Tag: psychiatric abuse

A Return From Dignity From Psychiatric Abuse

This is written from a child’s experience and I appreciate it . The balance and dignity I have created for myself after the nightmare of abuses being further abused by psychiatry and an inept medical system and a social acceptance of craziness over trauma .

There are still folks out there that are served by their lower energy and resistance to change that are gunning for me , revealing themselves as having done much harm .

That legacy is not my intent for an inheritance for 6 innocent grandchildren whose parents are stuck in hatred and neglect towards me .

www.madinamerica.com/2022/09/return-dignity-abuse/

New Term : Ethical Distraction

This is extremely enlightening !

We have work before us , and it’s wayyyyy past time !

Blessings & Peace

Dona Luna

citizensforparentalrights.com/federal-money-and-cps/

Mary Maddock , Mind Freedom , Ireland -Recovery

Our stories are similar , I did not have electroshock

Even Mary’s wedding picture looks like mine .

Much admiration and gratitude for Mary’s every effort to educate and earn others .

Hindsight as Evidence

I write this on the eve of my 48th wedding anniversary

This year on November 8th I hopefully will be 75 years strong. I met Jim in 1973. I have known him for almost 5O years..When we published our book in 2006 I did not have my medical records. Sixteen years later I am much wiser about my personal history and the history of the corrupt relationship between psychiatry, allopathic medicine, the state and other professions, especially the law.

Since becoming prescription drug-free at the turn of the Millenium I did everything humanly possible to find out the truth about what really happened to me when I was electroshocked and drugged by medical professionals. It was only then that I could look back at my terrible, traumatic experience which was and still is the living torture of survivors of psychiatry.

When we wrote our book ‘ Soul Survivor – A Personal Encounter With Psychiatry’ I was so damaged by bio/coercive/deceptive psychiatry that I thought I would not live to see it published. However, as the years went by I became stronger in mind, body and spirit. We could have written many more books since but those who know me and have found out more true facts themselves are aware that I have always been actively involved in speaking out and doing groundwork ever since. I have been privileged to get to know so many, outstanding, kind human beings. A big Thank You to every single person who crossed my path. Indeed if we were able to include our work together we would have much more evidence than the six week, deceptive, experimental trials that are passed as evidence by Irish psychiatrist Patricia Casey and her companions.

As Patricia said it is indeed her bread and butter. She has a vested interest in believing that contrived drug trials funded by Big, Corrupt Corrupt Companies will produce real evidence. Her christanity would have taught her what 30 pieces of silver can do and how angry Jesus Christ was about people collecting money outside a temple but she thinks that it is okay to accept bribes from co operations with clearly vested interests. When she was the main speaker, I and other members of MindFreedom Ireland heard her speak strongly in favour of the chemical imbalance theory many years ago. It was funded by Big Pharma. We challenged her then and we still challenge her today but were kept silent then and we are still kept silent today. The established media bow to so-called professionals who read biassed books and medical journals and are more interested in protecting themselves than those they feign to ‘help’.

We on the other hand are labelled with fictional, non-scientific ‘diagnoses’ ( ironically diagnose means to understand!) with no medical biomarkers to establish their labels exist. We are legally treated as sub/non-human and told that this is not discrimination. The law protects psychiatry and psychiatry protects the law. The state protects psychiatry and psychiatry protects the state. Then the established media protects all three. Is it any wonder we are kept silent? Is it any wonder that we feel distressed? Is it any wonder we find it difficult to be employed? Is it any wonder we are so easily drugged/electroshocked? Is it any wonder the marginalised who comprise most of the population are victims?

It can seem like there is no way out but we know the truth. We know it and many others, fortunate enough not to be labelled and drugged by psychiatry can find our way to be our own media. Everyone can do this the old-fashioned, real way by word of mouth. It was because of word of mouth that I had music pupils!! Thankfully psychiatry did not deprive me of my ability to teach also. It made it much more difficult. It was a miracle. It gave me some appreciation of my own ability.

