Robert Whitaker: Our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic

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  • @bonnienedza55
    @bonnienedza55 11 місяців тому +17

    In the mid 70s, my older brother, was diagnosed as "depressed", he was put on anti-depressants and committed suicide within a year😪

  • @elisabethandersen1102
    @elisabethandersen1102 4 роки тому +108

    Ive met Robert at a small, intimate workshop in Copenhagen, and he was one of the kindest people Ive ever met. He made me feel like he was really listening to my story and empathizing with my situation. I was started on SSRIs as a teenager for simple moodiness...this escalated to a decade of several dozens of drug cocktails. Ive been clean off them all for almost ten years, but only recently is my body recovering. I lost all my 20s due to these drugs. Like Dr. Gøtsche says, 99% of all use needs to be banned, because they harm almost everyone more than they do any good.

    • @beautifulrose8619
      @beautifulrose8619 2 роки тому +25

      My parents divorced and I was 10. We had moved to a new city right before that. I found myself in a new school with parents who were fighting and drunk. I later was diagnosed as having a problem of depression. I was given an antidepressant and like you was taking these and other drug cocktails to alleviate my pain.
      For 30 years I have taken some kind of pschiatric drug all the while feeling like I was the broken one. I one day listened to Dr. Kelly Brogan and she mentioned the book by Robert Whitaker and that maybe medication is not for everyone. I thought I am not going to take these anymore, I have not felt in optimal health and I have been afraid to go without because I thought I would be worse off. Getting off them was hard. The psychiatrist was mad at me, no support there.
      I finally was off them in 2017. I was not better over night, but today in 2022 I have a different perspetive. I realize that my sadness was situational which I then internalized for decades. My emotions were masked. I wish more people would realize that they are no broken and find that their lives can me good without the need for medication. I am happy for your.

    • @elisabethandersen1102
      @elisabethandersen1102 2 роки тому +9

      @@beautifulrose8619 That's fantastic!
      You're absolutely right though, even once the withdrawal and post-acute withdrawal (which lasted almost five years!) went mostly away, it's not like you're fine and "happy" afterwards. But it's one less prison. Believing that you are biologically defective, "sick" for life, is no way to live. It's not true either. But realizing that humans are vastly complex beings and every experience leaves emotional energy and memories, is at least something every other person can relate to and usually overcome. That's a hell of a lot more optimistic.

    • @meganbaker9116
      @meganbaker9116 2 роки тому +6

      @@beautifulrose8619 A question: do you happen to be white and middle-class? I’ve been writing about how white materially stable parents never get their kids taken away. In fact, a kid in a crazy or dangerous home will never even encounter a social worker unless that home is low-income. Maybe drugs are what we give middle-class abuse and neglect victims instead of advocacy. Convince them their brain chemistry is screwed up, because we KNOW their lily white parents couldn’t be doing anything bad! It’s gaslighting, and it adds insult (and more injury) to the injury of child abuse and neglect.

    • @elizabethAbbott-q6m
      @elizabethAbbott-q6m Рік тому

      Dr. Peter Breggin Meds cause Far More Harm than Good ...just as you say. I bought his Driving Soldiers Crazy with Psych Meds and it helped me to understand what my veteran b.f. was going through. When he got off them many symptoms which had been attributed to his PTSD disappeared! The meds were Causing symptoms! Congratulations for you being in recovery.

    • @elizabethAbbott-q6m
      @elizabethAbbott-q6m Рік тому +3

      @@beautifulrose8619 excellent. My late vet b.f. said the System had held him prisoner for 20 years.

  • @GCT1990
    @GCT1990 3 роки тому +40

    And nothing besides doctors coming forward has changed at all in this field, these pills are still handed out like candy

  • @JohnPritzlaff
    @JohnPritzlaff Рік тому +58

    In 15 years I've been diagnosed with about 15 different serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed about 15 different experimental drug cocktails. Most of those so-called "physicians" met with me for less than 15 minutes.

    • @capresti3537
      @capresti3537 Рік тому +31

      Psychiatrists are very dangerous criminals.

