An Essay on the Locked Door Between You and a Drug-Free Life
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You changed your diet. You found a naturopath. You stopped filling prescriptions you never understood and started asking questions your GP couldn’t answer. One afternoon you walked out of the clinic where you’d been a patient for fifteen years, and you didn’t go back. Nobody stopped you. Nobody called. The transition from one paradigm to another was, in the end, unremarkable. You found a different practitioner who spoke a language that made more sense, and you moved on.
Now imagine doing that on 40mg of paroxetine.
You can’t. And the reason you can’t reveals something about psychiatry that separates it from every other branch of medicine: the treatment itself locks you in. Not metaphorically. Chemically.
A person who decides their GP’s approach to cholesterol or blood pressure is wrong can simply stop taking the statin or the ACE inhibitor, experience some rebound effects, and move on. The decision is uncomfortable but it’s a decision. A person on psychiatric drugs — antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, mood stabilisers — faces a problem that is not comparable. Their brain has been physically restructured by the medication. Stopping it is not a decision. It is an ordeal that can last months or years, that can produce symptoms worse than anything that brought them to psychiatry in the first place, and that the entire medical system is designed to interpret as proof that the drugs were needed all along.
READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/unbekoming/p/escape-from-psychiatry?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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