Psychiatrists MUST tell their patients of harmful effects of withdrawing from psychiatric drugs too rapidly

THIS MUST BE MANDATORY!

It has come to my attention that psychiatrists STILL do not tell their patients that there is a need to withdraw slowly from major tranquilisers/ neuroleptics/ ‘anti-psychotics’.

This is a breach of ‘informed consent’. Not giving this information to a patient, means a person can be put through unnecessary suffering, which can be very dangerous, even deadly. This suffering could be alleviated, if they were informed to withdraw slowly, and, in ideal circumstances, aided and helped by a psychiatrist or GP in doing this.

People who may stop taking psych drugs for very good reasons. Quite often people don’t want to take them forever, because of the horrific debilitating side-effects, and, because they don't really do what psychiatrists claim they should be doing.

People often get told by psychiatrists that they have to take neuroleptics forever. This is not reasonable, especially when there are so many side-effects, when important social functions such as driving, reading, sex function, conversation and operating machinery are hampered. Especially when there is Tardive Dyskinesia, or akinesia emerging, and this harm caused by the drug is dismissed or ignored by the treating psychiatrist… what is a person to do? People as young as 23 complain of feeling like they have Alzheimer’s on these drugs. I felt that way myself, until I came off them. I was sure my brains had eroded. No, it was the neuroleptic.  There’s also those 25 years that get torn from the lives of people on a regimen of neuroleptics. Read enough and you’ll know all this, and that you need to come off psych drugs slowly. But if your sight is blurring because of the drugs and your thoughts are clouded and you’re chronically fatigued, then how are you going to do that?

I’ve seen over a hundred psychiatrists in a 14 year period and none of them informed me of the horrific withdrawal effects of neuroleptics. Yet psychiatrists do know to withdraw people slowly from one neuroleptic before getting a person to take another, or they should.

Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist, writes at length about withdrawing from neuroleptics in his book, ‘Your drug may be your problem.’

Icarus project has a free pdf on ‘Harm reduction’.

All psychiatric, medical, clinical psychology, mental health and psychiatric drug related websites should include something similar about slow withdrawal from drugs/ harm reduction.

Psychiatrists should be informing all patients about drug related harm reduction. Australia has got to make this mandatory for psychiatrists to do.

Hospitals have systems in place for harm reduction for stimulant use.

It is ridiculous that these hard drugs, which are major tranquilisers, have for so long been written off in documents by ‘Mental Health’ organisations as not having harmful withdrawal effects. It is ridiculous that these withdrawal effects are seen as ‘symptoms of psychosis’. They are NOT.

I came off Solian, from 200mg to nothing and my whole face and body twitched as parts of me came back to life. I had a headache that lasted 2 weeks. At that time, 2009, I didn’t know you were meant to come of these drugs slowly, but I’d been medicalised by psychiatry since 1998!

It has taken me 2 years, after slow reduction from Zuclopenthixol, to get my emotions to stabilise and the Tourette’s caused by this drug to fade. I have had a lot of support from friends, Intervoice, my tafe, colleagues and my partner, that allow discussions of what had other years been denied.

I think this INFORMING OF PATIENTS is essential and must be made MANDATORY. I think everyone could agree to that, in the very least of things that need to be done, to stop psychiatric abuse, that government could put some legislation in to make certain that this occurs.

There are documents that have said this pressure on people’s minds/bodies, of quickly withdrawing, has been a factor in many horrific shootings by youth, that have happened in the USA.

Certainly drug/alcohol rehabilitation services are well-studied in how to safely withdraw from other hard drugs.

So, please, see that this, is done. Make it mandatory for psychiatrists to inform people to withdraw slowly, never quickly, and to do so under their supervision, so that tablets are not quartered in a way that is unsafe. I don’t want to see another person harmed unnecessarily by withdrawing too quickly from drugs.

(If you are attempting to do this, ask, remind and let your psychiatrist know why you need to reduce your harmful drug. Do not talk of stopping the drug. Just talk about reducing it. Then they are more likely to give you a prescription of a smaller pill, I’ve found. If they refuse, keep asking, get back up, books, a lawyer, or an understanding friend.)

As an individual please make enough conversation happen to grant MANDATORY HARM REDUCTION INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN, BY ALL PSYCHIATRISTS IN REGARDS TO PSYCHIATRIC DRUG WITHDRAWAL, TO THEIR PATIENTS. And please feel free to write emails to RANZCP and the AMA letting them know why this must be made mandatory.

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Protecting normal people like you, from people like me...

Activist poetry doesn't always have a place in the Melbourne poetry scene, particularly if you're talking psychiatric abuse. The audience tend to not listen and hear anger only. So, I rarely perform this style poetry in venues.

