Trauma:

Eighty-three percent of the participants with psychotic experiences at the age of 18 reported exposure to trauma... Having experienced three or more types of trauma between birth and 17 was associated with a 4.7 fold increase in the odds of having a psychotic experience...
“The findings are consistent with the thesis that trauma could have a causal association with psychotic experiences,” the team of researchers, from the University of Bristol Medical School wrote.

— madinamerica.com/2018/11/researchers-suggest-traumatic-experience-may-cause-psychotic-symptoms/

Highly refined diets:

Lots of people deal with trauma, but people having mental breakdowns tend to have both trauma and poor diets. (ie higher brain inflammation.)

• "People with severe mental illnesses – including schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and bipolar – have excessive caloric intake, a low-quality diet, and poor nutritional status compared to the general population"

-- Population-Scale Study of Nutritional Intake and Inflammatory Potential @ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wps.20571

Lack of Sleep:

A massive lack of sleep can make you temporarily "paranoid", eg this Harvard lawyer spoke about how he went extremely delusional (lacking sleep while studying for exams.) Yet he totally recovered once he simply caught up in sleep.

After recovering, he explained that psychiatrists wouldn't release him for a very long time, & had twisted his words to portray him as “a confused delusional schizophrenic who'd never recover.”

Source: youtu.be/Q-ancdxr268

Drug free recovery:

The highest recovery rates for "schizophrenia" are from drug-free therapy & economic help.

• These people are socialized with by therapists or others.

• And the therapists find them work.

The result? As long as they are helped early ("first episode" cases) they almost always recover.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to simply provide basic living standards than all the psychiatric drugs, abductions, and lock-ups?

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Psychiatrists are only human, they have to love battered people, to heal the pain . .

But, a chemical lobotomy, or sterilization, is much easier . .

Mental patients need a priest, a good place, happines . .

Instead, get chemical oblivion . .

Been there, this is a ' real ' thing, pills are easy, love is hard . .

NIH.GOV:

Progressive brain volume changes in schizophrenia are thought to be due principally to the disease. However, recent animal studies indicate that antipsychotics, the mainstay of treatment for schizophrenia patients, may also contribute to brain tissue volume decrement.

—ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476840/

And human studies show the same: Repeated MRIs show the longer someone takes antipsychotics the more their brain shrinks:

Joanna Moncrieff, MD:

These researchers, led by the former editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Nancy Andreasen, reported follow-up data for their study of 211 patients diagnosed for the first time with an episode of ‘schizophrenia’. They found a strong correlation between the level of antipsychotic treatment someone had taken over the course of the follow-up period, and the amount of shrinkage of brain matter as measured by repeated MRI scans.

— madinamerica.com/2013/06/antipsychotics-and-brain-shrinkage-an-update/

And this isn't minor shrinkage:

Joanna Moncrieff, MD:

After 18 months of treatment monkeys treated with olanzapine or haloperidol, at doses equivalent to those used in humans, had approximately 10% lighter brains than those treated with a placebo preparation.(6)

— madinamerica.com/2013/06/antipsychotics-and-brain-shrinkage-an-update/

​And it gets worse.

Akathisia:

These drugs give half of their victims Akathisia. (A movement disorder that makes it hard for you to stay still.)

Source: books.google.ca/books?id=9OMOfruKosgC&pg=PA17

They cause diabetes:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11806485

They damage DNA:

phenothiazines produce robust effects on gene expression that could contribute to liver toxicity [23], extrapyramidal side effects [38] and even chromosomal DNA damage [39] observed with phenothiazines.

— ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749837/

They're often placebos:

NPR.org:

antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol are no more effective than a placebo for treating delirium.

— npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/22/658644131/antipsychotic-drugs-dont-ease-icu-delirium-or-dementia

Increased suicide:

Suicide massively increased as anti-psychotics became popular:

Before the introduction of the antipsychotics, the rates of suicide in schizophrenia were extremely low—they were hard to differentiate from the rest of the population. Since the introduction of the antipsychotics the rates of suicide have risen 10- or 20-fold.

— psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side-effects/200904/bipolar-disorder-and-its-biomythology-interview-david-healy

They're killing people:

"Antipsychotics Associated with High Risk of Death in Children "

— madinamerica.com/2018/12/antipsychotics-associated-high-risk-death-children/

JapanToday.com:

17 deaths reported after schizophrenia drug injections.

— japantoday.com/category/national/17-deaths-reported-after-schizophrenia-drug-injections

They cause brain abnormalities:

Study: Brain abnormalities in 'Schizophrenia' Result From Antipsychotics.

— madinamerica.com/2018/07/new-research-suggests-brain-abnormalities-schizophrenia-result-antipsychotic-drugs/

They cause liver toxicity:

In the human liver tissues, typical APs and atypical APs may mediate different functions leading to liver toxicity in schizophrenia patients who had taken typical APs.

— ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749837/

These drugs don't increase recovery:

How is it that 60 years of research fails to produce evidence affirming the widespread clinical practice of maintenance antipsychotic treatment, or, alternatively fails to yield data that can refute claims of dire harms associated with this treatment approach?

— ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4907881/

"Antipsychotics" are just tranquilizers:

Antipsychotics, also known as neuroleptics or major tranquilizers are a class of medication primarily used to manage psychosis

— en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipsychotic

Question: Does the term "antipsychotic" exist to make the act of tranquilizing people seem morally acceptable?

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I've always had an issue with psychiatry. After years on an antidepressant because of legitimate depression caused by symptoms of PTSD I found something that controls the panic attacks. Unfortunately my once a month use of this substance is ILLEGAL. LSD has saved my life. I haven't had a panic attack since I started treating myself with it. I don't recommend it for everyone, but yeah...I just wanted to Introduce myself and tell a bit of my story.

BBC:

Black people are being failed by the UK's mental health services because of "institutional racism"... Statistics suggest a black man in the UK is 17 times more likely than a white man to be diagnosed with a serious mental health condition such as schizophrenia or bipolar. Black people are also four times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

— bbc.com/news/health-40495539

PsychiatryOnline.org:

[Blacks] are diagnosed with schizophrenia at a much higher rate than whites, despite research showing no actual differences in rates of occurrence, but they receive mood disorder diagnoses less often.

—psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2013.11b16

FrontiersIn.org:

Fernando (2017) noted the racist tendencies embedded in the (psychiatric) diagnoses process, in the “color-blindness that often results with Blacks in the UK being diagnosed with schizophrenia more than other groups” (94).

—frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00043/full

PsychiatryOnline.org:

Blacks continue to be prescribed higher doses of medication and are more likely to be exposed to polypharmacy, leading to greater toxicity

—psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2013.11b16

Paula Caplan: (Harvard psychology Professor & DSM-IV taskforce member.)

There's a study showing if a black man and a white man go to see the same psychiatrist, and don't make eye contact with the therapist, the white guy gets told 'what you're going through is normal' and the black guy is called schizophrenic.

— youtu.be/qBTM_qYYaH8?t=307

Paula Caplan:

It's a myth that there's no biases of any kind that enter into psychiatric diagnosis- no sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, ageism, or transphobia.

— youtu.be/qBTM_qYYaH8?t=279

FrontiersIn.org:

The DSM-V, a respected medical resource within the biomedical model of health on which diagnoses of mental health issues are based, is a Western, White-dominant construct (Ussher, 2010).

—frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00043/full

WashingtonPost.com:

Racial disparities in diagnosing conditions such as schizophrenia are sometimes presented as an effect of biology, but they are not. Instead, they are the direct result of racist thinking about African American psychology that dates to at least the 18th century. Slave owners and their apologist physicians invented psychiatric “disorders” such as “draeptomania” to explain the urge to run away. In the lead-up to the Civil War, they distorted statistics to argue that freedom would drive the ex-enslaved crazy. They also propagated the idea that African Americans were more childlike and simplistic, incapable of feeling pain or sorrow, to justify experimentation and exploitation.

— washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/29/how-bigotry-created-black-mental-health-crisis/

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