Medicating Me: Personal Impressions of Psychiatric Medication
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- A mental health documentary exploring people's encounters around psychiatric medication. It is not giving advice. It is giving a voice.
Beyond the chemicals, how does the idea of medication function?
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This film contains no medical advice. It is a film. Within it, people voice their own subjective experiences.
These drugs are straight up nasty, these psychiatrist ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Medicating Normal is a good documentary about this. The pharmaceutical system is broken. The systems around it also place too much trust in these medications.
So SPOT-ON!!!!!
A shrink nailed my mom down with haloperidol injections, 3 minutes after police informed about my dad's death. They continued doing so for 6 months, her hair turned grey, digestion system caused troubles and she got psychotic every 2-3 day for 20 years after this incident, to the point she wanted to kill herself with me. Selfreflexion und the ability to solve complex problems lost due to damage in her frontal lobe. I lost both of my parents that very day.
That's horrendous for you to have had to witness. The trauma you have gone through is unimaginable. I can relate to your story and feel your pain sweetheart.
Thank you for your kind words. I always tried to find out, what was wrong with her until she told me, she got "vitamine"-injections... I have given her omega 3 pills for the last 6 months and her mood stabilized a bit, and the digestion problems also got better. I just wish they would stop to treat people with neurotoxines.
That is criminal. Yes I had depression but I was always terrified of mental health workers. After being a nurse I had good reason not too. Horrendous. Breathwork , yoga , meditation and compassion. That is a good start.
I don't believe in Hindu practices including yoga and I don't believe in medication as a long-term option.
God bless you and your mother. She's very blessed to have such a caring child. I had a great mom too, she sure went through a lot. I think I know how you feel. Don't forget to take care of you, too. As a mom myself, I believe that's the last thing she would want. Keep loving the truth.🕊️
I'm a survivor of the horrors of psyquiatry
Psychiatrists should be ashamed & ridiculed. The entire profession should be shut down.
I agree they are criminals.. they should be locked up in jail for their crimes.
I absolutely agree. They’re criminals. They destroy lives.
2 severe human rights violations occuring within EVERY mental hospital and psyche ward:
1. Non-consensual Drugging
2. Imprisonment without charge
The government loves it.
The government wonders why the suicide rate is getting worse every year.
Controlling what people think. They're afraid of it. During psychosis people get a peek behind the curtain. Then they're told it's all nonsense and heavily medicated against their will. Why don't they study these experiences? Because they don't want anyone talking about it.
i just want to put my perspective on psychotropic medication treatment out here, as someone diagnosed with major depression and borderline personality disorder who has been on meds and has been seeing psychiatrists and psychologists for 7 years, since i was fifteen...
the main point i want to make is: was i super happy about having to get on medication? no. were there times i would be negligent with my treatment, maybe bc it had been so long and i was so tired of taking all these pills everyday? absolutely yes. after i went through my lowest point with depression and most scary and dangerous borderline crisis i will never forget, i had my medication switched AGAIN (i know, it gets tiring) and the doctor could try alternative meds with alternative approaches. this time i bet you not it fucking worked. i got up and climbed out of that dark miserable pit and for 6 months i've been happy and stable, i can study, i can keep the house clean and i still take my medication everyday and i am grateful for it, because i know i wouldn't be able to recover with only my willpower (as some people who have never had a mentall illness ever say it's the only thing you need).
willpower is not enough to take you out of this pit. medication IS helpful and it is NECESSARY for people like me, but i dont care because i know how it helped me, i saw it in front of my eyes. yes, pills suck they're expensive, they have many side effects on the body and mind and yes, you may feel like you're not yourself for taking pills and YES, big pharmaceutical companies are bitches but some of these stuff is completely out of our hands, we are not going to revolutionise big pharma or psychiatric treatment tomorrow or any time soon. so im gonna tell you, for real, if you know you're struggling and medication has helped, at least once, in the least, then keep fucking taking your pills. one day something is gonna work and its gonna change your life and you'll be grateful you didn't give up.
