My parents were denied the right to see me, as a minor - I was detained, strapped to a bed and naked for 3 days with a bed pan and a catheter because I refused to take the medication in the psych ward because I was having a weird reaction to it that made me feel itchy inside of my skin. My parents were denied access to their 15 year old with no reason for 13 days. I was catatonic and in renal failure when they finally won and got me out.
Modern phones and video allow the possibility for people to be much more closely surveiled by more people. This can radically increase protection of vulnerable people. It really is revolutionary.
@@elinope4745 We had cameras, but all of us (ages 12-17) were strip and cavity searched night and morning to make sure we didn’t have any contraband. Once I broke into the nurses’ station (I can’t remember this but my brother does) and called the store where my brother worked as a manager in a last ditch attempt in a broken brain of trying to get help. He said it was freaky that I somehow knew the number, it was in the same city as my psych ward but 3 hours from my home, and I told him I was hungry and my friend Bianca had no clothes. I hung up and he told my mom and she burst into tears because she hadn’t been able to hear me speak in over 10 days. These places need loving staff, and REGULATIONS.
I do know someone in a long term ward that will constantly call and text his parents and siblings if given the chance. He has a set phone time so he isn't constantly pestering his family. However, he has had life long neurological and psychiatric disorders. These disorders have caused him to threaten his family with a machete and physically assult his mother. But even with all that, I believe he has the right to outside communication. I believe he should be able to talk to his parents as they are his legal guardians, and they should be allowed to speak to a lawyer if their son can't vocalize his woes with the facility in a cohesive manner. At the end of the day, each case is a separate human being and they should be treated as such. Of course there will be cases that fall through the cracks, abusive guardians that speak against what is best for those in their care, and genuine mistakes that happen by coincidence. However, that does not make a patient any less human. They are deserving of proper medical care, second opinions, staff that don't make them uncomfortable, safe housing, communication, informed consent, and the right to refuse mediations and procedures.
I was a social worker doing case management in a mental health agency. All of my clients were brain dead due to being pumped up on psych meds, and all of them were on three to ten different types of psych meds. That’s why I quit... billing the insurance was THE MOST IMPORTANT focus for the agency, not the clients becoming healthy, healed, independent, and fully functioning. “Billable hours, billable hours, billable hours” and meeting monthly quotas was all I ever heard about. It was disgusting. They claimed the goal was to improve client lives and get them moving forward in life, but case notes and psych charts/diagnoses and treatment plans on a lot of the clients went back 20 years for that agency. The goal was to get the clients hooked and drain the juice right out of their insurance.
Everything you and this lady pointed out rings completely true based on my personal experience as well. I only want to add that I personally witnessed a Silver Star Geriatric Patient with nothing more than sun downers denied personal hygiene for 3 days, he was also a fall risk due to age and was ordered one-on-one nursing care, The staff would sit and play on their phones not watching him when he was up and moving. After watching this and finally speaking up in the medication line, I was screamed at to mind my own $#€!! business. If “they” Will do this to a Silver Star Veteran don’t think they won’t do it to YoU. I was discharged because “this place is making you worse”. Folks that’s only the tip of the iceberg of the things I experienced.
I was 62yrs old I'm now 70. At age 62 while in a Nursing home, I was prescribed this med. It almost killed me. Thanks to a couple of very smart caring Nurses, I lived.
I checked myself into the hospital due to suicidal thoughts. I have a RX symbol tattooed on my face, so they assumed I wanted drugs, gave abilify and 3 other things. I took my meds that first day and got so messed up I passed out.
I relate to this woman's experience so much. I'm glad this psychiatrist is shedding light on these terrible psychiatric medications. retaining info, carrying conversation, drawing on words, brain fog, a period of akashia, emotional blunting, a feeling of inner anguish that can;t be expressed,sleep problems, the feeling of trying to break out of a thick insulated stifling mold....so much she is saying I have experienced and still do to certain extents even though I stopped all meds like 16 years ago.
I was on abilify as a teen. Living with a psychotic, narcissist mother can make you pretty unhappy. Instead of doing anything about my living situation after my many therapy sessions, they medicated me heavily. It made me feel like a zombie especially in combo with the 3x daily xanax I was prescribed as well. As a kid I was not counseled on the potential side effects or withdrawal symptoms. I wanted to quit after a few months but the doctors said I could have a heart attack and die from stopping suddenly, as an otherwise healthy 16 y/o. I weaned myself off over a month and got my life back. I just wanted to feel human again, the good and bad is better than nothing at all. With my mind cleared, I threatened to take my mother to court and fight for emancipation. She let me move out at 16 1/2 to avoid everyone finding out the truth about her. After moving out, all my “mental health symptoms“ subsided entirely other than occasional anxiety from the PTSD of living with an unstable, abusive, single mother all my life. Luckily, this has been fairly easy to manage with more therapy, mindfulness exercises and natural treatments.
I survived a psychotic, narcissist mother as well, unfortunately i can no longer press charges BUT i am writing a book that will ensure her name will be stained for the rest of her life, i hope you can fully recover from the abuse you've received, as i hope to one day do as well
ugh jesus fucking christ i am so sorry to hear you went through that shit. parents who rely on doctors prescribing drugs to “keep their kids in check” should have their parental rights revoked immediately. it really is one of the more ignominious forms of abuse due to how common and damaging it is, and how most don’t realise it until it’s too late i had parents who flipflopped between “make sure you take your meds” and “your meds are making you act up”. and then they wonder why i smoke tons of weed now and never tell them shit
I’m sorry you went through that. I ended up with an abusive narcissistic perpetually cheating partner at 21. My first and only. I’m finally free. He kept hoovering me back in. Financially at times I had no other options. Now I’m living with my mother and free from him but 15 years with him and the constant gaslighting, manipulation, etc etc and him forcing me to get hooked on big pharma, I feel a lot of what the girl in this video feels.
My mom works for a adolescent psych hospital as a nurse. Growing up she used to threaten to take her kids to her paych hospital if we misbehaved. She said we would be locked up and that she would "have her way with with us" while we were locked up. She also said that "childhood trauma is a choice". Again, this is an adolescent psych nurse who did/said this. I don't trust mental health professionals.
You are a good person and so are your siblings and your m is a high level, sadistic narcissist or socippath so you really didn't have a real parent. I hope you and your siblings can learn to love and be there for yourselves and each other. You deserve so much better and you NEVER deserved that, no matter what. I wish I could give you and your siblings a huge, motherly hug. I have huge respect for you surviving that and contjnuing to be a decent person after everything you have been through. My heart goes out to you and your siblings and I am rooting for all of you. Just love yourselves and be kind to yourrselves and each other. Try to laugh whenever you can and enjoy nature and life. You deserve it.
You are a good person and so are your siblings and your mum is a high level, sadistic narcissist or sociopath so you really didn't have a real parent. I hope you and your siblings can learn to love and be there for yourselves and each other. You deserve so much better and you NEVER deserved that, no matter what. I wish I could give you and your siblings a huge, motherly, truly loving hug. I have huge respect for you surviving that and continuing to be a decent person after everything you have been through. My heart goes out to you and your siblings and I am rooting for all of you and all of her victims Just love yourselves and be kind to yourrselves and each other. Try to laugh whenever you can and enjoy nature and life. You deserve it and so much more.
@@joshuachavez3226 well, I am not a doctor so I should be careful with words, but treating a chemical chock to the brain with even more chemicals is not always a good idea. But I am not against the use of medicines, quite the opposite
Well, these people are not from another planet. Their whole pretext for treating people is that they are medical professionals. You do recall how such professionals were acting over the last five years, right?
I am not against medication, but in my city in Iceland currently there are only two psychiatrists, there's no funding in our mental health care system. I am not taking any anti-psychtropics in our current system. I can not sue if I get health problems. I will do CBT with no medication. It's bounders that it's hard to enforce.
@@Skoopyghost do you know Wim Hof mate? Since you are iceland I would think cold therapy, breath work and meditation is a good option, and the cold therapy a traditional one. Its an easier option to potentially treat and fix mental health issues, have seen a lot of people over the years recover and even get off meds as well. Cold combined with sauna is good too. I imagine your winters are difficult too, that can be a big problem in itself for mental health. Sometimes the issue and solution is just environment and lifestyle a lot of the time, which is why so many get nowhere from therapists and psychs.
I went to a spych "hospital" once as an adult. After waiting to see the psychiatrist for hours, the first thing I tell him is, "Im not taking any of your drugs." He strait up told me "well, you're gonna be here longer." I wasn't manic or in psychosis, so luckily, I could think clearly. I buddied up with someone who could also think strait, so we talked and would make people in there laugh who were clearly having a worse time. Ha! I made fun of a nurse once, and she pulled me into a room and yelled at me not to disrespect her. If you end up in one of these hospitals, pray, find a friend, do what you have to do to "do your time," 'cause honey, you're in jail.
This happened to me. I was admitted into a hospital after my son said i was talking to people that were there. He later said he had to say that to get me help. Long story short, I had a brain tumor
Welp if you are rational enough to make everyone’s experience more difficult, as long as you don’t harm anyone and can explain your actions, it is in their best interest to release you as soon as possible 😂😂😂 long weekend stay and the nurses convinced the shrink whom wanted to keep me that even while medicated I was far too disruptive to other patients to subject them to my shenanigans … such as starting the “so and so is getting out” rumours or changing name tags on food trays so lactose intolerant people would get milk 😅 it was slightly evil
@@dharma__3God, I’m not the only one thinking he sounds like her being admitted and medicated is for nefarious reasons. He sounds very suspect…didn’t advocate for her at all. (Her sister too….)
Thank you so much for sharing your story. I was put on Abilify a couple months ago, and your symptoms line up with how I felt about a month in. I let my psychiatrist know about the symptoms, and they upped my dose from 5 to 10. I wanted to trust the process, so I tried another week and it was like I was locked inside myself. I tapered off last week and symptoms have come down a bit. Please stay strong, and thank you so much for sharing. This needs to be known.
My husband was given abilify while locked in a troubled teen facility, before it was even fully approved. He had no choice or say in the matter, neither was he equipped to even understand the risks if they were explained. He was a young teen. He often tells me that ever since his first dose he lost his light, his fire, his fervor. He often goes blank and it hurts me greatly because I can still see his fire, it's just like it's buried behind walls and doors in his mind.
Same. They locked my longterm gf into a padded room & restreained because she didn't want meds. They pumped her full of Haldol! This was 10 years ago, not 60-70! When I saw her 48 hrs she was a zombie. I'd been so happy she was brave enough to get the help she desperately needed and I needed her to do. I remember crying with relief in the parking lot. It being her decision really made it better but man the feeling I went through. 3 days later she looks amazing, is clear happy. Then 2 days later it happened and we got her out of there asap AMA
There was a father who literally carried his daughter out of a facility. He loudly shouted at the staff about the mistreatment and abuse that was going on. Although I remember that man as a hero, we all had to watch this girl get carried away to safety as we were left behind locked doors being tortured. The scars those facilities left on my mind and soul will never go away. You surely learn a thing or two about evil and how sick people can be in those places, but they don't help at all. Its just torture.
Oh. Like suboxone and how it's pronunciation Sub-ox-own. Owning the sub ox's which is us because they got us to eat cows and chickens the more docile of creatures.
A Mushroom trip almost 2 years ago is the reason im alive today. Ive battled with mental health my entire adult life. I abused alcohol and amphetamines for years. Something changed on that trip. I actually left my physical self and went somewhere else. It forced me to have that internal dialogue i so badly needed to have. I got off drugs and quit drinking. I Was able to get off Abilify. I completely turned my self around. I started eating right, running, rucking, lifting weights, started a more professional career and i keep crushig my goals. Ill still do a micro dose of mushrooms out in nature a couple times a year but thats it. Call that substance what you want. Call me what you want. Mushrooms broke the cycle i was stuck in.
There is something going on in Michigan right now, where they're investigating the head Psychiatrist of multiple psychiatric facilities here. They found stacks of psychiatric hold forms that were pre-signed by him. He wasn't even meeting the patients to see if a hold was necessary, it was automatic. Some of these poor people were being kept there for months. They were voluntary, but every time they would go through the proper channels for release, something would "happen" with the paperwork, or they'd be waiting to see the doctor to sign off, for weeks. It took a patient somehow getting a hold of a local investigative reporter. Once the facility found out the media was contacted, they released her immediately. This is all over insurance money. They're holding people and bleeding their insurance. I guarantee if the patient doesn't have insurance, they release them ASAP. My point is, if it's happening here, it's probably happening all over the country.
The psych ward psychiatrist is the prosecution, judge, & jury of your case. You stay indefinitely for as long as they want without representation. There is no exercise, no fresh air, even murderers get that. You are locked on a floor with nothing. I have met people who have been in that small space for 6 months. If you arent already insane, would that not do it to you? 19 days is the longest i had to stay, but i had to make a deal to get out. I dont use drugs & dont drink to get drunk when i rarely do. But if i agreed to go to rehab, they would let me out. 12 Step Rehab is a cult with a 98% failure rate, its,useless but LOTS of people get paid at the rehab facility. Anyway i am lucky. I met a woman who failed her latest evaluation after 6 months. The psychiatrist did her evaluation in front of everyone, in the lunch room, to make an example of her to everyone else. "I want a lawyer" she said after he told her she has to stay another 30 days. "You dont get a lawyer". And hes right, its all legal what punitive measures they do to us. They do give us safety when we have a psychotic episode, but we are also their prisoner. When i have symptoms, i just completely disappear so i wont get Baker Acted. Whether you are in there voluntary or involuntary, no lawyer can get you out. Only the attending psychiatrist can decide.
I was at Havenwick (mental facility ) in Pontiac Michigan in 1999 The psychiatrist talked to me for less than 10 minutes. He said I was bipolar and prescribed me 5 different medications including abilify. I never took any of it after my week long stay. All these years later I've taken no psych meds at all. I've made it this far so apparently I didn't need any of it. Good thing I followed my instincts. It also helps that I was never forced or pressured to take it like this poor girl was. I wasn't held against my will there either. It's still amazing though how he just prescribed me what he did with almost no information about me.
I was tortured in mental health facility, held incommunicado, held in freezing room, my family overseas had no idea where I was. My diagnosis is dementia.
I can empathize. I was 15 and held naked, strapped down to a bed with a catheter and bedpan for 3 straight days after I refused to take medication. My parents had to fight for 13 days. By the time they got me out I was in renal failure.
@@Erich91_ you as well! Truthfully, I’m with a psychiatrist who gives a damn about me more than he does about lining his pockets, and I am medicated, but he’s always given me his opinion on several different options and allowed me to do my own research and weigh pros and cons before trying anything. My medications are a little on the weird side, but treating complex PTSD, atypical ADHD and OCD with a dash of panic disorder is messy - therapy is helping and I have a wonderful set of parents and partner and 3 amazing children all there to remind me of how glad I am to have made it away from him alive. thank you.
The side effects from risperadone and the like is absolutely insane. Im schizophrenic, but the compulsory depos had me suicidal. They dont care. This time i kept a diary as they kept me at hospital for six weeks to force the abilify crap on me. By the third day of resperidone i was a mess and couldnt function to write a sentence. They tortured me for 10 hours a few years back. Mental Health Australia even took me to the supreme court to have an order on me. They informed me that 'do no harm', doesnt apply to mental health australia. I am going to enjoy watching this sick and twisted industry come undone. Theyve had free reign for 100 years now.
When i took resperidone it took all happiness from me. One of my diagnoses is MDD. I didn't think it was possible to get anymore sad but on that medication it was all gone. I stopped taking on day 3 or i wouldn't have survived. It took the small satisfactions you get in life like the relief when you pee or the first drag of a cig in the morning or eating.. literally took all the minor happinesses people take for granted.. it was hell.
That's horrific. Sadly I have seen the inside of these places because my grandma was in them near the end of her life. The risperadone was the absolute worst! I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. It's a living hell! And the people running these places are sick and twisted and they did so much damage to her and at least she had loved ones dighting for her to have proper care. I can't imagine anyone going it alone with no one to advocate for them. They even put her in a psyche ward 50 miles away and tricked her into saying she didn't want anyone to know where she was. For 6 weeks we couldn't find her. I want the whole damn medical industry to implode! So sorry you went through that.
@@KMx108 diet to support methylation as well and the right vitamins, low inflammation and low histamine is important too. I have a on and off history of psychotic symptoms but also ME/CFS for 20+ years, you can improve a lot with the right diet and vitamin regime but it can take a bit of time, 6-12months. I see people saying keto/carnivore has helped them lately too, and just regular b12 shots. You just have to be careful if you are an overmethylator not to take too many methyl supps, like methyl b12 and methylfolate, get hydroxy b12 and use folinic acid.
@@Jess-1095 I don't know you, but I'm very proud of you. I would happily talk and be your friend if I was in your life. You are still valuable and worthy of being here on this earth.
@@Jess-1095I wanna protect ya like a mama ❤. As a survivor I can tell you that there will be a day that you look back and you’re not in it anymore. And it’s okay. Always always always trust your gut . ❤
Thank u… by the end of the i terview.. u smiledfew more times, while talking about being aspie, and when talking avout creating awareness to help others. U carried this interview with a lot of care for so many people… u cared for your family your partner, the other people in the wards multiple times… never taken meds, but i saw what they did to others, is so scary. I feel u. May u ve vetter soon
Man I think we should all really appreciate how delicate being mentally stable is. A slight nudge at the right time can throw you into the abyss. We can walk around for eighty years with the right genetics for schizophrenia and never know it. All it takes is the right trigger. For a lot of people its psychedelics like this case, could be lack of sleep, stress, trauma even seemingly nothing. Our brains are so complex and we’re just now starting to understand whats going on up there. When it comes to consciousness they’re just not really sure. The scariest part is you think everything is fine. Your brain says you’re acting normally. Crazy people don’t know they’re crazy. Appreciate that you know the difference. Stay away from psychiatric hospitals. It will be the worst experience of your life. You have no rights, no free will. Lockdown was paradise compared to this. Stay safe have someone you can trust
@@user-jo5ml8et1zThen you simply fail to understand a few things about self awareness. Anybody can be made to snap. My dad read the remains of the, MK Ultra files, and made a point of doing some of it to his kids. You just have to keep increasing pressure, or weaken the mind, maybe both for a tough nut. Anybody can be reduced to a wreck in a closet, defecating all over themselves given enough time, drugs, and various implements of torture. Even you.
