THIS IS WHAT MY FAMILY HAS WANTED TO DO
TO ME.
WHY? BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD HAVE THAT MUCH
TIME THAT THEY COULD FOLLOW ME AROUND ALL DAY IN RED VEHICLES.
AND YET, NONE OF THEM HAD SOUGHT TO HELP
ME PROVE IT OR DISPROVE IT. TO ME, THAT IS LIKE SAYING BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER BEEN
TO THE MOON, NO ONE ELSE HAS EITHER.
THAT IS WHY I NO LONGER HAVE CONTACT
WITH MY FAMILY. ANY SANE PERSON WILL DISCONNECT FROM THOSE WHO WISH TO CAUSE
THEM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL HARM.
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Psychiatric Drug Adverse
Reactions (Side Effects) and Medication Spellbinding
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Dr. Peter Breggin’s new
concept of medication spellbinding provides insights into why so
many people take psychiatric drugs when
the drugs are doing more harm than good.
Psychiatric drugs, and all
other drugs that affect the mind, spellbind the individual by
masking their adverse mental effects from the individual taking the
drugs. If the person experiences a mental side effect, such as
anger or sadness, he or she is likely to attribute it to something
other than drug, perhaps blaming it on a loved one or on their own
“mental illness.”
Often people taking
psychiatric drugs claim to feel better than ever when in reality
their mental life and behavior is impaired. In the extreme,
medication spellbinding leads otherwise well-functioning and
ethical individuals to commit criminal acts, violence or suicide.
The concept of medication spellbinding is a unifying theme in Dr. Breggin’s newest book, Medication Madness (2008), which describes dozens of cases of otherwise self-controlled people who became spellbound by psychiatric drugs, leading them to perpetrate bizarre acts, including mayhem, murder and suicide.
Dr. Breggin’s other recent
book, Brain-Disabling
Treatments in Psychiatry (2008), presents the science beyond the
concept of medication spellbinding in great depth.
The majority of Dr. Breggin's books focus on harmful medication effects on the brain, mind and behavior. Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry (2008) is the most up-to-date and thorough presentation of his overall views on the dangers associated with psychiatric medication.
It describes how
the supposed therapeutic effects of psychiatric drugs are in fact
the result of drug-induced mental disabilities. The
following very abbreviated summary should not substitute for the
more thorough explanations in Brain Disabling Treatments in
Psychiatry (2008):
• Antidepressants cause emotional anesthesia and numbing or sometimes euphoria, providing a fleeting, artificial relief from emotional suffering. Neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs disrupt frontal lobe function, causing a chemical lobotomy with apathy and indifference, making emotionally distressed people more submissive and less able to feel. • Mood stabilizers slow down overall brain function, dampening emotions and vitality. • Benzodiazepines suppress overall brain function, sedating the individual, with temporary relief of tension or anxiety at the cost of reduced mental function. • Stimulants blunt spontaneity and enforce obsessive behaviors in children, making them less energetic, less social, less creative and more obedient. The individual taking the drugs or the doctor, family and classroom teacher can mistakenly interpret these effects as an improvement when they reflect dysfunction of the brain and mind.
As an egregious example,
millions of school children are prescribed these drugs because
schools find them easer to deal with when their spontaneity is
impaired and when they become more compulsively obedient.
In the long run, all psychiatric drugs tend to disrupt the normal processes of feeling and thinking, rendering the individual less able to deal effectively with personal problems and with life’s challenges. They worsen the individual’s overall mental condition and produce potentially irreversible harm to the brain. Most recent books by Dr. Breggin:
Categories of scientific
papers by Dr. Breggin:
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