Why wud a psych survivor want to join together to advocate for change in the MH system? Definitely join together but why not to LEAVE the MH system behind? To build non-transactional connection&community,holding space for each other keeping each other healthy&whole in friendship

As much as I’d like to blame psychiatry for mental health laws &psychmed crisis—I blame all of us(myself too)for not being able to let other people BE other people. I too find others irritatingAF. It’s easy to medicate others (&ourselves)than tolerate others doesn’t mean we shud

Im ANTI-psychiatry—I validate&encourage seeking help that doesnt steal autonomy&identity! MHsystem coerced, spellbound,halted a search for a cause&TX to REAL SYMPTOMS,prevented healing&Further harmed me. I’m anti-psychiatry bc suffering is REAL&WE DESERVE to live&be who we choose

Its more efficient therefore more profitable to teach DRs that humans can feel,think&behave for no reason other than they’re simply unbalanced bc of DNA,emotional trauma or gender —it’s not surprising DRs wud DX seizures,paralysis or protracted WD symptoms as a mental illness/FND

1984—mom signed me into a teen psychward. I escaped in‘22—Med-free&have autonomy now—No one manages me—0 shrinks. Im not alone but I seek,choose&manage help I need. So grateful Ive this opportunity to become ME Even if caught [in the system] again—I’ll only believe who I say I am

Exactly. In anesthesiology, “shit happens” would never be accepted as a safety culture. There would be incident reporting, morbidity review, documentation, audit, follow-up, and system correction. Psychopharmacology needs the same standard: adverse events must be recorded, investigated, disclosed, and learned from — not minimized as noise. Patient harm is not an inconvenience. It is safety data. #PatientRights #MedicalEthics #DoNoHarm #InformedConsent #WomenInMedicine #Arttherapy

Opacity is not a side issue in medicine — it is often where profit hides. When regulators, industry-funded experts and KOL networks shape what doctors are taught to believe, patients pay the price. Clinicians are trained to memorize, repeat and prescribe what is presented as “safe and effective,” while real-world harm, withdrawal, cognitive injury, akathisia, PSSD and patient testimony are too often minimized. That must change. Doctors need independent safety education, transparent adverse-event systems, long-term outcome registries, full conflict-of-interest disclosure, stronger informed consent, and accountability when patients report harm. This is not anti-medicine. It is pro-transparency, pro-patient, and pro-safer medicine. #PatientRights #MedicalEthics #DoNoHarm #InformedConsent #WomenInMedicine #Arttherapy #PhoenixIsland #CrystalGallery #WomensRights #StopECT #EthicsInPsychiatry #visitBerlin

It’s why 1000s of harmed psych pts r in online grps— both the lack of transparency from DRs&it’s dangerous to be transparent TO a DR. They’re required to hospitalize&drug u more if you get the listed side effect of SI from the meds they prescribe (Btw YOUR consent isnt required)

The conversation around withdrawal vs. relapse is frustrating because with the people I work with who are deprescribing, many don’t care if it’s relapse or not. They’ve recognized that the drug cure didn’t work for them so they have to find other ways to heal outside of drug tx.

Even if it only damages a very small portion of patients. Why not find out why & who so we can screen pts & not give ECT &/or pharma to the few pts it’s contraindicated for instead of dismissing pple’s critics & calls for review drivel & unbalanced?

When senior psychiatrists dismiss ECT harm as “drivel,” it’s not about evidence—it’s about power. Patients report harm. Evidence exists. Dismissing both isn’t credibility, it’s contempt—and people can see it. @ProfRobHoward @awaisaftab

When senior psychiatrists dismiss ECT harm as “drivel,” they are not defending science. They are defending power. A scientific profession investigates harm. An accountable profession listens to patients. A humane profession does not mock memory loss, cognitive injury, trauma or the loss of identity after a medical intervention. Calling harmed patients “drivel” is not evidence-based medicine. It is arrogance dressed as expertise. #ECT #PatientRights #MedicalEthics #InformedConsent #WomenInMedicine

Seems like marketing $$$ owns everyone including @Meta @finkd

Patients are not incompetent because they are not doctors. Many are informed witnesses of harm — sometimes the first to recognize what institutions are too slow, too proud, or too protected to admit. Doctors may know the protocol. Patients know the consequences. And when the standard of care itself causes harm, “do no harm” cannot mean loyalty to the system. It must mean conscience, truth, accountability, and the courage to change the standard before more people are harmed. #PatientRights #MedicalEthics #DoNoHarm #InformedConsent #WomenInMedicine #Arttherapy

Anti-psychiatry≠anti-med. It’s about stopping “othering” & controlling “others”. This has always been done&is done—asylums,lobotomy,ECT,psychotherapy,meds—& will be done in “progressive” forms until we stop &we all practice Anti-psychiatry=allowing other pple to BE other pple

Nothing is suppressed because they don’t even know what is being treated. Shame on each and every one of them @Royal_College @brittlecolumbia

The phrase “treatment resistant” often tells us more about the arrogance of the system than about the suffering of the patient. A treatment fails — and the patient receives the label. A drug causes harm — and the harm is minimized as a side effect. A person objects — and their objection is interpreted as pathology. This is how medicine can quietly lose its moral centre. Antipsychotics are not neutral tools. They are powerful interventions with profound effects on body, mind, identity, movement, metabolism, sexuality, emotion and memory. To call them simply “highly efficacious” while ignoring the human cost is not science. It is institutional storytelling. The real question is not whether these drugs can suppress symptoms. The real question is whether suppression is being confused with healing. Were they developed to restore human freedom — or did they also become instruments of behavioural control, institutional convenience and social management? A humane medicine must be brave enough to ask this. #PatientRights #MedicalEthics #InformedConsent #PatientSafety #WomenInMedicine

It’s important&so hard when ur unwell to go to the right place to get help. Just as U can’t hire a fireman to fix a pipe leak,U can’t go to a shrink if you want to cure insomnia,anxiety,depression or hallucinations. Theyll TRY to dampen u but they dont look for leaks nor fix them

“For reasons we don’t know some pts have a harder time on psych meds & coming off them” Fine! Then find out the reason! I DID! I finally know why! Not bc psychiatrist cared to find out. I researched & searched & found specialists that knew why I personally had a hard time!

Mental Suffering IS common shudnt be judged&deserves help! Psychiatry discredits pple judging when&how theyre sick for how they feel & behave & what they believe-in response to real things happening to them! Prescribing toxins to numb common suffering is not the whole issue here

Same thing happened with tardive dyskensia. FDA said RCTs gave empirical evidence that 2nd gen APs wudnt cause tardive dyskinesia. Then patients got tardive dyskinesia from 2nd gen APs THE FDA IS A JOKE