To survive hardship we need to be strong. Psychiatry labels us weak while many who define us are very weak themselves. We need to be strong to know we are fragile. We need to be strong to say we are sorry. Everyone makes mistakes. It is by our mistakes we learn. If we continue to make the same mistakes many times it is difficult to learn. The history of psychiatry is a litany of mistakes. Yesterday’s errors become tomorrow’s and tomorrow’s while the litany of victims becomes longer and longer.

To break this cycle the public needs to wake up. I know it is difficult when most people can be very stressed finding their basic needs. Evolution requires constant change. We have got the ability to make choices. As Vandana Shiva reminds us so wisely we start with the soil. In order to protect ourselves first let us start at the beginning. We came from mother earth and we go back to it! We are honoured to play our part. Mary Maddock

From another “voluntary “ mental patient

When I was an involuntary patient, my mother was made to be my substitute decision maker (SDM) since I would not willingly submit to treatment of a non existent disease. I was heavily drugged and could not advocate for myself and was barely able to communicate with her during this time. While on the drugs, I had experiences of modified perceptions and had trouble to focus on the basic task of speaking to others, or fighting for my own rights. During this time my mother would be brought to an interview with a psychiatrist, with or without me present, and brain washed into the benefits on psych drugs, which she attempted to advocate should be administered in lower doses or removed from my drugging routine due to her witnessing the effects on me. I will never accept that she fully fought for my rights, because although she states she couldnt remove me from the ward (which I equate to a prison) due to a Form, she didnt advocate nearly enough to have me removed, and her consulting on my dosages translated to me as active participation in my drug induced abuse. But here are some of the lies i overheard the “doctor” say to try to convince my mother forced drugging (being injected against my wishes) was a beneficial act -as opposed to how I see it: an outright violation of my health and freedoms

  1. “Psychosis causes brain cells to pop, her brain is damaging itself when she goes into psychosis.”

My perpsective: I dont have psychosis, I have a justified outbursts due to anger of not being heard or understood in a given circumstance. I am fully reasonable and able to be reasoned with in this time. The psychiatrist doesnt know a thing about me to deduce that I do in fact have psychotic episodes, since I barely spoke to him, and he does not know anything about me. Additionally I’m sure the more severe damage is caused by psych drugs not by any potentially psychotic episode that someone may or may not experience.

  1. She has a brain that has biochemical imbalances, we need to regulate it.

It’s a well proven MYTH that chemical imbalances correlate with mental illness or that they exist. No one in the ward measured any form of imbalances, so how can they even scientifically prove I have imbalances if they never ran any tests.

  1. She will relapse if she goes off the drugs.

Relapse into what- being my normal, reasonable self?

  1. She will be a lifelong pateint and suffer from bipolar her entire life.

I dont identify as bipolar, and I will fight to never be in a ward again. Mental illness is a myth, a matter of perspective. Once you get to know people, the illusion that they are disordered or ill mentally fades away.

Neuroleptics Psychopharmacology Explained

On the Psychopharmacology of Neuroleptics

Neuroleptics are major tranquilizers, neurological inhibitors, suppressants, and depressants of the central nervous system. Neuroleptics can neither cure nor prevent positive symptoms of schizophrenia, but rather neuroleptics suppress symptoms of schizophrenia or psychosis. Long term preventative or maintenance use of neuroleptics is not justifiable, particularly against the will of the person.

Neuroleptic means “nerve seizing”. Neuroleptics work to treat psychosis by disrupting normal brain function in the reward pathway, and in the mesocortical pathway –connecting to the frontal lobes (the part of our brains that make us human).

All the effects of a neuroleptic may be categorized as follows: mental & physical effects: the total effects of a neuroleptic are not best reduced to only the sum of its target effects and side effects but can instead be categorized as follows: target effects, short-term effects, long-term effects, withdrawal effects; where: target effects:= the mechanisms by which a neuroleptic produces its intended outcome may not be said to be mere “side effects”; these are rather the pharmacological target effects (intended).

Neuroleptics profoundly suppress brain function by occupying/blocking dopamine receptors and inhibiting neuronal function, thereby disrupting communication between neurons along dopaminergic pathways through either (exactly) one of the following mechanisms: antagonism (I.A. = 0%), or inverse-agonism (I.A. < 0%), or partial-agonism (0% < I.A. < 100%), thereby diminishing dopaminergic brain activity. Note: I.A. = intrinsic activity = the relative (%) extent activation of a receptor relative to dopamine receptor(s); where dopamine’s own intrinsic activity on a dopamine receptor: = +100%, by definition.