    • @eeeeks
      @eeeeks Рік тому +23

      Me too. I was misdiagnosed and in the last 3 years, I’m off everything after being on AP’s & AD’s for 20 years and I am doing so much better. Still have minor ups and downs but that’s just life and my life is so much better off of those drugs. I hate psychiatrists and big pharma.

    • @Rotwold
      @Rotwold Рік тому +7

      @@eeeeks glad to hear.

    • @sharonjensen3016
      @sharonjensen3016 Рік тому +8

      I'm glad I'm not Robinson Crusoe in this respect. I was put on medication by a psychiatrist/criminal only seconds after he met me.

    • @capresti3537
      @capresti3537 Рік тому

      @@sharonjensen3016 Thats what they do to turn normal people into patients they can prescribe and make sick for profits/

  • @upendasana7857
    @upendasana7857 Рік тому +21

    This man is a F'ing hero !!!!!

  • @JacquiQ
    @JacquiQ Рік тому +26

    The fact that family doctors who know very little abt Psychiatric disorders are giving you a diagnosis of depression based on a questionnaire and then prescribing you drugs which you take, trusting them that they are 'safe' is now abhorrent to me as I near 60 years old. My young friend was even told in her 20's she would have to be on AD's for LIFE !!! by a family Dr !! How ridiculous. What I needed looking back, was LOTS OF SUPPORT - I was suffering from STRESS , chronic stress. I needed help, therapy and physical practical support to somehow keep working, pay the bills and look after two children. I needed therapy to address my low self esteem. childhood trauma and poor boundaries, plus my relentless negative self critical inner voice. SSRI's do NOT help you address any of these things - u just become a shell of yourself for 10 or 20 years til u finally "do the work" and take yourself OFF them. No Dr says its time u tried to get off these sh*t meds. . It is actually criminal the way we are dished out these pills -= they ALL have bad side effects - some we do not even realise we have got til it is too late. Medicine MUST change the way it operates with pharma medication

    • @seanodwyer4322
      @seanodwyer4322 6 місяців тому

      Victim Support off demon industry- Sean O'Dwyer- 140 Hobson Street.- Auckland City. 1010.- New Zealand.- South pacific.''

    • @Kali_Yugahhhh
      @Kali_Yugahhhh 3 місяці тому

      Yes. 💗

  • @BenzoBrains
    @BenzoBrains 9 років тому +106

    Thank you specifically for addressing psychosis and schizophrenia as the supposed unquestionable group that need medication. I had a roommate who was psychotic and when she got off her meds she blossomed into a beautiful , happy person.

    • @kevindavis2843
      @kevindavis2843 6 років тому +17

      Glad she is happy and if the meds helps her good but the meds does not help most. most psychotic people do not need medication need help from people who love and care more .,

    • @sofitocyn100
      @sofitocyn100 2 роки тому +5

      My ex was a schyzophrenic who was refusing meds so wasn't under any influence. But both our opposed testimonies are only anecdotal

    • @meganbaker9116
      @meganbaker9116 2 роки тому

      @@sofitocyn100 Disparaging “anecdotes” is exactly what Big Pharma wants all of us doing. You’re being played.

    • @bobjary9382
      @bobjary9382 Рік тому +7

      I have my own experience of seeing friends and family medicated when experiencing suffering. However we must all thank folks like RW who have taken results and given us the evidence we need to be informed .
      Especially when he has been attacked by the combined forces of big pharma and professional righteousness

    • @upendasana7857
      @upendasana7857 Рік тому +9

      @@sofitocyn100 These incidences are more than anecdotal and those of us who have lived with so called "schizophrenics" or seen what the MH system has done first hand and how much trauma and misdiagnosis goes on over and over again know that just because drugs may appear to work in terms they sedate people is not the same as curing someone from "schizophrenia"which is often diagnosed without any sifficient assessment and any background or personal hisotry or understanding of trauma is virtually if ever considered.
      So what is schizophrenia exactly? someone who hears certain auditory or visual hallucinations? and other unusual beliefs or strange behaviours.
      People refue meds for all sorts of reasons and often due to the cooercive way they are given.Telling people they have a disease and given them drugs without an open dialogue or interaction or more follow up and ongoing relationship is often the reason why most people refuse drugs,plus obviously their own "hallucinations"or personal subjective expereinces which might be telling them to not trust or be ina state of hyper vigliance/alert and not able to trust another person.
      Building relationship,establishing trust,engaging with the person about what their dlusions or voices or whatever might mean to them and a process called Open Dialogue has shown to be more effective than many drugs treatments.
      There maybe a place for meds but meds alone are far from the treatments thats needed especially when given with no other support or therapeutic input and when admistered forcibly and in traumatici circumstances.