The ODDie poetry night was an exception, it was all about activism.
           These two poems I’m performing are about that shushed voice and the inability of society to listen, when activists speak, to anything but their memory of cruel propaganda campaigns.

 

The first poem, 'I've been trigger' talks about the idea of psychiatric abuse being justified because of the belief that 'but, they're violent, aren't they?' which is said about any marginalised group that governments wish to crush, or use in a way that infringes on standard human rights. Also the unjustifiable fear of symbolism and creativity, that is attempting to put OUTRAGE into peaceful means of protest, that ends up being called 'wrong' and 'ill' by psychiatrists.

The second poem, 'Unshushable' is a shortened version of this poem. It speaks for itself, or it should. 'We're already LOUD because we have every right to be allowed!'

ODD is a support group for activists, that ran the ODDie night. The ODD group are reclaiming of the term that diagnoses youth for their ability to recognise the need to defy abusive authorities.

Oppositional, disobedient, disordered, but with good reason!

Our outrage has been ignored and hushed for too long. Psychiatric survivors should be allowed to have a voice and psychiatric abuse should not be allowed!

Appreciate though, how difficult talking about this abuse is, because of where society is at, and because of what we’ve been through.

awareness is everything!

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Stand up to the Mental Health Commission!

Yes, Mental Health Commission, I understand how psychiatric abuse produces ‘Stockholm syndrome’ in their victims (yes, a psychiatric term, which basically means brainwashed/ in an altered state of consciousness from being threatened and denying themselves their own opinion for personal safety, and trying to see the good in their abusers). So wonderful of you, MHC, to provide evidence of this, but where’s your psychiatric abuse awareness ribbon? Without something like that, your site could be mistaken for psychiatric propaganda. And people might be misled into not realising those hypnotised by the cult of psychiatry actually are terrorised into okaying this torturous horrific  organised crime the Australian Government has allowed for way too long, that hides its experiments under the guise of ‘medicine’. (As I understand it, now Rudd is in power, psychiatric survivors could be given an apology, if the Commission vouches for us. Rudd is good at apologies. Gillard had a father who was a psychiatric nurse, she was blinded by her love of him, and couldn't see how he was part of a practice that tortured people, who are not condemned to psychiatric torture anymore, that being homosexuals. Homosexuality was considered a 'mental illness' until 1973 and if people didn't keep quiet, they could be subjected to the various torture procedures that psychiatry offered at the time, without their consent. Gillard would've had to have had it out with her father if she wanted to stop psychiatric abuse, and, she couldn't do that because of her loyalty and the buckets of tears she'd have surging, if she recognised the horror her father was forced participate in, so that he could keep his job and feed her. Keeping this in mind, I suggest a reshuffle is also necessary for MHC, to give those with lived-experience more power to be progressive and validate human-rights.)

(You can easily make your own ribbon with similar colour scheme, but if you can't be bothered feel free to right click copy this one. You have my permission on this image of the psychiatric abuse awareness ribbon, NOT for other images in my blog though.)

The Commission wants to know how they're going. They want you to check in on them, say g’day and diagnose them. They might be treatment resistant though… because they're negotiating difficulties with red-tape etc.

One look, and you should realise the Commission’s website is offensive to uppity psychiatric survivors who have the impertinence to say that the way the Australian government treats people in crisis is human-rights abuse, and that this is a crime against humanity. These psychiatric survivors complain, saying terms like ‘mentally ill’ should not be used because it’s derogatory, threatening and triggers flash-backs to psychiatric abuse. Well! They’ve got to be put in their place! You tell them Commission! You tell them who they are!

Those psychiatric survivors think that they are entitled to freedom from torture and freedom of opinion. Yet, they don’t understand that no good mentally ill people must be kept docile and manageable. No one wants to hear about their ungrateful attitudes. Who cares if 25 years is taken off their life by forcing drugs on them? Who cares if electro-shock and these chemicals forced on them cause obvious brain-damage? The sooner they’re dead the better! Less burden on society then. Who cares if they can hardly move much or stay awake for long, because of the way these drugs affect the muscles? No one wants mentally ill people running around doing things and gaining power! The mentally ill are wrong. They’re mentally wrong. No one wants to hear what they say, unless they’re able to follow the script of their team of psychiatrists and preach all the good the government is doing for them to keep them manageable so they don’t upset the rest of the public.

Is that what you think?

Keep them shamed, keep them blamed, keep them very, very afraid. Give them no hope that their uppity protests will be heard and soon they’ll all be wiped out. Good riddance to them all!