Neuroleptics block, i.e., put a brake on neurotransmission along dopaminergic pathways including the mesolimbic, i.e., “the reward pathway” and the mesocortical, which is the primary neural pathway to the frontal lobes – the most distinguishable part of the human brain! Neuroleptics block/occupy 70% – 90% of the brain’s dopamine D2 receptors. Thus, neuroleptics may not be said to be normalizing agents in the treatment of anything. Neuroleptics are chemical lobotomizers because they disconnect the frontal lobes from the rest of the brain by profoundly blocking the dopaminergic pathways of the brain, most notably the mesocortical pathway connecting to the frontal lobes via dopamine D2 receptor blockade (with 70% – 90% dopamine D2 receptors occupied at therapeutic doses). Lobotomy, whether surgical or chemical (via neuroleptic) results in dysfunction of the frontal lobes – the part of our brain that makes us human!

Neuroleptics exert their pharmacological target effects by occupying dopamine receptors, inhibiting/deactivating them, resulting in a suppression/reduction of dopaminergic receptor activity, via antagonism, or inverse-agonism, or partial-agonism, in each case dampening down dopaminergic neurotransmission: i.e., disrupting normal brain function along the dopamine pathways: the mesolimbic (i.e., “the reward pathway”), the mesocortical pathway (connecting to the frontal lobes), the nigrostriatal pathway (target of antiparkinsonian agents), and the tuberoinfundibular pathway (endocrine function / hormonal balance). Neuroleptics impair mental functions such as emotions, affect, feelings, cognition, memory, attention, focus; they slow up and dampen down all thinking processes, reducing thought tempo, one’s ability to learn, study, perform on mental tasks and tests, reduce intelligence quotient (IQ) etc.

Neuroleptics do not exert their therapeutic (pharmacological target effects on psychosis (positive symptoms of schizophrenia) by rectifying a brain abnormality, such as a chemical imbalance, nor do they target any physiological process that produces the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, but rather neuroleptics suppress symptoms of schizophrenia by a by a profound slowing up and dampening down of mental processes putting a brake on dopaminergic neurotransmission – they arrest natural brain function.

A neuroleptic induces disorder of diminished motivation, suppresses all thinking processes, degrades a person’s intelligence and executive functional capacity for higher order thinking (ex., complex problem solving, philosophizing, planning/organizing, etc.), incapacitates the mind (i.e., diminishes intelligence, impairs memory, attention, concentration, significantly decreases IQ level), disables the brain, causes significant brain shrinkage as well as a reduction in the number of connections to the pre-frontal cortex, resulting in loss of executive functioning, cognitive impairment, and decline. Moreover, neuroleptics induce “neuroleptic-induced deficit disorder”: a syndrome characterized by the same symptoms that constitute so called “negative symptoms of schizophrenia”; its symptoms include anhedonia (i.e., loss of pleasure), avolition (i.e., loss of will), cognitive impairment, impoverishment of thought & speech, etc.

Neuroleptics cause severe impairment in cognitive function, degrade one’s executive functional capacity, cause disorder of diminished motivation, blunt feelings (ex., pleasure) and flatten emotions, slow up and dampen down thinking processes (ex., slow down thought tempo), cause psycho-sexual dysfunction affecting all phases of sexual functioning including libido (sex-drive), arousal, and orgasm, etc. These are not mere “side effects” or “adverse effects”, but rather the mechanism by which neuroleptic drugs produce their intended outcome. Neuroleptics exert their target (i.e., therapeutic/intended) effects in a global rather than a specific manner: for example, in treating delusions, neuroleptics suppress a person’s general ability to think, and do not just target delusional thoughts specifically.

Benefits/Advantages (non-existent, dubious at best, based on a false narrative of science).

Risks/Harms (causes more harm than good, not in the best interests of the person being involuntarily treated, violates fundamental human and civil rights.)