After a SA, I had a breakdown and they decided that the best treatment was a medication induced coma including very high dose of seroquil. My brain has never been the same. Simple things like my handwriting changed permanently (I was taking the meds 20 years ago). I've always described it as a lobotomy. Ty for validating my experience
@heinzriemann3213 it is. 30 years have passed and, while it took decades to accept, I know now my brain's been permanently altered. It needs to stop. Now. This shouldn't happen to another soul. (They recently tried to prescribe abilify to my friend for anxiety!! Luckily he trusted and took my advice to stay away. ) They don't tell parents these well proven effects...they're not side effects, they are the intended effect - but for schizophrenia and nothing less than that. Oh gosh sorry! I get rev'd up so easily around the topic and end up ranting. Apologies again and have a wonderful day 🙏
@@OG_Granny To be honest my experience with Abilify have been very different. I don't take it myself but my uncle got it prescribed and it helped him a lot with his anxiety. So he convinced my mother to get it too for her anxiety and paranoia, and the first time she took it she praised the Lord that she was finally healed. Today she's on 30mg. Unfortunately she still suffers from paranoid delusions, but all the things said here about Abilify are quite dumbfounding to me. This is in Europe btw,
The parents can download the product information leaflet that clearly states all the adverse reactions and in fact has a black box warning that "this product can cause suicidal ideation/tendencies and HOMICIDAL impulses. The manufacturers KNOW and are legally required to state it clearly cos they've been successfully sued in the past and by writing it, the onus is on the prescribing physician, the parents and the patient for foolishly being their willing victim. @@OG_Granny
I lost my partner in July 2022 she died suddenly from an arterial arthroma and I lost my daughter in December 2022 to stage 4 cervical cancer. My GP wanted me to see a psychiatrist, because I displayed no emotion to my loss. I wasn't bawling my eyes out or mourning their passing and I might be having suicidal thoughts. When I explained that in the religion we followed we celebrate the life of our loved ones rather than mourn their death. My doctor gad the audacity to send a shrink to my house. I refused to let him into my house and reported my GP to the medical council for disrespect of my religious beliefs. You really have to watch these people they'll lock you up and fuck up yoour head sumply beacause they can and the law is on theur side
I was involuntarily hospitalized for su*cidal ideation after being abused by a workplace and put on 5mg of Abilify. Even that small amount was insufferable, probably partly because i knew it was against my will. I was diagnosed after literally 5 minutes of conversation with the psychiatrist. Everyone that i spoke to in that ward was put on Abilify. One girl told them she didn't tolerate an injectible they were going to give her and they did it anyway against her will. She ended up puking the next three+ days. I was almost assaulted over a TV remote. Many of the things they claim are part of our recovery plan never get done. We barely went outside, hardly had groups, did not speak to the psychiatrist more than probably 10 minutes the entirety of the time in there when we were supposed to have regular therapy sessions. One of the nurses started using me as an emotional dumping ground telling me it's not that bad and at least i didnt have cancer like she did. I was breastfeeding at the time, they refused to let me pump, and my milk dried up. I was suffering physically and mentally for days as my nipples leaked out of my paper pajamas. My relationship with my son was never the same. How those nurses and doctors live with themselves I have no idea. I guess there are huge conglomerates that own like 500+ hospitals like this. They even have all these pics online of them playing golf together, smiling, partying it up. When you contrast that with the reality of how they make their money, it makes you absolutely disgusting. Was in 10 days, $17k
Report the place to medicare. Medicare will cut them off and they will be forced to shut down. Same happened with me at a hospital and they got shut down because medicare mandates certain amount of therapy. 3 days a week group therapy i think. I was there a month and had only 1 or 2 group therapies. They also wouldnt give me a food tray for a few days saying "they ran out of food and had to ration til the end of the year". They even told other patients not to share their trays with me. I got very dehydrated, lips cracked and bleeding.
R. D. Laing was wrong to say that psychosis is always due to external factors, but we do need to acknowledge all the times that it is. Your story sounds like a page from one of his books.
I have never known a single person, online or IRL, who has had a positive experience with Abilify. It made me sleep 20 hours a day, and left me a completely zombie who did nothing but stare at the wall the four hours I was more-or-less awake. To top it off, it didn't even work. My doctor tried to get me to take it for at least two weeks, but I was like, I cannot function in any capacity if I can neither think nor stay awake. I'd rather deal with the hallucinations if it meant actually feeling like a human being.
oh damn. i feel for you. my sister has been on tns of these meds all at the same tim’s for a couple decades. it’s ruined her and she needs to be who she is - not what doctors and med industry thinks she should be so they can rest and sleep. respect for getting off the meds if you have. it ruins brains bc brain is a muscle and it won’t do things if over medicated.
@@chinmeysway I'm still on meds, I just had to find the right ones, which took a few years. As it turned out, what I needed wasn't an anti-psychotic, but a mood stabilizer and anxiety med. Fortunately, I had a doctor who actually listened to me; I know a lot of people aren't that lucky. Were your sister's meds all prescribed by the same doctor? If it's possible, it might be a good idea to find her a new one.
My wife had a relatively positive experience with abilify, my mom is also currently still on it and doing really well. My wife has medication resistant schizophrenia. I NEVER leave her in the care of medical professionals without me for a TON of reasons learned very much the hard way… it helped her a bit in the beginning but honestly nothing has ever completely treated her psychosis. She’s fine though, we handle it. I mean, she can’t work, but she lives a predominantly happy life at home. I also don’t personally ever force my wife to take medication. I remind her of her rescue meds when it seems like she needs them but if she wanted to stop all medications for some reason (she never wants to be unmedicated ever again, psychosis is terrifying) I wouldn’t stop her because that’s fucked up. But anyways. My mom takes it for medication resistant major depressive disorder, she works and is raising my much younger siblings and is doing pretty damn well
I actually felt pretty good on it- until I lost control of my bladder. For months I had a very sudden urge to pee, I realized, always running to make it to the bathroom in time. And then I started just pissing myself. I’d never had issues with my bladder before. I looked it up and realized urinary incontinence was a side effect of abilify, stopped taking it immediately. I had only been on it for a few months. It’s been 2 years since and my bladder has never been the same.
Sounds a lot like my experience with Abilify. Diagnosis was Schizophrenia with Psychosis, so they prescribed me Paxil and Abilify. I no longer take medications and I haven't in years.
Praying for you dude 🙏 That happened to my dad, everyone was scared and confused (including him) not a good experience. Sobriety may be boring, but it's better than winding up in a mental hospital or dead.
I haven't watched this just yet, but I'm super curious and glad this video popped up. My son was prescribed abilify when he was in 6th grade. I noticed he was getting more aggressive and was even saying he wanted to off himself. I told his doctor and they INCREASED his dose. Told me that it's a mood stabilizer and it shouldn't make him like that. Well, he got worse so I slowly took him off of it. It wasn't long before the school was asking me what changes we did because he was improving.
Always do research into meds. All antipsychotics, which abilify is one, are horrible for you. Its a matter of whether or not the side effects are worse than the mental illness. Like whether you will end up dead or in prison without them. Otherwise, probably do whatever you can to avoid them
All these drugs are a nightmare. And those who manufacture them should be put out of business. I have seen the nightmare they cause. And thank God I got my son away from these psycho doctors. His story started in a similar way when he was messing around with mushrooms and pot. Mushrooms are bad bad news too. Maybe this lady should try CBD? Since mushrooms and THC started the original problem, maybe the CBD without THC could help. It’s a shame her family didn’t know how psych hospitals operate because they may have let her naturally get through ridding her body of the drugs instead of taking her there. I hope she and everyone else gets well again. I have hope that they can if they stay away from these doctors and their toxic chemicals.
“Chemical lobotomy” is exactly what Dr Peter Breggin said about most psych meds 💔 So so grateful for you and all you do, Dr Witt-Doerring!! You’re doing very important work!
He is a good listener, but I was expecting him to say something doctor-like at some point. EDIT: It only took nearly an hour, but he finally got to sounding like a professional.
My nephew is nonverbal. Took abilify for years during childhood. He is now off of it but has never been the same. He hits himself in the face. Bangs his head. Paces non stop. Barely sleeps. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in his mind. As a boy he was expressive and giggled and loved playing in the water. Now he does nothing but pace and self harm. He’s trying to communicate something but we just can’t understand. 😢
@@myhandlehasbeenmishandled hallucinations, he had early onset schizophrenia. He was more verbal back then and would talk to people who weren’t there. He ran from someone named Tyler that was trying to choke him. The dr told my sister it would help 🤷♀️ Super easy for others to judge when it’s not their child.
@@M.Ahnungslos you have no clue what you’re talking about. Do you always answer questions for other people? My nephew has been through hell and has no quality of life. My sister did what the professionals told her to do. She was 17 when he was born. How the hell would she know not to listen to them? Talk about blaming the victim.
This is terrifying. The general perception on psychiatric hospitals and the harm caused via archaic, brutal, inhumane practices (which fly in the face of holistic/whole body treatment) is true. It’s sickening that in 2024 we have a psychiatric anti-care system straight outta the late 1800’s.
I can't imagine how hard this is for you but you've made progress no matter how slow it feels in five years when you laugh for the first time you'll laugh until you cry and I hope you find meaning in the fact that this video has given people valuable information and a bit of hope
Jess, what you said at the end makes so much sense that if food can negatively effect people then obviously an extremely powerful drug also can. They act like the drugs are immaculate and can do no wrong. It is absurd.
I think we have all been learning, these past few years especially, that the pharmaceutical industry has a lot to answer for and we have been sold one hell of a fairy tale to believe that the medical complex knows what it’s doing, and has all the answers. These days we need to face the fact that it is a Business just like any other business where profits come first, no matter the cost.
@@blueraven2345if you fight the medication cartel, they shut you up. I've been shadow banned repeatedly. I've seen people have their family targeted by 3li LiIIy. The gaslighting is constant.
I became a ward of the state of Idaho when I was 13. In and out of Juvi and psychiatric facilities for children. I was SA'd by my stepfather and brother for years starting at 4 years old, and wasn't believed, on top of my family being very mormon and very controlling. Of course I had a bad mental state but they refused to accept the root cause. I was put on Prozac and then Abilify. No set diagnosis, but Bi Polar and Borderline Personality Disorder were terms used often. In the last facility I was in, Northwest Children's Home, I finally met a therapist who believed me and when I met with the psychiatrist he said these exact words, "I'm taking you off Abilify. It's an anti psychotic and you're clearly NOT psychotic." I can't explain how validating those words were. Honestly, that time of my life is such a blur. I can't tell you how those medications affected me overall. I know Prozac made me homicidal, suicidal and violent, but that was before I was hospitalized. I'm 33 now and what I believe saved me was spirituality, getting far away from organized religion and my abusive family, and friendships that create a safe space for me to express my truth and fully accepting me and believing in my ability to heal. Visiting animal sanctuaries, just animals in general have been so healing. Cannabis has really helped me as well, and I don't really use it often anymore because I don't feel the need. It wasn't until 2022 that my brother gave me the full truth of what he did. Seeing my family still reacting the same way they did back then, showed me I was never the problem, it was my environment gaslighting me and controlling me. The truth will literally set you free. I accept now that I have CPTSD, and I don't believe I will always be affected by it. I believe we can truly heal from anything, if we believe we can, and dont just believe doctors advice at face value. The human body and spirit is more amazing than we realize. I will never take western medicine again. It will never heal the root cause because western medicine only treats symptoms. I'm heartbroken for this woman and her experience. I hope she finds her path to true healing. It truly is different for everyone.
Your experience is horrible and those doctors should fell ashamed. I am not happy recounting what happened. But it was a lot less terrible than your case. I found bad doctors, who just gave me pacifying antidepressants. But I found a good psychiatrist. There are bad Doctors and good doctors. I would be much worse without my western medicine. I tried Cannabis oil but it just doesn't work for me. Nowadays I do Physics research on improving properties of drugs. One of the things that made me want to do it is how the good drugs helped me. I am lucky. I have good insurance, good doctors, and a problematic but supportive enough family. I know doctors can be horrible. And if everything you're doing is working, don't visit them again for mental health. But, they can also be good.
4? Dear god.. and your brother? When my sister told me about what our uncle did to her as child decades later she had to beg me not to kill him. I finally realized that since i was her only friend and brother that she would be totally alone for real if i went to prison. So we told the family member that had half custody if his home left by grandparents and agreed to give the equity to her. Not though before we broke into his bedroom, stole his laptop, immediately found what we thought we would and had a sherriff there in a matter of hours. I will say this, she was a heroin addict 200lb over weight. After she told me and i got the entire family to valid what happened to her and moved her away from that town she immediately quit opiates, got a job, lost all the weight and became very skinny, got a boyfriend, broke up with him then got another one thats far more serious and now im an uncle and it was all within a couple years. I assumed she would die single and depressed. Never before have i seen as much joy and her bouncing a baby on her lap next to her love of her life. It was insane seeing that this one thing she was holding in had essentially imprisoned her and all it took to free her was her brother and mother telling her it wasnt her fault and he was a monster. Ever since i wonder how many women walk atound imprisoned by the actions of one sick monster like that and it breaks my heart. She only told me because she was so drunk she couldnt even walk. I have no idea why a victim would hold that in. She is unable to tell me why she couldnt tell us. I think she truly though it was her fault, that she brought it on herself as an 8 year old. I just wish there was some way that every little girl could be made to understand that its their right to tell an authority figure.. hearing you say you wernt belived..heart breaking. Let us pray their God does exist so that they may be reminded of their crimes every day by the laugher of demons. Jesus said, "Suffer not the little ones"
Foolishly is the key word. Yet people are desperate and vulnerable in those situations. They really do need help. But they don't realize whatever ails them pales in comparison to what they're about to contend with in the mental health system and with "treatment" with psychiatric medications. It's an absolute disaster.
Very few people have built their own opinion based on using both brain hemispheres and all their senses , but many believe propaganda being their intrinsic „truth „ If psycho-drugs selectively deplete essential micronutrients ?( vitamin b1 and magnesium for example/ korsakoff -psychosis) is known to be caused by alcohol abuse. However, magnesium cured my 4th and last psychosis within 4-5 hours, whilst the Auschwitz like (mis)treatment by biorobots in white uniforms almost killed me twice .(they were promoted for doing so) Diogenes of Sinope would highly likely still search for a (psychologically)human being (with a light during daytime)
I was prescribed abilify as a young lad to "treat" my autism, all it did was make me more miserable and balloon into a binge eating disorder. I lost nearly 100 pounds with barely any changes to diet and exercise, from around 350 to 260 once I stopped. And this pissed me off especially since my mom wouldn't stop subtly fat shaming me.
At 74 years old, you are describing my very own symptoms! It's a long story and I can't go into it here but I want you to know that my heart and best wishes you are with you😮
I have never been comfortable with psychiatric medications. Many in my family took them for depression. Until "science" is able to determine what is going on with the neurotransmitters in every individual case, it's like throwing a dart with a blindfold on. I take as few medications as possible
I take Zoloft and it's a literal lifesaver. It's actually dangerous to go around telling people to avoid psychiatric meds because some people need them to function. People around me discouraged me from meds for years and I was on the brink of $uic*d*. There will always be people who will have bad side effects and there will always be bad medical care regardless. Some of us literally have a broken brain and need psychiatric meds.
I was told not to pull the emergency string in the bathroom unless it was an emergency (I was having a panic attack and was incredibly dizzy) and so I asked one of the nurses to wait either in or outside the bathroom incase I passed out and she said ‘no you’re too old for that’ (insinuating my request was “childish”) and then I did in fact pass out and nobody came to help. I was also told I was going to have to stay for four extra days because “they don’t want to do paperwork on Saturdays” so I requested a patient advocate and an AMA sheet and they let me go when they realized I was well enough to call out their bullshit.
I tried to leave a facility via the emergency fire exit which had a sign that an alarm would sound if the bar on the door was pushed. Guess what, no alarm and the door was locked. Zelda Fitzgerald died in a psychiatric facility in the 20's this exact way. The hospital caught on fire and she was trapped because she had been locked in her room. Sad that not much has changed in these places in 100 years.
OMG GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR COMING FORWARD, I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING AND NOT BEING CENSORED AWAY INSTANTLY! I’M BAWLING 😭 I NEVER THOUGH THIS DAY WOULD EVER COME 🌈
Last time I had it was a couple years ago. I had surgery to remove the right side of my thyroid. That surgery went pretty well. Unfortunately, during the surgery they send a specimen of to get a quick check to find out if it was cancerous. It came back clear so they did not remove the left thyroid. Later that week after a closer look at the thyroid, they found cancer in the part they took out. So two weeks later I went under to have the left side removed also. When I was in recovery they had a problem getting my blood pressure in check. I ended up with akathisia. I was up all night pacing the halls. The nurses must of thought I was nuts. They wanted to give me some anti nausea medication and/or tramadol. I was just felt like I should not take anything and ride it out. Later I found that the anti nausea medication they wanted to give me more of has a listed side eff3ct of akathisia. I would try to sit down, but I just couldn’t. I felt compelled to move. I am extremely fortunate that it let up in the morning and a couple days later I was OK. About 10 years ago I had akathisia for about 2 months which i realize now was related to a long term use of prescribed Ativan.
No it can’t be all of us not too many people are ridiculous enough to micro dose mushrooms. I have seen people fragment their minds on mushrooms literally the people that come out of Bernie man talk to them they are all in her same position. I’ve lived in Nevada by the festival and I promise the most far gone people have done too many psychedelics it’s sad. To waste our precious bodies to drugs I had a friend literally lose their mind the more they went and now they are in a full blown addiction.
@@RottenInDenmarkOrginal People associate unrelated things sometimes when they have a strong experience, that's a feature of the brain.There is a lot more evidence although very rare, of cannibus triggering a psychosis.
@@alligatorboy2000 true, especially considering that there was just an expose' on contaminates in the dab and live resin cartridges. It was a small scale test in California but the results were not very good.
Vulnerable and desperate - exactly where the Healthcare Industrial Complex wants you. Thank you for sharing this story. I also survived Abilify. At the very least you've warned others about this dangerous drug and how psych wards treat helpless people.
They 'lost' my 72 hour paperwork, as well. They also left me in a room and forgot about me. When they found me, they yelled at me for being in the room. They offered me drugs but wouldnt tell me what they were when I asked. For-profit healthcare is terrifying. I've seen countless stories of hospitals keeping patients as long as possible to get insurance money. We need universal healthcare and better protections for patients. Edit: Just finished the video. Thank you so much to both of you for speaking about this.
Patient rights. 🤣 Refusing meds and you're noncompliant. End up on disability then disability is taken away and you're left homeless. No longer seen. Great system.
@amusedBYfools non-compliant... hmm sounds like that cancels out patient rights. What a circle of non-sense. Yeah, seems typical alright. The problem is huge. I just heard on news tonight about another Mayor (and other officials in the past) stepping down from his job because of the corruption in government. It's definitely trending.
And informed. I was handed a lexpro script for an ear issue that they kept giving me antibiotics for and i was like I think its fungal i think its swimmers esr i had the classic symptoms but i was told no i have anxiety and given lexipro whoch i didnt take. Got some foot fungus cream and sorted it myself. But one of the antibuotics banned for use except as a chemo drug flouraquinalone gave me horrible symtoms of severe terror and some people have this permenently i only took 2 tablets. It messed me up for months after. Total terror all the time for no reason. So no way was ó taking lexipro. Christ. For a fungal ear infection. Im so glad i didnt take it now I dont ever go to a doctor ever. If i was in a car crash id be pretty worried to trust them.
She was definitely not informed properly about what they were giving her and why, and I bet neither was her family. Even if she could've refused this is a crazy oversight and negligent on their part, they essentially forced her to take whatever treatment they offered on trust.
But it also says something about coddle culture, and pills will fix everything mentalities. She seems to blame the drugs at every turn, but most of this can be explained by her not knowing herself and trying to retain her view of the world. Now, don't get me wrong, all of this is f-ed to the max, but she clearly had a pre-existing condition. She didn't like the introspection phase of mushrooms... Cool, most unstable people don't. I've blacked out from dropping too much blood pressure smoking pot before, too. That mixed with low blood sugar and a potent hit will make you feel crazy if you aren't grounded, but I didn't go to the hospital, I went to bed. These things are not life altering... Unless she ate a bad batch or the wrong kind of mushroom, that did not cause her underlying mental break. They just took advantage of her willingness to be helpless. My question to myself through most of the middle and later portions of the interview was, "Then why not just stop taking it...?" The Dr. left for two months, but she didn't stop taking the pills??? She scared herself into actual trauma, let this be a lesson to all the sheltered people who think they knew themselves or the world, it's not what you think it is...
@tibbar1000 I'm not formally diagnosed autistic but I'm 100% certain I'm divergent in some form. What she is describing is most of my life. So, I'm not completely out of touch with her experiences. I just have no external context to reference because it's been my whole life. Which is why I know it's not the drugs. I've done tons of mushrooms.
