6 thoughts on “Joanna Moncrieff addressing British psychiatrists”
I am a psyche survivor who found no therapy in medications. Out of necessity I looked into Jung to understand all his broader ideas, and also looked into what the bible says about integrity and peace. I began introspection and noticed a pattern where psychiatric symptoms like hallucinations and depression served the purpose in understanding fetishes like anger, enmity, idolatry, romance. I noticed that peace only exists when the mind is focused on paternal love. My journey is about contemplating the significance of such fetishes and realising the truth that in actual fact family is the most important thought in which to abide. This created renewal of my personality and enabled me to change the direction of my life for the better. I suggest it would be possible to conduct a psychological study in the form of a survey to measure how attentive people are as parents, then compare this to their mental and physical health. I ask you to reflect on how your children bring you peace and the decisions you make in every day life to maintain your loyalty to them, and help maintain your own sanity.
Agree. Psychiatry is not general medicine. We need to rethinking how we approach human behaviour.
For me, phenomenology approach would be a future direction on how we practice psychiatry.
How we distinguish between spiritual non clinical voice hearer and psychosis patients? Does antipsychotics really works? How we can reduce the coerciveness of Mental Health Act 2001?
I’ve just been reading “Insane Medicine” by Sami Timimi. I think that his writing explains, very eloquently, everything that I have been concluding about psychiatry during the last 30 years. I have had some ridiculous conversations with ‘medical model’ psychiatrists during that time. I hope change happens soon – maybe too late for me- but hopefully for future generations. A great book.
I think that mental illness has a mystery about it because it is closely associated with consciousness which is also a mystery. Maybe these mysteries will never be solved – certainly not by pure science – because of the totally subjective nature of consciousness. But treating people as a mystery is a good thing and shows respect of their personal knowledge of themselves which, of course for everyone, is a ‘work in progress ‘.
I’m actually commenting on another blog by JM in which a consumer is quoted saying being told you need to take tablets for the rest of your life is disempowering in the extreme… This just makes me wonder what snowflakes psych patients are! How come patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, everyone on the ubiquitous statins… thyroid issues… Those patients aren’t complaining to their doctors about how extremely disempowered they feel by having to take a tablet. It makes me inclined to think psych patients are nutcases. Why isn’t everyone on a statin complaining about how extremely disempowered they feel? All the diabetics taking Metformin? Everyone post transplant who takes immunosuppressants… Are they feeling extremely disempowered? Or is this a uniquely psych patient thing?
It looks to me like psych patients have an adjustment disorder re a need for medication, and I suspect medical patients on the whole are much more well adjusted. I’m not commenting on whether medication is good or bad, simply that seeing a need to take medication for the rest of your life as extremely disempowering suggests an external locus of control and poor self efficacy.
I’m a psych patient, I probably will need to take medication for the rest of my life. No, I am not disempowered by that fact and I’m insulted by the suggestion that I would be. Personally, I’m grateful for the dramatic difference antipsychotics have made to my life and continue to make. Like all meds, they have pros and cons, and I make an informed choice to take them based on the n=1 trial known as personal experience. I’m conscious of their downsides, but the decade of my life pre AP compared to the decade on them… Without APs I wanted euthanasia, now I’m a successful medical student. With OSCEs to fret about, the fact that I need to take a tablet everyday doesn’t rank in my list of things to stress about!!!
Please with urgency recognize the silent suffering those of us going through benzodiazepine withdrawal. It, as you know common to be withdrawing from more than 1 drug. Most of us on benzodiazepines have also been prescribed an SSRI. When it is recognized that the FDA and the psychiatry industry are a business making billions of dollars from prescribing these dangerous medications without informed conscent. The FDA understands that benzodiazepines are a 2 to 4 week usage only. How is it that most od us on these dangerous drugs were told it was ok to be on them for years? Big Pharma created a poison and they are responsible for the antidote!! Big Pharma are one of the biggest lobbyists and pay congress to pass legislation protecting them from liability! These discussion forums are too slow and time wasting for those of us on this horrific journey to taper off. Benzodiazepines cannot be detoxed in a rehab 3 week program. This drug is in a class of it’s own. NOW is the time to stand up and fight for all of us. There are so many ready to get on a Benzo Bus and show ourselves!!!! We are the consequence of Greed! The Solution time is NOW! In humane conscience ACT to protect us!!🙏
I am a psyche survivor who found no therapy in medications. Out of necessity I looked into Jung to understand all his broader ideas, and also looked into what the bible says about integrity and peace. I began introspection and noticed a pattern where psychiatric symptoms like hallucinations and depression served the purpose in understanding fetishes like anger, enmity, idolatry, romance. I noticed that peace only exists when the mind is focused on paternal love. My journey is about contemplating the significance of such fetishes and realising the truth that in actual fact family is the most important thought in which to abide. This created renewal of my personality and enabled me to change the direction of my life for the better. I suggest it would be possible to conduct a psychological study in the form of a survey to measure how attentive people are as parents, then compare this to their mental and physical health. I ask you to reflect on how your children bring you peace and the decisions you make in every day life to maintain your loyalty to them, and help maintain your own sanity.
