David Rosenhan. What he found was that even ordinary behavior can me labeled as symptoms of mental illness under certain conditions. He sent 8 psuedopatients, 3 women and five men, to different psychiatric hospitals all faking so called symptoms of mental illness. All were admitted. Once they got ...

In my view what leads to abuse and dehumanization in psychiatry and the mental health system (should be called the mental illness system) is the whole concept of mental illness, it stigmatizes vulnerable hurting people simply looking for help. It’s cruel and heartless. Everything about this system is evil as far I’m concerned. On the surface they talk about compassion, unconditional positive regard, blah blah, blah, but its all #######4. The reality is they take ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6HlbpczpDM

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Does the form signed before being admitted to a mental hospital in the US allow the staff to do more or less anything they want to, free from accountability for outcome or damage done?


I ask because I had some rather strange experiences last hospital stay - a clash of realities if you will, i'm nto sure to what extent my experiences reflected pure psychosis or instead dangerous realities objectively jeopardizing my safety. it seemed ...

"Copy cat" activism.

Pretty much everything anti psychiatry has already been written.

People just need to read it. Once they do they understand what a fraud it is forever.

I came up with this dumb screen name because that mostly what I did, I just copied what was already written and reposted anyplace and everyplace it would get views.

A "copy cat" just using other peoples stuff. I got better at at and did original ...

I’ve been in and out of psychiatric institutions for about four of the previous years and I’ve been put on several psychiatric medications and received psychiatric treatment. The first round of drugs that I was put on were Zyprexa and Abilify and I was given a diagnosis of Anxiety, Depression and Schizoaffective disorder. They sent me to my first hospital after a period of strange behavior at a job training program. Already, I had a ...

I am extremely medication averse. I get side effects, though I have severe mental problems. I cannot get myself to stay on an antipsychotic dosage and after all the terrible things I have been through in life, I would like to find a way to treat my mental dissorder holisticly. I am so sorry that I cannot stay on the higher dosage and feel extremely guilty.