@tibbar1000 The Dr in this interview does say at the end that she is classic, bi-polar, or schizo effective personality disorder. I have a friend who had a full-blown schizo personality disorder, like he sometimes full-on hallucinated. And he ate mushrooms all the time but never smoked weed sober. He said weed was the thing that brought his symptoms to the surface the worst... He did smoke when he was drunk, which now that I think about it was pretty often, and he always called it playing with fire... right before lighting up. I never understood until I did. He would begin to look at things that clearly weren't there and interact with them. He would tell us he knew they weren't there but couldn't help himself from interacting with whatever it was. Like a compulsion, he said. A friend and I shared a joint, and he just reached in and took a hit. Nobody thought anything of it. He went to the bathroom but didn't come out for like twenty minutes. Then, when he did come out, he had a football helmet on and a fake Kitana. He told us to leave... we did. An hour later, a crisis ambulance showed up. This was probably before abilify but they put him through a similar run of things. He ended up in his little hometown addicted to coke. So it does happen...
I went to an outpatient center because my job was stressful and they were on the brink of terminating me for any small infraction, a coworker even said he heard HR saying they were going to go over my work with a fine tooth comb so I took a family medical leave and ended up in the outpatient center. They were trying to give us all meds and a lot of people declined. I remember my nurse and the guy who led the outpatient clinic mocked us because we declined meds they said in a mocking voice “My family member/friend said I shouldn’t take meds because we don’t know what they’ll do to me.” They acted like we were ignorant but we knew better and they must have heard that so much that it really got under their skin, enough for them to repeat it back to us.
My medical chart currently says “medical non compliant” because I weened myself off psyche meds against doctors orders. I consider it a badge of honor.
I took medical leave when there were problems at work but my doctor warned me not to go too long or else. I imagine he meant they would think I was the problem.
honestly it's best to just find another job at that point, if it's driving you to a mental breakdown it's just not worth it. your working there to live and that isn't living.
Hmmmm my ex took this med. He went from being locked in responsible to overspending on his credit cards $30,000. Then he took $40,000. out of his IRA. He defaulted on his student loans. Could not keep a job. Then suicidal.
I spent all of my savings in one month and I drove across my entire state every single week for absolutely no reason other than feeling restless and cause it was fun. I completely lost my mind on these drugs! Lost my savings and put almost 15k miles on my car in 3 months. Most of the time i would close my eyes while driving as well in an attempt to off myself. These medicines are poison.
He's an analyst, perhaps therapeuth. It's a large diffrence in my opinion to work with particiapants or to madicate them. What can one know of a person after 15 minutes? Nothing. This clip is an hour and we haven't heard all of her. From him we only mostly hear hmm, mhm 🙂
DO NOT take your loved ones to the ER in response to a bad drug experience unless there is a physical danger to their life. It is the worst setting in which to have a bad trip of any kind
She is so well-spoken and her voice is so soothing to listen to in podcast format. She has a beautiful soul, and I hope she gets her mind back. My experience definitely parallels very much to hers with the vision loss, hearing loss, fatigue, although it never got as bad because I refused to go up from 2 mg or to the injection with abilify. the numbness, the anhedonia, dysfunction, depression, I so appreciate her opening up and this is even more confirmation to me not to try taking it again. All my gratitude and well wishes to this person ❤❤❤
@@Jess-1095 thank you so much for your comment. It would be great to have a more detailed update if you felt comfortable sharing more. Was there anything specific that helped you? Everyone please say a prayer of gratitude more Jess's improvement!
@Mack-ct9zd This is a bit outdated, but I basically feel the same from the timeline I want to share my story to inform others on the challenges and potential dangers of Psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry My life was drastically changed in less than a year, I do not ask for pity or advice, and please respect others when making comments I made a promise to myself if I survived this mental prison I will share my story to hopefully help even one life Take or leave what you will from this My name is Jessie I was a curious 27 year old who experimented with psilocybin mushrooms and cannabis recreationally Prior to this, i have never been on pharmaceutical medication and I was never diagnosed with a mental illness Discharge date April 17th, 2023, injected with an LAI Aristada (Abilify)1064MG 2 month dose ● 22 days in 3 different hospitals (Psychiatric hospitals + emergency rooms) ● 20Ibs lost after my hospital stay ● 3 1/2 months medicated (2 month injection + oral pills) (Lexapro 10MG Antidepressant ) Escitalopram (Abilify 15MG Antipsychotic) Aripiprazole ● 3-4 hours of sleep a night, then and currently ● 50 days pacing with terror 10 hours a day (Akathisia) Akathisia g.co/kgs/byVpBzj ● 300 days having severe suicidal thoughts ● 350 days unable to work ● 20+ hours a day in bed for 4 months at my worst 80% of my 320 days were spent in bed/couch ● 3 close suicide attempts ● 9 years together with my partner ended in a divorce ● 30+ friends/family members disappearing in the hardship, from lack of understanding and fear ● 5 people i met in support communities who lost their lives from medication harm ● 20+ doctor appointments/visits General practitioners, psychiatrists, therapists, neurologists, acupuncturists, nutritionists and many more ● 320 days spent in a chemical straight jacket April 17th 2024 My last shot at hope, a psychiatrist in the united states agreed to prescribe me an MAOI An antidepressant called Parnate After a year of trying to find someone willing to prescribe it I started Parnate 5MG on April 17th and slowly moved to 15MG ● April 27th I noticed I didn't want to stay in bed all day ● May 8th the 1st time in almost a year I didn't think about suicide I would say I am currently 60-70% better than I was after starting Parnate in these areas Anhedonia/emotional blunting Cognition/blank mind Libido June 22nd 2024 I am currently 67 days into starting Parnate and I'm still on 15MG I am doing very well all things considered since starting Parnate, I am able to feel life again for the first time in almost a year I still struggle with many symptoms including sexual disfunction and insomnia being my worst. I count my blessings everyday and I'm thankful to be alive
@@Jess-1095I am so glad for you, I’ve had similar symptoms with no clear cause since childhood and I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. I’m so glad you’re feeling some sort of relief
What is happening in psychiatry today is criminal and evil. What happened to her and so many others is heartbreaking. Remember years ago when the Scientologists were saying psychiatry was evil and everyone said their view was crazy and dangerous? To be clear I’m not a Scientologist, but it just goes to show you even a cult can get it right sometimes.
its not just psychiatry. psychiatry is a small window into eurocentric cultures general treatment of the entire human species. everyone who isnt born well off is viewed as a disposable toy to utilize for well off peoples enjoyment/enrichment. there is absolutely zero concern placed on the humanity of people who arent wealthy in this culture. hell, its less than zero, they are conditioned to dehumanize most of our species and treat them badly on purpose.
True. Theyre very powerful and dangerous. Anyone whos losing their mind needs care and compassion and investigation..not forced against their will to be drugged into submission. There's a book called the madness of civilization by foucoult and omg its enlightening. The whole psychiatry industry was born out of making use of the mad to use in industry. So its all been about keeping people quiet so they could make baskets at first and do their jobs later. No questions ever about life. If youve had a hard life that can damage your brain and that brain damage can affect you and how you feel act etc. They dont care if you were kept under the stairs and beaten every day or if your mom just died. They just hand you mind altering drugs. I got handed lexirpo script for an itchy sore ear i kept going to the gp and she eventually said it was anxiety disorder. Im like its my damn ear! I ended up buying foot fungus cream and putting it in my ear and it cured my ear. But she was going to give me lexpro. I asked what are the side effects and she said don't look at them there are none. Cos it would be Bad for my anxiety. Thats insane. I read the side effects and was like how is this to help my ear? Even abeforr that they gave me asthma medication for my ear??? Doctors are insane.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a teenager then bipolar 1 with depression along with the ADHD. I was a guinea pig for years on meds. Thank goodness I never had to be hospitalized but I stopped taking any of the meds they gave me and smoked medical marijuana and it worked. It was unfortunate that I came down with CHS and can no longer have the THC. So no I use my cognitive skills from years of therapy. But now my 21 yo daughter had an episode but this also happened when she did mushrooms at 16. After that happened it took about 2 months for her to be back to her normal self until this episode and she went to an urgent care and the doctor saw her for less than 2 mins and tried putting her on Prozac and no she didn't take it. I worked with my daughter with the cognitive skills I was taught and she is doing great now. I didn't want her to go through the circle of meds and crazy thoughts that these doctors like to put in your head. She now knows the signs of it and knows cognitive awareness is her best chance at working through it and having me, someone that understands and can help her through the pig pong head and safe space dark room feelings without all the drugs. We are working on cleansing our bodies of toxins and evening our our hormones and vitamin levels to have the best chance at this not happening anymore. Please don't let your children on the crazy meds because there are better holistic ways. A holistic chiropractor has actually helped me feel better than I have in 25 years and I'm 48. Its a matter of keeping your insides even and healthy. Deworming and deparasiting and eating healthy and cleansing your body of all the toxins, the heavy metals in your body that the government allows in our food and water. Holistic doctors aren't crazy. Pharmaceutical companies have wanted you to believe this for years so they can make money and doctors play along to get that bonus check for the newest prescribed pills pushed through the FDA. It's all about money. A well person doesn't bring a doctor money. So why would they want to fix you or make you better?
It's easy to say don't throw your kids in there...but when someone is delusional, manic, possibly hallucinating...what would you suggest they do? Strap them to their bed? I'm not being mean by asking this..I just want to know what options people have other than the mental hospitals, especially when they're possibly in danger of killing themselves or someone? When they're acting erratic and don't understand what's going on?
@@AngieCee1Why tf did you havw children on the first place? I can guarantee you never spend time with them but expect them to follow your sayings. The reason your kid is so disconnected is you disconnected him from you. Parenting is not leaving the kids for tv or internet or friends to raise them. If you dont have the time for kids. Dont have kids.
9 years off of Prozac & Abilify, while adjusting and actively working through my MDD was a huge struggle. The meds did help me get up and trudge through work and job interviews, no matter how low I was. There was a weird progression from feeling parts of myself getting quieter, to outright feeling disconnected from everything I got any kind of joy from. Glad to see this vid validate some of my experience
I was put on this as a kid to help me in school. Where I was distracted because I wasn’t challenged enough, but they said I had learning disabilities instead. Abilify, alojg with several other drugs did more damage than good and I realize now that I am operating with a shell of my actual potential. My social life throughout school was ruined and that has damaged my social skills. I am left wondering how much more smart and skilled I could have been if circumstance’s were different.
You were not challenged enough so you did what? Dont blame it on the meds…if you were smart you would have taken advantage and excelled if school was so easy.
@@carloscontreras3633 hold on Carlos. Some of us are both hyperactive (all in our heads and very busy up there) as well as inattentive due to the preoccupation in our brains we don't comprehend like convergent thinkers, did you know? My dear unknown UA-cam commenter interacting on here, as children, especially in certain school districts we could no more advocate for ourselves than our folks could ,depending on the era! Me along with Homer Simpson wrote those 100 times a night 'I will not talk in class', spend a load of time in the hall with coats instead of learning how to manage my kinetic condition (cuz' who knew) or at least not being shamed over a condition. It all came out okay, but you need a problem solved, an opinion, a broadcaster (4 commercial stations 2 non; licensed 3rd class back in the day) that and more due to traits I have as being a gal with V.A.S.T, the updated terminology for ADHD. Regarding meds, according to Doctorate in Pharmacology Dr. Kalin Johnson, some meds due to side effects cannot be employed.. Some are best combined. Some stop working. Latest and greatest can be used for matters of focused importance and before side effects set in is stopped no wean needed. Some patients have no success with meds and it all depends on whether the patient is a slow or fast metabolizer, did you know Mr. Contreras?? We can do better and quit the blame game. Just learning m'self @ age 70, just started this journey 11/23. peace out
Jess, I hope you read this and know we are cheering you on! Your story brought tears to my eyes. Years ago I had my own drug injury , but escaped with minimal harm. Even though you don't feel anything - We see your beautiful heart, intelligence and wisdom shining through. Don't let the evil drug destroy your fighting spirit. Wishing you all the strength, resilience and peace needed to heal!
I work at an outpatient mental health clinic… the hospitals have gotten much worse over the past 15 years. It started with managed care pressuring the hospitals to move patients along like an assembly line. Then the pandemic happened and removed a lot of the group therapy from inpatient units, staff turnover got even worse… and at the same Wall Street private equity groups have been digging their way into the hospitals bit by bit, including the nonprofit ones
@@shelleypegram1450 There isn't a lot of data on harm caused by the various therapies. They have studied successes, but they haven't studied harm. In fact there's not a lot of data on outcomes. It is a huge business though. People spend billions on talk therapy, and metanalyses show it's not effective.
What she's describing about being devoid of emotions reminds me of how I felt when put on different citaloprams. Lexapro & Paxil, namely. It's a very eerie, depersonalizing way to feel.
lexapro helped me personally not have horrible anxiety spiraling all the time and i haven’t noticed much else from it or anything much negative (maybe decreased libido but that doesn’t bother me), but other drugs have definitely done the same thing to me
They don't do añything for me apart from dialating my pupils which is cool also at higher doses they put me in a nice state of sleep it's not like I can't get or wake up just that sleeping is the best on them.
I was a professional artist but have trouble with physical movements and mental coordination now. When you’re an artist, art is your therapy and your identity. After so many years it’s hard to remember what it was like. I’m renting a room now. No car, no social life, no options.❤
Yes. I can relate to you. I used to be a watercolor artist and a yoga teacher. That person I used to be is now only a figment of my imagination. Im just a shell now. All day long I bumble around and can never seem to have a straight thought or any artistic flow. It’s miserable. I absolutely despise psychiatric medications.
I am literally crying from watching this with such horrible feelings of complete and total understanding and knowing exactly what this girl is going through because it is exactly, exactly what I went through when I was put on methadone for pain management. I’ve just been prescribed abilify but didn’t want to take it before researching it due to hearing bad things about it. This cemented it that there’s no chance I want to take something that could do the same thing to me again. That awake, catatonic, lifeless, emotionally dead shell of the person I was, is no way who I want to ever chance myself into ever again. I pray she finds her way back to herself.
Methadone is a beast all its own. When I was strung out, I considered it. I took Suboxone for a short period. I know so many people that have lost many teeth due to Suboxone. I know people that have been on methadone for years. The withdrawals are worse than heroin. It's wild.. like.. really? I'm actually grateful I refused to be bailed out and stayed in jail for months. So many people I care about are still prisoners of the system because of methadone and Suboxone.
I had a friend who was a gymnast with amazing dexterity, strength, energy, and topped off with a very nice, fit body. Six months taking this poison and he became unrecognizable: ballooned up and weighed about 60 lbs heavier! I made it a point to avoid this poison and inform others of the dangers. Shame on “doctors” who just dismiss struggling patients with more poison - y’all are really helping people. Right.
Some of these medications are the best at treating certain conditions; and yes we gain weight and become physically inept… it’s a small price to pay for being truly STABLE. 🤷
@@AurenGlytterkat physical health and mental health are intricately related. If the meds are causing weight gain like that, they aren't healthy or helping the patient.
It’s absolutely poison. I’ve seen so many harmed by these drugs- beyond alarming. So many can’t get off, hyperbaric tapers help but if not done correctly a person can go right into psychosis and mania and updosed and relabeled - it’s a literal nightmare what’s been happening to thousands of innocent healthy people.
Please, please 🙏 continue to advocate for us. You can articulate how we are all feeling and encapsulate it in such a way that I am having aha 🤔 moments left & right.
So glad that Jess mentioned Angie Peacock as someone who's been helping her through this horrific experience. Having been through so much herself, Angie is a gift to anyone who's looking for a guide who gives hope through the healing process from psychiatric drug and treatment harm. Jess, thank you so much for sharing your story. Time is a great healer. You will get better in time. You're a really special, beautiful woman. Your story will lead to greater awareness and positive change for countless people. Stay strong and God bless!
Just as nuts belong with other nuts as a bird of a feather flock together, like minded or less minded ppl , unstable will find stable within the unstable like themselves , half witted, half a mind.. we all need to pay them no mind at all… keep your money where it belongs cuz there will always be someone standing in front of you or behind you with their hand out to collect all that hard earned money you worked for & one thing they are banking on is your fear of the one of the most natural things humans do and that is death, they will scare you will illness & disease and promise you health and wealth with a simple pill… the pill of death ☠️ x
In my 50 years on this earth I’ve gotten to personally know (not as a patient) at least half a dozen people who were “psychologists, therapists” and they were all mental!
Prerequisite to being in that part of the "industry". In order to "treat" others like this woman is explaining takes a person that enjoys dealing out pain. They are soulless. The things that go on inside psych hospitals go unchecked. All forms of assault for starters. It is very disturbing.
that’s is the most vague stereotypical thing i’ve heard in a very i long time and i’m almost as old as you! but it’s the behavioral health that makes them mental; it’s not mental to begin with (whatever mental is
I love how they can give you all kinds of heavy duty drugs without any diagnosis. Any other branch of medicine would never do that. Psychiatry they seem to be able to work backwards and no one thinks that’s weird.
Oncologists do this too. They are the only doctors that sell drugs to their patients. Many people have been through chemo for no reason. Doctors are the #3 cause of death.
The psychiatric community is the best one to give any drugs to. I lost count of how many I've been on. Not one of them truly helped me. But big pharma has been slowly killing people for a while now and it's easier for them to do it through this route because the patients are already mentally sick. So we are just collateral damage to their money scheme. Legal drugs. Almost every person alive is either on legal or illegal drugs. We're constantly putting things into our bodies that is extremely harmful. Even our foods. But what's awful about the mental illness crisis is that those on meds tend to feel either numb or just worse, and the rates for su!c!de increase. Those who aren't on meds are also su!c!dal and even hom!c!dal. Mental illness is spiraling out of control and it's not going to be fixed because nobody with the resources or positions wants to fix it. There are thousands of people making money off of drugs, and most of them are running this country and a multitude of other countries as well. They don't care what's being pumped into us, as long as it's being pumped.
I never thought of that but I've been prescribed different antidepressants (none of them worked out for various reasons from nausea to mood swings) but they didn't diagnose me with anything. I guess depression.. But I also have anxiety so.. Ya that's strange..
So sorry you have had such a horrible experience. What state are you in? A therapist who is empathetic and in time to trauma …. Hang in there. You can get back to you. ❤
No, argue. These doctors need to get push back from INFORMED people. Mine tried to put me on a statin for Cholesterol. I told him I wouldn't take it. Then I told him why. I've naturally lowered my level with diet and supplements. No medicine needed.
This was terrible for you; I admire your stoicism and the clear way you tell everything about this episode. It may be some consolation to you to know that you may have saved others from falling into this difficulty. These meds are powerful; I have even seen doctors get into trouble themselves takin meds that caused personality change.
3 years from quitting 100mg of Zoloft and 3mg of abilify. I can relate to everything she has experienced. For the most part I’m healed. I still struggle with empathy and memory. When I think back to this experience, I start to cry. My heart breaks for her and others that experienced the same thing. Do not give up if you read this or watch this video. In time, prayer and getting back to life when your capable healing will happen. I’m very active in life now, working, laughing, exercising. I’m living. Michael Priebe the lovely grind. He helped me tremendously!!
It’s unconscionable what psychiatrists do to people who are entrusted to their care. If patients experience bad side effects, they either blame the patient OR they say to themselves “oh well it was an acceptable risk!”