  • @ewawyhowska2097
    @ewawyhowska2097 7 років тому +32

    Thank you Rober fot extractinging yousel from huge, branin-wasched circle of criminalists!

  • @Normalnieczylijak
    @Normalnieczylijak Рік тому +24

    thats all true. I was diagnosed with schizopfrenia - 2 years in hospitals, (7 times) until I recognized they dont have anything, and this not working what they are proposing, only cousing aditional tortures... I decided to stop taking drugs at all it was hard at the begginig, but now its ok... Now I am fully functioning normally... working etc... good to know that anybody is talkin about this

    • @madelynhernandez7453
      @madelynhernandez7453 Рік тому +4

      I am so glad for you. The meds they give us cause horrific things long term. Damage to the brain. Im going through it and its unbearbale. I believe we need to look at natural remedies to ease some things and mostly good theraphy and more information to families and the public, as many times they cause our symptoms and anguish to become deeper.

    • @jeanpaultongeren125
      @jeanpaultongeren125 10 місяців тому +1

      Hey, do you still suffer from symptons. What lifestyle changes did you make? Thanks for your reply

    • @karthikasurulirajan2905
      @karthikasurulirajan2905 3 місяці тому

      I'm mother of two my fucking relatives pissing me off everyday to go for depression only the psychos make people go to depression. So please careful with bloody cruel xunning people

  • @christophera-realone9834
    @christophera-realone9834 2 роки тому +27

    Thank you Robert Whitaker 🙌 this is the most definitive evidence that I’ve been seeking

  • @elizabethAbbott-q6m
    @elizabethAbbott-q6m Рік тому +13

    My late veteran friend was on several meds. One day the doc combined two different anti depressants which the pharmaceutical companies to their credit had published warnings against combining: as there was a severe risk of overdose. The result for my pal was extreme over excitement; unable to control it. That year a girl athlete became over excited on just one of the meds my friend was on. The doctors will say call if there is a problem, but someone in an over excited state does not realize there is a problem; and in the case of my friend I called his social worker and his doctor and they did not return my call.

    • @madelynhernandez7453
      @madelynhernandez7453 Рік тому +2

      Or they just diagnose one with something else like manic, or bipolar.

    • @kiruvkrovim4622
      @kiruvkrovim4622 Рік тому

      Wow!

    • @SuperMichelleDJ
      @SuperMichelleDJ Рік тому

      They also tell people to be "more compliant" and they will somehow magically get better.

  • @haavesaay5166
    @haavesaay5166 6 років тому +23

    Thank you Robert Whitaker!!!

  • @laurencebacchus5066
    @laurencebacchus5066 9 років тому +30

    Excellent talk, thank you Robert Whitaker.

  • @sylvialander7034
    @sylvialander7034 Рік тому +12

    So gratefull that someone like Robert do really investigate the results.I have known people who takes lots of meds and keep on hospitals and symptoms and delucional for years and people who do not take med and delusion has gone alone however still hearing voice inside head.Hipothesis needs to be changed cause has not been prove.
    Hope he keeps portraying the reality and new research is done
    Be blessed

  • @C.I366
    @C.I366 2 роки тому +14

    Whatever people chose to do for their individual situation they should proceed with care

  • @paulinewhitehouse2568
    @paulinewhitehouse2568 2 роки тому +12

    Very informative!!!!!!!

  • @squirtlesquirtle7058
    @squirtlesquirtle7058 4 роки тому +15

    Fantastic lecture. Thank you.

