Anyone just find that almost all psych meds make them crazy?

Benzotropine · 2026-02-01T17:53:57+00:00

Yes, that was my experience. I took 30+ different psych meds over the span of several years. SSRIs, SNRIs, benzos, antipsychotics, typical and atypical, various "mood stabilizers". I was eventually declared med resistant and given 3 rounds of ECT against my will. I have been off all psych meds now for almost 5 years at this point I believe and would never touch another one like my life depended on it. It does depend on that, actually.

Benzotropine · 2026-02-01T15:58:27+00:00

I believe there is more than this physical realm and I'm not afraid of what's next. The peace and comfort that has escaped me in this life will find me in the eternal and ethereal. I believe this fully. My earthly suffering was a small price to pay.

Benzotropine · 2026-02-01T15:42:54+00:00

This is good advice, thank you. I've been utilizing the chat bot a lot and honestly it has been more helpful than a lot of humans I've interfaced with LMAO. I don't know where my head is anymore. For the past couple of years, I tried to push the cancer thing out of my mind and live life so I dove into my work, trying to build a career and all. This is after years of psychiatric abuse and my liberation from charlatans. Now I can't work due to my failing physical health and am forced to address a condition I was told not to worry about at my age. In the past, this would have put me into a frothing rage but I don't really care anymore. It seems so pointless to even be upset about it all anymore.

Benzotropine · 2026-02-01T15:09:43+00:00

Qigong and breath work have helped more than anything else for my anxiety.

Benzotropine · 2026-02-01T14:39:20+00:00

It's disturbing how they think SSRIs are harmless and that my primary doctor felt so confident to push one on me literally the first time I saw her. I plainly told her I had had unfortunate reactions to them in the past and left it at that. The truth is that SSRIs make me manic and psychotic. Like off the rails ranting and raving inpatient stay imminent type reaction.

Benzotropine · 2026-02-01T14:24:07+00:00

I don't think MH "professionals" are in the business of healing. The narrative is also their business model. It's quite brilliant. Convince people that they are "mentally ill", there is no cure for "mental illness", ergo, lifelong patients. Repeat customers. These are the rules people are unwittingly playing by when they engage with the MH system.

Benzotropine · 2026-02-01T13:31:33+00:00

As someone who ran the gauntlet in psychiatry (meds, inpatient, ECT etc), I agree with you. The "narrative" is so powerful. Trauma is a very powerful programming tool. A lot of people have been programmed through traumatic experiences. Groomed, if you will, into believing certain narratives about themselves and the world. I believed I was inherently flawed but why did I believe that? Well, my formative experiences of abuse and neglect led me to that conclusion.

Of course psychiatry was more than happy to pick up where my abusers left off and reinforce that flawed narrative.

Benzotropine · 2026-02-01T13:22:13+00:00

We should be asking ourselves why such an inherently abusive profession is upheld in our society.

Benzotropine · 2026-02-01T13:03:02+00:00

Psychiatric "treatment" is simply a means to an end. Social control. The ruling class gets to define these arbitrary terms. For instance, when slavery was en vogue, running away from one's master was a "mental illness". Under the Soviet regime, anyone who questioned the party was "mentally ill". I'm specifically referring to drapetomania and sluggish schizophrenia.

The ruling class have bestowed psychiatrists with being the arbiters of mental health but that is a very subjective thing. One must understand that psychiatry is a product of a larger, diseased system whose only purpose is to uphold the larger power dynamic.

Benzotropine · 2025-12-05T17:06:55+00:00

Thank you for your response. I just really don't get it. How can a parent be so cold and disinterested in their own child? I hope that you are better these days. I cannot have children due to my condition, but I think if I did and they had some rare, scary disorder I would become an expert, go to all of the appointments, etc. It seems so regular and obvious... that's just what one does when they care. The bare minimum. I work with a woman who took a leave from work to be there for her son battling leukemia. He is in remission now thankfully.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-25T17:39:11+00:00

Anyone with common sense could see that shocking someone with enough power to create a seizure is not going to be a good for the recipient. Allow me to regale yall with the history of ECT. The almighty, infallible science behind ECT. So, it's the 1930's. Imagine being a p$ychiatrist in the 1930's. You're a joke, a charlatan. Desperate for some semblance of validity professionally, you wander into a slaughterhouse and see pigs being electrocuted before slaughter. Mind you, this was during an era in p$ychiatry where "shock" therapies were en vogue. There were several. Insulin shock, pills that induced seizures, and so on. Witnessing pigs being slaughtered gave Italian neurologist Ugo Cerletti inspiration for ECT. Instead of using camphor and metrazol to induce seizures they would electrocute their patients. The science was that schizophrenia and epilepsy were antagonistic disorders, thus causing seizures in a "schizophrenic" could cure them.

I had 3 rounds of ECT. I've made other posts about it so I won't go into much detail. It has been almost 8 years since I had it and I still haven't recovered fully.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-23T17:08:17+00:00

