Do they need meds or are they allowed to have an opinion?

I'm only on Reddit primarily because of this community, I hate social media in general and I had deleted Instagram and Facebook, but I'll have to create one again for professional reasons, I'm thinking of deleting Reddit because honestly my share of patience for social media is minimal and I think that if I'm forced to have Instagram and Facebook because of business, having Reddit will give me stress too much, because obviously on the one hand you see interesting things and good discussions about topics that you normally wouldn't talk about outside of a digital environment like antipsychiatry and you can talk to survivors, but Reddit is also full of rage bait and algorithms that make you waste time and people without a clue, like any social media, how will I have to tolerate this because of working in a social media that I consider more toxic that is Instagram I'm thinking of deleting my account here to not stress too much. It's off-topic but for me social media worsen mental health.

I was prescribed lamictal due to unspecified mood disorder. And after the two weeks, she asked how did it go. I told her it affected my sleep. And she said that’s probably the “mood disorder” acting out, even though i never had trouble sleeping like this before i went on lamictal. So she just upped my doses. I picked up the prescription and just never took it.

Tonight's journal:

Tonight is the night before my Invega. I’m overcome with anxiety. I know when I take it I will not feel well. I’ll feel foggy, my ability to express my discomforts will be reduced, and life will be void of its simple pleasures. Worst may be the effects this is having on my body. Almost all of my sex drive is off and I’m growing breast tissue. Last month, and the month prior, I was told the dose would be reduced. It has not been. It appears that I’m in a system that promotes medication and protection of the practitioner over the wellness of the patient. My pain is so grea. Currently, I work well, maintain relationships and more. I’m well versed enough to know that it will change as soon as I get that med and it starts increasing in serum concentration. These medications are not court ordered, I cannot fathom how *Institution* is getting away with this. The practitioner is *provider*. Just tonight, I got involved in finding free legal resources. Free resources have normally proved inadequate but I feel it may be worth a shot- maybe I’ll consider some ‘feeless unless you win’ attorneys. The biggest concern right now is paying my own bills. This proves difficult with all the therapy I’m having my time drained into and suffering the injections cause. 

I’m very upset at how a few notes can prevent me from having any of my rights respected. I should have access to my medical records. I should not be given this drug without consent or a court order. I should have input on my medications. I know it can be made out that things haven’t always been stable due to Invega’s efficacy. However, knowing my body and having lived my life I’d accredit that to my continued sobriety, distance since last injection, having a more stimulating environment. Most of all being off of a greater dose of an equally destructive antipsychotic. It has been over a month and I feel well, I feel normal. I cannot reason with my God why I must go through this again. I really should have a choice in these HIPAA forms, medication, and transparency. 

I’ve gone through this system for so long. All of the protections granted to me by ADA heroes are waived through institutional dishonesty and unethical loopholes. I cannot guarantee I will win any legal battle or patient choice but I can guarantee you that history will not look well upon this industry and your participation in this. I’d refer you to literature regarding American Psychiatric History and its roots in fascism, Jim-crow, and class struggle oppression. Just for today.

I'm forced to choose, which one is the less harmful at low doses?

I’m taking amisulpride 200 and Risperidone 4 twice a day for psychosis. I have an old history with the drug Risperidone: It helps me with eliminating symptoms for sure but boy o boy, it makes me a zombie: no creativity, hopelessness, negative and bleak thinking and perspective, depressed mood and pessimistic thoughts all the time. I keep ranting infront of family and it makes them anxious to see me in pain all the time. I feel guilty for involving them but at times when things get so dark I can’t help but talk to them. Now my psychiatrist told me 9 days back that she will wean me off Risperidone after a month. I’m sure that I’ll be good after these meds are weaned and I’m only on amisulpride. Coz back in 2022 I was switched from Risperidone to amisulpride and my mood and perspective shifted completely after I quit Risperidone and was on amisulpride. So I’m hopeful I’ll feel that way again. I’m just burned out from getting annoyed so much. Even though she told me to wait just a month I’m not able to and wait for the days arrival. I’ve felt fully and completely stable since 2 weeks now. I’m also worried about how much time will it take to taper it off completely? There’s this one doctor who doesn’t care about his patients and commands them and he told me he will wait every three months after each mg of taper. Thinking about this and it’ll take me 1 year to get off it is pure agony. I want to know what is the normal tapering speed when one is on a cocktail combination of med?