  • @robandrews4815
    @robandrews4815 Рік тому +7

    One of the problems with antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants--to a lesser degree--is that the side effects CAN be so bad that a person can live a 'normal' life.i mean work, drive, and even walk. The whole idea is to get the person to be able live a normal life.
    So what happens is that patients have to live on SSI. And that's only 950 dollars a month. So we're relegated to cheap hotels or homelessness.
    Another think that may mess up, his statistics about people on SSI, is that a large number of recipients just want to get " crazy checks", so they can not work and buy booze and drugs. They also say they " hear voices" so that they will be institutionalized and have " three hots and a cot".I was homeless so I understand how the game is played.

    • @capresti3537
      @capresti3537 5 місяців тому +1

      I doubt they want to be labeled and drugged by shrinks to get free housing and food. The suffering by shrinks and their drugs is agonizing.

  • @gamezswinger
    @gamezswinger 2 роки тому +36

    Interesting the psychiatrist that said “I’m so sick of evidence-based medicine.” There is a famous quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: “People don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” 😆

    • @billybandyk0720
      @billybandyk0720 Рік тому

      Richard; the a--hole who said "I'm so sick of evidence-based medicine" must b sick of his job.

  • @julietbadu-tiwaa6817
    @julietbadu-tiwaa6817 3 роки тому +11

    Thanks so much for the insight. I hope the impact of this information will revolutionise the treatment for people seeking help for mental and emotional challenges

    • @Superior.scenicmoods
      @Superior.scenicmoods Рік тому

      Not in the US! Very slim chance of escaping the drug mill. I will go out on a limb and surmise that psychiatry in the US is only a distribution mechanism for big Pharma- and everyone gets rich. Broken - the American Medical Association is a mafia. There is no health care.

  • @ppser818
    @ppser818 11 місяців тому +3

    Weird how an Ad for some random "Bipolar one" pharmacy medicine played on youtube Before this video began!

  • @mr.giggles4995
    @mr.giggles4995 7 місяців тому +2

    39:00 - withdrawal labeled progression of the disease

  • @sheilastutz6436
    @sheilastutz6436 Рік тому +14

    There is NEVER progress, I have been around many troubled people in my life time, going on 60 years!

    • @billybandyk0720
      @billybandyk0720 Рік тому +1

      Ms. Stutz! I agree w/u RE: there'll NVR B PROGRESS w/in mental health.

    • @madelynhernandez7453
      @madelynhernandez7453 Рік тому +1

      But they fill their mouths speaking falsehoods, they claim that the research shows so and the medications along with therapy has great success rates and people live in Wellness.

    • @billybandyk0720
      @billybandyk0720 Рік тому

      @@madelynhernandez7453 Excuse me? Did I miss something here? NOBODY (btwn Ms. Stutz & me) said anything about psych meds being good @ all. Unless ur comment was directed 2wards some1 else IDK of, u misinterpreted something here.

    • @djammer
      @djammer Рік тому

      Never say never… in the 2080s they’re gonna look back at these drugs as barbaric

  • @Thrashmetalkicksass
    @Thrashmetalkicksass 3 роки тому +7

    Does anybody have the links to the studies he mentions at the beginning? The 1984 NIMH study and Stehl's study? I'm struggling to find them

  • @les2150
    @les2150 6 місяців тому +3

    I don't trust any psychiatric diagnosis. I've seen the way psychiatrists work. I was in a lot of pain and bedridden due to chronic inflammatory disorders that the hospital MDs couldn't diagnose, so they brought in the psychiatrists who told me my symptoms were all in my head and that I was delusional, psychotic and very mentally ill -- based only on finding no dx for my painful, debilitating symptoms. This does not constitute proof of mental illness, but, apparently, in the world of psychiatry it does. I had no history whatsoever of any mental health issues and exhibited no indications of mental illness. I was later dx with mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS - a chronic inflammatory disorder) which validated all the symptoms the psychiatrists told me were all in my head, but the hospital admins refused to correct my records even after I showed them irrefutable evidence of my physical illness. This was at Dell Seton Medical Center at UT Austin -- I want to give credit where credit is due.

  • @puupgo9553
    @puupgo9553 9 років тому +10

    mesolimbic pathwar. schizophrenia becomes more abstract on the quest for dopamine.

  • @mariaq.9559
    @mariaq.9559 6 років тому +32

    What is a poison ?
    Fancy names for so called Medications.

