The Politics of Distress: A Discussion With Dr James Davies on His New Book, Sedated madinamerica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from madinamerica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sharon Davies has a simple message for anyone whose GP recommends they start taking the drug pregabalin to deal with anxiety. ‘Don’t,’ she says. ‘Please, just don’t.’
During the two years she spent on the drug, Sharon experienced a range of ‘unbearable’ side-effects, including dizzy spells, mental ‘fuzziness’ and extreme weight gain.
Then, in July last year, when she tried to stop taking Lyrica one of several brands of the drug (pregabalin is the generic name) she was hit by withdrawal symptoms so severe that she had to take sick leave from the job she loved, working at a wildlife hospital near her home in Billericay, Essex.
Access Denied: Victims of Prescribed Harm Are Abandoned by Psychiatry
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The United States spends more money on healthcare than any other developed nation in the world. Yet, we have experienced an observable and exponential rise in poor mental health outcomes, disability rates, and suicide over the past several decades.
Robert Whitaker’s
Anatomy of An Epidemic provides the world with alarming statistics that cannot be ignored. The rise in the number of disabled mentally ill has been especially pronounced since 1987, the year that Prozac, the first of the “second-generation” psychiatric drugs, hit the market. The number of adults on SSI or SSDI due to mental illness has risen from 1.25 million in 1987 to more than 4 million today.
Celebrating the Anti-Psychiatry Movement
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, they remain.
When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.
(“Say not the struggle nought availeth”, by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1848)
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On November 14, 2020, a regular reader and commenter on my posts, who uses the handle registeredforthissite, posted a comment which ended with this:
“When people end up suffering due to psychiatry, they end up here, but it’s still a niche minority.
Also, I’ve noticed for the last many years, it’s the same old commenters (including myself) who post here. Lots of comments. But very few commenters. Hardly a drop in a massive ocean.
Listening to the Patient Voice: The Antidepressant Withdrawal Experience madinamerica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from madinamerica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.