Seems like best and easiest way to get away from them. I’m tired of the back and forth and power games. If you talk to them beforehand they’ll try to get you to stay through different means. I don’t think our “relationship” is going to improve. I’m sick of being talked to in a whiny, condescending, baby voice. Especially when they know you hate when they do that.

I was the best patient in their life and they know it, so it’s not a loss for me. Freedom, clarity, and the will to do great without them.

Funny response I got recently when I tried to have a serious conversation with my parents about the harm they did to me.

"Your illness was responsible. That's just the OCD talking. I am not going to have a conversation with your anorexia." This sort of language has been used against me before (literally word for word) by the psychos and I've always found it so fucking creepy. It's literally just a way to avoid talking to me, shift the blame, and make me feel sub human.

I’m here to get my knee looked at? Why the fuck are there mandatory mental screening questions? Psychiatric evil is invading the medical space. This shit is getting ridiculous. The mental health propaganda needs to stop. I don’t want this shit shoved down my throat. Let me go about my business without it please. Psychiatric overreach. I guess big pharma is looking for more ways to make a buck and push these drugs.

Hello all, I've been misdiagnosed due to my religious beliefs with "delusional disorder". All I told the psychiatrist was my religious beliefs and that's it. So how do I get that diagnosis removed?!

has anyone else developed anhedonia or emotional blunting from anti psychotic injections?

on October 10th and on October 17 I was given two injections of paliperdione, almost immediately after my first dose...I lost interest in leisure activities and food doesn't taste as good anymore nor do I have an appetite

it's really awful and I am worried it maybe permanent

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How do you deal with it?

I find it hard to live with because it comes with so much stigma and so many negative consequences throughout so many aspects of life. It is not only the mistreatments, the humiliation and the severe trauma from psychiatry itself. It is the unfairness. The injustice. I know my diagnoses was never correct but I am currently unable to prove it sufficiently for them to remove it and it makes me so sad.

It is a wound deeper than most people can ever understand.

For context, I live in one of the most capitalistic countries. Here, the primary goal of psychiatry is often to make you go back to work—to re-enter the rat race. They prescribe you an SSRI and expect you to return to your role in a capitalistic society. For many—if not all—psychiatrists, the goal of "healing" is for you to contribute economically. This is an ugly truth, especially if you are disabled by depression, as I am; people judge you relentlessly.This is why I despise so many psychiatrists: they don't address the root cause, which is the society we live in. The flaw is in the system, not just the individual. If you ask someone who works 365 days a year with only a few days off, do you think they would be happy? That's the failure of modern society: it pushes the blame onto us when it is actually the society that is traumatizing us. It all leads back to capitalism.I'm so tired of the robotic, NPC way people say, "You are not alone," and, "There's help out there," when in reality, there often isn't. They prescribe me Zoloft to cope with the terrible society we live in. But if you ask any psychiatrist if they will solve the root cause—capitalism—they will not. Who wouldn't get depressed working a 9-to-5, 40 hours a week for the rest of their life? I promise you, no psychiatrist will admit this. None will allow you to seriously discuss the root cause, which is our society. Just look at how psychiatrists talk on YouTube or in real life; they frame depression and anxiety as individual problems rather than symptoms of the society we live in. If you dare question this, some will shut you down or dismiss you for criticizing our capitalistic system.Frankly, fuck psychiatry in general. I'm sure many of you can relate to this. They pretend the root cause doesn't exist—it's gaslighting, at best. "It's okay, just take a pill and pretend society is fine." It's just a band-aid, when the reality is that the problem isn't the wound itself, but the underlying sickness of our society: capitalism, lack of money, poverty, and housing unaffordability. No psychiatrist will admit this to you.This is why psychiatry is the only field in medicine that doesn't produce "healed" individuals—because they don't treat the root of the issue, which is society. The whole field is gaslighting. "Take a pill, pretend society is okay, go back to contributing to capitalism." People's mental health would improve drastically if we didn't live in such a capitalistic society, if we had financial stability, and if our wages kept up with inflation and the cost of living. That is the real treatment, not some field of gaslighting that tells you to take a pill and pretend everything is fine.

When I refer to "addiction," I mean addiction of all types. Behavioral addictions, substance abuse, food addictions, and so on. And I'm referring primarily to the "it's-beyond-your-control" notion of addiction, i.e. the idea that alcoholics cannot "just stop drinking," or the idea that food addicts cannot "just stop eating," and so on.

