I want to stop taking my psychiatric meds.
As any of you here already believe in alternative medicine, you already know the dangers involved with psychiatric medication. I am sure I am preaching to the choir if I told you why I didn't want to take them any more.
I have thought this over and over and I keep coming back to the same conclusion. I think what I need to do is to see an alternative practitioner and get his or her professional advice and then go from that as so many in the psychiatry and psychology profession say that it is extrememly dangerous to stop taking your meds on your own.
Even if this in itself were not true, at least for me, meaning that I, myself would suffer no ill effects, if I weaned myself off without the permission of my psychiatrist and simply stopped going there, I fear that I would be at their mercy if someone from their end, my psychiatrist, case worker, etc, were to put in a rocommendation for me to be involunterily committed to a psychitric institution, where they could very easily force me to take the meds by injection. Then, of course, I would be charged for all this when they eventually let me out.
Am I right in this? Are these reasonable fears? I very much want to get off these drugs. Every time I see my psychiatrist, I ask if he can wean me off and he says, "Of course. It is not healthy to be on these drugs for years. I will make a note to discuss this and we will talk about this at our next session." At the next session, I ask again and he simply says the same thing.
And then add to that, that the time has come for my annual review with my caseworker. I met with him yesterday. And you know what he said? He asked me if I had any friends. I said yes. And he said, "Can you give me their names?"!! After telling him that I didn't want to sacrifice their privacy by bringing them into anything, he consented to me only giving first names. I thought of some names of girls I had gone to school with years ago. "Patty, Amy", etc. I really feel that this is a serious invasion into my privacy. What do my friends have to do with my mental health and the treatment I get??
Please help. I so much do not want to go there any more. But if I go anywhere else, I will have to pay much more. The place I go to now is free. The clinic that I went to before that charged me a $60 co pay for a med review and I was required to see a therapist at least twice a month, paying $30 an hour just to see the psychiatrist. I'd like to just get out of it altogether. I need to see a psychiatrist, who would recommend that I don't need to take psychiatric meds in order to not see a psychiatrist. But no psychitrist, from what I can see, would want to do that if it meant his having less clients and making less money.
Thanks in advance.
I have thought this over and over and I keep coming back to the same conclusion. I think what I need to do is to see an alternative practitioner and get his or her professional advice and then go from that as so many in the psychiatry and psychology profession say that it is extrememly dangerous to stop taking your meds on your own.
Even if this in itself were not true, at least for me, meaning that I, myself would suffer no ill effects, if I weaned myself off without the permission of my psychiatrist and simply stopped going there, I fear that I would be at their mercy if someone from their end, my psychiatrist, case worker, etc, were to put in a rocommendation for me to be involunterily committed to a psychitric institution, where they could very easily force me to take the meds by injection. Then, of course, I would be charged for all this when they eventually let me out.
Am I right in this? Are these reasonable fears? I very much want to get off these drugs. Every time I see my psychiatrist, I ask if he can wean me off and he says, "Of course. It is not healthy to be on these drugs for years. I will make a note to discuss this and we will talk about this at our next session." At the next session, I ask again and he simply says the same thing.
And then add to that, that the time has come for my annual review with my caseworker. I met with him yesterday. And you know what he said? He asked me if I had any friends. I said yes. And he said, "Can you give me their names?"!! After telling him that I didn't want to sacrifice their privacy by bringing them into anything, he consented to me only giving first names. I thought of some names of girls I had gone to school with years ago. "Patty, Amy", etc. I really feel that this is a serious invasion into my privacy. What do my friends have to do with my mental health and the treatment I get??
Please help. I so much do not want to go there any more. But if I go anywhere else, I will have to pay much more. The place I go to now is free. The clinic that I went to before that charged me a $60 co pay for a med review and I was required to see a therapist at least twice a month, paying $30 an hour just to see the psychiatrist. I'd like to just get out of it altogether. I need to see a psychiatrist, who would recommend that I don't need to take psychiatric meds in order to not see a psychiatrist. But no psychitrist, from what I can see, would want to do that if it meant his having less clients and making less money.
