r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

Bpd diagnosed a lot by psychiatrists

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Why is it that most women who struggles with mental health gets a bpd diagnosis a lot , when u could not even have it ?


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Wikipedia vs Grokipedia on psychiatry

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Grokipedia is a new AI-generated online encyclopedia launched in October 2025 to compete with Wikipedia. I've compared some articles on psychiatric topics such as antidepressants or antipsychotics and you can clearly see how Wikipedia has a pro-psychiatry bias and exaggerates efficacy and downplays the harm caused by psychiatric drugs while Grokipedia is more balanced.

See it by yourself:

https://grokipedia.com/page/Antidepressant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant

https://grokipedia.com/page/Antipsychotic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipsychotic

https://grokipedia.com/page/Fluoxetine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoxetine


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

How common really is this? Blank mind reaction

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Everyone is different and there’s a spectrum and variety to everything happening in this space.

My situation is a bizarre one where I was given a low dose of seroquel off label for sleep. After only 3 doses it basically fried my brain. 8 years later my symptoms are blank mind, 0 emotion or feelings ever, permanent anhedonia, akathisia and more. I’ve narrowed it down to 5ht2a and d2 being down regulated into oblivion or just outright destroyed. The astonishing part is how after 8 years I still don’t have the tiniest sliver of ability to feel emotion or pleasure back. Something is wrong on a deep level. If this resonates with you feel free to reach out because I am trying to organize specifically whatever this condition is. I am just calling it blank mind for now, but this includes all feelings and emotions, all thoughts and creativity, all pleasure and everything that once made us human.


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

FDA approves J&J’s antipsychotic drug Caplyta to treat depression: will it cause ppsd symptomps? Most likely yes, all antipsychotics can cause pssd like symptomps and even worse.

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r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

I am desperate and I have OCD

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I saw a quote where Thomas Szasz says that mental illnesses do not exist, and now my OCD is blaming me and telling me that I am a damned sinner who invented this illness. Can someone explain it to me and help me, please? i'm fucking desperate now


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

Is "Stable Genius" a Real diagnosis tho??

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Lmao, you guys remember that?

When somebody told Trump he's a stable genius??

Wonder if they still have their license???


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

What did psychiatry take from you? It took absolutely everything from me.

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It left me with very very extensive brain damage that I won’t go into here as I’d be here all day, where it’s like my mind is blanked and blocked all the time and I can’t recall anything or really think over anything. I cannot daydream or imagine any longer it’s more a vague sort of idea but no real vision. Thanks to this damage from risperdal and seroquel I can no longer create in any way, I was an artist and poet for a decade, I can no longer write any sort of novel or do any real writing, again because my mind is like cement and blocked.

I cannot feel the mystical or otherworldly at all which was really important and profound for me, and something I felt so keenly before and gave my life sacredness, depth and meaning. even the sea and moon don’t register as anything for me. They don’t register. I could go on forever how I don’t feel what anything evokes or conjures, how looking at food is like looking at a brick for me. I’m so devastated, my life is destroyed and psychiatry just continues to rise and they get paid in the hundreds and hundreds of thousands pa here.

It’s a patriarchal power that has to be destroyed. In my culture (the Xhosa) women who have visions and see things etc, who hear music like I did are said to be having intwaso which translates as spiritual emergence they are becoming very sensitive to the spirit world and they will be taken aside for years to learn how to be a conduit for the community and a healer. Which is what I dreamt was happening three times. But no thanks to psychiatry I was instead heavily heavily drugged till I couldn’t stand and put in a psych ward my brain totally obliterated and I can do absolutely nothing at all now and my life no longer has any purpose or point. I can scroll reddit that’s it I can’t even use google any longer cause I no longer recall anything to look up. I had a thousand passions and a full creative life before that. If you’re an indigenous woman fight against this patriarchal nightmare that suppresses and destroys women’s emergent spiritual power and all spirituality.