Neuroleptics are not a cure for schizophrenia and do not even qualify as treatments for it some of the time. Neuroleptics do not treat schizophrenia by rectifying any underlying abnormality: ex., a bio-chemical imbalance such as according to the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, according to which an overactive dopaminergic system is the primary cause of schizophrenia. Neuroleptics are not treatments in the sense of being curative agents, they cannot cure any condition; they are not disease specific treatments for schizophrenia; they are not like antidotes to psychosis. They might work to curb/suppress positive symptoms of schizophrenia/psychosis (ex., delusions, hallucinations), but that depends on the context, what the intended outcome is and who is intending the outcome. Their target effects in treating schizophrenia are slow up and dampen down the dopaminergic neurotransmitter system by blocking/occupying dopamine receptors by antagonism, inverse agonism, or partial agonism, which results in an inhibition of the dopaminergic pathways of the brain. Any effects induced by the pharmacological target effects of neuroleptics cannot be said to be “side effects” because they are the ‘main’ effects and the intended effects; the target effects of a neuroleptic are the mechanisms by which the neuroleptic exerts its main intended effects. No definition for “side effects” could reasonably include the target effects of the neuroleptic. They can, however, be called ‘adverse’ effects in that they are unfavourable effects, which include the disadvantages and risks of treatment with the neuroleptic.

Even while being considered treatments for schizophrenia, under some definitions of treatment, they are however not effective treatments as such; plus, neuroleptics as a class of psychiatric drugs are not much more effective than a placebo but are the most toxic pharmaceutical drugs available by prescription apart from chemotherapy for cancer. There is insufficient evidence for the long-term safety and efficacy of neuroleptics in treating schizophrenia/psychosis. The bulk of research on their safety and efficacy is based on short-term studies (6-8 weeks), and the evidence on their long-term safety and efficacy is lacking: conflicted, at best inconclusive due to some evidence indicating it and other evidence contraindicating it (i.e., indicating against it): i.e., the evidence in favour is conflicted, contradictory, and inconclusive.

The induced patient; yet another experience

I spent almost three decades in the system. Forced treatments caused me to lose everything. Job, home, relationships, my reputation. I was reduced to a drooling shuffling incontinente moron that couldn’t read a sentence!
I ran for my life and went through horrible withdrawals. The bipolar schizoaffective that NEVER WAS!!
I haven’t had a single episode of depression in almost 6 years since I started the withdrawal from their poisons. Rounds and rounds of ECTS. Depression was my primary symptom but the cause all of it was the treatments. By drugs by electricity by forced confinement and lies. By being treated Less than Human. I was hospitalized all most every year, sometimes several times a year.
None of that now, No hospitals, no obsessive thoughts, no symptoms!! No drugs, No mental health system!!!
I am SLOWLY recovering some of my brain. So much damage. So much loss.
I’m working part time now and I have a car.
I wouldn’t even turn the lights on when I brushed my hair when I was so drugged I could barely walk.
It’s HORRENDOUS what they do to people, what they did to me…
I tried to get a lawyer, I was so angry that I thought I could demand change.
No one would take my case.
I would still sue, if I had the chance.

Hearing Voices : Dr Dan

I have found that with psychoses we will often find a two trauma mechanism. An initial trauma often early in life, often before the age of 2. There becomes the growing abscess of the mind and later, often in late adolescence or early adulthood a subsequent trauma arises and everything is unleashed, the positive and negative symptoms. Voice hearing often takes on the form of the trauma one has experienced, the voices can be fragments of a shattered self, it may be words given to the pain, they may represent fears or actual persons who did harm. Just more recently a fellow told me he had been experiencing voices for many years and it was like shrieks and mumbling but he could not identify them. As he thought about this two trauma mechanism he stated he experienced parental separation in infancy and in later life was incarcerated where he was for a time in solitary confinement and heard voices, muttering and shrieks through the vents. He said whenever under alot of stress he would have voice hearing and he now knows from where they came. I have noticed that both the positive and negative symptoms lessen when there is created an environment of sanctuary where one can find solace and healthy connection.

Dan L. Edmunds, Ed.D.

Psychiatric

A quote from the transcript of the 3rd BBC panorama programme ‘Taken on Trust’ broadcast on 3 October 2004 by Dr Mike Shooter who was president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2002-2005.( Power Politics and Pharmaceuticals)