Facts about Psychiatric Drugs
The following are five facts about psychiatric drugs:
1) Psychiatric drugs damage the body. They make people numb, passive, and disconnected from their emotions as well as from other people. This is especially true of the drugs given to people in mental hospitals.
2) Psychiatric drugs block access to the inherent healing process (crying, laughing, trembling, and raging)—our natural way of recovering from emotional and physical hurts. And because they keep people from paying attention to and connecting with others, they keep them from the resource they need to use the healing process.
3) Psychiatric drugs don’t help people even if they seem to. There is no biologically based “mental illness.” People naturally recover from hurts by using the natural healing processes described above. When they don’t get to do this, hurt feelings pile up. Then people end up saying and doing things that are based on past distresses, that don’t fit the present circumstances. That is why they are often labeled “mentally ill.” When people take psychiatric drugs, they can appear to be fine and may seem to function—for example, at work. However, they haven’t resolved the difficulties they were facing when they started taking the drugs. Their original confusing distress is still there, covered over by the drugs. They become numb to whatever problems were bothering them—problems that will likely resurface. They may look better but have difficulty thinking deeply or well.
4) Psychiatric drugs are invalidating. They disconnect people from their own power. Taking them, especially for a long time, makes people feel that they need them to function, that they have no natural way to help themselves.
5) A lot of money is made from selling psychiatric drugs. Drug corporations are some of the wealthiest corporations in existence. They make people believe that they need the drugs in order to function when in fact the drugs make them less and less functional. Then people feel like they need more and more drugs.
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
(Janet died on July 24, 2019)