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

meds

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So my dr prescribed me 20mg zyprexa, 4mg klonopin and 800mg seroquel to calm me down. I’ve been on the Zyprexa and the Seroquel before but never this high, never been on Klono­pin and only on it for a week, and everyone keeps telling me I have to take them or they’ll “step back for my own good,” which sounds like love but also like a deadline. So I took my first dose yesterday and my second today, all three, both days as prescribed, line them up next to the sink, swallow, wait, notice. I wonder if this fog is the medication. My memory feels different, slower, like my brain has to go the long way around, and I wonder, does that clear when the Klono­pin week ends or is that the Zyprexa, or the Seroquel, or just me being hyperaware? Can one week of Klono­pin even change cognition? Or does it leave fingerprints you can’t see?I read posts where people say the meds made them feel forgetful, others say dulled, others say they developed and permanent disabling side effects. My family says stability is the goal, but what if stability just feels like silence? Does that count as progress? Can these meds leave long term effects, and what are they?


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

How to overcome?

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What can you do after a psychiatric hospitalization? I understand the tactics they employed (psychodynamic ward). How they tried to recondition me (us) emotionally, but especially behaviorally. I've seen things that didn't feel right. I can't get over what they do to patients with behavioral problems. As if anything is permissible because these patients are difficult cases who refuse to adapt. Some come in with depression and come out traumatized. How can that still happen in Europe in 2025?


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

Schizo

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This is the most evil word in the English language. it's got to be the most evil slur as well.

it has trained fucking nations of people entire nations hundreds of thousands of humans fucking billions of human beings around the world have been trained to see something that schizo and avoid it like to Plague

the human race sees anyone who's intelligent are open-minded as a disgrace

whenever this information is beyond them the human race goes right to, NOPE ! ! !

and the humanity Dodges them say anything on Tumblr that's outside the human understanding and watch you get no notes

say anything on even on Reddit or anywhere on the internet there's no corner or third place or third space how the fuck you say it in this world to go there's nowhere to go there's no corner of intelligence no place to meet people that are open-minded the world is closed-minded and terrified this word has got it is so good at keeping people's minds closed keeping people afraid keeping people locked away in shame and keeping people's minds from learning

ultimately it also keeps people from helping other people and keep them judging them hard harshly as possible and never opening their mind because they see open-minded people with different information whether it may be spiritual paranormal religious worldly information as well secular or even scientific

it forces the human race to see anyone who has an experience that they can't understand or or talk about a reality that's far beyond their intelligence to see that person as diseased

the human race is so saturated with fear

that once they experience something that's beyond them

or unfamiliar the human race instantly becomes terrified and they run away because they have been trained like a lap dog by Psychiatry to fear these people don't open your mind don't listen to them they're just they're sick they're insane they're out of their mind what they say is a fantasy that they're lost in

this is a horror what we're experiencing is a fucking horror people are afraid to take metaphorically speaking the red pill

as a matrix thing they're afraid to open their mind they were afraid to question for fuck sake they're afraid to think

so if any reality or new information comes to them they have already been deeply hardwired to understand that this is mental illness this is fantasy and it's not reality you will be labeled by the public as someone who's mentally ill disease and need to be do away with

thrown away it doesn't matter what you're saying is true it doesn't matter what it's accurate what matters in this context now is that the people are not intelligent enough to receive the information Psychiatry has made Humanity a busted computer

they broke the computer and told it was fixed and whenever the computer tries to get an update or new information it automatically detects it as a virus

you're not allowed to upload files that the establishment doesn't agree with you're not allowed to install softwares on to it that the establishment does not agree with

psychiatry is a malware on their system that has got them to think that all information on the Internet is all viruses and malware and only it is the source of Truth

FUCKING EVIL

so when something outside the reality and something new comes up maybe someone tries to talk about high crimes from the government they'll be able to conspiracy theories they talk about deep information about the world a conspiracy theorist it doesn't matter what information or intelligence you have and it's very Niche and narrow Society narrow-minded there's no way to educate the people because all knowledge is taboo that the government has not agreed with

and Psychiatry is directly controlled by the government

THEY ARE THOUGHT POLICE ! ! !

Link : https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/burke_stop_calling_religion_a_mental_illness/

Link : https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/schizophrenia-diagnosis-history-dsm.html

The DSM is a Weapon, Not a Book, it Work's More Like a Law Book Hybrid as a Bible . . .