Agree. Psychiatry is not general medicine. We need to rethinking how we approach human behaviour.
For me, phenomenology approach would be a future direction on how we practice psychiatry.
How we distinguish between spiritual non clinical voice hearer and psychosis patients? Does antipsychotics really works? How we can reduce the coerciveness of Mental Health Act 2001?
I’ve just been reading “Insane Medicine” by Sami Timimi. I think that his writing explains, very eloquently, everything that I have been concluding about psychiatry during the last 30 years. I have had some ridiculous conversations with ‘medical model’ psychiatrists during that time. I hope change happens soon – maybe too late for me- but hopefully for future generations. A great book.
I think that mental illness has a mystery about it because it is closely associated with consciousness which is also a mystery. Maybe these mysteries will never be solved – certainly not by pure science – because of the totally subjective nature of consciousness. But treating people as a mystery is a good thing and shows respect of their personal knowledge of themselves which, of course for everyone, is a ‘work in progress ‘.
I’m actually commenting on another blog by JM in which a consumer is quoted saying being told you need to take tablets for the rest of your life is disempowering in the extreme… This just makes me wonder what snowflakes psych patients are! How come patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, everyone on the ubiquitous statins… thyroid issues… Those patients aren’t complaining to their doctors about how extremely disempowered they feel by having to take a tablet. It makes me inclined to think psych patients are nutcases. Why isn’t everyone on a statin complaining about how extremely disempowered they feel? All the diabetics taking Metformin? Everyone post transplant who takes immunosuppressants… Are they feeling extremely disempowered? Or is this a uniquely psych patient thing?
It looks to me like psych patients have an adjustment disorder re a need for medication, and I suspect medical patients on the whole are much more well adjusted. I’m not commenting on whether medication is good or bad, simply that seeing a need to take medication for the rest of your life as extremely disempowering suggests an external locus of control and poor self efficacy.
I’m a psych patient, I probably will need to take medication for the rest of my life. No, I am not disempowered by that fact and I’m insulted by the suggestion that I would be. Personally, I’m grateful for the dramatic difference antipsychotics have made to my life and continue to make. Like all meds, they have pros and cons, and I make an informed choice to take them based on the n=1 trial known as personal experience. I’m conscious of their downsides, but the decade of my life pre AP compared to the decade on them… Without APs I wanted euthanasia, now I’m a successful medical student. With OSCEs to fret about, the fact that I need to take a tablet everyday doesn’t rank in my list of things to stress about!!!
Please with urgency recognize the silent suffering those of us going through benzodiazepine withdrawal. It, as you know common to be withdrawing from more than 1 drug. Most of us on benzodiazepines have also been prescribed an SSRI. When it is recognized that the FDA and the psychiatry industry are a business making billions of dollars from prescribing these dangerous medications without informed conscent. The FDA understands that benzodiazepines are a 2 to 4 week usage only. How is it that most od us on these dangerous drugs were told it was ok to be on them for years? Big Pharma created a poison and they are responsible for the antidote!! Big Pharma are one of the biggest lobbyists and pay congress to pass legislation protecting them from liability! These discussion forums are too slow and time wasting for those of us on this horrific journey to taper off. Benzodiazepines cannot be detoxed in a rehab 3 week program. This drug is in a class of it’s own. NOW is the time to stand up and fight for all of us. There are so many ready to get on a Benzo Bus and show ourselves!!!! We are the consequence of Greed! The Solution time is NOW! In humane conscience ACT to protect us!!🙏