Tag: psychiatric abuse

Cured to Death – Psychiatric

The photo of me on the left in the blue was taken today, April 8th 2025

The remaining 3 photos were taken almost exactly a year ago.

In March of 2023, I experimented with Psilocybin and Marijuana.

** mine was Xanax , as addictive as Heroin

It was the first time in my 26 years I have ever tried a substance other than alcohol.

Unfortunately, I experienced a horrible reaction to these substances, leading to my psychiatric hospitalization.

Prior to this event in March of 2023, I have never been on any kind of medication, nor have I ever been diagnosed with any kind of mental/physical health condition.

Discharge date from the psychiatric hospital

April 17th, 2023

I was informed that if i “refused treatment,” I will have to stay hospitalized longer. At this point, I was there for 10 days.

Coerced to comply with an

Injection of an antipsychotic and held down against my will.

LAI (Long Acting Injection)

Aristada (Abilify)1064MG 2 month dose

I was sent home with 4 prescriptions of new medications i have never been on in my life.

3 weeks after my discharge date and the injection of the antipsychotic, I started to experience severe negative reactions that were nearly impossible to endure or explain to my doctor and family.

I was told it was ” just my new mental illness ” and that I had to remain on the medication for the rest of my life.

I knew in my heart and gut that this was wrong and did not make sense. At all.

● 22 days in 3 different hospitals

(Psychiatric hospitals + emergency rooms)

● 20Ibs lost after my hospital stay

● 3 1/2 months medicated

(2 month injection + oral pills)

(Lexapro 10MG Antidepressant )

Escitalopram

(Abilify 15MG Antipsychotic)

Aripiprazole

● 2-3 hours of sleep a night

● 50 days pacing with terror 10 hours a day (Akathisia)

Akathisia https://g.co/kgs/byVpBzj

● 300 + days having severe suicidal thoughts

● 350 days unable to work

● 20 + hours a day in bed for 4 months at my worst 80% of my 320 days were spent in bed/couch

● 3 close suicide attempts

● 9 years together with my husband ended in a divorce

● 30+ friends/family members disappearing in the hardship, from lack of understanding and fear

● 20+ doctor appointments/visits

General practitioners, psychiatrists, therapists, neurologists, acupuncturists, nutritionists, and many more. $15,000 + dollars later

● 8 beautiful humans i met in online support groups, who were mothers, sisters, fathers, sons, and partners, unfortunately, lost their battle from medication harm. Ending their own lives due to the constant state of torture.

320 days spent in a chemical straight jacket was the only way for me to describe it.

It has come full circle now in 2025, almost

2 years later, since the day i was injected.

I am now a year into remission/recovery from the iatrogenic injury that was brought upon by the antipsychotic injection.

During the 320 days in the chemical straight jacket:

I was unable to feel life

Unable to laugh

Unable to sleep

Unable to work

Unable to enjoy a meal

Unable to enjoy music

Unable to enjoy a book

Unable to enjoy a movie

Unable to enjoy nature

Unable to enjoy intimacy

Unable to feel love

Unable to feel human connection.

I can not put into words the inhumane experience i endured.

I am not posting this for ” I am so sorry, Jess.”

I am posting this because it’s the human thing to do.

Our children

Our grandmothers

Our grandfathers

Our mothers

Our fathers

Our loved ones are being medicated and not being properly informed of the risks these man made, brain altering chemical “medications ” can cause.

Especially long-term.

I do not know how I am still alive, to be honest.

By the grace of God and my stubborness to live, and to be able to tell the tale of how I almost lost my life, from a man made chemical that a doctor forced me to take after speaking with me in a hallway for 10 minutes.

Please, please, please take the time to always inform yourself and do your research before you put anything in or on your body 🙏 And have a plan of care in emergency situations for your loved ones in case you need to represent/advocate for them.

Thank you for those of you who took the time to read this ❤️

85% of psychiatric RX are prescribed by no psychiatric doctor

Yep. Like Pez dispensers ….they write these prescriptions , to knowing the side effects .

Trusting the drug rep…both are comped by Big Pharma and told what Big Pharma wants you to know .

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Camille – Visionary , Died in a mental hospital

Born in 1864, died in 1943—forgotten by the world, left to languish in a mental hospital.

What was her story?

She came to Paris to study art at a time when the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts was open only to men. Undeterred, she joined studios that welcomed women. There, she met and became the lover of the celebrated sculptor Auguste Rodin. Their relationship was one of fiery passion and shared artistry—they created side by side, their collaborative genius preserved in works housed today in the Rodin Museum and Musée d’Orsay.

But Rodin, already entangled in a long-standing relationship with another woman, eventually left Camille. As his reputation soared, hers plummeted. She was scorned, shunned, and dismissed—not just as a lover but as an artist. Alone, distrusting, and out of favor, she struggled to sell her works.

Adding to her isolation, her brother, the renowned poet and diplomat Paul Claudel, played a pivotal role in her downfall. Camille, seen as “too modern” and a source of familial shame, was forcibly institutionalized by her family. For 30 years, she fought to explain the injustice of her confinement, writing anguished letters to friends and family, pleading for release. Her clarity and heartbreak resonate in these preserved writings.

On October 19, 1943, Camille Claudel died of malnutrition in a French hospital. No family members attended her funeral, and her body was buried in a common grave.

Decades later, the world has finally recognized her brilliance. Her legacy has been restored: her sculptures now stand proudly beside Rodin’s, and a museum near Paris is dedicated entirely to her work.

Camille Claudel is no longer forgotten. She is honored as the visionary she always was.

DSM turning against itself / Mad in America

This is so authentic!

What if the DSM diagnosed colonialism instead of the individuals suffering under it? A groundbreaking new paper in American Psychologist by Kaori Wada & Karlee Fellner does just that—turning psychiatry’s “diagnostic bible” against itself.

Rather than locating distress inside individuals, the authors apply the DSM’s own clinical language to diagnose the systemic disorders of colonialism and capitalism. Greed? A substance addiction. Land accumulation? Pathological hoarding. Historical amnesia? A dissociative disorder.

They argue that psychiatric diagnosis, rather than simply being a neutral scientific tool, is a colonial technology—one that individualizes suffering while leaving its systemic causes unexamined. This process, which they call psycholonization, allows Western mental health systems to medicalize Indigenous distress while ignoring the historical traumas that produce it.

But Wada & Fellner don’t just critique—they invert. Using satire, they construct a set of “new” DSM disorders that diagnose the core dysfunctions of settler colonialism, including:

🔹 Addictive Disorder (Power, Wealth & Status Dependence) – A compulsive drive to hoard land, money, and resources at the expense of others. Requires increasing dominance to maintain satisfaction.

🔹 Selective Amnesia (Colonial Memory Disorder) – A persistent inability to recall historical injustices, replacing real history with comforting national myths.

🔹 Delusional Disorder: Grandiose & Persecutory Types – Beliefs in Eurosettler supremacy, coupled with extreme defensiveness whenever privilege is questioned.

This isn’t just a thought experiment—it’s a serious challenge to the foundations of Western psychiatry. What if diagnosis weren’t a tool for pathologizing individuals, but a means of exposing and addressing the deeper dysfunctions of empire?

Their article is especially significant because it appears in American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the APA. The fact that a critique this sharp, this radical, made it into such a mainstream venue suggests that the conversation around decolonizing psychology is shifting. The question is: Will the field actually listen?

Read our full research summary on Mad in America:

www.madinamerica.com/2025/02/turning-the-dsm-against-itself-diagnosing-the-disorders-of-power/