[Imdone]

I hope you all will read this wonderful book. This was the book that inspired me to get off my 4-med psych cocktail and toss off my misdiaganosis of being "bipolar." Thanks to Whitaker's book (he provides you with total inspiration to quit taking psych meds, but not the method) I have gotten off Risperdal, Neurontin, Lamictal. I'm down to Cymbalta...the hardest of the 4 to get off, and I came here to learn how to get off it. I have discovered in getting off psych meds that I am fine, way better, without them. They were a good crutch when I had issues to work out, which I have since worked out, but you don't need this stuff for a lifetime. In fact, it is harmful, as he explains. Read the book! It's a great read:

http://robertwhitake...20Epidemic.html

The most important lesson I have learned is that when going off psych meds don't panic if original symptoms such as depression come back. It doesn't mean you "need" the med. It just means you're tapering too quickly. Take it slow and easy and give your body and mind and life time to adjust. And keep a positive attitude and work hard to keep your life vital and rewarding so you can overcome depression.

[SufferingAlone]

I'm heading to the book store to get this book. Thx for the recommendation.

[Imdone]

Suffering, Let me know what you think. Don't be surprised if this book makes you angry about how we've been duped by Big Pharma and shrinks.

[kht]

I just read an exerpt online, then placed an order with my local bookseller--

[Imdone]

Great, kht! I am sure you will find the book very worthwhile reading, and maybe it'll change your life, like it did mine. I am completely psych-med free now.

[outamymind]

Good on you Imdone. This is exactly the kibd of thing people need to do - retrain themselves instead of listening to the propoganda that lines the pockets of these criminals & I use that term with great zest.

If there was a way they could be brought to their knees for the damage they do I'd jump on the bandwagon without a second thought.

I'm clean 6 weeks now & human again. So much so that my (controlled) anger towards these companies makes me want to hold up a banner in protest & march with the message & I'm nearly 50. Second lease on life now I'm off this crap.

Congratulations on surviving this journey. Those of us who've made it should feel extremely proud & to those still suffering, please don't give up 

[Imdone]

Hi Outa,

Congrats to you too on freeing yourself of psych meds. I understand your anger. I may have lost most of my life to this Big Pharma psych med mess. I jumped on the Prozac bandwagon back in the 80's and took psych meds for decades. Only Whitaker's book finally opened my eyes to the fact that I had been duped for decades.

But of course we have to take responsibility for our choices and can't blame it all on Big Pharma. People, doctors, etc. really believed this "chemical imbalance" nonsense. Prozac etc. did seem to "work." But as Whitaker points out, the studies don't go into long-term use, and long-term the results are not so good. In my case, I think the psych meds made me iller than I was in the first place. Research shows that depression is ultimately self-limiting without meds.

Maybe we can focus our anger into something useful....like getting the word out that psych meds are a bad way to go. Whitaker's book does that. Encourage others to read it. Each person who recovers from psych med "addiction" will touch the lives of others and eventually we will reverse this madness.