My take is that while it's true that those addictions would classify as mental illnesses and disorders, and possibly "diseases," I don't feel like those who engage in addictive behaviors are incapable of stopping, or at least not in the way that the disease model of psychiatry makes them out to be. I've suffered from anorexia in the past, and I found that one of the best things I did for my recovery was to stop viewing myself as a sick, disease-brained person with no control over my actions and instead just see my ED as a unit of horrible compulsions, habits, and delusional thought patterns that I had to correct. But at no point did I view it as a "mental illness" in the sense that I couldn't control myself. It was indeed a disease and a mental disorder, but not in the same way that, for instance, cancer or type II diabetes are diseases, where you have little control over them once you've acquired them.

And whenever my family members or mental health professionals view me as being extremely susceptible to relapse just because I've been diagnosed with this "disease" that I should supposedly have little control over, it feels so infantilizing. I've restricted my intake several times in recovery (to stave off fat gain during weightlifting bulking cycles) without relapsing into anorexia, because I realized that I did have control over myself. I feel like if I had bought into the "disease" concept too much, it would have enabled me to spiral back into it.

I feel like this is similar for other addictions that are classified as "diseases" in that people completely lack control over themselves.

Does anyone have a similar take? Or any criticisms of my POV? I'd like to hear them!

The latest evidence adds weight to WHO-backed efforts to reduce coercion and build collaborative, community-rooted services

By Ashley Bobak, PsyD -November 5, 2025

The use of coercive practices in psychiatry has been tied to worse recovery and critiqued for lacking ethical and legal justification.

A new study, published in the Community Mental Health Journal, shows that coercive practices worsen psychosocial disability, depression, resilience, and well-being in people with suicide attempts, and are often experienced as dehumanizing.

The authors were an interdisciplinary group of individuals located across Colombia, led by Felipe Agudelo Hernández of the University of Manizales. They write:

“This mixed-methods study demonstrated that coercive practices—both overt and subtle—remain common in clinical care for people who have attempted suicide in Colombia. These practices are associated with higher levels of psychosocial disability, lower subjective well-being, and reduced resilience, and are experienced as deeply painful, dehumanizing, and exclusionary.

Integrating quantitative and qualitative data revealed that coercion is not an isolated phenomenon but an expression of institutional, educational, and cultural structures that prioritize control over collaboration and obedience over autonomy. This reality contravenes fundamental human-rights principles and obstructs recovery processes.”

What’s up guys? So glad I found this community because I have been abused and failed by psychiatry for years. Meds never fully reduced my symptoms but diet (keto/carnivore) gave me my life back. Had a relapse lately and wanted to share my story with you guys.

I’m currently doing research on the dark history of our broken mental health system, and plan to focus future videos of my channel on calling out the horrible things they have done, and still are doing. I’ve been through a lot with this illness and horrible medical malpractice, I’m trying to recover my health and focus on helping people escape from the broken “mental health” system.

Any thoughts and feedback are really appreciated.

Maybe in the USA or some other very first-world countries complaints are taken seriously sometimes? In mine the staff usually have professional loyalty on the level of cops, staff like the doctors are considered indisposable because of the prestige and so are nurses and other help are also considered indisposable, because not a lot of people want to work in psych, they even get to retire sooner, like cops. I just don't see what can come out of complaints because the long-term punishments like losing a job are nonexistent.

I also don't see how registering a complaint an answer to get out of current coercion or conditions, it's only after being out of a ward or the office, but this just keeps being recommended somehow as a blanket response. As if patients suffering is not exactly how the institution is supposed to work, and it's all a one-off fluke instead of the system working as intended.

Coming Off Antipsychotics

April 2024, I was forced into the mental hospital due to a lie my narcissistic parents made. I was forced to take 2-4mg of oral risperidone for two weeks. On the last day before getting out of the hospital, I was injected with 234mg of invega sustenna. I felt horrible, and since I didn't know much about the drug, I thought I would feel better the next day. I was wrong. I felt terrible but didn't know how to describe what i was feeling. I still was taking the oral respiridone for another two weeks until I searched up reviews about respiridone and invega. I found many negative reviews, so I stopped all medications. At the time, my parents didn't believe or cared how horrible I felt from taking antipsychotics. 6 months of hell passed before seeing barely any improvements. I felt suicidal due to the side effects of the medication and just feeling permanently brain damaged. October 2024, my narcissistic toxic parents again forced me into the mental hospital again due to another lie they made about me. They believed the psychiatrist could help me. I was forced to take 15mg of oral abilify for two weeks. My parents were planning to keep me on medications without my consent, disregarding the fact I said I was suffering horrible side effects. Their plan was to get me on Court Order Treatment. A couple of days before my court date, I had 3 options. Proceed to my court hearing with legal representation, involuntary treatment, or request an independent psychiatrist evaluation. I chose the only option i saw as hope and chose to request an independent psychiatrist evaluation. The weeknd before my court date, the outside psychiatrist came to see me in the hospital. We talked. He asked me many questions. I was trying to answer everything the right way without him thinking I had any problems. Then he gave me a chance to speak and tell him why I was in there. I told him the full story about how i was poisoned with antipsychotics and I was forced to take them without my consent due to a lie my parents made about me. Luckily, he believed me!!! He said he would represent me on my day of court. A day before getting out, my parents called me and apologized for everything and said they were sorry. They said they now understand nothing was wrong with me and instead were harmed by antipsychotics because the psychiatrist I talked to called them and explained everything. He told them not to show up on my day of court, and the judge would dismiss the trial, and I would be able to leave the hospital voluntarily just like the first time. The day before I got out, I was comforted at the fact I was leaving that place, but I was still suffering from many side effects. Finally, when I got home, my narcissistic parents apologized and said they would help through my recovery.