Recently in last couple years I was SA by social worker sent from therapy. All correlating from fb group stalking from therapist and social worker. Because I kept objecting to there bogus psychiatric diagnosis on me from past. Then when the social workers criminal mischief and other suspicious behavior didn't provoke a response from me to collaborate there false diagnosis she then tortured my pet cat when I kicked her out of my house. Social worker approached me as date/relationship from fb dating and I didn't learn they (therapist and social worker) were working in my medical records until later when judge brought it up. Now I'm being prevented from investigation and further retaliated against because I keep talking about it. Bowen center is getting all kinds of grants, praise, and awards for what they did to me.
She said she smoked multiple times per week. Then said she didn't smoke that much. She drank. She smoked. She tool hallucinogenic compound-while claiming she "didn't take that much". She's a drug addict and did it to herself.
@@rdallas81Lol You obviously know absolutely nothing about addiction. You're the last person tlthat should label someone as an "addict" or not. This girl clearly isn't an addict. I hope nobody you love ever has an addiction problem. We know you'll be complelty useless for support.
Dearest Jess, thank you for sharing your experience. We had a bit of a journey with my anxious son, who had a bad reaction to a MDMA trip. He had similar symptoms to you. But the medication didn't help and once he disclosed to us about the MDMA, with his psychiatrist we agreed not to give him any more medications, except some sleeping aide. He cut sugar and all the caffeinated drinks thatvwas causing him heart palpitations. He wasn't experiencing any joy and of course his whole health declined. It took 3 years of his life to the the 4 of us, 3 pets, a good psychiatrist (eventually) a psychologist, a nutritionist, a good GP, an homeopath, an acupuncturist, a bunch of friends, well even some Latin friends arrange prayers for him in Colombia! but that boy is now a 22 yo man and it's been around a year and a half that he is himself again. He missed out in many experiences, but as he says "I still can make it up for the missing experiences, because I'm alive." I wish you every success in your journey, I send you lots of strength to you and your loved ones. I hope you can reclaimed your former life and health too❤
I thought Abilify was the best drug! When I was first divorced and crying nonstop, it snapped me out of that really well. But it has side-effects of causing process addictions: sex, shopping, gambling. So I got all of those. I wasted a lot of money and my self worth. I had been on the highest dose. I have been off it for about 3 years. I am no longer feeling the emotional sting of the divorce, but the feelings of guilt and remorse over the shopping, sex, alcohol, and gambling have taken its place . I am in recovery yet again, but making progress.
@@gforceforeveroh nooo not lord talk. jeesus why ?!!!! add shame w religion but the religion will free you of it? what a waist of energy just start out exempt of shame and religion and do healthy things
That woman is by far one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen, inside and out. May God bless her and her life and may she realize the jewel that she is.
I was given abilify as an additive to my medication for depression. I took it for a few days to a week. In those few days I got into wreck because my depth perception was off and I was driving home and got lost but didn’t realize I was lost until I had driven for 50 miles past my exit. But this was a route I took daily.
I've been hospitalized like this 4 times for psychosis. These places are scary as hell and one time i got put in a maximum security prison for three days before they agreed I just needed treated for my panic and psychosis. These are hell like experiences. I am so glad she made it out and hasn't relapsed. People suffering psychosis often have another episode within a year.
God is a better healer. I have family with these disorders. The drugs never ever work, just a bandaid. They all have gut diseases. Thankfully, I found my root cause and started to get treatment.
This system needs a serious reboot. They basically diagnosed her as bipolar from one incident, that is disgusting and they should be held criminally liable if she has been harmed! Everybody shows signs of this that or the other sometimes that does not make a mental illness! It took them years to figure out I was bipolar lol. I take no psych meds now and use marijuana medically because it does work good for me. I went through that corrupt pill system and am done with it, they care more about profits than your mental health!
Yes, the system is very quick to slap a diagnosis and medicate. It doesn't take much curiosity, care, or empathy to do so. Any monkey can label and prescribe. But to sit and listen to a person's story and find out what's actually going on from all sides and come up with creative and comprehensive care is real help. Totally agree about the reboot! We need major reboot.
@@NeseretBemient Agree that any monkey can label and perscribe. And yet they play god with people and often have a grandiose complex. As long as you do (like a monkey) exactly what the pharmacuetical industry wants you to do, then you can do no wrong and are rewarded hansomely.
@@NeseretBemient you basically won the lottery if you can find ANY level of healthcare "professional" who will acknowledge the human body has daily nutritional requirements that if not met will lead to a cascade of severe problems that will effect every aspect of your life and well being. they have to ignore that because if they didnt, they'd have to testify in court against employers who pay people under the cost of living for causing measurable physical/financial damage to countless peoples lives and they'd have to testify against the government officials who think its ok to do that to most of the species too. its a crime against humanity in every conceivable way. they are just going with the flow of oppression to avoid having to take responsibility for their actions causing so much harm to untold amounts of innocent/vulnerable human beings.
I was told I was “very calm”, so the boss made me work with the absolute worst employee they had. I lasted 10 years with her, medicated the whole time. The people at my workplace would say all kinds of rude things to get a reaction out of me, but I was just able to ignore them and keep my head down working. It’s great for a dysfunctional, insane workplace!
For me it didn’t even do that. It just made me walk extremely slowly and made my dick completely numb. Also i had a dystonic reaction and a zombifed thousand yard stare
Please be careful. You may not react to this abuse from your co-workers in the moment, but your mind remembers. There may come a time in your life when you begin to heal or change. All of that abuse may hit you later. Do your best to protect yourself and stand up for yourself. I know how insane work and survival can be, so all I can say is to try to stick up for yourself as best as you can.
@@rdallas81some people can endure a lot of suffering. These people are survivors. Trying to invalidate someone else's difficulties by over-simplifying like this is ignorant and cruel.
I will tell you after working in health care, if they deem you to have a mental illness, no matter how much they preach non judgment or patient centered policies, many staff will still think you’re crazy and will treat you the same
My sibling is severely mentally ill. I will peace out of convos, like I have a friend with a mentally ill family member who just got priced out of an apartment, and I told him I didn't want to bring my frustrations with my sibling in and become judgemental of his family member. I would NEVER work with mentally ill people considering my lived experience. It would be hard enough without that underlying frustration, but with it, I understand how easy it would be to let that agita insert itself into my behavior.
This whole “mental health advocacy” stuff is absolutely BS! Unless you are quirky and have ✨AnXiEtY and DePrEsSiOn✨ then they will treat you like trash. If you have an actual mental illness, expect to be imprisoned and poisoned!
I took abilify for 1 day while hospitalized. It gave me unbelievable, handshaking anxiety, and curious symptom where a little bit of blood started coming from my eye. Dr switched meds the next day and I was ok. It was bad
This poor girl's life is in shambles and these freaking doctors go about their day pushing this poison. She had a bad trip on Schrooooms and would have been fine given some more time. This makes me sick. The greed for profit at the expense of a human being is unbelievable. Heartless bastards!
What she’s describing is eerily similar to how people feel after coming off of opiates, who experience Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) - I can relate to every single thing she described! It’s like our brains don’t produce any dopamine or something. I know she wasn’t an addict prior to this being triggered, but I think it’s interesting that she was using psilocybin and THC… then the Abilify came on board. Her story is reminding me so much of the apathy I felt during PAWS after years of opiate addiction. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy! 😞🙏🏼
I'm still going through PAWS from benzos. I slow tapered off over 4 years but it still wasn't slow enough. Quite honestly when I was going through it, I actually wish I had been on opiates instead of benzos. Benzos are fucking scary!
Paws is almost worse than actual withdrawal. My last withdrawal was from fentanyl and xylazine a few years back. I went through PAWS, which essentially felt like full-blown withdrawal for three months straight. My entire body was completely depleted of seratonin and felt like 1,000 pound, couldn't sleep, restless nonstop, etc. I had to get back on Suboxone to prevent relapse. Terrible experience.
The “maintenance” phase of schizophrenia, is not like PAWS. I’ve had PAWS from opioids and benzos at different times. I don’t have schizophrenia but I’ve met some people that do, and I majored in psychology back in college so I know a thing or two about what those guys go through. With PAWS, it’s like your life just sucks more in general, in a million little ways. With schizophrenia, there *IS* a similar thing going on underneath everything else, but there’s so much more than that too
Psilocybin and thc are not physically addictive like opiates, and she wasn't a habitual user of either substance. PAWS is actually triggered from the habit of addiction, or the limbic system getting hijacked of the easy rewards of dependency. Opiate withdrawal is technically different than PAWS as PAWS is a longterm neuropsychological phenomenon- a response to a longterm psychological dependence not related to any specific substance. You can get PAWS from gambling or sex addiction, while the physical withdrawal from alcohol, benzos, opiates, etc is life threatening and specific to the substances themselves.
When I was 15 years old, I began to suffer extreme depression and the first medication I was ever put on was Abilify. My psychiatrist put me on it with no diagnosis. It had disastrous effects. My dad said the light drained from my eyes and it turned me into a zombie. I also experienced complete apathy and the inability to feel or enjoy anything. I relate so much to what she said, it felt like a chemical lobotomy. My psychiatrist failed to explain the medication to me and about a month or so in I was so miserable I decided with my dad to stop taking it. At this point my face had broken out in horrible acne, and I felt horrible both inside and outside. In the days I was weening off Abilify I suffered a mental breakdown and my dad restrained me as I cried and wanted so badly to hurt myself to make it go away. 5 years later I still don't feel completely the same and I deeply distrust medication, but I feel better off of medication than I ever did on it. It is important for stories like this to be told. It can be devastating to give someone the wrong medication. It changes your entire brain and bodily function.
These were my Abilify side effects, after 1 month of use (be sure to read all of them) : Fine muscle tremor, muscle spasm, dropping things, falling over, bruising Postural hypotension/dizziness (not vertigo) Swollen neck glands Bloating, weight gain Teeth grinding, trouble speaking, heavy tongue Trouble swallowing, gagging, nausea, no appetite Trouble focusing eyes, constant blinking Alternating irritability and extreme euphoria, manic shopping Diarrhea, gas, UTI/kidney infection and TOTAL URINARY INCONTINENCE.
God bless you! This is a cautionary tale with respect to cannabis, psilocybin, psychiatric drugs and the mental health system. Thank you for telling your story.
Absolutely. Brain changing. She needs a scan of the blood supply to her brain and to rebuild her brain big time. And psyllicibin might help that but not just experimenting and no help.
@@serendipidus8482 Exactly, I did psilocybin and at first it was nice and peaceful. But after doing a large enough dose, it sent me to hell. But thankfully, I was smart enough to not trust the psychiatric industry due to prior experience being medicated as a kid. So instead of quitting this path, I chose to introspect the nature of my psychosis and figure out the "lessons" it was trying to teach me. And then I did shrooms again. And AGAIN, at higher doses until I was doing 13-15g every few weeks or so. Eventually, it was THROUGH that hell that I finally found clarity and heaven. Totally worth it.
This lady's initial experience with shrooms sounds somewhat similar to mine. My first few low-dose psilocybin trips were nice and peaceful. But after doing a large enough dose, they sent straight me to hell. Thankfully, I was wise enough to not trust the psychiatric industry due to prior experience being medicated as a kid. So instead of quitting this journey, I chose to introspect the nature of my psychosis and figure out the "lessons" the shrooms were trying to teach me. And then I did shrooms again. And AGAIN, at higher doses until I was doing 13-15g every few weeks or so. Eventually, it was THROUGH that hell that I finally found clarity and heaven. My point is that shrooms _can_ be fun. But if your mind isn't in a right place, it will put you through hell first. It's almost like experiencing a purification process. If you endure, you'll be free of all the emotional baggage and stress that has latched itself onto you.
@@idk-ill-figure-smn-out Not everyone who "endures" and takes high doses of mushrooms regularly will have the positive experience that you report. The opposite could happen. We are not all the same in our reactions to drugs including psychedelic mushrooms.
@@pjjmsn True, i'm just sharing my experience though. Psilocyben is a drug that primarily releases the lid on trapped emotions, regardless of who's taking it (It can also do OTHER things, but that's on more of a person-by-person basis). And I happened to have been extremely dissociated and had a LOT of trapped emotions due to past trauma. I still have my issues, but this particular psychosis is no longer my struggle. Shrooms saved me by helping me realize the ROOT of my dissociation (early childhood SA and severe neglect). The information literally came to me in flashbacks and different "voices" i was somehow able to vocalize. Once I learned what made me like this, I was able to move on from it... mostly. I guess some experiences are too deeply ingrained and my brain will always be fairly neurotic and prone to emotional splitting as a result. But at least I'm aware and have MUCH more agency now. I no longer have gender dysphoria or "multiple personalities" that either want to take their pain/frustration out on myself or others, overwhelm me with anxiety, or sabotage me for their own agendas. I strongly believe shrooms are the solution to a LOT of issues caused by C-PTSD in particular, though it could also help with addictive behaviors or general depression or anxiety.
Recently in last couple years I was SA by social worker sent from therapy. All correlating from fb group stalking from therapist and social worker. Because I kept objecting to there bogus psychiatric diagnosis on me from past. Then when the social workers criminal mischief and other suspicious behavior didn't provoke a response from me to collaborate there false diagnosis she then tortured my pet cat when I kicked her out of my house. Social worker approached me as date/relationship from fb dating and I didn't learn they (therapist and social worker) were working in my medical records until later when judge brought it up. Now I'm being prevented from investigation and further retaliated against because I keep talking about it. Bowen center is getting all kinds of grants, praise, and awards for what they did to me.
These places should never be allowed to cut you off from the phone, your family, or your lawyer.
My parents were denied the right to see me, as a minor - I was detained, strapped to a bed and naked for 3 days with a bed pan and a catheter because I refused to take the medication in the psych ward because I was having a weird reaction to it that made me feel itchy inside of my skin. My parents were denied access to their 15 year old with no reason for 13 days. I was catatonic and in renal failure when they finally won and got me out.
Modern phones and video allow the possibility for people to be much more closely surveiled by more people. This can radically increase protection of vulnerable people. It really is revolutionary.
@@elinope4745 We had cameras, but all of us (ages 12-17) were strip and cavity searched night and morning to make sure we didn’t have any contraband. Once I broke into the nurses’ station (I can’t remember this but my brother does) and called the store where my brother worked as a manager in a last ditch attempt in a broken brain of trying to get help. He said it was freaky that I somehow knew the number, it was in the same city as my psych ward but 3 hours from my home, and I told him I was hungry and my friend Bianca had no clothes. I hung up and he told my mom and she burst into tears because she hadn’t been able to hear me speak in over 10 days. These places need loving staff, and REGULATIONS.
@@elinope4745 Except that they take those away first!
I do know someone in a long term ward that will constantly call and text his parents and siblings if given the chance. He has a set phone time so he isn't constantly pestering his family. However, he has had life long neurological and psychiatric disorders. These disorders have caused him to threaten his family with a machete and physically assult his mother. But even with all that, I believe he has the right to outside communication. I believe he should be able to talk to his parents as they are his legal guardians, and they should be allowed to speak to a lawyer if their son can't vocalize his woes with the facility in a cohesive manner.
At the end of the day, each case is a separate human being and they should be treated as such. Of course there will be cases that fall through the cracks, abusive guardians that speak against what is best for those in their care, and genuine mistakes that happen by coincidence. However, that does not make a patient any less human. They are deserving of proper medical care, second opinions, staff that don't make them uncomfortable, safe housing, communication, informed consent, and the right to refuse mediations and procedures.
I was a social worker doing case management in a mental health agency. All of my clients were brain dead due to being pumped up on psych meds, and all of them were on three to ten different types of psych meds. That’s why I quit... billing the insurance was THE MOST IMPORTANT focus for the agency, not the clients becoming healthy, healed, independent, and fully functioning. “Billable hours, billable hours, billable hours” and meeting monthly quotas was all I ever heard about. It was disgusting. They claimed the goal was to improve client lives and get them moving forward in life, but case notes and psych charts/diagnoses and treatment plans on a lot of the clients went back 20 years for that agency. The goal was to get the clients hooked and drain the juice right out of their insurance.
So sad. I've been on both the giving and receiving ends of mental health care. I understand what you're saying.
Everything you and this lady pointed out rings completely true based on my personal experience as well. I only want to add that I personally witnessed a Silver Star Geriatric Patient with nothing more than sun downers denied personal hygiene for 3 days, he was also a fall risk due to age and was ordered one-on-one nursing care, The staff would sit and play on their phones not watching him when he was up and moving. After watching this and finally speaking up in the medication line, I was screamed at to mind my own $#€!! business. If “they” Will do this to a Silver Star Veteran don’t think they won’t do it to YoU. I was discharged because “this place is making you worse”. Folks that’s only the tip of the iceberg of the things I experienced.
Rotten apples don't hire fresh ones.
Our glorious, for-profit "health" care system.
I think that they consider "brain dead" to be a win.
I was 62yrs old I'm now 70. At age 62 while in a Nursing home, I was prescribed this med. It almost killed me. Thanks to a couple of very smart caring Nurses, I lived.
glad youre here, you made it, keep at it~I'm proud.
I checked myself into the hospital due to suicidal thoughts. I have a RX symbol tattooed on my face, so they assumed I wanted drugs, gave abilify and 3 other things. I took my meds that first day and got so messed up I passed out.
❤❤❤ take good care
abilify induced me with severe neoroleptic sydrome, later i developed nerve damage.
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I relate to this woman's experience so much. I'm glad this psychiatrist is shedding light on these terrible psychiatric medications. retaining info, carrying conversation, drawing on words, brain fog, a period of akashia, emotional blunting, a feeling of inner anguish that can;t be expressed,sleep problems, the feeling of trying to break out of a thick insulated stifling mold....so much she is saying I have experienced and still do to certain extents even though I stopped all meds like 16 years ago.
I'm so sorry for your pain, thank you for your kind words. Please stay strong 🫂 I know it's an impossible fight
I was on abilify as a teen. Living with a psychotic, narcissist mother can make you pretty unhappy. Instead of doing anything about my living situation after my many therapy sessions, they medicated me heavily. It made me feel like a zombie especially in combo with the 3x daily xanax I was prescribed as well.
As a kid I was not counseled on the potential side effects or withdrawal symptoms. I wanted to quit after a few months but the doctors said I could have a heart attack and die from stopping suddenly, as an otherwise healthy 16 y/o. I weaned myself off over a month and got my life back. I just wanted to feel human again, the good and bad is better than nothing at all. With my mind cleared, I threatened to take my mother to court and fight for emancipation. She let me move out at 16 1/2 to avoid everyone finding out the truth about her. After moving out, all my “mental health symptoms“ subsided entirely other than occasional anxiety from the PTSD of living with an unstable, abusive, single mother all my life. Luckily, this has been fairly easy to manage with more therapy, mindfulness exercises and natural treatments.
You deserve great things in this life and I hope you find them!very awesome of you to overcome such a rotten situation. Best wishes to you.❤
Thank you for sharing that. I truly wish you well.
I survived a psychotic, narcissist mother as well, unfortunately i can no longer press charges BUT i am writing a book that will ensure her name will be stained for the rest of her life, i hope you can fully recover from the abuse you've received, as i hope to one day do as well
ugh jesus fucking christ i am so sorry to hear you went through that shit. parents who rely on doctors prescribing drugs to “keep their kids in check” should have their parental rights revoked immediately. it really is one of the more ignominious forms of abuse due to how common and damaging it is, and how most don’t realise it until it’s too late
i had parents who flipflopped between “make sure you take your meds” and “your meds are making you act up”. and then they wonder why i smoke tons of weed now and never tell them shit
I’m sorry you went through that. I ended up with an abusive narcissistic perpetually cheating partner at 21. My first and only. I’m finally free. He kept hoovering me back in. Financially at times I had no other options. Now I’m living with my mother and free from him but 15 years with him and the constant gaslighting, manipulation, etc etc and him forcing me to get hooked on big pharma, I feel a lot of what the girl in this video feels.
