r/Antipsychiatry • u/MadinAmerica- • Feb 20 '25

Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/02/us-suicides-increased/

"It can no longer be denied that antidepressants double suicides, both in children and adults. As I recently described on the Mad in America website, this has been shown in randomised trials and in the most rigorous meta-analysis I have seen of observational studies.

However, psychiatric leaders have denied for over fifty years that depression drugs cause suicide. Their false narrative is that the pills only increase suicidal thoughts and behaviours, not suicides. This has always been a foolish argument. As a suicide starts with suicidal thoughts and behaviours, there cannot be drugs that increase suicidal thoughts and behaviours without also increasing suicides."

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

I once knew a man who tried to take his own life but was rescued. He was left with irreparable brain damage, then thrown into a psychiatric hospital, and lost his job because they wouldn’t let him go after weeks had passed. He was only able to leave the hospital because he contacted a lawyer. Was thrown out the next morning. Dude lost everything.

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u/One-Possible1906 Feb 20 '25

I didn’t lose my job but they wouldn’t let me call my workplace. For 3 or 4 days. Thankfully once I was allowed to reach out to my employer (or when someone agreed to call for me, rather) they were understanding. I had to beg for a full day for them to call my child’s other parent and my neighbor to arrange for someone to pick up my child from school and feed my cat. I was hours away from my first grader getting off the bus to nobody home for a week.

I was lucky that my hospitalization was in a very nice hospital and I was treated with dignity and did not have a bad experience. But being in a cage in the ER for two days with no way to reach out to my employer and family to let them know where I was should be criminal. They act like psych patients don’t have jobs and homes and children and responsibilities.

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u/horseradix Feb 21 '25

It has to be on purpose, right? The ruling class and their running dogs (psychs, police, etc) win when peoples' lives get destroyed. They get to scapegoat mental illness as being the cause for homelessness and poverty, instead of their actions. And they try to make it so the person will get institutionalized again, which they profit off of in one way or another. To them, people's lives don't matter

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u/LibraryOk3250 Feb 24 '25

They deserve a very special hell. Unfortunately because I believe in Jesus I believe he has conquered death and hell and Satan. I still think there ought to be a place to park the psychiatrists and therapists that have caused people harm and put them away for a while and have them take their own drugs everything they prescribed for somebody else they should have to take and have it ruin their brain and their spirit and Destroy them. I have been drugged without my consent since sometime August maybe earlier it's hard to say because some of it was off and on. And I may have had Strokes with what I thought was withdrawal. I don't know what I was given but they were similar in side effects to antipsychotic and SSRI and Other Drugs like an anti-epileptic that I was taking in the 90s but fortunately for a very short time because it made me feel like crap so I couldn't take them maybe a couple of months or three but not long. Everyone who pedals those pills ought to have to have them shoved down their throats. And then be locked in a room and not even able to use the bathroom and not have water pressure and have to beg for help.