psychiatric treatment, all these scary medications and all these approaches that seem to only fail, is, for most people in fact diagnosed with menta illnesses, the only hope left, bc i dont know you, but i'd rather take stupid pills and eventually feel at least a bit better, then to suffer greatly trying to fight this battle with bare human hands.
sometimes you need an extra help with your brain chemistry, maybe it's only for a period of time until you're strong enough tl do the rest yourself. or maybe in your case you need and will need medication for life because without it you wouldn't even be able to stay safe or alive. THIS IS OK!!! the situation is not ideal, but we fight with all the weapons available when the enemy is too strong. your mental wellbeing matters and you should give every oportunity a shot.
again, and lastly, treating mental illnesses and medicatiom journey is hard, unpleasant and takes time, but it's a battle we either choose to face it with all the weapons we can get or you can die without trying. this battle you cannot escape.
today, i take 4 different pills to keep myself stable and happy, and i dont care about it a bit. if i need it, if it keeps me going, it's all that matters
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Everyone experiences medication differently. I'm so glad you have a good experience with medicine.
Some people need medicine, some people need a little extra TLC (tender love & care), some people don't like to be touched. Let people be who they are, and who they're comfortable being. Human being. Our diversity is our common strength.🕊️
I'm really glad the meds work for you. I just pray you never have to try to get off of them.
Psychiatric medication helps at the beginning. But in the long run you are thrown in the dustpin
What effects did you see.
It works for a brief period & then wears off as the bodies tolerance builds, often introducing new, often worse symptoms. Higher doses & new meds are prescribed, continuing the vicious cycle.
@@matthewatwood8641 Coreectamundo, Matt. After being on 30+ different psych meds (starting w/Ritalin @ age 4 in 1971; I'm 55 now) ovr a 40+ yr period b4 becoming psych med-free on 1/1/2017 & remaining so since, I outta know. Not only that; it (mental health conditions; NOT illnesses) primarily involves abuse, bullying, harassment committed against an individual by other (especially those in positions of authority like law enforcement officers, court personnel including judges, mental health personnel including psychiatrists, teachers, parents, etc. ). When standing up 2 the abuse, bullying, & harassment &;defending urself against as such, the person on the receiving end of the abuse, bullying, & harassment often gets punished via drugging (i.e.: put on psych meds) whereas the 1s who provoked it as a4mentioned often gets off "scot-free". There4; there's no legitv recourse 4 relief. The narrative ends up as follows; it's so much easier 2 medic8 than communic8 . Which, in turn, only aggrav8s the fuckin' problem.
They ruined my life.
Those drugs are dangerous
They are also a God Send for a lot of us!
Totally agree, these drugs are nasty and dangerous. Big pharma and psychiatry wants you to be on these drugs for life as that means more profits.
@@Native722 Everything you say is true, but meds for many people are a Godsend.
@@montesa9136 No, for many people this has caused lots of harm, you just don't hear about it because no one talks about it. Tell a psychiatrist this and they'll just blow you off.
@@Native722 For sure these drugs can harm you. I was on them 30 years and feel very damaged by them. However, Despite their negative aspects, one has to weigh the pros and cons. I would love to not take any medications but I'm sure I will end up going back on them, simply because the I cannot shake the Severe depression without them. It's choosing between the lesser of evils
It's the easy option to hand someone pills and the government kept going on about parity of esteem and it was all lies, they could invest and get more people being psychiatrists and offering real therapy, not leaving it to charities, people need professionals.
Amen , if I could find the Doc who started me on Xanax I think I kidnap him and give him 3 klonipins a day for a month then let him go , that's how I feel , ruined my life while he is probably on his yacht or his summer home while I'm struggling to wean down and afraid , panicking , lost , emotional
Nice graphics, nice people. That's nice.
Thank you for these perspectives
Im on "this kind of experience" since 1996. A long fight. Going on and off to hospital. a lot of Suicide attempts... still fight... still trying to get ridd of the meds... what i really believe its that, back to my 20's, my wild and free times, i was getting sincronized with me and the world around... didnt look good for people so... and without answer for it, i took the ride on the ambulance. I'm older and I see it with wiser eyes but... i dont know how to get rid of medication and... neder the doctors...