My mom works for a adolescent psych hospital as a nurse. Growing up she used to threaten to take her kids to her paych hospital if we misbehaved. She said we would be locked up and that she would "have her way with with us" while we were locked up. She also said that "childhood trauma is a choice". Again, this is an adolescent psych nurse who did/said this. I don't trust mental health professionals.
That is pure evil. Sorry you had that happen to you.
You are a good person and so are your siblings and your m is a high level, sadistic narcissist or socippath so you really didn't have a real parent. I hope you and your siblings can learn to love and be there for yourselves and each other. You deserve so much better and you NEVER deserved that, no matter what. I wish I could give you and your siblings a huge, motherly hug. I have huge respect for you surviving that and contjnuing to be a decent person after everything you have been through. My heart goes out to you and your siblings and I am rooting for all of you. Just love yourselves and be kind to yourrselves and each other. Try to laugh whenever you can and enjoy nature and life. You deserve it.
You are a good person and so are your siblings and your mum is a high level, sadistic narcissist or sociopath so you really didn't have a real parent. I hope you and your siblings can learn to love and be there for yourselves and each other. You deserve so much better and you NEVER deserved that, no matter what. I wish I could give you and your siblings a huge, motherly, truly loving hug. I have huge respect for you surviving that and continuing to be a decent person after everything you have been through. My heart goes out to you and your siblings and I am rooting for all of you and all of her victims Just love yourselves and be kind to yourrselves and each other. Try to laugh whenever you can and enjoy nature and life. You deserve it and so much more.
@@pokemonpro8438 you are too kind. 💙
Geez 😢 that was very abusive of your mom to do to all of you 😢im so sorry you all went through that 😢
Drug induced psychosis is usually best treated by staying off drugs and let time heal. The brain has an incredible ability to heal itself
Yes. CBD is also very healing when you take THC or shrooms.
How about non drug induced
@@joshuachavez3226 well, I am not a doctor so I should be careful with words, but treating a chemical chock to the brain with even more chemicals is not always a good idea. But I am not against the use of medicines, quite the opposite
Yes and someone o know was heavily medicated in an asylum like this girl😢😢😢😢😢
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In that case, pray for absolution ☦️🙏
I wish this channel was so much more popular. Everyone needs to hear these stories.
It could be a double edged sword. Some people might not get help who desperately need it. Not all places are the same.
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Psychiatric care has become unhinged. Not even being able to get water at night while in the ward is wild.
Well, these people are not from another planet. Their whole pretext for treating people is that they are medical professionals. You do recall how such professionals were acting over the last five years, right?
I am not against medication, but in my city in Iceland currently there are only two psychiatrists, there's no funding in our mental health care system. I am not taking any anti-psychtropics in our current system. I can not sue if I get health problems. I will do CBT with no medication. It's bounders that it's hard to enforce.
It's the meaning of becoming desensitized to human need or suffering. It's abusive.
it is not wild, it is inhuman . down right torture and should be held accountable for. Its called ABUSE.
@@Skoopyghost do you know Wim Hof mate? Since you are iceland I would think cold therapy, breath work and meditation is a good option, and the cold therapy a traditional one. Its an easier option to potentially treat and fix mental health issues, have seen a lot of people over the years recover and even get off meds as well. Cold combined with sauna is good too. I imagine your winters are difficult too, that can be a big problem in itself for mental health. Sometimes the issue and solution is just environment and lifestyle a lot of the time, which is why so many get nowhere from therapists and psychs.
I went to a spych "hospital" once as an adult. After waiting to see the psychiatrist for hours, the first thing I tell him is, "Im not taking any of your drugs." He strait up told me "well, you're gonna be here longer."
I wasn't manic or in psychosis, so luckily, I could think clearly. I buddied up with someone who could also think strait, so we talked and would make people in there laugh who were clearly having a worse time.
Ha! I made fun of a nurse once, and she pulled me into a room and yelled at me not to disrespect her.
If you end up in one of these hospitals, pray, find a friend, do what you have to do to "do your time," 'cause honey, you're in jail.
This happened to me. I was admitted into a hospital after my son said i was talking to people that were there. He later said he had to say that to get me help. Long story short, I had a brain tumor
I just got out of a psych hospital actually and I can attest that yes, in fact, it is jail
Welp if you are rational enough to make everyone’s experience more difficult, as long as you don’t harm anyone and can explain your actions, it is in their best interest to release you as soon as possible 😂😂😂 long weekend stay and the nurses convinced the shrink whom wanted to keep me that even while medicated I was far too disruptive to other patients to subject them to my shenanigans … such as starting the “so and so is getting out” rumours or changing name tags on food trays so lactose intolerant people would get milk 😅 it was slightly evil
@@tammyowens2309 Hope your doing well now, that sounds terrifying.
You made people laugh? Lol
Seriously never leave a psychiatric patient without a powerful advocate -
This!!!!
Yes, this poor woman's husband sounds horribly unhelpful or even suspect.
@@dharma__3God, I’m not the only one thinking he sounds like her being admitted and medicated is for nefarious reasons. He sounds very suspect…didn’t advocate for her at all. (Her sister too….)
Sadly this is now true for all medical care.
Pretty much 😢
Thank you so much for sharing your story. I was put on Abilify a couple months ago, and your symptoms line up with how I felt about a month in. I let my psychiatrist know about the symptoms, and they upped my dose from 5 to 10. I wanted to trust the process, so I tried another week and it was like I was locked inside myself. I tapered off last week and symptoms have come down a bit. Please stay strong, and thank you so much for sharing. This needs to be known.
Thank you for your kind words 🙏 I'm glad you are tapering and staying strong ❤
how are you feeling now after tapering off? hope your are doing better ❤
My husband was given abilify while locked in a troubled teen facility, before it was even fully approved. He had no choice or say in the matter, neither was he equipped to even understand the risks if they were explained. He was a young teen.
He often tells me that ever since his first dose he lost his light, his fire, his fervor. He often goes blank and it hurts me greatly because I can still see his fire, it's just like it's buried behind walls and doors in his mind.
Same. They locked my longterm gf into a padded room & restreained because she didn't want meds. They pumped her full of Haldol! This was 10 years ago, not 60-70! When I saw her 48 hrs she was a zombie. I'd been so happy she was brave enough to get the help she desperately needed and I needed her to do. I remember crying with relief in the parking lot. It being her decision really made it better but man the feeling I went through. 3 days later she looks amazing, is clear happy. Then 2 days later it happened and we got her out of there asap AMA
Thank you for sharing your experience. I wish you both a return of the light.
lmao I was in a similar place. The easiest way to get out of one is to plan a meticulous escape rather than do what they say.
Yeah well that's what it's designed to do
My heart breaks for him. I am also a TTI survivor, but I must've been a control since they didn't give me any meds (that I'm aware of)
There was a father who literally carried his daughter out of a facility. He loudly shouted at the staff about the mistreatment and abuse that was going on. Although I remember that man as a hero, we all had to watch this girl get carried away to safety as we were left behind locked doors being tortured. The scars those facilities left on my mind and soul will never go away. You surely learn a thing or two about evil and how sick people can be in those places, but they don't help at all. Its just torture.
can you please name the facility and people involved? if many people tell their stories it could help the institutions be held accountable
@@dirt420Been in four different psychiatric hospitals a total of 10 times for a combined period of 2 years. I confirm that it’s as bad as you say.
Where were you at? Yikes! You hear about this happening in the past but I didn't know it still was going on.
@@NAlvazaz Of course it’s still going on. All over the world, all the time.
@@dirt420 Silver Oaks Behavioral in Joliet Illinois. They can and need to be sued and shut down.
When your ABILITY, has been NULLIFIED.....you have officially been Abilified....
Wow!
Perhaps Abilify refers to giving others the Ability to chill and enjoy pushing the subdued patient around
Sounds like the internal sales slogan.
That sounds accurate. Also when you see your teen sitting in your living room drooling while watching t.v...That's your cue! It's done.
Oh. Like suboxone and how it's pronunciation Sub-ox-own. Owning the sub ox's which is us because they got us to eat cows and chickens the more docile of creatures.
A Mushroom trip almost 2 years ago is the reason im alive today. Ive battled with mental health my entire adult life. I abused alcohol and amphetamines for years. Something changed on that trip. I actually left my physical self and went somewhere else. It forced me to have that internal dialogue i so badly needed to have. I got off drugs and quit drinking. I Was able to get off Abilify. I completely turned my self around. I started eating right, running, rucking, lifting weights, started a more professional career and i keep crushig my goals. Ill still do a micro dose of mushrooms out in nature a couple times a year but thats it. Call that substance what you want. Call me what you want. Mushrooms broke the cycle i was stuck in.
There is something going on in Michigan right now, where they're investigating the head Psychiatrist of multiple psychiatric facilities here. They found stacks of psychiatric hold forms that were pre-signed by him. He wasn't even meeting the patients to see if a hold was necessary, it was automatic. Some of these poor people were being kept there for months. They were voluntary, but every time they would go through the proper channels for release, something would "happen" with the paperwork, or they'd be waiting to see the doctor to sign off, for weeks. It took a patient somehow getting a hold of a local investigative reporter. Once the facility found out the media was contacted, they released her immediately. This is all over insurance money. They're holding people and bleeding their insurance. I guarantee if the patient doesn't have insurance, they release them ASAP. My point is, if it's happening here, it's probably happening all over the country.
It's crazy how money corrupts. Or maybe they were always corrupt and that's why they became doctors.
There is a culture of vulture involved in a lot of govt and business these days...e everyone is spiritually broken.
The psych ward psychiatrist is the prosecution, judge, & jury of your case. You stay indefinitely for as long as they want without representation. There is no exercise, no fresh air, even murderers get that. You are locked on a floor with nothing. I have met people who have been in that small space for 6 months. If you arent already insane, would that not do it to you? 19 days is the longest i had to stay, but i had to make a deal to get out. I dont use drugs & dont drink to get drunk when i rarely do. But if i agreed to go to rehab, they would let me out. 12 Step Rehab is a cult with a 98% failure rate, its,useless but LOTS of people get paid at the rehab facility. Anyway i am lucky. I met a woman who failed her latest evaluation after 6 months. The psychiatrist did her evaluation in front of everyone, in the lunch room, to make an example of her to everyone else. "I want a lawyer" she said after he told her she has to stay another 30 days. "You dont get a lawyer". And hes right, its all legal what punitive measures they do to us. They do give us safety when we have a psychotic episode, but we are also their prisoner. When i have symptoms, i just completely disappear so i wont get Baker Acted. Whether you are in there voluntary or involuntary, no lawyer can get you out. Only the attending psychiatrist can decide.
@@vahjayjayaddict Jesus Christ... I'm so sorry
I was at Havenwick (mental facility ) in Pontiac Michigan in 1999 The psychiatrist talked to me for less than 10 minutes. He said I was bipolar and prescribed me 5 different medications including abilify. I never took any of it after my week long stay. All these years later I've taken no psych meds at all. I've made it this far so apparently I didn't need any of it. Good thing I followed my instincts. It also helps that I was never forced or pressured to take it like this poor girl was. I wasn't held against my will there either. It's still amazing though how he just prescribed me what he did with almost no information about me.
I was tortured in mental health facility, held incommunicado, held in freezing room, my family overseas had no idea where I was. My diagnosis is dementia.
I was tackled, drugged, and sent to a secure psych facility by the VA. I hate modern medicine and the monsters who run it.
Benadryl and it's generic versions can cause drug induced dementia which can improve once use is stopped
I can empathize. I was 15 and held naked, strapped down to a bed with a catheter and bedpan for 3 straight days after I refused to take medication. My parents had to fight for 13 days. By the time they got me out I was in renal failure.
@@emmilittlemuffin I hope you are recovered/recovering today. God bless you.
@@Erich91_ you as well! Truthfully, I’m with a psychiatrist who gives a damn about me more than he does about lining his pockets, and I am medicated, but he’s always given me his opinion on several different options and allowed me to do my own research and weigh pros and cons before trying anything. My medications are a little on the weird side, but treating complex PTSD, atypical ADHD and OCD with a dash of panic disorder is messy - therapy is helping and I have a wonderful set of parents and partner and 3 amazing children all there to remind me of how glad I am to have made it away from him alive. thank you.
The side effects from risperadone and the like is absolutely insane. Im schizophrenic, but the compulsory depos had me suicidal.
They dont care.
This time i kept a diary as they kept me at hospital for six weeks to force the abilify crap on me. By the third day of resperidone i was a mess and couldnt function to write a sentence. They tortured me for 10 hours a few years back.
Mental Health Australia even took me to the supreme court to have an order on me. They informed me that 'do no harm', doesnt apply to mental health australia.
I am going to enjoy watching this sick and twisted industry come undone. Theyve had free reign for 100 years now.
💔
When i took resperidone it took all happiness from me. One of my diagnoses is MDD. I didn't think it was possible to get anymore sad but on that medication it was all gone. I stopped taking on day 3 or i wouldn't have survived. It took the small satisfactions you get in life like the relief when you pee or the first drag of a cig in the morning or eating.. literally took all the minor happinesses people take for granted.. it was hell.
That's horrific. Sadly I have seen the inside of these places because my grandma was in them near the end of her life. The risperadone was the absolute worst! I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. It's a living hell!
And the people running these places are sick and twisted and they did so much damage to her and at least she had loved ones dighting for her to have proper care. I can't imagine anyone going it alone with no one to advocate for them. They even put her in a psyche ward 50 miles away and tricked her into saying she didn't want anyone to know where she was. For 6 weeks we couldn't find her. I want the whole damn medical industry to implode! So sorry you went through that.
Look into high doses of B vitamins for relief of schizophrenia symptoms. Studies have been done.
@@KMx108 diet to support methylation as well and the right vitamins, low inflammation and low histamine is important too. I have a on and off history of psychotic symptoms but also ME/CFS for 20+ years, you can improve a lot with the right diet and vitamin regime but it can take a bit of time, 6-12months. I see people saying keto/carnivore has helped them lately too, and just regular b12 shots. You just have to be careful if you are an overmethylator not to take too many methyl supps, like methyl b12 and methylfolate, get hydroxy b12 and use folinic acid.
This breaks my heart. It’s really powerful testimony. Thank you for speaking out and sharing your story.
I would just like to thank the lady being interviewed for being brave enough to share her story like this; I appreciate it. ❤️
Thank you so much for your kind words 🙏 it was very difficult for me in the beginning to share this and be vulnerable
@@Jess-1095 I don't know you, but I'm very proud of you. I would happily talk and be your friend if I was in your life. You are still valuable and worthy of being here on this earth.
@@Jess-1095I wanna protect ya like a mama ❤. As a survivor I can tell you that there will be a day that you look back and you’re not in it anymore. And it’s okay. Always always always trust your gut . ❤
She’s not even hitting any pointers. What do you do when you have someone close to you go crazy?
NOT give them antipsychotics?
Thank u… by the end of the i terview.. u smiledfew more times, while talking about being aspie, and when talking avout creating awareness to help others. U carried this interview with a lot of care for so many people… u cared for your family your partner, the other people in the wards multiple times… never taken meds, but i saw what they did to others, is so scary. I feel u. May u ve vetter soon
Man I think we should all really appreciate how delicate being mentally stable is. A slight nudge at the right time can throw you into the abyss. We can walk around for eighty years with the right genetics for schizophrenia and never know it.
All it takes is the right trigger. For a lot of people its psychedelics like this case, could be lack of sleep, stress, trauma even seemingly nothing. Our brains are so complex and we’re just now starting to understand whats going on up there. When it comes to consciousness they’re just not really sure.
The scariest part is you think everything is fine. Your brain says you’re acting normally. Crazy people don’t know they’re crazy. Appreciate that you know the difference.
Stay away from psychiatric hospitals. It will be the worst experience of your life. You have no rights, no free will. Lockdown was paradise compared to this.
Stay safe have someone you can trust
Her description of her pain is heartbreaking and very chilling. Yes she has an artistic mind.
No, it can't.
That's not true.
Stable people don't become unhinged over "a nudge" or life events.
She caused this by doing illicit drugs.
Don't do street drugs and this won't happen.
@@user-jo5ml8et1zThen you simply fail to understand a few things about self awareness. Anybody can be made to snap. My dad read the remains of the, MK Ultra files, and made a point of doing some of it to his kids. You just have to keep increasing pressure, or weaken the mind, maybe both for a tough nut. Anybody can be reduced to a wreck in a closet, defecating all over themselves given enough time, drugs, and various implements of torture. Even you.
Don’t worry, I won’t and neither will my kids
After a SA, I had a breakdown and they decided that the best treatment was a medication induced coma including very high dose of seroquil. My brain has never been the same. Simple things like my handwriting changed permanently (I was taking the meds 20 years ago). I've always described it as a lobotomy. Ty for validating my experience
This is shocking.
@heinzriemann3213 it is. 30 years have passed and, while it took decades to accept, I know now my brain's been permanently altered. It needs to stop. Now. This shouldn't happen to another soul. (They recently tried to prescribe abilify to my friend for anxiety!! Luckily he trusted and took my advice to stay away. ) They don't tell parents these well proven effects...they're not side effects, they are the intended effect - but for schizophrenia and nothing less than that.
Oh gosh sorry! I get rev'd up so easily around the topic and end up ranting. Apologies again and have a wonderful day 🙏
@@OG_Granny To be honest my experience with Abilify have been very different. I don't take it myself but my uncle got it prescribed and it helped him a lot with his anxiety.
So he convinced my mother to get it too for her anxiety and paranoia, and the first time she took it she praised the Lord that she was finally healed. Today she's on 30mg.
Unfortunately she still suffers from paranoid delusions, but all the things said here about Abilify are quite dumbfounding to me.
This is in Europe btw,
The parents can download the product information leaflet that clearly states all the adverse reactions and in fact has a black box warning that "this product can cause suicidal ideation/tendencies and HOMICIDAL impulses. The manufacturers KNOW and are legally required to state it clearly cos they've been successfully sued in the past and by writing it, the onus is on the prescribing physician, the parents and the patient for foolishly being their willing victim. @@OG_Granny
@@heinzriemann3213ok so your mum had anxiety but now had paranoid delusions
I lost my partner in July 2022 she died suddenly from an arterial arthroma and I lost my daughter in December 2022 to stage 4 cervical cancer. My GP wanted me to see a psychiatrist, because I displayed no emotion to my loss. I wasn't bawling my eyes out or mourning their passing and I might be having suicidal thoughts. When I explained that in the religion we followed we celebrate the life of our loved ones rather than mourn their death. My doctor gad the audacity to send a shrink to my house. I refused to let him into my house and reported my GP to the medical council for disrespect of my religious beliefs.
You really have to watch these people they'll lock you up and fuck up yoour head sumply beacause they can and the law is on theur side
I was involuntarily hospitalized for su*cidal ideation after being abused by a workplace and put on 5mg of Abilify. Even that small amount was insufferable, probably partly because i knew it was against my will. I was diagnosed after literally 5 minutes of conversation with the psychiatrist.
Everyone that i spoke to in that ward was put on Abilify.
One girl told them she didn't tolerate an injectible they were going to give her and they did it anyway against her will. She ended up puking the next three+ days.
I was almost assaulted over a TV remote.
Many of the things they claim are part of our recovery plan never get done. We barely went outside, hardly had groups, did not speak to the psychiatrist more than probably 10 minutes the entirety of the time in there when we were supposed to have regular therapy sessions. One of the nurses started using me as an emotional dumping ground telling me it's not that bad and at least i didnt have cancer like she did.