Thanks in advance.
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Permalink Reply by Kimberly on -
Please see a naturapath practicition about this. Pysciatric drugs are dangerous! Many people have commited suicide on these types of drugs.
LIke I said in the blog before to someone else. Yes, it's expensive probably around $150 for the first visit, then natural docs usually charge $75- $100 on consecutive visits. However, you only need to see them a few times, and that 's it. Compared to going to see yur therapist for years....you end up spending more for your therapist.
Natural doctors will even tell you, if they are a good one, that they want you to get well so you don't have to come back to them.
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on -
I can save up for one. Do you think seeing one will hold up in court? Can you recommend how I find one? I was thinking about looking in the yellow pages and Google searching it. I do not have custody of my son. I very much want him back.
I got sucked into all this when he was born and truly, it is all a giant sham designed to get the psychiatrists, therapists, case workers, lawyers, judges, etc. rich. From what I understand, they would have to have a license and rival theat of a psychiatrist, so that I can tell the judge that I am medication compliant. To tell you the truth, if things were reversed and I had custody, I would not want to share custody of my child with someone who was medication compliant because I don't think they make you think clearly, unless you are on a very low dose.
I could go on and on about the details, but I won't. LOL
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Permalink Reply by adam stake on -
Hi, my name is Adam Stake. I was depressed in college and took depression medication for some time. I no longer take any medication. It may be difficult/dangerous for you to discontinue your use of medication on your own. There is definitely a way that would work for you though. I am sure of this. If you are taking more than one med then my recommendation would be to stop taking them one at a time. I would give it a month between each med that you discontinue. This should give you adequate time to recover from each successive medication detoxification. I would also suggest learning the truth about the perfect human diet. In my research over the past two years I have tried almost every diet imaginable. I have finally settled on what I believe is the ideal human diet. If you would have told me that what I believe now is the ideal diet two years ago I would have told you that you were incompetent. The ideal human diet in my opinion is made up of almost entirely of raw fruit, making sure to eat fatty fruits like avocados and olives, sweet fruits like bananas, figs, and dates, and some amount of leafy green vegetables. Distilled water is also good as a supplement. This diet should be moved into over a long period of time ranging from 1-2 months to possibly 2-3 years. Take it slow. Start by removing fried foods and soda. After you feel comfortable with that change move (approx 2 weeks to a couple months) move to removing meats. Any improvement is good. The benefits of the raw organic fruit diet are almost unbelievable. It will completely blow your mind. The diet is so outstanding and concealed by the dominant culture that most normal United States citizens will not ever believe it. BELIEVE IT. You can cure every illness. I repeat that you can cure every illness with the raw organic fruit diet. Nothing else is needed. No supplements, no drugs, nothing. Good luck.
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Permalink Reply by christine on -
Great recommendations, but do it with a naturopath here are some websites for you to find one.
International college of integrative medicin
www.icimed.com
or'
866-464-5226
American college for advancement in medicine
www.acam.org
or 888-439-6891
healthy blessing to you Shelly.
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on
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Thank you very much, Christine. I will be checking these out. I agree I will have to go on the opinion of a professional, one with a degree.
I appreciate the links. :)
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on
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Thanks, Adam.
I am not taking that high of a dose, O I don't think it would hurt me if I stopped, especially if I went down gradually. The problem is, I cannot openly do this and say to my psychitrist, "I'm not taking the meds anymore and I am going to be coming here any more either." I fear this would have dire consequnces for me.
