https://timdreby.com/sixteen-lesson-learned-from-bad-psychotherapy-part-two-surviving-anorexia-treatments/
https://timdreby.com/in-psychotherapy-we-trust-part-three-the-psychopharmacology-craze/
https://timdreby.com/in-psychotherapy-we-trust-trauma-treatment/

I plan to write more blogs on this very subject. Toxic Psychiatry was a liberating book for me. Loved it and shared it. I believe to some extent in drug spellbinding just as I believe in academic spellbinding and even scientific spellbinding. In my experience, trying to build a culture of “psychosis” where people can support eachother, unilateral stigma against another’s experience and attacking a person’s intelligence and self determination can amount to bullying, cliques, factions and truth distortion and prevent our people, our extremely diverse people from working together. I admire people who can live med free and will promote their views to the point where they start imposing them on other people and creating class and race divides. Too many of us assume that my solution is the solution, myself at times included. It’s a dumb as and simplistic assumption. I try to have more respect for people than that. I have sent in four articles to mad in America and I still hope to hear back. I belong more in the streets than I do in an old boys and girls school. We all have our biases, but if we’re going to work together excluding valuable voices from other perspectives and branding them is a great way to turn people against each other. Worked in civil rights movement. I fear it is working still. The DSM has divided us for years. Why let them send us back to high school and exclude people who are different to get ahead.

Medication, I hope to get off it someday, but I don’t listen to bullying and distortion to do so. People have tried to take away my determination to force me into a bogas war that promotes division. I believe in health and unity and acceptance and middle ground and recovery. I am grateful for toxic psychiatry but tho clip insults my intelligence and vision which is more moderate. Thank you very much for sharing. I plan to rant less and be more careful in my blogs. I may not be good enough for mad in America, and I am working hard to get good enough. I spent eight years drafting my first book and finally am getting reviews that are less attacking as it gets into hands of people who don’t know me.

But let me go into another matter. Community Mental Health supposedly is the replacement of State Mental Hospitals, if I am correct. Reduce costs and get more effective outcomes is the game. I do not believe that this is what happens. I survived the era of forced drugging, and wonder about these pressures now.

Many people in poverty fall under the “help” of mental health. When they act out, they are sent to jail instead of mental hospitals, where they are given medications.

Although the topic is controversial, I believe that medications taken long-term increase severity of mental problems and have been shown to decrease life span by 10-25 years. I subscribe to madinamerica.com and believe in the views of Dr. Peter Breggin. His series of videos, “The Simple Truths About Psychiatry,” are two places, among many others, where I get information. Here is just one in his series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwIDfcc5Z3w

I’d be happy to hear of what you think on what I’ve said.