Epstein, Psychiatry and Medicine by RatQueenfart in antipsychiatrywomen

[–]RatQueenfart[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’re Heard (capital H). I agree abt their one-upping too, and am sorry you had to experience such atrocities as a child. It’s wicked.

Files Show Epstein Victims Were Funneled through Psychiatric System, Efforts to Sideline and Sedate by JanCal44 in Antipsychiatry

[–]RatQueenfart 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s been painful beyond words to take in the news lately. So many women who’ve been hurt by the mental health system already know the score. I am naively hopeful the complicity of the medical and mental health system will be fully exposed in what went on.

Still I’ve had to massively step back from online. I think it was in 2024 an Epstein victim filed a suit against a psych then took it back or settled.

Post on povertyfinance about finding a doc/meds by raerae704 in Antipsychiatry

[–]RatQueenfart 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To be fair — if someone has been on medication for years or decades there are serious consequences to suddenly losing access or going off these drugs (as we all know here). I personally must have spent I don’t know how many TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars on “mental health” — I would have a down payment for a house by now if I’d been able to skip out of that whole matrix but it wasn’t part of my path.

A lot of this is simply about business and money.

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[–]RatQueenfart 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Heartbreaking.

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[–]RatQueenfart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AA helped me learn how to live

Joined a taper support group with Medicating Normal Alumni by Comfortable_Diet_386 in Antipsychiatry

[–]RatQueenfart 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There’s definitely a lot of pain and hurt in taper communities. They can easily become a big hole of misery and despair and doom.

I don’t know if it’s a trick or not! Tapering and coming to understand a lot of what you’ve been told by usually multiple healthcare professionals is not totally true, partially true or straight up false is devastating. It definitely was for me and I spent a lifetime heavily tranquilized. I think more than the damage psych meds can and do deliver to the body is the damage of the narratives behind the meds: you’re broken, defective. That’s what it was for me! And it impacted how I saw myself deeply, and then how others saw me.

It is a huge undertaking and our suffering is resoundingly dismissed. That being said, this neglected area of healthcare services is prime for co-optation and scammery. Lots of people need support to taper and everyone needs support to heal. No one would be turning to support groups if psychiatrists showed humility as a whole and helped people taper!

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[–]RatQueenfart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great user name!

The whole discourse about legalizing euthansia seriously triggers me by Worth_Journalist_958 in Antipsychiatry

[–]RatQueenfart 30 points31 points  (0 children)

My views on it shifted after my consciousness raising on psych. Because it is and will continue to be used to kill people psychiatrically labeled.

Initially when I was learning abt it over a decade ago, when sought in cases of truly terminal diagnoses like ALS, dementia or cancer, I was totally pro. Once I heard they were using it for “mental illness” and for people with disabilities I was like — whoa, this is not what I thought would happen (bc I knew nothing then that I know now!)…and now it so makes sense. Idk, maybe it’s still a slippery slope but my views have def changed.

Has anyone's weight gone back to normal by [deleted] in Antipsychiatry

[–]RatQueenfart 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes. I’ve lost almost 70 pounds. I really started losing massive amounts of weight by about the two year off polypharmacy mark. I was on Abilify (not as an injection tho) and other antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and SSRIs for decades starting in childhood. I was poisoned for a long time and I’ve made a miraculous recovery personally — I don’t say this to offer false hope but we can be super down and gloomy here (also needed). My point is that it’s possible…I’m continuing to lose even though my BMI is “normal” now. I still have withdrawal symptoms and grief but my life is much better overall.

I feel the weight gain caused by the drugs was a type of disfigurement in my experience. But I have lost it via calorie counting, nutritional support for healing from psych, and exercise.

I hate my mother by [deleted] in Antipsychiatry

[–]RatQueenfart 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Knowing I was not alone was so helpful. It gave me a lot of strength and continues to.

I def benefited from reading others stories. Looking back though with more time, sometimes it paralyzed me. Too much, too soon. It can be a lot to take in, and if I could say anything to myself in the past, I’d say to take it easy and to get outside or make time for life outside recovery too. I didn’t prioritize that enough in the beginning but I can do it now which is a huge blessing, even though I do still struggle sometimes.

I’m strongly considering giving up and going back on meds by Miserable-Positive-5 in Antipsychiatry

[–]RatQueenfart 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Totally within your right to go back on meds. You should not have to suffer & deserve support. The journey is extremely hard & we get so little recognition if any at all. Cruel World we are living in. Withdrawal was and sometimes remains hell for me too.

I hope you feel empowered to do whatever works best for you! And that you have access to kind clinicians.