Started off ok then toward the end was a little soul destroying
Nobody wants to have to take a pill, but for many people medication can be LIFE SAVING!
I certainly cannot function without medication
@Jay's vault @Jay's vault - Exactly! That is me. We are all different
@@montesa9136
The reply to your post made me think of someone saying to you, "It's all in your mind".
Yes, MY mind!!
That's a lie that you believe. It's what this whole thing is about. Even if you were the one miraculous exception to literally every single person I've ever met who takes this stuff, that's just you- one person. More than one people were discussed - hell, more than one person was interviewed in the video. I have to say that to me if your comment just seems like you wanted to say something positive about medication, without having anything to say.
Nobody can function of psychiatric medication they are neurotoxins and DESTROY LIVES!.
@@matthewatwood8641 @Matthew Atwood - Hundreds of Millions of people are married to their medication & swear by it!
Medication is not for everyone, but most mentally ill people are on them, & cannot function without them. What would you suggest to a deeply depressed person who is not functioning?
It sounds like you wanted to say something negative about medication, without having anything to say.
What if life style changes and therapy don’t work and support what do you do now what about most successful people that have depression nothing works but meds
diet changes always work.
many heal with keto/carnivore. It is possible.
Some people have a chemical imbalance and need meds., there's nothing wrong with that.
ABSOLUTELY! - I've tried all the alternative treatments for over 40 years, including diet. NOTHING WORKS as well as medication. I could not function without it
Meds do not work! They in fact increase suicidal thoughts, violent behavior, etc. Their is no chemical imbalance test to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone has depression, anxiety, bipolar, etc.
Yeah well, if diagnosed properly, medication is a therapeutic pathway no new-age trash can convince me not to attend to
I'm telling you as someone who has known many people throughout my life who take psychiatric medication that every single one of them had their condition made far worse by the medication and it did not help. Like people keep commenting over and over and over here, it seems to work at first and then never again after that. it just becomes a game of chasing the right medication down the rabbit hole until your whole life is completely trashed. The alternative is not new age mumbo jumbo. the alternative is legitimate psychological treatment. These conditions are caused by psychological issues, not by any disorder of the brain. Psych meds are a myth and a deliberate lie on the part of doctors in the pharmaceutical industry to bilk you for money.
@@matthewatwood8641 Yeah, right. Well, I would be a guaranteed bum without my ADHD meds. With them I have a career lining up for me...
@@MS-il3ht Exceptions only prove the rule. I'm glad it's working out for you - sincerely.
I was told as a kid I'd never survive without medication. I had all the diagnosis - adhd, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia. I stopped taking meds when I was 16. Never had any issues.
@@matthewatwood8641 Thank you. But my report corresponds to hundreds of studies showing miraculous average efficacy of e.g. adhd medications.
Diagnosed properly lol you are deluded. Psychiatry is a pseudoscience and their diagnosis are just labels designed to stigmatize and control people and their medication are neurotoxins not medicine.
I’m a psych nurse, have been for years in many facilities and I’m balling. I know it’s rough in there… the environment needs SO much help. Everyday I go there I feel like I’m drowning, always assigned way too many people to help properly, no security, I’ve been injured many times and severely injured once which I’ve to this day not fully recovered from mentally or physically… psych needs SO much help. I went into it hoping to change it, but the problems stem from outside the ward… it’s systematic and needs to change SO badly
I've been in many of those places, and so have my friends, family, and loved ones. They're just warehousing drugged people. We know that they have no interest in helping us. I stay away from psychiatrists as if they were made out of nuclear waste. They certainly are waste.
But you are always siding with the people who abuse the patients. If you don't agree with what's happening, don't participate. And when doctors use involuntary treatments, they never consider that people will just stop after they leave the hospital. people are starting to learn that staying on medication isn't necessary and they're also starting to learn that if they are told to come off their medication slowly, it's the doctors way of keeping those people under their control. The doctor has to use scare tactics to keep the power and now that people are learning that this is the case, doctors are losing so many patients as a result.
