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Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

@Zoe7 I guess what I'm trying to say is I have done my rounds to make sure what I have heard in person just is backed up by others during phone calls to to certain organisations across Australia. I also have phone recordings of what happened in the mental health centre where I was treated. I also spoke to medical doctors in person that came full forth with their experiences of the system they working every day. So this isn't just a few people this is now many. I was shocked and couldn't believe what I was hearing and if I heard this from someone else for the first time I probably wouldn't believe it either. My frustration for the broken system we have today can sometimes be hard eating for people and I don't like to put people down, no one is perfect. I just have a hard time believing in two week short term study or a two month so called term study to say they are just better than placebo when ppl take them longer than that. And also placebo can be great the studies have also shown this. But then the medication starts to flatten out and you have to take more. Dr's mainly look at the 2 month study because they have been designed by drug companies that make money to publish them. Unfortunately they don't publish the ones that didn't work out because it looks better on paper. The proper long term studies get hidden in PubMed and out side of the journals and they are not good. That's where the disease kicks in. Many Dr's don't look at all the data because they don't have the time, it's the sad truth.

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In response to: Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Yes @The-red-centaur
Thank you

In response to: Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

@MDT I'm surprised @Former-Member hasn't picked this up yet....

In response to: Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

I got an email @The-red-centaur

About what I said.

Oh well.

In response to: Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

@MDT hm....I'm sorry.

In response to: Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Hey there @MDT about to flick you an e-mail! Thanks @The-red-centaur

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Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

@Former-Member

This is the thread I was talking about. Vis a vie your other email.

In response to: Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

@The-red-centaur I'm speaking about long term use andand getting sucked into psychiatry's made up bible. I was told by a psychiatrist that they will 'freeze' your brain if you keep taking them. They also shrink the brain and it's an early death. I thought that was doing better after about 6 years of treatment but then things got worse. Weight gain and tardive dyskinesia is a serious sideaffect and that's brain damage.

In response to: Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

@krs Without mediction I would no longer be here so in effect meds have increased my life span and that is something I am grateful for.

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Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic


@krs wrote: There's also a yearly event in parts of Australia called Reawaken I plan on attending one day.

Thanks for the heads-up on the Reawaken mob @krs

I see on their website something about "rewriting the DSM", yet here in Australia, it is the

International Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders (ICD-10) that is the primary reference, not the DSM.

Sounds like you're a fan of the Critical Psychiatry Network and is Reawaken an offshoot of that, do you know? Looking at their website I wonder if Scientology has just rebranded itself...

Absolutely the paradigms around how wellbeing and dysfunction is identified and treated needs an extreme makeover.

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Re: I've been labelled as treatment resistant schizophrenic

Haha no, it's not about the controlling nature of Scientology. It's about the controlling nature of psychiatry and the DSM. Please don't get the 2 mixed up. I have spoken to nurses, medical dr's in person and over the phone like mental health triage that know about all this because they go to some of these conferences. Look into it more please. It is about the DSM and the way it is constructed and how the system needs to change. It might take a while for it to set in.

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