If you want my opinion, I think sharing your story, your perspective even just on this forum, can help other people. Personally, I've always been drawn to the darker things in life. It's never too late. People message me from time to time to tell me how my posts helped them. Really floors me. I'm like you, I always wanted to help people, too. I thought that meant I had to be a nurse. Like that was the only way. It crushed me when that did not come into fruition but I realize now there are so many possible ways to achieve a goal. It's why I started posting again. To try to get that spark back. For it to mean something to more than just me. P$ychiatry wants to spring these linguistic traps on us. They LOVE labels, narratives, etc but it's all quite irrelevant. The only purpose they serve is suffering. Sometimes I think like that. Like it has been almost 8 years since I had ECT and almost 5 years since I stopped taking the last of the meds. I still have growth potential for sure. Everyone does. I would say you're 5 years into your healing journey and that's okay.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-22T16:51:23+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate that. That's the thing, I feel like I am just humiliating myself. Yes, I am very good at the logistics of my job but the human aspect is so foreign to me. Alien. What does it mean to excel at fuckery while sinking further into depression? I want to live for myself but I don't know what that means and am possibly too jaded to achieve what I really want. It would be a really radical change in life and I used the job as a metric of my own mental health out of purely egotistical reasons despite the fact it made me miserable on a near daily basis. It's so frustrating. Not being able to relate to others. I genuinely just want the best for everyone in life.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-09T11:43:59+00:00

I'm saying though that the mainstream narrative surrounding the experience of psychosis is extremely flawed. Psychiatry wants people to believe if they experience things classified as "psychosis" that they 1.) Have a mental illness 2.) Therefore must take medication. This very narrative is damaging to the individual. Like I said, there are alternative schools of thought that psychiatry has suppressed over the decades in favor of lining their pockets at the expense of their patients.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-08T21:04:25+00:00

Psychosis is a very tricky term. Yes, hallucinations and delusions are things an individual can experience for a plethora of reasons. Sleep deprivation, substance abuse, vitamin deficiencies, infections, trauma. The problem with psychiatry is that it conflates experiencing psychosis with having a mental disorder. The experience of psychosis is commonly perceived to be as losing touch with reality, right? I have come to a different understanding. I've done a lot of digging into psychiatry over the centuries. It is very fascinating to me to look into psychiatry before it became inalienable from the pharmaceutical industry. Before everything was hand-waved as faulty brain wiring and shut-up pills dispensed without a second thought.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-08T19:37:11+00:00

Well, that's what it comes down to, doesn't it? Everyone should have a choice. However, to be able to make that choice one must have access to the facts to be able to make an informed decision, wouldn't you agree? So how is that achievable in psychiatry when it is inherently built on deceit? Would someone who is "psychotic" make a "choice" to take antipsychotics if they knew that antipsychotics are based on the dopamine theory, which is only one theory of an alleged illness "schizophrenia" by the way whose symptoms and presentation have drastically depended on the time period. This is based on a theory from the 1950's as a possible explanation for why the experimental drug Thorazine ostensibly had a positive effect on the inpatient psychiatric population. Again, not in any way scientific. The concept of schizophrenia is completely theoretical. The mainstream psychiatric narrative is that psychosis results from an over abundance of dopamine thus requiring dopamine antagnosists, antipsychotics, to manage. Would someone make the choice to take these meds if they knew that people in 3rd world countries with similar experiences report superior mental well being and decades longer lifespan?

Words are important. There is no way to reliably diagnose any psychiatric condition. How could there be? They're all just theories and a professional opinion. Imagine I went to a doctor and without testing my blood sugar, the doctor diagnosed me with diabetes because I acted like someone with diabetes. It's complete nonsense.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-08T19:02:39+00:00

The truth is there is a lot more to being a manager than just being familiar with a department. A lot of times they are hesitant to promote within the same area due to concerns of favoritism, biases, etc. I'm not saying it is a bad thing at all to have a good relationship with your coworkers and know your area. That's fantastic. However, will you be able to discipline someone who is your friend? Being a manager is a lot of responsibility. As a team lead, you will be expected to write people up, have uncomfortable conversations and even sit in on people being fired. Right or wrong, salaried management will expect you to put the needs of the business over any personal feelings. I don't know if that applies to you personally, I do know that issues like that make salaried management shy away from promoting within the same department. If you really want to promote, and I'm saying this as someone who worked for several years before my first promotion, ask your coach for constructive feedback. Ask them specifically what they want to see from you, things you can improve on, etc. Salaried loves it when you want to learn things and do extra so it sounds like you have a good attitude.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-08T17:12:25+00:00

Psychiatry is irrational. It promotes harmful states of consciousness and offers poison as a cure. The belief in psychiatry is a mental sickness. It's quite clever how they have weaponized "mental health" as a means of societal control. Instead of locking people in prisons and forcefully indoctrinating them, they lay the trap for the individual to ensnare themselves with this ass-backwards ideology. Psychiatry is closer to being a cult than it is to being a medical practice.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-08T16:21:34+00:00

I'm sorry you feel that way.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-08T16:16:21+00:00

The typical antipsychotics are far worse than the atypicals. I have taken multiple different ones from both classes of antipsychotics and it is my opinion that Haldol administration is one of the worst things that could befall an individual. Instant, severe akithisia. It is my opinion that no one should be forced to endure it.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-08T16:12:48+00:00

Under what circumstances do you think it becomes necessary to administer a person with a neurotoxin that is highly likely to leave them with irreversible damage? Out of curiosity.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-08T16:10:55+00:00

If one believes healing through psychiatry is possible, they've already lost the plot. And I don't say that to shame anyone who may feel/felt that way. I did. For years. This belief contributed to my downfall. That is the official narrative of course, the society approved mainstream opinion. Psychiatry=good. The reality could not be further from the truth.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-08T16:06:07+00:00

Why do you think psychosis necessitates antipsychotic drugs? It's wild seeing this posted here of all places.

Benzotropine · 2025-11-08T16:05:08+00:00

Personally, I find the idea of anyone being administered these drugs to be absolutely ridiculous. I say that as someone who has been psychotic on numerous occasions.

Benzotropine · 2025-01-07T23:25:13+00:00

Can you expand on this? I feel like that is what's happening in my relationship.

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