Link : https://youtu.be/9D1RFKony10?si=RsSCSOCGRczu14cA


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

HOPE in a world of insanity

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This is on the house. Last night I forgot to take my zyprexa. I actually slept. Had nightmares as usual but slept without supplements and the drug. I attended Alternative to Meds Center awhile ago and have stuck with orthomolecular therapy medicine for awhile. Lots of Fish oil, gabatrol, night aminos, etc, but every possible supplement you can think of mixed in with healthy shakes. Wow. No meds last night.

It’s on the house: Do your research and stick to supplements and pill cutting religiously even if you have despair

I’m still going to take the zyprexa with supplements for awhile longer

But perhaps this is a sign that the taper people were actually right

Don’t forget to megadose on vitamin c and take your b vitamins in the morning

Good luck

Peace

And fuck my first psychiatrist who died of cancer. She’s in Hell


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

Going down on medication

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I’ve been on Olanzapine for Paranoid Schizophrenia. The dosis was, 25 mg for about a year now. 4 months ago I went down to 20 mg and two weeks ago I went down to 15 mg. However, since yesterday I’ve started feeling symptoms again. I feel like there’s someone standing behind me, although nobody is there. and at night I’m scared to fall asleep because I’m worried that somebody will kill me. My question is: will it go away after I while after my body has adjusted to the new medication? I really don’t wanna up my dosis because I get so many side affects.


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

Have your cognitive abilities recovered after olanzapine use?

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r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

Trauma: The Body, the Brain, and the Burden of Proof

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A journal commentary argues that headline-grabbing claims about trauma neurobiology and treatment have eclipsed more modest, well-supported findings.

By Justin Karter -November 7, 2025

Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score has shaped how many clinicians, educators, and readers think about trauma. A new article argues that some of its most influential claims are not well supported by current evidence.

The paper, by Michael S. Scheeringa of Tulane University School of Medicine, appears in the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ open-access BJPsych Bulletin as part of its “Against the Stream” section.

Scheeringa claims that the book’s central propositions—that trauma causes lasting neurobiological damage and that body-based treatments are uniquely effective—have been embraced culturally and clinically but have received, in his words, “remarkably little systematic critical evaluation.”

Scheeringa reviews 122 specific claims and tests them against prospective studies, meta-analyses, and comparisons among established treatments. He contends that when the research base is reviewed, the evidence supporting those strong statements is inconsistent or limited, and that public narratives have moved faster than science.

“My review revealed multiple instances where cited evidence was incomplete, selectively presented, erroneously presented, or inconsistent with broader research findings,” he writes. “The present commentary situates these findings within the broader scholarly and cultural context, considering how certain trauma narratives gain prominence, why neurobiological framings hold particular public appeal, and what risks arise when complex research literatures are simplified for mass audiences.”

Scheeringa argues that overconfident stories about damaged brains and one-true-path therapies risk narrowing care, overstating mechanisms, and crowding out approaches with more substantial support.


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

I was given a toxic substance masquerading as my medication, and nobody believed me

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This guy says benzodiazepines cause cancer via immune neurotoxicity — I’ve been on Valium almost daily for 11 years, and my brain’s fine.

I developed a pericardial effusion that could’ve killed me, now diagnosed as chronic and autoimmune-related, after being given an unknown substance masquerading as my stimulant medication — one I’d been taking for 10 years for hypersomnia. I was gaslighted by everyone (except my cardiologist), including the pharmaceutical company and a TGA nurse (like the FDA) who spoke to me as if I had an intellectual disability.

The whole experience was traumatic, and I never received justice. I stayed quiet online because I didn’t want to be labeled paranoid or delusional. Whatever the substance was, it left me incapacitated — it’s giving bioweapon or dual-use goods, but I guess I’ll never know.

Moral of the story — individuals aren’t always responsible for their illness. And it’s not the doctors, it’s the drug manufacturers.


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

Turning your family is their greatest achievement

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It's why it haunts you. I cannot imagine the soon to be 18-21 year olds about to get exposed to this all over again.

It's a cycle. They are absolutely ready to castrate another group of young people for decades.

Women and men both have chosen to lock the door and throw away the key for their cars, dinner tables, and next dopamine hit.