I do, however agree with the idea of eating the right foods, getting a decent amount of ecercise outdoors, yoga, meditation, etc. instead of medication and therapy with a psychoologist the way I am now. Too much paperwork, case files with info on me, etc. An in addition to that, it is not really effective. The only thing that thier treatment is effective in, is filling their pockets, even if it is not my money paying for it. LOL
I already know a lot about natural detoxifiction, etc. I am mainly interested in finding out how to stop seeing them without their powerful hand coming down on me, since they say they are the ones with the license and degree and they are the professionals and I am nothing more than an uneducated client.
Thanks for the info, though. :)
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on
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Thanks. On the diet and exercise and having raw foods, I agree and am getting more into that all the time. I like the idea of seeing a naturopath and will look for one soon.
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on
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Thanks.
I don't think I really need these drugs. I think it is disgusting what they are doing to all of us clients. I believe that quite a bit of the people going there don't really need their drugs and not only do not need them, like I don't need another dress, (LOL) but could really do much better off without them. To tell you the honest truth, years ago, I stopped taking them, with no ill effects. I weaned myself off gradually. People did not seem to notice that I wasn't taking them any more. I guess this was because I had been on them for so long, my body adjusted and they had no real effect on me, whether I took them or not. I guess most of it just got flushed out with drinking water, etc. So, while I was taking them, and behaving and thinking well, it was not due to the drugs. It was just me and proper management of my feelings, etc. When i stopped taking them, I pretty much behaved the same way. I felt the need to stop taking them for a long time, feeling that in some way they could be hurting my body.
I was doing this while still seeing my therapist and psychiatrist, saying that I was on the meds but it didn't feel right. So, I told them I wasn't taking them anymore and I was just fine, hoping that this would convince them that I really didn't need the meds and they would say, "Well, you seem to be doing just fine off of them. Perhaps you don't have this psychiatric illness after all." When I told them, I actually got in a lot of trouble, and now all of us have to have our blood drawn periodically, to make sure we are actually taking the meds. The meds show up in the blood. That was a long time ago and I have been taking it ever since.
But now I have been hearing about the natural practitioners and I think I'm going to investigate them and this may be a way to get out from under the control of these nasty people.
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Permalink Reply by KnowNow on -
These things are very dangerous to get off without help. Best to seek medical advice.
I have heard of people shaving their med and weeniing themselves off them over many weeks or months.
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Permalink Reply by Brook on -
Hi there! I am not an expert by any means (I don't think taking psych 101 counts), but I do have some experience with medication, etc. Because of my political and personal beliefs, there are many things I would/would not do, unless.... For example, I try to steer clear of police/judges/goverment officials, BUT if a stranger broke into my house, guess who I would call? You got it - the police. I don't go to western doctors; I go to acupuncturists, ND's, healers, BUT if I broke my arm, guess what? I would go to a surgeon. There was a time in my life where I discovered alternative healing, addiction recovery, a higher power, and self-love, and literally shredded my psych textbooks and made art. It was very cathartic. But what I didn't realize is that I had done what-I-would-call damage to my brain, and within a few years I relapsed and fell into depression. I am not currently on medication but would be open to if I needed it. The thing about mental illness is that it tells us we do not have it. Cancer doesn't say that, but mental illness does. WIth a lot, I mean a lot of support, getting off medication could be OK for someone, but for some, unfortunately, medication is necessary for normal societal functioning. I know, too, when I've had manic episodes (I've had 3), I immediately thought everyone else was crazy, and all needed was _______ (fill in the blank). Mental stuff is tricky. Please, please get support support from a therapist, healer, ND, acupuncturist, etc. There are therapists who are not big proponents of medicine. Try to find one in your area. Best wishes.
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Permalink Reply by KnowNow on
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Many court cases have declared that the police have no obligation to protect us. So their protection is another farce that we have all been led to believe, perpetuated by TV of course.
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Permalink Reply by Brook on
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BTW, psychiatrists prescribe medication always. A naturapath psychiatrist would be really cool - I don't know if there is one. But therapists, counselors, clinical social workers counsel. I've had great results with in therapy. Finding a therapist who is into "healthy" living is ideal.
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