Oh? It’s not genetic? Oh? It’s about other things the government has done like genocide, sexism, racism, war, discrimination and covering-up sexual abuse of children? Oh, we all could potentially develop ‘symptoms of psychosis’ if we were subjected to abuse and Gaslighting, lost our support network and felt alienated by a society that denied abuses that happened to us?  Really? Oh, well how are you going to cover up that one Commission? How are you going to cover up for the lists of horrific effects on the packets of these drugs that psychiatry forces on people? Hmm?

And… how are you going to shut me up now I’m networking with people all around the world and gaining support, getting my books published overseas, my protest T-shirts and other paraphernalia bought? The ‘Psychiatry must die! clock is ticking away and happens to be very popular.

You can’t stop sense, by calling human-rights nonsense. Progress is everything. Your website is so backward it is horrific. Change it now. Using the term ‘mentally ill’ is as offensive as the term ‘ape’.

I was asked to comment on what you’re doing, to make contact. I have. But the MHC's website is really offensive to me, you have to understand that. You have to also understand that psychiatrist’s parrots are not really someone I look up to. As for the 2nd and 3rd hand views of what it’s like to be a person put through psychiatry, well, they don’t know, they only know what they’ve been told by the ‘experts’, which are the falsely empowered psychiatrists, that know nothing about what it is to have artistic thinking. They condemn poetic memory to illness. That’s my people, the poets. I like symbolic thinking. I like non-invasive forms of therapeutic intervention, I like people communicating, I like diversity. I’m not interesting in repeating the psychiatric cult any more than I am interested in repeating what any other cults or religions say, that requires ‘faith’ , ‘blind obedience’ and ‘penance/medication’ such as the cult of psychiatry does.

Saying weird things, is neither being a harm to self or others, yet this has got me forcefully drugged many times over a 14 year period. Even the laws think they can be poetic. Poetic injustice I call psychiatric use of the Mental Health Act. Since when are painful, torturous, disabling, brain-damaging sickening neuroleptic drugs the ‘least restrictive measure’ to use on someone who is non-violent? So what if I was non-compliant? Of course I was. Anyone with any sense would be non-compliant with neuroleptic drugs, especially after they have felt the effects of them.

Why is it police can negotiate with terrorists in a crisis, but psychiatrists barge into a non-violent crisis, such as me in an altered state of consciousness, saying weird things, and  these government paid psychiatrists then use harmful traumatic damaging measures and don’t even try conversation. It’s as if they think I’m some sort of fruit-fly they can’t communicate with. They forget I’m human and symbology and poetic thinking is just as relevant, real and in touch with the emotional realm of feelings more than any other way of communicating. Surely it makes sense to communicate with a person, on their terms, during an emotional upheaval, such as grief. I wish websites like The Mental Health Commission would understand that point of view and realise it is more valid than the other invalidating point of view that psychiatry holds, which turns people into permanent drugged-up invalids.

 

If you want to know more about me, what I’ve been through, then by all means go for it. I’m a trained writer and editor. My books are available here: http://chipmunkapublishing.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2264

And here: http://www.amazon.com/Initially-NO/e/B00AGD17PI

                Australian publishers are ‘not ready’ for my views, they prefer to publish books by doctors, or those who have Stockholm syndrome, because the government isn’t ready to recognise their part in the 14 years of psychiatric abuse I’ve recently been put through, any more than the rest of the public who swallow psychiatric propaganda. People find it difficult to realise their part in the regime of terror on my body, as well as that of many, many others. It is terrifying when I hear these really beaten up broken down people repeat all the brainwashing lines I was subjected to, like a really sad, sad abused cult member, which they are not only like, they are, but they don't have to continue to be. They are so afraid, threatened, shamed and blamed for the corner society pushed them into and their reaction to being cornered. It’s horrible, but I do understand why people say what they do, when they feel the need to show compliance. It’s just very sad, when the public doesn’t understand why these people look so broken. And that that is an effect of psychiatry plus other abuses they've suffered and had diagnosed as their 'illness' their 'problem' their 'disease'. When trauma is not a disease and psychiatry has no scientific validity in saying that it is.

FUME!

‘They complain that they are being abused

By the medicines that keep those savage people

Docile and manageable.

Those uppity mentally ill!’

Said the pill to the packet that was stacking odds

For the stock and crack it.

 

FUME!

It is not okay, government of Australia, not okay. Change your ugly evil ways! Do a video or article that uncovers how psychiatric abuse produces ‘Stockholm syndrome’ in their victims, so that the public can understand what you’re saying, then say, perhaps we shouldn't call it that anymore since it is a psychiatric term.

