| >> Anti-psychotics (and benzodiazepines) are bad drugs that make people's mental problems worse. > This is not true. Many people are able to live high functioning lives thanks to anti-psychotics, which are sophisticated drugs Investigative journalist Robert Whitaker [1] has looked into the "mental health" industry, and proposes that today's patients do worse on their medications than their unmedicated predecessors. It used to be that people had "episodes" that they usually recovered from, now they have chronic diseases from which they never recover (unless they stop taking their pills). There is no good evidence that long-term anti-psychotic use is beneficial [edited, originally said 'no evidence whatsoever']: http://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-C... Here's a paper about how anti-psychotics don't work long term: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philip_Seeman/publicati... > that are very effective against psychosis and are the best therapies we currently have. Are you a psychiatrist? If a person makes themselves psychotic by compulsively using alcohol and cocaine, and the psychosis goes away when they stop using these substances, and Science also knows how to help the body repair the damage done by alcohol and stimulants... why would you put the person on maintenance sedative medications, instead of helping them fix the problem? |