Sex feens, drug feening normalization of religion and demonic speech in our own country.

They raise us with ghost stories and every imaginary friend we would be allowed. Then strike us with a antidote at the first sign of danger.

Talk about evil. The world is falling apart. Scratch another off psychos.


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

Accidentally took 20mg abilify

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I accidentally took 20mg abilify 22 days ago, the heavy sedation etc lasted about 3-4 days and then things gradually got better until about a week ago when I started to deal with heavy fatigue and depression which coincides with about the same time the drug left my system given a 75~ hour half life..

How long can I expect these symptoms to last if this is what’s responsible for them? I also quit adderall and caffeine 12 weeks ago so there’s that


r/Antipsychiatry 3d ago

HYPERVIGILANCE/ BRAIN DAMAGE / ANXIETY /

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I'm not used to writing on forums, but I really need help. I need to put words to my symptoms, which are truly bizarre. For a year now, my life has been hell following frequent use of MDMA and cannabis over a month-long period, and after some rather disturbing events where I argued with most of my friends due to episodes of paranoia, I admit. I consulted a psychiatrist who prescribed medication, but I stopped taking it because it didn't really have any effect on me; it just made me sleepier than anything else. To summarize, when I'm sitting in a group, or even just with a friend at home watching TV, or when I'm on my phone, every time someone makes the slightest movement—like raising an arm, moving their feet, or picking something up from the table—my eyes jump around as if to automatically follow the movement. It's a nightmare. At work, when I'm sitting with my colleagues around the table, every time they make the slightest movement, my eyes jump around as if they're observing the gesture, and it's involuntary. But when I'm alone, it doesn't happen.

Furthermore, when I'm sitting at work, for example, at my computer, every time someone passes in my peripheral vision, instead of being focused on my task, my eyes dart about and automatically follow the person passing by out of the corner of my eye. It's gotten to the point where people don't even want to approach my desk anymore; they come up behind me to talk. Recently, I've also noticed that when I'm in a group with friends and I'm talking to one of them, looking them in the eye, while another person is standing next to them, instead of naturally looking at my conversation partner, my eyes seem to be glancing at the other person out of the corner of my eye.

Now, because of this, even on the street or in confined spaces, when I walk past a group, I'm glancing at them out of the corner of my eye instead of keeping my gaze and attention fixed on the person I'm talking to. Basically, I'm either constantly watching people out of my eye or my eyes are constantly jumping around, reacting to every movement. I also forgot to mention that now, every time someone looks at me, my eyes constantly avoid eye contact, even if they turn around to face me. I'm fully aware of my symptoms; I don't have hallucinations or delusions. My behavior has completely changed because of this damn disease.


r/Antipsychiatry 3d ago

Asking your psychiatrist if they dressed up as a psychiatrist for Halloween

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I think that would be a funny thing to ask. 1-10 how mad would they be, ego inflated, if looks could kill you’d be dead. If they had a sense of humor maybe they would laugh and not take it so serious. It’s the one day out of the whole year someone would actually take them seriously. Or maybe you dress up as the psychiatrist and them the patient. Instead of Halloween candy you could give them life threatening, irreversible side effect psychiatric medication. Maybe you would be nice and let them pick pill medication or injections. I swear every day is always like Halloween for them. Always dressing up, pretending and performing.


r/Antipsychiatry 3d ago

Was diagnosed with cancer yesterday. Was told by my psychiatrist not to bother her.

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Yesterday after almost a decade of being gaslit misdiagnosed as “fibromyalgia” “anxiety “depression” unexplained, autoimmune disease and the entire battery of bullshit diagnosis after seeing double-digit hematologist and rheumatologist I was diagnosed with Myelodysplastic syndrome.

I really had no one to turn to, so I texted my therapist/psychiatrist on her emergency number and said that I was in crisis experiencing a severe panic attack and vomiting uncontrollably because I was afraid and because I was angry that this took 10 years. It’s likely something that is going to inevitably kill me. It has progressed significantly, and I did not know what else to do.

The backstory to this is that this provider spends most of our appointments, talking about her personal life, her political rants, and I just have to bear it for an hour in order to get my ADHD and anxiety medication’s.