I was breastfeeding at the time, they refused to let me pump, and my milk dried up. I was suffering physically and mentally for days as my nipples leaked out of my paper pajamas.
My relationship with my son was never the same.
How those nurses and doctors live with themselves I have no idea.
I guess there are huge conglomerates that own like 500+ hospitals like this. They even have all these pics online of them playing golf together, smiling, partying it up. When you contrast that with the reality of how they make their money, it makes you absolutely disgusting.
Was in 10 days, $17k
Report the place to medicare. Medicare will cut them off and they will be forced to shut down. Same happened with me at a hospital and they got shut down because medicare mandates certain amount of therapy. 3 days a week group therapy i think. I was there a month and had only 1 or 2 group therapies. They also wouldnt give me a food tray for a few days saying "they ran out of food and had to ration til the end of the year". They even told other patients not to share their trays with me. I got very dehydrated, lips cracked and bleeding.
R. D. Laing was wrong to say that psychosis is always due to external factors, but we do need to acknowledge all the times that it is. Your story sounds like a page from one of his books.
Wow my heart hurts hearing that I am so sorry you lost that time with your son. That is heartbreaking.
I’m so sorry.
government-directed "healthcare" is just another form of tyranny disguised as "mental health"
Its crazy how inhumane these facilities are...
I have never known a single person, online or IRL, who has had a positive experience with Abilify. It made me sleep 20 hours a day, and left me a completely zombie who did nothing but stare at the wall the four hours I was more-or-less awake. To top it off, it didn't even work. My doctor tried to get me to take it for at least two weeks, but I was like, I cannot function in any capacity if I can neither think nor stay awake. I'd rather deal with the hallucinations if it meant actually feeling like a human being.
oh damn. i feel for you. my sister has been on tns of these meds all at the same tim’s for a couple decades. it’s ruined her and she needs to be who she is - not what doctors and med industry thinks she should be so they can rest and sleep. respect for getting off the meds if you have. it ruins brains bc brain is a muscle and it won’t do things if over medicated.
@@chinmeysway I'm still on meds, I just had to find the right ones, which took a few years. As it turned out, what I needed wasn't an anti-psychotic, but a mood stabilizer and anxiety med. Fortunately, I had a doctor who actually listened to me; I know a lot of people aren't that lucky. Were your sister's meds all prescribed by the same doctor? If it's possible, it might be a good idea to find her a new one.
My wife had a relatively positive experience with abilify, my mom is also currently still on it and doing really well. My wife has medication resistant schizophrenia. I NEVER leave her in the care of medical professionals without me for a TON of reasons learned very much the hard way… it helped her a bit in the beginning but honestly nothing has ever completely treated her psychosis. She’s fine though, we handle it. I mean, she can’t work, but she lives a predominantly happy life at home. I also don’t personally ever force my wife to take medication. I remind her of her rescue meds when it seems like she needs them but if she wanted to stop all medications for some reason (she never wants to be unmedicated ever again, psychosis is terrifying) I wouldn’t stop her because that’s fucked up. But anyways. My mom takes it for medication resistant major depressive disorder, she works and is raising my much younger siblings and is doing pretty damn well
I actually felt pretty good on it- until I lost control of my bladder. For months I had a very sudden urge to pee, I realized, always running to make it to the bathroom in time. And then I started just pissing myself. I’d never had issues with my bladder before. I looked it up and realized urinary incontinence was a side effect of abilify, stopped taking it immediately. I had only been on it for a few months. It’s been 2 years since and my bladder has never been the same.
Sounds a lot like my experience with Abilify. Diagnosis was Schizophrenia with Psychosis, so they prescribed me Paxil and Abilify. I no longer take medications and I haven't in years.
9:36 Most accurate description of being admitted into a psych ward that I've ever heard
I had a couple of drug induced psychosis. Grateful I never went to emergency room. I am now sober, thank God!
Same here and I’m also grateful.
🙏😉🫶
Praying for you dude 🙏 That happened to my dad, everyone was scared and confused (including him) not a good experience. Sobriety may be boring, but it's better than winding up in a mental hospital or dead.
I haven't watched this just yet, but I'm super curious and glad this video popped up. My son was prescribed abilify when he was in 6th grade. I noticed he was getting more aggressive and was even saying he wanted to off himself. I told his doctor and they INCREASED his dose. Told me that it's a mood stabilizer and it shouldn't make him like that. Well, he got worse so I slowly took him off of it. It wasn't long before the school was asking me what changes we did because he was improving.
Known side effects included aggression (physical, verbal and sexual), and compulsive gambling! Bad bad drug, IMO.
Always do research into meds. All antipsychotics, which abilify is one, are horrible for you. Its a matter of whether or not the side effects are worse than the mental illness. Like whether you will end up dead or in prison without them. Otherwise, probably do whatever you can to avoid them
All these drugs are a nightmare. And those who manufacture them should be put out of business. I have seen the nightmare they cause. And thank God I got my son away from these psycho doctors. His story started in a similar way when he was messing around with mushrooms and pot. Mushrooms are bad bad news too.
Maybe this lady should try CBD? Since mushrooms and THC started the original problem, maybe the CBD without THC could help. It’s a shame her family didn’t know how psych hospitals operate because they may have let her naturally get through ridding her body of the drugs instead of taking her there. I hope she and everyone else gets well again. I have hope that they can if they stay away from these doctors and their toxic chemicals.
Good job making the right call on your own observations.
When I was on it, I turned into ‘she-hulk’. I’m normally a non- confrontational person and in control of my anger
“Chemical lobotomy” is exactly what Dr Peter Breggin said about most psych meds 💔
So so grateful for you and all you do, Dr Witt-Doerring!! You’re doing very important work!
Love Peter Bregen. Toxic psychiatry is a great book.
@@dgunn2817 Peter Bregen is a legend and a beauty!
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My story on psychiatric poisons.
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Dr. Bregin is wonderful. I heard him say it about the COVID shot
Dr Josef, please keep using your platform for spreading your gift of gab
This Dr. stays calm and is a good listener. Good listeners are getting hard to find in this profession.
Narcissists prefer to hear themselves speak.
He is a good listener, but I was expecting him to say something doctor-like at some point.
EDIT: It only took nearly an hour, but he finally got to sounding like a professional.
My nephew is nonverbal. Took abilify for years during childhood. He is now off of it but has never been the same. He hits himself in the face. Bangs his head. Paces non stop. Barely sleeps. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in his mind. As a boy he was expressive and giggled and loved playing in the water. Now he does nothing but pace and self harm. He’s trying to communicate something but we just can’t understand. 😢
Why was he put on it?
Autism i guess. Agility, Anxiety, Aggression. All gone. For everyone, but the child...
@@myhandlehasbeenmishandled hallucinations, he had early onset schizophrenia. He was more verbal back then and would talk to people who weren’t there. He ran from someone named Tyler that was trying to choke him. The dr told my sister it would help 🤷♀️ Super easy for others to judge when it’s not their child.
@@M.Ahnungslos you have no clue what you’re talking about. Do you always answer questions for other people? My nephew has been through hell and has no quality of life. My sister did what the professionals told her to do. She was 17 when he was born. How the hell would she know not to listen to them? Talk about blaming the victim.
NEVER give psych meds to children.
This is terrifying. The general perception on psychiatric hospitals and the harm caused via archaic, brutal, inhumane practices (which fly in the face of holistic/whole body treatment) is true. It’s sickening that in 2024 we have a psychiatric anti-care system straight outta the late 1800’s.
Makes the most money
I can't imagine how hard this is for you but you've made progress no matter how slow it feels in five years when you laugh for the first time you'll laugh until you cry and I hope you find meaning in the fact that this video has given people valuable information and a bit of hope
Jess, what you said at the end makes so much sense that if food can negatively effect people then obviously an extremely powerful drug also can. They act like the drugs are immaculate and can do no wrong. It is absurd.
I think we have all been learning, these past few years especially, that the pharmaceutical industry has a lot to answer for and we have been sold one hell of a fairy tale to believe that the medical complex knows what it’s doing, and has all the answers. These days we need to face the fact that it is a Business just like any other business where profits come first, no matter the cost.
@@blueraven2345Well said
@@blueraven2345if you fight the medication cartel, they shut you up. I've been shadow banned repeatedly. I've seen people have their family targeted by 3li LiIIy. The gaslighting is constant.
I became a ward of the state of Idaho when I was 13. In and out of Juvi and psychiatric facilities for children. I was SA'd by my stepfather and brother for years starting at 4 years old, and wasn't believed, on top of my family being very mormon and very controlling. Of course I had a bad mental state but they refused to accept the root cause. I was put on Prozac and then Abilify. No set diagnosis, but Bi Polar and Borderline Personality Disorder were terms used often. In the last facility I was in, Northwest Children's Home, I finally met a therapist who believed me and when I met with the psychiatrist he said these exact words, "I'm taking you off Abilify. It's an anti psychotic and you're clearly NOT psychotic." I can't explain how validating those words were. Honestly, that time of my life is such a blur. I can't tell you how those medications affected me overall. I know Prozac made me homicidal, suicidal and violent, but that was before I was hospitalized. I'm 33 now and what I believe saved me was spirituality, getting far away from organized religion and my abusive family, and friendships that create a safe space for me to express my truth and fully accepting me and believing in my ability to heal. Visiting animal sanctuaries, just animals in general have been so healing. Cannabis has really helped me as well, and I don't really use it often anymore because I don't feel the need. It wasn't until 2022 that my brother gave me the full truth of what he did. Seeing my family still reacting the same way they did back then, showed me I was never the problem, it was my environment gaslighting me and controlling me. The truth will literally set you free. I accept now that I have CPTSD, and I don't believe I will always be affected by it. I believe we can truly heal from anything, if we believe we can, and dont just believe doctors advice at face value. The human body and spirit is more amazing than we realize. I will never take western medicine again. It will never heal the root cause because western medicine only treats symptoms. I'm heartbroken for this woman and her experience. I hope she finds her path to true healing. It truly is different for everyone.
💛 light and love to your soul from mine
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I agree with everything you said and I'm so proud you've made it so far! Gives me hope!
Your experience is horrible and those doctors should fell ashamed. I am not happy recounting what happened. But it was a lot less terrible than your case. I found bad doctors, who just gave me pacifying antidepressants. But I found a good psychiatrist. There are bad Doctors and good doctors. I would be much worse without my western medicine. I tried Cannabis oil but it just doesn't work for me. Nowadays I do Physics research on improving properties of drugs. One of the things that made me want to do it is how the good drugs helped me. I am lucky. I have good insurance, good doctors, and a problematic but supportive enough family. I know doctors can be horrible. And if everything you're doing is working, don't visit them again for mental health. But, they can also be good.
I'm glad you survived and got out. Those Mormons are so controlling and evil.
4? Dear god.. and your brother? When my sister told me about what our uncle did to her as child decades later she had to beg me not to kill him. I finally realized that since i was her only friend and brother that she would be totally alone for real if i went to prison. So we told the family member that had half custody if his home left by grandparents and agreed to give the equity to her. Not though before we broke into his bedroom, stole his laptop, immediately found what we thought we would and had a sherriff there in a matter of hours.
I will say this, she was a heroin addict 200lb over weight. After she told me and i got the entire family to valid what happened to her and moved her away from that town she immediately quit opiates, got a job, lost all the weight and became very skinny, got a boyfriend, broke up with him then got another one thats far more serious and now im an uncle and it was all within a couple years. I assumed she would die single and depressed. Never before have i seen as much joy and her bouncing a baby on her lap next to her love of her life.
It was insane seeing that this one thing she was holding in had essentially imprisoned her and all it took to free her was her brother and mother telling her it wasnt her fault and he was a monster. Ever since i wonder how many women walk atound imprisoned by the actions of one sick monster like that and it breaks my heart. She only told me because she was so drunk she couldnt even walk. I have no idea why a victim would hold that in. She is unable to tell me why she couldnt tell us. I think she truly though it was her fault, that she brought it on herself as an 8 year old. I just wish there was some way that every little girl could be made to understand that its their right to tell an authority figure.. hearing you say you wernt belived..heart breaking. Let us pray their God does exist so that they may be reminded of their crimes every day by the laugher of demons.
Jesus said, "Suffer not the little ones"
Terrifying. Our families foolishly trust these doctors and drugs.
Foolishly is the key word. Yet people are desperate and vulnerable in those situations. They really do need help. But they don't realize whatever ails them pales in comparison to what they're about to contend with in the mental health system and with "treatment" with psychiatric medications. It's an absolute disaster.
Very few people have built their own opinion based on using both brain hemispheres and all their senses , but many believe propaganda being their intrinsic „truth „
If psycho-drugs selectively deplete essential micronutrients ?( vitamin b1 and magnesium for example/ korsakoff -psychosis) is known to be caused by alcohol abuse.
However, magnesium cured my 4th and last psychosis within 4-5 hours, whilst the Auschwitz like (mis)treatment by biorobots in white uniforms almost killed me twice .(they were promoted for doing so)
Diogenes of Sinope would highly likely still search for a (psychologically)human being (with a light during daytime)
@@ross_ulbright7779 Very true! I think that is a trap many teens and young adults fall into and it starts a journey of a nightmare.
My doctor is trying to get people not to be suicidal
Seriously
I was prescribed abilify as a young lad to "treat" my autism, all it did was make me more miserable and balloon into a binge eating disorder. I lost nearly 100 pounds with barely any changes to diet and exercise, from around 350 to 260 once I stopped. And this pissed me off especially since my mom wouldn't stop subtly fat shaming me.
It is not a real medicine. It is a chemical weapon.
At 74 years old, you are describing my very own symptoms! It's a long story and I can't go into it here but I want you to know that my heart and best wishes you are with you😮
I have never been comfortable with psychiatric medications. Many in my family took them for depression. Until "science" is able to determine what is going on with the neurotransmitters in every individual case, it's like throwing a dart with a blindfold on. I take as few medications as possible
Prozac helps if you really need it lol
@@SunkistSea Flouxetine (prozac) is poison, like any other SSRI. You end developing PSSD.
Be careful.
Best wishes.
@@SunkistSeanot for me. It caused mania and self harm.
Spaghetti on a wall😂
I take Zoloft and it's a literal lifesaver. It's actually dangerous to go around telling people to avoid psychiatric meds because some people need them to function. People around me discouraged me from meds for years and I was on the brink of $uic*d*. There will always be people who will have bad side effects and there will always be bad medical care regardless. Some of us literally have a broken brain and need psychiatric meds.
I was told not to pull the emergency string in the bathroom unless it was an emergency (I was having a panic attack and was incredibly dizzy) and so I asked one of the nurses to wait either in or outside the bathroom incase I passed out and she said ‘no you’re too old for that’ (insinuating my request was “childish”) and then I did in fact pass out and nobody came to help. I was also told I was going to have to stay for four extra days because “they don’t want to do paperwork on Saturdays” so I requested a patient advocate and an AMA sheet and they let me go when they realized I was well enough to call out their bullshit.
I tried to leave a facility via the emergency fire exit which had a sign that an alarm would sound if the bar on the door was pushed. Guess what, no alarm and the door was locked. Zelda Fitzgerald died in a psychiatric facility in the 20's this exact way. The hospital caught on fire and she was trapped because she had been locked in her room. Sad that not much has changed in these places in 100 years.
OMG GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR COMING FORWARD, I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING AND NOT BEING CENSORED AWAY INSTANTLY! I’M BAWLING 😭 I NEVER THOUGH THIS DAY WOULD EVER COME 🌈
She’s right about akathisia. It’s indescribable. You cannot sit still. It’s impossible. You are compelled to move. Absolutely the worst.
10,000% agree. Feels like your skin is falling, you have all this abundant energy and like hypersensitivity .. makes your skin crawl and jumpy
Is that what this is called? I described it like a bunch of bees buzzing under my skin and extremely restless.
I get that, and the opposite, because of the polar sides of catatonia
And besides the pacing, you look perfectly fine from the outside.
Last time I had it was a couple years ago. I had surgery to remove the right side of my thyroid. That surgery went pretty well. Unfortunately, during the surgery they send a specimen of to get a quick check to find out if it was cancerous. It came back clear so they did not remove the left thyroid. Later that week after a closer look at the thyroid, they found cancer in the part they took out. So two weeks later I went under to have the left side removed also. When I was in recovery they had a problem getting my blood pressure in check. I ended up with akathisia. I was up all night pacing the halls. The nurses must of thought I was nuts. They wanted to give me some anti nausea medication and/or tramadol. I was just felt like I should not take anything and ride it out. Later I found that the anti nausea medication they wanted to give me more of has a listed side eff3ct of akathisia. I would try to sit down, but I just couldn’t. I felt compelled to move. I am extremely fortunate that it let up in the morning and a couple days later I was OK.
About 10 years ago I had akathisia for about 2 months which i realize now was related to a long term use of prescribed Ativan.
People wake up because this could be any one of us.
No it can’t be all of us not too many people are ridiculous enough to micro dose mushrooms. I have seen people fragment their minds on mushrooms literally the people that come out of Bernie man talk to them they are all in her same position. I’ve lived in Nevada by the festival and I promise the most far gone people have done too many psychedelics it’s sad. To waste our precious bodies to drugs I had a friend literally lose their mind the more they went and now they are in a full blown addiction.
Well, we aren’t doing magic mushrooms, mate! 😂
@@RottenInDenmarkOrginal People associate unrelated things sometimes when they have a strong experience, that's a feature of the brain.There is a lot more evidence although very rare, of cannibus triggering a psychosis.
@@ironassbrownthere's also a non-zero chance it was laced since she was using a pen rather than smoking flower, depending where she lives
@@alligatorboy2000 true, especially considering that there was just an expose' on contaminates in the dab and live resin cartridges. It was a small scale test in California but the results were not very good.
Vulnerable and desperate - exactly where the Healthcare Industrial Complex wants you.
Thank you for sharing this story. I also survived Abilify. At the very least you've warned others about this dangerous drug and how psych wards treat helpless people.
Absolutely, she is very brave and has helped a lot of people with this interview
And the illicit drug use started it all.....
They 'lost' my 72 hour paperwork, as well. They also left me in a room and forgot about me. When they found me, they yelled at me for being in the room. They offered me drugs but wouldnt tell me what they were when I asked. For-profit healthcare is terrifying. I've seen countless stories of hospitals keeping patients as long as possible to get insurance money. We need universal healthcare and better protections for patients.
Edit: Just finished the video. Thank you so much to both of you for speaking about this.
I agree with her, the meds should be optional, your choice. Patient rights. 💙
Patient rights. 🤣 Refusing meds and you're noncompliant. End up on disability then disability is taken away and you're left homeless. No longer seen. Great system.
@amusedBYfools non-compliant... hmm sounds like that cancels out patient rights. What a circle of non-sense. Yeah, seems typical alright. The problem is huge. I just heard on news tonight about another Mayor (and other officials in the past) stepping down from his job because of the corruption in government. It's definitely trending.
And informed. I was handed a lexpro script for an ear issue that they kept giving me antibiotics for and i was like I think its fungal i think its swimmers esr i had the classic symptoms but i was told no i have anxiety and given lexipro whoch i didnt take. Got some foot fungus cream and sorted it myself. But one of the antibuotics banned for use except as a chemo drug flouraquinalone gave me horrible symtoms of severe terror and some people have this permenently i only took 2 tablets. It messed me up for months after. Total terror all the time for no reason. So no way was ó taking lexipro. Christ. For a fungal ear infection. Im so glad i didnt take it now I dont ever go to a doctor ever. If i was in a car crash id be pretty worried to trust them.
Not when you are psychotic and getting worse. You can hurt someone or yourself when you are psychotic. Especially when paranoid.