I love the ambiguity of the film. Just as real life. There's no black and white, your truth is somewhere in the middle and you gotta find it on your own.
I like how this frames psychotropics as a kind of 1984/Brave new world weapon for non-conformists. We are living it. Right now.
Rene; I was living it back in the early 1970s when I was put on Ritalin @ age 4 in 1971 (I'm 55 now). After being on 30+ different psych meds ovr a 40+ yr period (which included Thorazine @ age 10 in 1977--a drug that fucked up my sexual development; Haldol @ age 11 in 1978; Travil & its components Trilafon & Elavil btwn 1982-1984; Tegretol @ age 17 in 1/1985; Lithium @ age 18 in 4/+986---which caused me 2 develop psoriasis; Risperdal via court-order @ age 28 in 4/1996--I suffered from Tardive Dyskinesia & gynecomastia [male "titties"] while on this poison; Ativan @ age 40 in 2007; Depakote & Zyprexa @ age 43 in early 2011--both fucked up my metabolism which resulted in my weight 2 balloon near 250 lbs (my height's 5' 8.5"). The cumulative adverse effects from those meds left me very suicidal. Unlike cold-turkey attempts 3 times prior; I weaned off (via taper/titration) of psych meds in mid-2014 [prior 2 my 47th b-day] b4 finally becoming psych med-free on 1/1/2017 & have remained so since). Granted; I still experience feelings of depression but @ least I'm much more in tune w/my emotions. Besides; how do psych meds ACKNOWLEDGE, ADDRESS, & RESOLVES abuse, bullying, & harassment (i.e.: TRIGGERS) committed against some1 by other people)? They don't; nvr have & nvr will. Psych meds r simply "chemical pacifiers" (i.e.: designed 2 silence u when standing up 2 & defending urself against abusers, antagonists, bullies, harassers, instig8rs, & perpetr8rs; especially if they r authority figures such as law enforcement officials, court personnel including judges, mental health personnel including psychiatrists, teachers, parents, etc.). Most often; the person on the receiving end of abuse, bullying, & harassment committed against them by other people gets punished via drugging (i.e.: put on psych meds) whereas the antagonists, instig8rs, perpetr8rs, et al get away "scot-free". So much so that it's so much easier 2 medic8 than communic8 .
I think this film came across as a bit vague, like it should have been twice as long. It would have benefited the viewer if the participants had told us their diagnosis/diagnoses and the meds that they were on or had been on in the past. It could have gone a lot deeper I think but it only scratched the very surface. It seemed a shame that nobody mentioned if they'd tried withdrawing from any of their meds as I got the impression that they were all just resigned to their fate, which was being stuck on meds for ever more. It would be inspiring to hear from at least 1 person who had escaped from the mental health system successfully.
It seems like in the end they tried to humanize their suffering when they are the victims. Sleep, diet, exercise, and pill free.
@@thereGoMapo were you ever on psych meds ...
check out Medicating Normal
Brilliant work, love the graphics!
Don't Take Abilify
Going on over 2 years of trying to help a sibling who was prescribed Abilify. Didn't take long for devasting effects and he is still dealing with the aftermath mentally, physically and in his home/personal/family life. 😩😠
I would add all psych drugs without thoroughly understanding what they will do for you / to you. Good or bad
Very mixed messages.. hmmm!
I thought that was one of the film's real strengths
That wasn't mixed messages!!!!
It was presenting both sides of the issue/ topic, it's up to the individual do what's best for them!
But it does help some people now the long term effects however I don't know.
Tardive dyskinesia
Methamphetamine will help you feel better in the short term too. You're naive.
This was a fantastic film!
very beautiful message, thank you
This is so beautiful
I'm right there shit
Hello Ellie! I am currently in the same boat. I'd love to hear your story? Have you had any progress? I am currently 2 weeks off of Abilify.
@@Jess-1095 no progress. Still on the damn stuff for now