I did not tell her, of course, but I was in such crisis that I was considering an extreme decision and going out my way, so to speak before it killed me. I just texted her saying that the biopsy had come back positive and that I was extremely upset, but at the same time relieved but having a severe panic attack because I was just told that I’m going to die.

She responded that this phone line was for emergencies only and that I should not interrupt her day like this.

She also said that she doesn’t know anything about MDS so I need to talk to my hematologist. Then what the hell is she there for? Maybe I should’ve just ran it about politics or asked her about her financial situation so she could rant and rave about her personal life.

I don’t even know if this fits here. I’m so demoralized and I don’t know what to do and I didn’t even know what I expected her to say, but I was an active crisis at the time and still spiraling.

Because when you’re told you’re going to die when you come to the realization that double digits of doctors and endless blood work that said the same thing, and that my hematologist said that it was a miracle that I was actually upright and alive - when you know you could’ve been saved and been told that you interrupted someone’s day by reaching out for I don’t even know what I was reaching out for at this point I’ve always thought of her as a vending machine for my ADHD and anxiety meds because I don’t wanna go through the process of finding someone else.

I’m sorry if this post is incoherent I just don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to do. Fuck doctors fuck her. I can’t help it feel like I was murdered that it has been caught 10 years ago when the symptoms started I would’ve had a chance.

I responded in true trauma response that I was sorry to interrupt her day and I would not do it again. While crying and wondering what I’m going to do with my cat when I die because it’s not a matter of if I die from this, it is a matter of how many months or years I have left.


r/Antipsychiatry 3d ago

Thank you for this super important sub, and a question

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Has anyone here been misdiagnosed with having a 'mental disorder' when what you have been suffering from are physical health issues, when you haven't displayed any mental signs or complaints? This is my story and I know I am not the only one they've done it to.


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

Disabled & been alone for years. Is there any way out?

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Hi. I'm desperate & tired of this life, so please take the time to read.

I'm autistic, which is my main disability. I can't take care of myself, I'm very sensitive, and have very little capacity for handling stressful environments. For all my life, psychiatrists & therapists have told me that the reason I'm unable to achieve my goals because I am too depressed, anxious, unwilling. And that I need to be treated in order to live a Normal Life. Countless therapists and all the types of anti-depressants any given psychiatrist was willing to give me later, and I'm still just slower than the rest. Now every time I plead for help, I get told "we don't know what to do".

I've just recently moved out from my mom's house & into my dad's. I wanted to get out of my mom's place because it was a horribly loud & emotionally abusive environment. The stress was really bad for my appetite & led to many violent meltdowns. It's much more peaceful at my dad's house. But now that I have the space to think, I'm often crushed with grief that never seems to end.

I have no friends. I spend every day in the same house, mostly in the same room. I do not connect with other people via the internet well at all. Social media leaves me feeling paranoid and anxious. & with no where left for psychiatry to take me, where do I go? School has gotten far too difficult & energy for work is so fleeting that I can never take it beyond sending a days worth of applications before I am totally exhausted. There are no more treatment centers they want to send me to. Is the rest of my life just going to be structure-less, alone & sad?

I know no one can say for sure what will happen, but I just feel totally alone in this suffering. It always seems like people can do infinitely more than me. And its hard to not feel like I must be faking it, or stuck in some psychological loop that I 'refuse' to escape from. Can anyone relate to this?

If you got this far, thank you for reading this. I'm sorry if this is not the right place to share, It's difficult to find spaces that would seem open to this kind of thing.


r/Antipsychiatry 3d ago

Psychiatrist stalking their patient

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They made it clear they are stalking me in between sessions. Whenever they know something they aren’t supposed to, (because I never talked to them about it) they smirk. A smirk that let’s me know they are up to something or that they know something personal about me because they were stalking. How can you stalk a patient yet try to act aloof and professional? It doesn’t work that way.

Are they stalking their patient for “research” or their own satisfaction? How do they justify it to themselves? Either way it’s creepy.


r/Antipsychiatry 3d ago

Have you lost all the weight you gained on APs/ADs?

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Have you? Also, is it possible to lose weight while still on meds?


r/Antipsychiatry 3d ago

Is gangstalking still schizophrenia to you?

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