She was definitely not informed properly about what they were giving her and why, and I bet neither was her family. Even if she could've refused this is a crazy oversight and negligent on their part, they essentially forced her to take whatever treatment they offered on trust.
If you look at this in it’s simplest terms, a young lady had bad reactions to drugs so doctors gave her more drugs.
* gave her more drugs to make more money, and it has ruined her life."
But it also says something about coddle culture, and pills will fix everything mentalities. She seems to blame the drugs at every turn, but most of this can be explained by her not knowing herself and trying to retain her view of the world. Now, don't get me wrong, all of this is f-ed to the max, but she clearly had a pre-existing condition. She didn't like the introspection phase of mushrooms... Cool, most unstable people don't. I've blacked out from dropping too much blood pressure smoking pot before, too. That mixed with low blood sugar and a potent hit will make you feel crazy if you aren't grounded, but I didn't go to the hospital, I went to bed. These things are not life altering... Unless she ate a bad batch or the wrong kind of mushroom, that did not cause her underlying mental break. They just took advantage of her willingness to be helpless. My question to myself through most of the middle and later portions of the interview was, "Then why not just stop taking it...?" The Dr. left for two months, but she didn't stop taking the pills??? She scared herself into actual trauma, let this be a lesson to all the sheltered people who think they knew themselves or the world, it's not what you think it is...
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems I agree, and the attempt to portray her as stable and healthy before this incident is deliberately misleading.
@tibbar1000 I'm not formally diagnosed autistic but I'm 100% certain I'm divergent in some form. What she is describing is most of my life. So, I'm not completely out of touch with her experiences. I just have no external context to reference because it's been my whole life. Which is why I know it's not the drugs. I've done tons of mushrooms.
@tibbar1000 The Dr in this interview does say at the end that she is classic, bi-polar, or schizo effective personality disorder. I have a friend who had a full-blown schizo personality disorder, like he sometimes full-on hallucinated. And he ate mushrooms all the time but never smoked weed sober. He said weed was the thing that brought his symptoms to the surface the worst... He did smoke when he was drunk, which now that I think about it was pretty often, and he always called it playing with fire... right before lighting up. I never understood until I did. He would begin to look at things that clearly weren't there and interact with them. He would tell us he knew they weren't there but couldn't help himself from interacting with whatever it was. Like a compulsion, he said.
A friend and I shared a joint, and he just reached in and took a hit. Nobody thought anything of it. He went to the bathroom but didn't come out for like twenty minutes. Then, when he did come out, he had a football helmet on and a fake Kitana. He told us to leave... we did. An hour later, a crisis ambulance showed up. This was probably before abilify but they put him through a similar run of things. He ended up in his little hometown addicted to coke. So it does happen...
I went to an outpatient center because my job was stressful and they were on the brink of terminating me for any small infraction, a coworker even said he heard HR saying they were going to go over my work with a fine tooth comb so I took a family medical leave and ended up in the outpatient center. They were trying to give us all meds and a lot of people declined. I remember my nurse and the guy who led the outpatient clinic mocked us because we declined meds they said in a mocking voice “My family member/friend said I shouldn’t take meds because we don’t know what they’ll do to me.” They acted like we were ignorant but we knew better and they must have heard that so much that it really got under their skin, enough for them to repeat it back to us.
My medical chart currently says “medical non compliant” because I weened myself off psyche meds against doctors orders. I consider it a badge of honor.
I took medical leave when there were problems at work but my doctor warned me not to go too long or else. I imagine he meant they would think I was the problem.
honestly it's best to just find another job at that point, if it's driving you to a mental breakdown it's just not worth it. your working there to live and that isn't living.
all work and no play makes jack a dull boy
I studied Psychology. I did a lot of Internships.
A LOT of patients said the medication made everything worse and Abilufy was said to be the worst.
Hmmmm my ex took this med. He went from being locked in responsible to overspending on his credit cards $30,000. Then he took $40,000. out of his IRA. He defaulted on his student loans. Could not keep a job.
Then suicidal.
I spent all of my savings in one month and I drove across my entire state every single week for absolutely no reason other than feeling restless and cause it was fun. I completely lost my mind on these drugs! Lost my savings and put almost 15k miles on my car in 3 months. Most of the time i would close my eyes while driving as well in an attempt to off myself. These medicines are poison.
Dr Josef , the world needs psychiatrists like you
No, no more psychiatrists.
He's an analyst, perhaps therapeuth. It's a large diffrence in my opinion to work with particiapants or to madicate them. What can one know of a person after 15 minutes? Nothing. This clip is an hour and we haven't heard all of her. From him we only mostly hear hmm, mhm 🙂
@@matthewatwood8641exactly my thought. it’s not necessary !!!
@@matthewatwood8641 shut up
DO NOT take your loved ones to the ER in response to a bad drug experience unless there is a physical danger to their life. It is the worst setting in which to have a bad trip of any kind
She is so well-spoken and her voice is so soothing to listen to in podcast format. She has a beautiful soul, and I hope she gets her mind back. My experience definitely parallels very much to hers with the vision loss, hearing loss, fatigue, although it never got as bad because I refused to go up from 2 mg or to the injection with abilify. the numbness, the anhedonia, dysfunction, depression, I so appreciate her opening up and this is even more confirmation to me not to try taking it again. All my gratitude and well wishes to this person ❤❤❤
I’m so sorry that she had such an invalidating experience
Doctors even say “2 mg” has no effect, but it does
Weeks later and I can't stop thinking about the hell that Jess is experiencing. Everyone please pray for Jess to have a miraculous recovery.
Amen
Thank you for your kind words ❤️ it means a lot to me 🫂
I am doing a lot better nowadays
@@Jess-1095 thank you so much for your comment. It would be great to have a more detailed update if you felt comfortable sharing more. Was there anything specific that helped you?
Everyone please say a prayer of gratitude more Jess's improvement!
@Mack-ct9zd This is a bit outdated, but I basically feel the same from the timeline
I want to share my story to inform others on the challenges and potential dangers of
Psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry
My life was drastically changed in less than a year, I do not ask for pity or advice, and please respect others when making comments
I made a promise to myself if I survived this mental prison I will share my story to hopefully help even one life
Take or leave what you will from this
My name is Jessie
I was a curious 27 year old who experimented with psilocybin mushrooms and cannabis recreationally
Prior to this, i have never been on pharmaceutical medication and I was never diagnosed with a mental illness
Discharge date
April 17th, 2023, injected with an LAI
Aristada (Abilify)1064MG 2 month dose
● 22 days in 3 different hospitals
(Psychiatric hospitals + emergency rooms)
● 20Ibs lost after my hospital stay
● 3 1/2 months medicated
(2 month injection + oral pills)
(Lexapro 10MG Antidepressant )
Escitalopram
(Abilify 15MG Antipsychotic)
Aripiprazole
● 3-4 hours of sleep a night, then and currently
● 50 days pacing with terror 10 hours a day (Akathisia)
Akathisia g.co/kgs/byVpBzj
● 300 days having severe suicidal thoughts
● 350 days unable to work
● 20+ hours a day in bed for 4 months at my worst 80% of my 320 days were spent in bed/couch
● 3 close suicide attempts
● 9 years together with my partner ended in a divorce
● 30+ friends/family members disappearing in the hardship, from lack of understanding and fear
● 5 people i met in support communities who lost their lives from medication harm
● 20+ doctor appointments/visits
General practitioners, psychiatrists, therapists, neurologists, acupuncturists, nutritionists and many more
● 320 days spent in a chemical straight jacket
April 17th 2024
My last shot at hope,
a psychiatrist in the united states agreed to prescribe me an MAOI
An antidepressant called Parnate
After a year of trying to find someone willing to prescribe it
I started Parnate 5MG on April 17th and slowly moved to 15MG
● April 27th I noticed I didn't want to stay in bed all day
● May 8th the 1st time in almost a year I didn't think about suicide
I would say I am currently 60-70% better than I was after starting Parnate in these areas
Anhedonia/emotional blunting
Cognition/blank mind
Libido
June 22nd 2024
I am currently 67 days into starting Parnate and I'm still on 15MG
I am doing very well all things considered since starting Parnate,
I am able to feel life again for the first time in almost a year
I still struggle with many symptoms including sexual disfunction and insomnia being my worst.
I count my blessings everyday and I'm thankful to be alive
@@Jess-1095I am so glad for you, I’ve had similar symptoms with no clear cause since childhood and I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. I’m so glad you’re feeling some sort of relief
What is happening in psychiatry today is criminal and evil. What happened to her and so many others is heartbreaking. Remember years ago when the Scientologists were saying psychiatry was evil and everyone said their view was crazy and dangerous? To be clear I’m not a Scientologist, but it just goes to show you even a cult can get it right sometimes.
its not just psychiatry. psychiatry is a small window into eurocentric cultures general treatment of the entire human species. everyone who isnt born well off is viewed as a disposable toy to utilize for well off peoples enjoyment/enrichment. there is absolutely zero concern placed on the humanity of people who arent wealthy in this culture. hell, its less than zero, they are conditioned to dehumanize most of our species and treat them badly on purpose.
True. Theyre very powerful and dangerous. Anyone whos losing their mind needs care and compassion and investigation..not forced against their will to be drugged into submission. There's a book called the madness of civilization by foucoult and omg its enlightening. The whole psychiatry industry was born out of making use of the mad to use in industry. So its all been about keeping people quiet so they could make baskets at first and do their jobs later. No questions ever about life. If youve had a hard life that can damage your brain and that brain damage can affect you and how you feel act etc. They dont care if you were kept under the stairs and beaten every day or if your mom just died. They just hand you mind altering drugs. I got handed lexirpo script for an itchy sore ear i kept going to the gp and she eventually said it was anxiety disorder. Im like its my damn ear! I ended up buying foot fungus cream and putting it in my ear and it cured my ear. But she was going to give me lexpro. I asked what are the side effects and she said don't look at them there are none. Cos it would be Bad for my anxiety. Thats insane. I read the side effects and was like how is this to help my ear? Even abeforr that they gave me asthma medication for my ear??? Doctors are insane.
Scientology gets a lot right. The problem is that they use all that good knowledge to enslave entire families.
I’m not an adherant nor an advocate but I did read Dianetics and do think he had some things right indeed.
@@Stan-b3vgo for the OG then, Christian Science. Scientology is just Christian Science; the scify remake
They destroyed my dad. Sad. Stay away. Stawy far, far away.
Parents! Don't throw your kids in the psych hospital.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a teenager then bipolar 1 with depression along with the ADHD. I was a guinea pig for years on meds. Thank goodness I never had to be hospitalized but I stopped taking any of the meds they gave me and smoked medical marijuana and it worked. It was unfortunate that I came down with CHS and can no longer have the THC. So no I use my cognitive skills from years of therapy. But now my 21 yo daughter had an episode but this also happened when she did mushrooms at 16. After that happened it took about 2 months for her to be back to her normal self until this episode and she went to an urgent care and the doctor saw her for less than 2 mins and tried putting her on Prozac and no she didn't take it. I worked with my daughter with the cognitive skills I was taught and she is doing great now. I didn't want her to go through the circle of meds and crazy thoughts that these doctors like to put in your head. She now knows the signs of it and knows cognitive awareness is her best chance at working through it and having me, someone that understands and can help her through the pig pong head and safe space dark room feelings without all the drugs. We are working on cleansing our bodies of toxins and evening our our hormones and vitamin levels to have the best chance at this not happening anymore. Please don't let your children on the crazy meds because there are better holistic ways. A holistic chiropractor has actually helped me feel better than I have in 25 years and I'm 48. Its a matter of keeping your insides even and healthy. Deworming and deparasiting and eating healthy and cleansing your body of all the toxins, the heavy metals in your body that the government allows in our food and water. Holistic doctors aren't crazy. Pharmaceutical companies have wanted you to believe this for years so they can make money and doctors play along to get that bonus check for the newest prescribed pills pushed through the FDA. It's all about money. A well person doesn't bring a doctor money. So why would they want to fix you or make you better?
when you say they what meds exactly?
It's easy to say don't throw your kids in there...but when someone is delusional, manic, possibly hallucinating...what would you suggest they do? Strap them to their bed? I'm not being mean by asking this..I just want to know what options people have other than the mental hospitals, especially when they're possibly in danger of killing themselves or someone? When they're acting erratic and don't understand what's going on?
@@AngieCee1 you sounds like my pos grandfather who locked his son away for not fallowing orders.
@@AngieCee1Why tf did you havw children on the first place? I can guarantee you never spend time with them but expect them to follow your sayings. The reason your kid is so disconnected is you disconnected him from you. Parenting is not leaving the kids for tv or internet or friends to raise them. If you dont have the time for kids. Dont have kids.
9 years off of Prozac & Abilify, while adjusting and actively working through my MDD was a huge struggle.
The meds did help me get up and trudge through work and job interviews, no matter how low I was.
There was a weird progression from feeling parts of myself getting quieter, to outright feeling disconnected from everything I got any kind of joy from. Glad to see this vid validate some of my experience
I was put on this as a kid to help me in school. Where I was distracted because I wasn’t challenged enough, but they said I had learning disabilities instead. Abilify, alojg with several other drugs did more damage than good and I realize now that I am operating with a shell of my actual potential. My social life throughout school was ruined and that has damaged my social skills. I am left wondering how much more smart and skilled I could have been if circumstance’s were different.
You were not challenged enough so you did what? Dont blame it on the meds…if you were smart you would have taken advantage and excelled if school was so easy.
@@carloscontreras3633did u not watch the video, you can tell this woman has some sort of brain injury
@@carloscontreras3633chill out, man. You don’t know anything about the situation
@@carloscontreras3633 hold on Carlos. Some of us are both hyperactive (all in our heads and very busy up there) as well as inattentive due to the preoccupation in our brains we don't comprehend like convergent thinkers, did you know? My dear unknown UA-cam commenter interacting on here, as children, especially in certain school districts we could no more advocate for ourselves than our folks could ,depending on the era! Me along with Homer Simpson wrote those 100 times a night 'I will not talk in class', spend a load of time in the hall with coats instead of learning how to manage my kinetic condition (cuz' who knew) or at least not being shamed over a condition. It all came out okay, but you need a problem solved, an opinion, a broadcaster (4 commercial stations 2 non; licensed 3rd class back in the day) that and more due to traits I have as being a gal with V.A.S.T, the updated terminology for ADHD. Regarding meds, according to Doctorate in Pharmacology Dr. Kalin Johnson, some meds due to side effects cannot be employed.. Some are best combined. Some stop working. Latest and greatest can be used for matters of focused importance and before side effects set in is stopped no wean needed. Some patients have no success with meds and it all depends on whether the patient is a slow or fast metabolizer, did you know Mr. Contreras?? We can do better and quit the blame game. Just learning m'self @ age 70, just started this journey 11/23.
peace out
I’m sorry you had to go through that.
Jess, I hope you read this and know we are cheering you on! Your story brought tears to my eyes. Years ago I had my own drug injury , but escaped with minimal harm.
Even though you don't feel anything - We see your beautiful heart, intelligence and wisdom shining through. Don't let the evil drug destroy your fighting spirit. Wishing you all the strength, resilience and peace needed to heal!
I work at an outpatient mental health clinic… the hospitals have gotten much worse over the past 15 years. It started with managed care pressuring the hospitals to move patients along like an assembly line. Then the pandemic happened and removed a lot of the group therapy from inpatient units, staff turnover got even worse… and at the same Wall Street private equity groups have been digging their way into the hospitals bit by bit, including the nonprofit ones
Ya its pure greed. Profiteering off of illness.
Whats the solution to this problem?
2010 - obamacare.
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor!"
@MaddesG1 that's why they have no interest in truly healing anyone from anything. They want that steady cash flow
@@shelleypegram1450 There isn't a lot of data on harm caused by the various therapies. They have studied successes, but they haven't studied harm. In fact there's not a lot of data on outcomes. It is a huge business though. People spend billions on talk therapy, and metanalyses show it's not effective.
What she's describing about being devoid of emotions reminds me of how I felt when put on different citaloprams. Lexapro & Paxil, namely. It's a very eerie, depersonalizing way to feel.
lexapro helped me personally not have horrible anxiety spiraling all the time and i haven’t noticed much else from it or anything much negative (maybe decreased libido but that doesn’t bother me), but other drugs have definitely done the same thing to me
They don't do añything for me apart from dialating my pupils which is cool also at higher doses they put me in a nice state of sleep it's not like I can't get or wake up just that sleeping is the best on them.
I was a professional artist but have trouble with physical movements and mental coordination now.
When you’re an artist, art is your therapy and your identity. After so many years it’s hard to remember what it was like.
I’m renting a room now. No car, no social life, no options.❤
That must be scary to deal with.
This breaks my heart....I hope you are able to get some of that life back...stay strong
Yes. I can relate to you. I used to be a watercolor artist and a yoga teacher. That person I used to be is now only a figment of my imagination. Im just a shell now. All day long I bumble around and can never seem to have a straight thought or any artistic flow. It’s miserable.
I absolutely despise psychiatric medications.
@@mateoes207 Bless you! Thank you ❤️
@@m.c.5459 It is scary, no family, no friends near me. But Jesus is always close 🌹Thank you🌹
I am literally crying from watching this with such horrible feelings of complete and total understanding and knowing exactly what this girl is going through because it is exactly, exactly what I went through when I was put on methadone for pain management. I’ve just been prescribed abilify but didn’t want to take it before researching it due to hearing bad things about it. This cemented it that there’s no chance I want to take something that could do the same thing to me again. That awake, catatonic, lifeless, emotionally dead shell of the person I was, is no way who I want to ever chance myself into ever again. I pray she finds her way back to herself.
Methadone is a beast all its own. When I was strung out, I considered it. I took Suboxone for a short period. I know so many people that have lost many teeth due to Suboxone. I know people that have been on methadone for years. The withdrawals are worse than heroin. It's wild.. like.. really? I'm actually grateful I refused to be bailed out and stayed in jail for months. So many people I care about are still prisoners of the system because of methadone and Suboxone.
I had a friend who was a gymnast with amazing dexterity, strength, energy, and topped off with a very nice, fit body. Six months taking this poison and he became unrecognizable: ballooned up and weighed about 60 lbs heavier! I made it a point to avoid this poison and inform others of the dangers. Shame on “doctors” who just dismiss struggling patients with more poison - y’all are really helping people. Right.
Some of these medications are the best at treating certain conditions; and yes we gain weight and become physically inept… it’s a small price to pay for being truly STABLE. 🤷
@@AurenGlytterkat physical health and mental health are intricately related. If the meds are causing weight gain like that, they aren't healthy or helping the patient.
It made me gain 40 lbs in four months. My dr did not mention this as a side effect.
It’s absolutely poison. I’ve seen so many harmed by these drugs- beyond alarming. So many can’t get off, hyperbaric tapers help but if not done correctly a person can go right into psychosis and mania and updosed and relabeled - it’s a literal nightmare what’s been happening to thousands of innocent healthy people.
Please, please 🙏 continue to advocate for us. You can articulate how we are all feeling and encapsulate it in such a way that I am having aha 🤔 moments left & right.
I will try my best to continue to spread awareness and share my experiences/knowledge and stories from others
Stay strong 🙏
So glad that Jess mentioned Angie Peacock as someone who's been helping her through this horrific experience. Having been through so much herself, Angie is a gift to anyone who's looking for a guide who gives hope through the healing process from psychiatric drug and treatment harm. Jess, thank you so much for sharing your story. Time is a great healer. You will get better in time. You're a really special, beautiful woman. Your story will lead to greater awareness and positive change for countless people. Stay strong and God bless!
