More on drugging society
Why do people think this is normal?
Dr. Makis shared the link for the documentary Medicating Normal. If you or a loved one has a mental illness diagnosis or is taking any mood-altering drugs, or the doctor is encouraging the use of them, please watch this first.
If you have been reading my posts, you know my view of the pharmaceutical industry: they do not care about improving anyone's mental health.
A few takeaways from watching this movie:
Listen to one doctor deny withdrawal side effects and 100% blame the patient, literally saying it is the patient’s fault.
Another doctor has no idea how a patient should taper from a psychotropic drug and states, “Just cut the dose by 1/3 each day”. (OMG, can you imagine the consequences of that rapid withdrawal?) It is unbelievable that doctors can make such dangerous recommendations with no consequences for the doctor.
If a patient comes to the doctor for one thing, such as mild anxiety, and then has a host of symptoms after taking the drug, the doctor dismisses the new behavior, saying that it has anything to do with the drug. Listen to the story of one girl who started seeing a person who was not there, and that person was telling her to go into the kitchen, get a knife, and kill herself. The hallucinations stopped when the drugs were stopped. But what did the doctor do? I am sure you can guess.
At one point, the same girl mentioned above was on numerous psychotropic drugs.
But what floors me is how long it takes for parents and adult patients to wake up. Many say, “We trusted our doctor; our doctor knew best.” Even though they got worse, they just kept listening to the doctor.
Root causes need to be addressed, and we must stop with the drug bandaids!
Stay informed. Watch the documentary.
Understanding how rigged the DSM approval is much worse!
Do you have any insights about how to help someone wean off these toxic drugs and/or any recommendations for wellness clinics or retreats (esp in the Colorado area) that specialize in root cause analysis generally and helping people wean off psychiatric drugs specifically?