Now, as your structural editor, MHC, I want to tell you that you lack clarity and sense. People will misinterpret you and think you’re a propaganda machine rather than a commission that inquires and attempts to improve social-justice, human-rights and health. You don’t want that do you? Now, be a good organisation and stick a psychiatric abuse awareness ribbon on your site somewhere. Or, at least, something to say sorry for what the government is still doing, in their name, to various people in Australia, or you are retraumatising people like me by the horror of what you seem to be saying okay to and not only allowing psychiatric abuse to continue, but encouraging it. I want your site to make it clear you want forced-drugging and electro-shock stopped immediately. In 2013 we must end this horrific regime. Australia is meant to be a democracy. Make it happen.

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Forced and coerced penetration: it’s not okay

Methods and lines used          …	to force and coerce sexual contact	to force and coerce psychiatric drugs
You’ll get used to it…	the unwanted touch or sexual contact that is upsetting you	the unwanted, harmful 'medication' you may well be highly allergic to, that is causing you discomfort
It's about finding the…	right position	right medication and dose
This works for most people…	sexual position	type of medication  and dose
If you don’t want it…	you’re not being a good girlfriend/boyfriend... I won't be your friend if you don't. You want to make me happy don't you?	you don’t have insight into your illness. You can't give informed consent. You want to get well don't you?
Ultimatums and threats…	you must have sex with me or else...	you must comply with treatment or else...
Use of force, penetration, violence and violation	rape	forced injection
When threats and intimidation are affective…	nice and accommodating	docile and compliant
Destruction of ability and violation of identity…	realising her/ his place	manageable and medicated

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What's the awareness ribbon for psychiatric abuse?

 

And I don't just mean the findings of the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) revealing '45 per cent of women in the state's psychiatric hospitals have been sexually assaulted in their care.'

 

I mean what Jaana Satu Castella said at a recent talk, that the world will look back on the use of neuroleptics, in the same way people now find the idea of lobotomies horrific.

Jaana works with Open Dialogue techniques in Denmark and Finland. It makes sense to have conversation. It makes sense to understand, to validate and to listen. Humans are not fruit-flies (although David Anderson may think some humans are). And a crisis is often a response to loss, to alienation, to pressure, to change… That is not something that can be healed easily without the cooperation of society. It is so important to be aware of abuse. It is so important never to deny it. Because if your society denies your abuse, then they have aided and abetted the abuse and then not only obstructed justice but concealed facts and that makes  society an Accessory After the Fact. And when that all still remains hidden with no public awareness happening, that makes victims really, really angry.

Yes, I live in Australia, this isn't the place where children are sold off and married, or people are forced to work 2 days non-stop in factories... No, but it is a place where psychiatry abuses ritually, without a qualm.

If everyone else in the world thought neuroleptics were a good treatment for a person in crisis, who'd experienced significant loss, like I had when I was forced to take high doses of these drugs, it still wouldn't be okay. If everyone in the world said, yes neuroleptics really do work and they don't harm at all, it still wouldn't be okay to force them on people. If the world said things like that, which they don't, what happened to me would still not be okay. Psychiatrists don't take into account allergies to their 'medications' unless you are dying from them. They ignore patient discomforts with their treatments. They say like things like, 'you'll get used to it.' That, is really, really bad thinking. But it wasn't just one psychiatrist that said that to me, it was many, many psychiatrists who told me that. So, I can only conclude that they're trained to tell people to get used to things they're allergic to.

Ridiculous that psychiatrists can get away with this abuse, isn't it?

So, I suggest we stop psychiatric abuse. Be aware of what is happening in your country. Do not excuse it. Do not justify it. We are not fruit-flies, we can be communicated with.

And ask yourself... why after 202 years of psychiatric abuse, horrific torturous horrible things that have happen to people, who are not fruit-flies, or criminals, horrific things like lobotomies only last century and chemical and electro-shock lobotomies still happening... yet, psychiatric abuse does not have a ribbon for awareness. Why?

Where, where's our ribbon?

 

 

 

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We are not crazy. We are not mad. We are outraged! And we do not want to be subject matter in future science experiments conducted via psychiatry, just because we have unusual coping mechanisms for grief, crisis, trauma etc.

Psychiatrism

 

Defined as, 'The desire to become a psychiatrist, falsely label others as mentally ill, and then to treat them with harmful methods for a profit.'

link to Psychiatrism in the Urban Dictionary

 

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Also, some further reading on psychiatrism

And the torture psychiatry inflicts recognised by the UN:  'Deprivation of liberty on grounds of mental illness...that inflicts severe pain or suffering falls under the scope of the Convention against Torture.'


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