Just as nuts belong with other nuts as a bird of a feather flock together, like minded or less minded ppl , unstable will find stable within the unstable like themselves , half witted, half a mind.. we all need to pay them no mind at all… keep your money where it belongs cuz there will always be someone standing in front of you or behind you with their hand out to collect all that hard earned money you worked for & one thing they are banking on is your fear of the one of the most natural things humans do and that is death, they will scare you will illness & disease and promise you health and wealth with a simple pill… the pill of death ☠️ x
In my 50 years on this earth I’ve gotten to personally know (not as a patient) at least half a dozen people who were “psychologists, therapists” and they were all mental!
Prerequisite to being in that part of the "industry". In order to "treat" others like this woman is explaining takes a person that enjoys dealing out pain. They are soulless. The things that go on inside psych hospitals go unchecked. All forms of assault for starters. It is very disturbing.
I dated a therapist at one point, and a psychiatrist at another point. They definitely had mental problems. That's why I stopped seeing them.
that’s is the most vague stereotypical thing i’ve heard in a very i long time and i’m almost as old as you! but it’s the behavioral health that makes them mental; it’s not mental to begin with (whatever mental is
@@chantemoody8416uh what is the correlation exactly? i mean think of all the ppl who aren’t those who are pretty nuts or whatever
I knew a school psychologist who was an alcoholic and a pedophile. I think most of the mental health professionals have their own demons.
May this young lady be set free... her story needs to be heard by everyone.
Yeah, don't do drugs.
What a sad, dreadful story. Thank you Jess, for telling it, and telling it well. I hope you will find your way back to your old self.
I love how they can give you all kinds of heavy duty drugs without any diagnosis. Any other branch of medicine would never do that. Psychiatry they seem to be able to work backwards and no one thinks that’s weird.
Oncologists do this too. They are the only doctors that sell drugs to their patients. Many people have been through chemo for no reason. Doctors are the #3 cause of death.
The psychiatric community is the best one to give any drugs to. I lost count of how many I've been on. Not one of them truly helped me. But big pharma has been slowly killing people for a while now and it's easier for them to do it through this route because the patients are already mentally sick. So we are just collateral damage to their money scheme. Legal drugs. Almost every person alive is either on legal or illegal drugs. We're constantly putting things into our bodies that is extremely harmful. Even our foods. But what's awful about the mental illness crisis is that those on meds tend to feel either numb or just worse, and the rates for su!c!de increase. Those who aren't on meds are also su!c!dal and even hom!c!dal. Mental illness is spiraling out of control and it's not going to be fixed because nobody with the resources or positions wants to fix it. There are thousands of people making money off of drugs, and most of them are running this country and a multitude of other countries as well. They don't care what's being pumped into us, as long as it's being pumped.
I never thought of that but I've been prescribed different antidepressants (none of them worked out for various reasons from nausea to mood swings) but they didn't diagnose me with anything. I guess depression.. But I also have anxiety so.. Ya that's strange..
So sorry you have had such a horrible experience. What state are you in? A therapist who is empathetic and in time to trauma …. Hang in there. You can get back to you. ❤
It's very unsettling
This answered so many questions. I'm 61 and have these problems. Thank you for sharing your life as it has helped me. God bless you young lady.
So glad I am seeing this tonight, my doctor's appointment is tomorrow. I won't argue with him, but I will not take it..I am 64 and no drug involved
Good, stay strong!
No, argue. These doctors need to get push back from INFORMED people. Mine tried to put me on a statin for Cholesterol. I told him I wouldn't take it. Then I told him why. I've naturally lowered my level with diet and supplements. No medicine needed.
Why are they trying to put you on abilify & how do you know?
How did the appt go?
This was terrible for you; I admire your stoicism and the clear way you tell everything about this episode. It may be some
consolation to you to know that you may have saved others from falling into this difficulty. These meds are powerful; I have even seen doctors get into trouble themselves takin meds that caused personality change.
3 years from quitting 100mg of Zoloft and 3mg of abilify. I can relate to everything she has experienced. For the most part I’m healed. I still struggle with empathy and memory.
When I think back to this experience, I start to cry. My heart breaks for her and others that experienced the same thing.
Do not give up if you read this or watch this video. In time, prayer and getting back to life when your capable healing will happen.
I’m very active in life now, working, laughing, exercising. I’m living.
Michael Priebe the lovely grind. He helped me tremendously!!
It’s unconscionable what psychiatrists do to people who are entrusted to their care. If patients experience bad side effects, they either blame the patient OR they say to themselves “oh well it was an acceptable risk!”
Recently in last couple years I was SA by social worker sent from therapy. All correlating from fb group stalking from therapist and social worker. Because I kept objecting to there bogus psychiatric diagnosis on me from past. Then when the social workers criminal mischief and other suspicious behavior didn't provoke a response from me to collaborate there false diagnosis she then tortured my pet cat when I kicked her out of my house. Social worker approached me as date/relationship from fb dating and I didn't learn they (therapist and social worker) were working in my medical records until later when judge brought it up.
Now I'm being prevented from investigation and further retaliated against because I keep talking about it. Bowen center is getting all kinds of grants, praise, and awards for what they did to me.
Great interview she really described how the medication was harming her more than anything, and then navigating psychiatry as a brand new patient
She said she smoked multiple times per week. Then said she didn't smoke that much.
She drank. She smoked. She tool hallucinogenic compound-while claiming she "didn't take that much".
She's a drug addict and did it to herself.
@@rdallas81Lol You obviously know absolutely nothing about addiction. You're the last person tlthat should label someone as an "addict" or not. This girl clearly isn't an addict. I hope nobody you love ever has an addiction problem. We know you'll be complelty useless for support.
@@rdallas81So she caused all these negative side effects that Abilify induced ????? 🤔
You seem articulate and engaged. I heard you say you could cry again. I look forward to hearing from you again.
Dearest Jess, thank you for sharing your experience. We had a bit of a journey with my anxious son, who had a bad reaction to a MDMA trip. He had similar symptoms to you. But the medication didn't help and once he disclosed to us about the MDMA, with his psychiatrist we agreed not to give him any more medications, except some sleeping aide. He cut sugar and all the caffeinated drinks thatvwas causing him heart palpitations. He wasn't experiencing any joy and of course his whole health declined. It took 3 years of his life to the the 4 of us, 3 pets, a good psychiatrist (eventually) a psychologist, a nutritionist, a good GP, an homeopath, an acupuncturist, a bunch of friends, well even some Latin friends arrange prayers for him in Colombia! but that boy is now a 22 yo man and it's been around a year and a half that he is himself again. He missed out in many experiences, but as he says "I still can make it up for the missing experiences, because I'm alive." I wish you every success in your journey, I send you lots of strength to you and your loved ones. I hope you can reclaimed your former life and health too❤
I thought Abilify was the best drug! When I was first divorced and crying nonstop, it snapped me out of that really well. But it has side-effects of causing process addictions: sex, shopping, gambling. So I got all of those. I wasted a lot of money and my self worth. I had been on the highest dose. I have been off it for about 3 years. I am no longer feeling the emotional sting of the divorce, but the feelings of guilt and remorse over the shopping, sex, alcohol, and gambling have taken its place . I am in recovery yet again, but making progress.
Sex? Nice!
Just remember that you genuinely weren’t accountable for your actions when your brain is all gummed up with that stuff
God bless you
Jesus died for us! He forgives as soon as you ask Him to!
@@gforceforeveroh nooo not lord talk. jeesus why ?!!!! add shame w religion but the religion will free you of it? what a waist of energy just start out exempt of shame and religion and do healthy things
That woman is by far one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen, inside and out. May God bless her and her life and may she realize the jewel that she is.
I was given abilify as an additive to my medication for depression. I took it for a few days to a week. In those few days I got into wreck because my depth perception was off and I was driving home and got lost but didn’t realize I was lost until I had driven for 50 miles past my exit. But this was a route I took daily.
I've been hospitalized like this 4 times for psychosis. These places are scary as hell and one time i got put in a maximum security prison for three days before they agreed I just needed treated for my panic and psychosis. These are hell like experiences. I am so glad she made it out and hasn't relapsed. People suffering psychosis often have another episode within a year.
God is a better healer. I have family with these disorders. The drugs never ever work, just a bandaid. They all have gut diseases. Thankfully, I found my root cause and started to get treatment.
This was my story 19 years ago. Keep moving forward. You will get through it.
I respect her so much for sharing her story. Incredibly brave and vulnerable. Hoping for the best for her recovery. ❤️🩹
I am so grateful never to have gotten on board this train.
This system needs a serious reboot. They basically diagnosed her as bipolar from one incident, that is disgusting and they should be held criminally liable if she has been harmed! Everybody shows signs of this that or the other sometimes that does not make a mental illness! It took them years to figure out I was bipolar lol. I take no psych meds now and use marijuana medically because it does work good for me. I went through that corrupt pill system and am done with it, they care more about profits than your mental health!
Yes, the system is very quick to slap a diagnosis and medicate. It doesn't take much curiosity, care, or empathy to do so. Any monkey can label and prescribe. But to sit and listen to a person's story and find out what's actually going on from all sides and come up with creative and comprehensive care is real help. Totally agree about the reboot! We need major reboot.
@@NeseretBemient Agree that any monkey can label and perscribe. And yet they play god with people and often have a grandiose complex. As long as you do (like a monkey) exactly what the pharmacuetical industry wants you to do, then you can do no wrong and are rewarded hansomely.
It's criminal.
If you read the DSM 5 we all fit into one diagnosis or another it’s the greatest business model of all time.
@@NeseretBemient you basically won the lottery if you can find ANY level of healthcare "professional" who will acknowledge the human body has daily nutritional requirements that if not met will lead to a cascade of severe problems that will effect every aspect of your life and well being. they have to ignore that because if they didnt, they'd have to testify in court against employers who pay people under the cost of living for causing measurable physical/financial damage to countless peoples lives and they'd have to testify against the government officials who think its ok to do that to most of the species too. its a crime against humanity in every conceivable way. they are just going with the flow of oppression to avoid having to take responsibility for their actions causing so much harm to untold amounts of innocent/vulnerable human beings.
I was told I was “very calm”, so the boss made me work with the absolute worst employee they had. I lasted 10 years with her, medicated the whole time. The people at my workplace would say all kinds of rude things to get a reaction out of me, but I was just able to ignore them and keep my head down working. It’s great for a dysfunctional, insane workplace!
For me it didn’t even do that. It just made me walk extremely slowly and made my dick completely numb. Also i had a dystonic reaction and a zombifed thousand yard stare
Couldn't have been that bad- YOU STAYED there for 10 years!
Please be careful. You may not react to this abuse from your co-workers in the moment, but your mind remembers. There may come a time in your life when you begin to heal or change. All of that abuse may hit you later. Do your best to protect yourself and stand up for yourself. I know how insane work and survival can be, so all I can say is to try to stick up for yourself as best as you can.
@@rdallas81some people can endure a lot of suffering. These people are survivors. Trying to invalidate someone else's difficulties by over-simplifying like this is ignorant and cruel.
@@rdallas81tell me you always side with abusers, & probably are one, without telling me
I will tell you after working in health care, if they deem you to have a mental illness, no matter how much they preach non judgment or patient centered policies, many staff will still think you’re crazy and will treat you the same
It’s true… so sad but true- do not be an honest normal person and trllvthtrm anything regarding mental health.
Same with addicts. As soon as they hear you're an addict, attitudes change. I've experienced this for 20 years. I've been clean for 14. Nobody cares.
My sibling is severely mentally ill. I will peace out of convos, like I have a friend with a mentally ill family member who just got priced out of an apartment, and I told him I didn't want to bring my frustrations with my sibling in and become judgemental of his family member. I would NEVER work with mentally ill people considering my lived experience. It would be hard enough without that underlying frustration, but with it, I understand how easy it would be to let that agita insert itself into my behavior.
This whole “mental health advocacy” stuff is absolutely BS! Unless you are quirky and have ✨AnXiEtY and DePrEsSiOn✨ then they will treat you like trash. If you have an actual mental illness, expect to be imprisoned and poisoned!
Its just a convenient tool. Once you are deemed crazy then you lose credibility. Another tool to silence.
I took abilify for 1 day while hospitalized. It gave me unbelievable, handshaking anxiety, and curious symptom where a little bit of blood started coming from my eye. Dr switched meds the next day and I was ok. It was bad
This poor girl's life is in shambles and these freaking doctors go about their day pushing this poison.
She had a bad trip on Schrooooms and would have been fine given some more time.
This makes me sick. The greed for profit at the expense of a human being is unbelievable. Heartless bastards!
My doctor recommended it to me. I politely told her, no thank you.” Not today Satan! 😂
What she’s describing is eerily similar to how people feel after coming off of opiates, who experience Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) - I can relate to every single thing she described! It’s like our brains don’t produce any dopamine or something. I know she wasn’t an addict prior to this being triggered, but I think it’s interesting that she was using psilocybin and THC… then the Abilify came on board. Her story is reminding me so much of the apathy I felt during PAWS after years of opiate addiction. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy! 😞🙏🏼
The psych drugs are used to scare people straight. What that means depends on what kind of job they can handle when they can’t feel their legs.
I'm still going through PAWS from benzos. I slow tapered off over 4 years but it still wasn't slow enough. Quite honestly when I was going through it, I actually wish I had been on opiates instead of benzos. Benzos are fucking scary!
Paws is almost worse than actual withdrawal. My last withdrawal was from fentanyl and xylazine a few years back. I went through PAWS, which essentially felt like full-blown withdrawal for three months straight. My entire body was completely depleted of seratonin and felt like 1,000 pound, couldn't sleep, restless nonstop, etc. I had to get back on Suboxone to prevent relapse. Terrible experience.
The “maintenance” phase of schizophrenia, is not like PAWS. I’ve had PAWS from opioids and benzos at different times. I don’t have schizophrenia but I’ve met some people that do, and I majored in psychology back in college so I know a thing or two about what those guys go through. With PAWS, it’s like your life just sucks more in general, in a million little ways.
With schizophrenia, there *IS* a similar thing going on underneath everything else, but there’s so much more than that too
Psilocybin and thc are not physically addictive like opiates, and she wasn't a habitual user of either substance. PAWS is actually triggered from the habit of addiction, or the limbic system getting hijacked of the easy rewards of dependency. Opiate withdrawal is technically different than PAWS as PAWS is a longterm neuropsychological phenomenon- a response to a longterm psychological dependence not related to any specific substance. You can get PAWS from gambling or sex addiction, while the physical withdrawal from alcohol, benzos, opiates, etc is life threatening and specific to the substances themselves.
When I was 15 years old, I began to suffer extreme depression and the first medication I was ever put on was Abilify. My psychiatrist put me on it with no diagnosis. It had disastrous effects. My dad said the light drained from my eyes and it turned me into a zombie. I also experienced complete apathy and the inability to feel or enjoy anything. I relate so much to what she said, it felt like a chemical lobotomy. My psychiatrist failed to explain the medication to me and about a month or so in I was so miserable I decided with my dad to stop taking it. At this point my face had broken out in horrible acne, and I felt horrible both inside and outside. In the days I was weening off Abilify I suffered a mental breakdown and my dad restrained me as I cried and wanted so badly to hurt myself to make it go away. 5 years later I still don't feel completely the same and I deeply distrust medication, but I feel better off of medication than I ever did on it. It is important for stories like this to be told. It can be devastating to give someone the wrong medication. It changes your entire brain and bodily function.
These were my Abilify side effects, after 1 month of use (be sure to read all of them)
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Fine muscle tremor, muscle spasm, dropping things, falling over, bruising
Postural hypotension/dizziness (not vertigo)
Swollen neck glands
Bloating, weight gain
Teeth grinding, trouble speaking, heavy tongue
Trouble swallowing, gagging, nausea, no appetite
Trouble focusing eyes, constant blinking
Alternating irritability and extreme euphoria, manic shopping
Diarrhea, gas,
UTI/kidney infection
and TOTAL URINARY INCONTINENCE.
Oh my gosh very sorry!
I’m so sorry you went through that. That is brutal. I hope things have at least improved somewhat
So sorry this happened to you!😢
I had pretty much all of these! I thought I had developed Parkinson’s disease!
@@abbieliz396 Very sorry! Did the doctors acknowledge it was the drug?
God bless you! This is a cautionary tale with respect to cannabis, psilocybin, psychiatric drugs and the mental health system. Thank you for telling your story.
Absolutely. Brain changing. She needs a scan of the blood supply to her brain and to rebuild her brain big time. And psyllicibin might help that but not just experimenting and no help.
@@serendipidus8482 Exactly, I did psilocybin and at first it was nice and peaceful. But after doing a large enough dose, it sent me to hell. But thankfully, I was smart enough to not trust the psychiatric industry due to prior experience being medicated as a kid. So instead of quitting this path, I chose to introspect the nature of my psychosis and figure out the "lessons" it was trying to teach me. And then I did shrooms again. And AGAIN, at higher doses until I was doing 13-15g every few weeks or so. Eventually, it was THROUGH that hell that I finally found clarity and heaven. Totally worth it.
This lady's initial experience with shrooms sounds somewhat similar to mine. My first few low-dose psilocybin trips were nice and peaceful. But after doing a large enough dose, they sent straight me to hell. Thankfully, I was wise enough to not trust the psychiatric industry due to prior experience being medicated as a kid. So instead of quitting this journey, I chose to introspect the nature of my psychosis and figure out the "lessons" the shrooms were trying to teach me. And then I did shrooms again. And AGAIN, at higher doses until I was doing 13-15g every few weeks or so. Eventually, it was THROUGH that hell that I finally found clarity and heaven.
My point is that shrooms _can_ be fun. But if your mind isn't in a right place, it will put you through hell first. It's almost like experiencing a purification process. If you endure, you'll be free of all the emotional baggage and stress that has latched itself onto you.
@@idk-ill-figure-smn-out Not everyone who "endures" and takes high doses of mushrooms regularly will have the positive experience that you report. The opposite could happen. We are not all the same in our reactions to drugs including psychedelic mushrooms.
@@pjjmsn True, i'm just sharing my experience though. Psilocyben is a drug that primarily releases the lid on trapped emotions, regardless of who's taking it (It can also do OTHER things, but that's on more of a person-by-person basis). And I happened to have been extremely dissociated and had a LOT of trapped emotions due to past trauma. I still have my issues, but this particular psychosis is no longer my struggle. Shrooms saved me by helping me realize the ROOT of my dissociation (early childhood SA and severe neglect). The information literally came to me in flashbacks and different "voices" i was somehow able to vocalize. Once I learned what made me like this, I was able to move on from it... mostly. I guess some experiences are too deeply ingrained and my brain will always be fairly neurotic and prone to emotional splitting as a result. But at least I'm aware and have MUCH more agency now. I no longer have gender dysphoria or "multiple personalities" that either want to take their pain/frustration out on myself or others, overwhelm me with anxiety, or sabotage me for their own agendas. I strongly believe shrooms are the solution to a LOT of issues caused by C-PTSD in particular, though it could also help with addictive behaviors or general depression or anxiety.
The hospitals are so unsafe it's horrifying
Recently in last couple years I was SA by social worker sent from therapy. All correlating from fb group stalking from therapist and social worker. Because I kept objecting to there bogus psychiatric diagnosis on me from past. Then when the social workers criminal mischief and other suspicious behavior didn't provoke a response from me to collaborate there false diagnosis she then tortured my pet cat when I kicked her out of my house. Social worker approached me as date/relationship from fb dating and I didn't learn they (therapist and social worker) were working in my medical records until later when judge brought it up.
Now I'm being prevented from investigation and further retaliated against because I keep talking about it. Bowen center is getting all kinds of grants, praise, and awards for what they did to me.
I didn't think I'd get to the end of this video but your experience is compelling. God love you !