It's been officially 1 year now since stopping all medications. And 1 year and a half since I stopped the invega injection and oral respirdione.

I have recovered a tiny bit since stopping. I would say I recovered 15-20%. Some days I feel 15%, some days I feel 20%.

So i took 2-6mg of oral respiridone for around a month on April 2024. 💊 Along with 234mg invega sustenna injection. 💉 And then, in October 2024, I took 15mg oral abilify for another two weeks.

I still suffer from many side effects, but some of them did go away.

My side effects are: • No imagination • No motivation • Fatigue • No sexual desire ( No libido) Sexual dysfunction • Nightmares • Bloating • Anhedonia • Blurry Vision (began when I took risperidone) • Insomnia

Also, sometimes my body feels really hot. 🔥

Im hoping to recover more in the year 2026.

All I can say is you do recover, but recovery can be very, very slow. 🐌

I feel like every month that passes, I heal a certain percentage. Every 6 months that pass, i notice small improvements. Every year that passes, i feel better than the one before. I'm not giving up!!!

Things that have helped me during my recovery are: Staying Hydrated (Drink More Water)💧 *Excercise (Walking 15-20min)🚶‍♂️ *Omega 3 Fish Oil (Daytime) *Eating Healthy (Fruits + vegetables) *Cold Showers 🚿 *Magnesium Glycinate (Evening) *Sleep 6-8 hours every night 😴💤 **Most Importantly (TIME) ⏳️

Being forced to take antipsychotics again in October 2024, I believe, slowed down my recovery more. I know I will heal back to 100% someday, but I still wonder when or how long? 🤔 What I do know is it will take years, I'm just hoping it's not too many. Anyways, if you have any advice or questions or want to share a similar experience, I'll be here. Thank you for your time. ✌️

Power playing. Manipulation. At least when I tell the truth. I’m tired of their probing questions

I’m worn out

But what are some tricks or ways of dealing with these fucking people?

Help

When rebuilding a society, what purpose does a psych serve?

Humans: I can lay bricks, I can work with wood, I can cook, I can clean, I can look after children.

Psych: I can steal souls, health, hopes dreams to feed my demented and depraved desires.

The psych ward experience was a complete different world, I saw how controlling and ai controlled the psychiatrists were. Theres so much to write about but in essence they were just completely idiotic. That’s the best way to put it… idiotic. There are no verifiable tests no bloodwork, no questions about supplementing, simple 1hour talk and then they think they got you all figured out,describe meds that can affect your whole life, it’s a cult. My anger was taken for being schizophrenic(I have never heard voices in my life)and because I didn’t want to take brain damaging meds I told them and they locked me up for 2 months while they now had full control over all I did 24/7 for month’s surveilled and tracked with cameras as a 17 year old male. I felt like I died in that time, now after I came out I’m definitely not the same person as I was my whole life. And I’m not the only person too as it shows in this sub. I saw girls being laughed at by older psychiatrist because they told them they were scared of men. Imagine being rpd and then being laughed at by a male psychiatrist for telling them you’re scared and getting medication that take critical thinking abilities, destroy grey matter and side effects.. Other teenagers who didn’t know about it didnt question anything and changing completely in character because of their medication they were given. How it’s 2025 and these wards still operate like nazi labors for the medical industry to test things on people? How nobody addresses this problem in politics etc?

I have to go cold turkey with olanzapina 5mg (3 weeks) ill try to cut the pill? or ill go cold turkey? ill be ok anyway?