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Seroquel almost killed me. It is one drug that needs to be removed from the market!
Andrea supported: Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and PsychopharmacologyMy son has taken In Invega for the past six years. Over this time his tremors have become increasingly severe. He is now being weaned off this horrible drug but TD and akathesia may never go away.
Emma supported: Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and PsychopharmacologyI was 48 years old and had been on antidepressants for several years for severe PTSD. And they have improved my life dramatically. But my psychiatrist added a prescription for Olanzapine. He didn't give me any warnings that it might have life long lasting side effects. Maybe he didn't know. I would have declined the drug if I knew the risks. In the fall of 2024 I, under another psychiatrists care, stopped taking the Olanzapine. I think I was told to taper the drug for a week. Almost immediately I developed Tardive Dyskinesia in my mouth, tongue, and face.
In doing research I was shocked to discover how common this is to a wide number of medications, and how little anyone seemed to know about TD or the myriad of other life altering movement disorders stemming from these medications. This must change! We are literally being prescribed drugs to treat our mental health challenges and ending up with painful, embarrassing, life altering disorders that will only exacerbate the original conditions. How is that ethical under the "Do No Harm" oath? It is madness. Like coming in for a broken leg and having the other leg broken so they match. Radical change must come to the field. There are many beneficial drugs used for depression. But there are also these drugs that are like playing Russian roulette. We need help and defending.
Joshua supported: Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and PsychopharmacologyMy doctor prescribed benzodiazepines for sleep issues and told me they were safe and effective for long term use. I took the lowest dose for almost 20 years. No one informed me of the damage or withdrawal symptoms. My life has been a nightmare of sickness and symptoms for over two years now. I would never have taken this prescription consistently if I had known these consequences!!
Rebecca supported: Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and PsychopharmacologyThese meds are supposed to help instead they cause horrific side effects and then horrific brutal withdrawal symptoms. I've suffered brutal withdrawal symptoms for almost 3yrs being off them after 18yrs use as prescribed. No one should have to endure these profound effects and every doctor needs to be aware.
Robin supported: Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and PsychopharmacologyI was left disabled by decades of psych drugs polypharmacy, which was at times very recklessly and haphazardly prescribed, including by a psychiatrist I saw for 6 years on an outpatient basis who, I found out when the treatment terminated, had kept no records of the drugs he prescribed (SSRIs, SNRIs, amphetamines, and benzos). He gave me a dx of treatment resistant depression and sent me to his colleague who immediately recommended ECT (I was a single mother of one, still working full time and had just completed a master's degree). After the ECT he changed my diagnosis to borderline personality disorder, stating "that's why the ECT didn't work. He started me on antipyschotics and continued the antidepressants. I was sent to IOP DBT since, after the ECT, I started winding up in the psych ward on a regular basis. I went on disability and continued treatment. I experienced a great deal of trauma as a psych patient. My long trauma history was never addressed. After DBT I tried for years to get trauma therapy but was repeatedly denied trauma treatment. At some point I was basically spit out of the system. Most providers wouldn't take me as a patient and I was too traumatized, exhausted and physically ill to keep trying. As it turned out this was the best thing that could have happened. I am now off all psych drugs and do not see any mental health providers. I avoid doctors of all kinds unless I have an urgent medical problem. I'm still learning, reading about the experiences of others like me who were harmed by the system and told that they were the problem. Something needs to change. This system is harming so many people including children.
Katherine supported: Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and PsychopharmacologySigning to create more awareness around the dangers of prescribing these medications so simply without providing full knowledge to patients who are already struggling and the dangers of tapering too quickly. A battle that I and many feel alone in with an invisible illness and prolonged withdrawal symptoms
Paige supported: Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and PsychopharmacologyI have 2 adult children who were severely harmed by polypharmacy, missed diagnosis/incorrect diagnosis, ignoring of side effects,improper discontinuation of psychiatric meds. I TRUSTED the doctors, I didn't know about informed consent and it was never given. We are all suffering because of it.
Kristin supported: Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and PsychopharmacologyI was prescribed Certraline back in august 2023 for generalised anxiety disorder. I wasn't depressed, I simply had anxiety, pannick attacks/episodes etcetera.
But rather than the meds helping me get through it like they told me would be the case, that's not how it worked out. 2 days into taking the med, and I woke up in another world. In fact I thought that I had died because every single 1 of my facalties/emotions felt disabled. I couldn't feel anything. My emotions were fully and totally blunted. I couldn't think. My vision was extremely blurry. I had lost everything, you name it. From my apatite to emotional to sexual functionality, it was just, gone. So to the best of my abillity I researched my simptoms, and immedietly found out about PSSD. And though I tapered best I could, despite the fact that I was only on the SSRI for a short period of time, I have been putting up with PSSD and the things listed above ever since. It has effectively negatively changed and ruined my life. As a dj, I can no longer enjoy my work like I used to pryer to the med. I have to litterally force myself, and it feels, just, offle. Apart from my work although this is related, I no longer feel motivated to do anything. Simply taking a shower is like pulling teeth for me now, when pryer to the Certraline I used to do this and enjoy it. My mental capasity has been damaged too. I used to be able to focus intently on things, remember things and recall things with utter sharpness, but now it's like triing to hold water in my cupped hands. I had planns to go back to college to solidify my degree in computer tech, but out the window it goes now. I can barely hold and remember any given conversation along with remembering how to fix my own computer, let alone someone elses. Also. When it comes to my sex life, I no longer have one. It has been taken from me. My genitals have been, and will continue to be extremely num and atrophied. Dating and socialising with the oppiset sex is nonexistent for me now. I had planns to eventually get married and start a family, but that's gone now too because of this crap.
Then we have the fact that I can no longer feel natural effects on the body, for instants tiredness/exhaustion. I basicly struggle with ansomnia, of which I never had before. If I wanted to, I could stay up for days and not feel a thing, when before the meds, I could actually get tired out and sleep.
I could go on and on, but this thing's gotten long enough, and frankly I've been pushed to my limit here for the day. However I will end this by calling out everybody in the big farma industry along with the mental health profession, from top to bottom.
so with that said. You people need to get your heads out of the sand and actually look at the data being collected and entered all over the internet, and within your side effect reports by the people who's lives you destroy by prescribing psychiatric meds like this as if nothing can go wrong, because in many cases, you turn an already possibly semi troubled life into a full blown disaster that litterally has no cure. Also, you people need to quit gasslighting us, and you also need to quit blaming us for your screw ups and backing us into a corner.
We've all listened to you, and now we've been effectively screwed. So now it's time for you big farma and mental health professionals to listen to us, and to taike us seriously, for once in your lives!
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Rob supported: Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and PsychopharmacologyWe look back in lobotomy and think why was this even taken seriously. Today we are doing it chemically and going along with it because we are naive. Big Pharma has been testing their own chemicals and skewing information in their favor and giving kick backs to doctors to push the products. My life IS ruined from the side effects of SRIs and theirs nothing that can change it. Let’s help others have a chance to not have to go through this nightmare. I’d rather be sad than destroyed like I am today.
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