    • @billybandyk0720
      @billybandyk0720 Рік тому +1

      Ms. Q.; SPOT-ON U R!!!!! Couldn't have said it better myself.

  • @l.w.paradis2108
    @l.w.paradis2108 8 місяців тому +2

    I would expect people in India and Nigeria to have better recovery rates in schizophrenia.

  • @Blu6556
    @Blu6556 Місяць тому

    Did Mr Whitaker name his book Anatomy of Epidemic as a nod to Robert Burton’s 1612 treatise “Anatomy of Melancholy”?

  • @gaiadance
    @gaiadance Рік тому +3

    Name of his books please

    • @kotenoklelu3471
      @kotenoklelu3471 Рік тому +3

      Anatomy of an epidemic, mad in America, psychiatry under the influence

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@kotenoklelu3471 Anatomy of an Epidemic is an absolute must-read.
      Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters, also -- the cross-cultural study.

  • @fishintheocean-i4g
    @fishintheocean-i4g Рік тому +7

    psychiatric drugs don't get prescribed without the agreement of the parent. We don't really have a "psychiatric drug" epidemic as we have a "moronic parents who buy into the so transparent ruse of psychiatry" epidemic.

    • @capresti3537
      @capresti3537 Рік тому +1

      Parents are not educated on the fraud of psychiatry. They are duped too.

    • @cuekinaja
      @cuekinaja Рік тому +4

      As a parent, I didn't know because I trusted the psychiatrists. I only realized there was something wrong when my daughter suffered side effects and the doctor only told us to quit cold turkey and she couldn't because of the withdrawal symptoms. Then, I finally searched the internet. But my daughter, who is now 21, still believes the doctors and she thought she only needed to find the right drugs, just without side effects. So she keeps looking, going to other psychiatrists on her own, believing her mental illness is permanent. I fail to convince her to find alternatives. She believes the doctors and Reddit more.

    • @fishintheocean-i4g
      @fishintheocean-i4g Рік тому

      @@cuekinaja there's a good chance she's not even mentally ill. 90 to 95 percent of the psychiatric claims are made up shit, often only describing normal reactions/patterns of behavior. Psychiatry is, for the most part, a scam.

    • @capresti3537
      @capresti3537 Рік тому

      @@cuekinaja That's sad she has become brainwashed and conditioned by psychiatrists. Psychiatry is not a science, nothing they say is scientific, they symptoms of mental illness are created by them with their drugs.

    • @U_n_d_e_r_s_c_o_r_e_n
      @U_n_d_e_r_s_c_o_r_e_n 9 місяців тому +3

      not when you are forced into a psyc ward for 3 days andf they drug your food, tell you you cant leave without taking meds

  • @OreElect1
    @OreElect1 2 роки тому +18

    A Psychiatrist's recipe for suicidal ideation prescribed to Naomi Judd. Akathisia.
    In an 18 month time frame, Ms Judd was placed 7 SSRIs (including 3 at the same time), Wellbutrin, three trials of anti-psychotics (abilify and Seroquel), four benzodiazepines (klonopin, Ativan, Xanax and Valium with the klonopin and Ativan combo being the longest)

    • @capresti3537
      @capresti3537 2 роки тому +6

      Truth.

    • @beautifulrose8619
      @beautifulrose8619 2 роки тому +4

      How sad. I don't know how you know this. Is it public information? Also Jordan Peterson had a problem with akathesia. I wish people would seek out more solutions to their mental health if they could avoid medication that would benefit them.

    • @capresti3537
      @capresti3537 2 роки тому +12

      @@beautifulrose8619 Jordan Peterson got a taste of his own medicine. He's a psychologist, studies a destructive pseudoscience the same ideology as psychiatrists now he knows what benzo withdrawal feels like.

    • @jenniferbryn
      @jenniferbryn Рік тому +5

      ​@@capresti3537 don't wish it on anyone... it's an ugly look

    • @CF-Warrior
      @CF-Warrior Рік тому +6

      Omg.. how can these things happen? I'm in benzos withdrawal right now. I can't even imagine the agony she must have been going through... It's just too sad. God help us all!

  • @rajvo7406
    @rajvo7406 3 місяці тому

    32:35..... that "Nigeria" sounded very contemptuous