If you are new to this site, Questions and Answers about Recovery can be a good place to start!
This video, showing me explaining the basics of Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis to an audience in Corvallis Oregon, is a few years old but is still a good introduction to the subject, and to my perspective on it.
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Old belief systems die slowly. SSRI’s clearly induce mania in a subset of people. A general activation that can range from mood elevation to Psychosis to Akathisia. But psychiatrists were trained that means they have “underlying bipolar disorder”. Evidence to support this.. hell
I thought for a second: “if you wanted to create mass confusion and mental anguish in a generation what would you do?” Well… you would condition them to think that every aversive emotion or thought has nothing to do with a valid reaction to events in their life, get them to
"Growing up, I was sold the idea that the only way to get people to take your mental struggles seriously is to call them illness. Paradoxically, it was only when I abandoned this idea that I reached a deeper appreciation of the seriousness of my suffering..."
It is a human right to try and sometimes to fail
Another taboo topic: do ‘antipsychotics’ cause withdrawal symptoms? @joannamoncrieff @markhoro @CEP_UK @MarnieWedlake @dranneguy @IndigoDaya @Institute_PDW
I’m honored to be giving a talk organized by ISPS Poland tomorrow on the topic: Recovery A Conspiracy of Hope. It's free to join and will stream at 8pm Central European Time.
