What self respecting person with a basic medical science degree, or anyone with minuscule logic, reason, human decency enrol in a psychiatry training program in Australia today?
To abandon one’s critical thinking, suspend disbelief and ‘enter into a world of pure imagination’ - nothing but quackery and Willy Wonkering - surely is only the preserve of those with a prurient interest in others misery, an all consuming obsession for money, power and self importance.
I'm glad you wrote that article. I had ECT myself 25 years ago. I was hospitalized with "treatment resistant" severe depression when it was recommended I try their "new, improved" version of this classic psychiatric standby. If I was more lucid I would have done some research and sought a second opinion, but when you are desperate you are impressionable and suggestible. In that state if they told you cutting off your left leg with a rusty hacksaw and no anesthetic would miraculously restore you to mental health you'd believe them.
After a number of rounds of ECT it became apparent to me the treatments were causing me considerable long term memory loss. It takes a while to realize just how bad the memory loss is because you're focused on the surreality of the present tense not languidly reaching back into your memories of the good old days.
I complained about the memory loss to my psychiatrist and ECT enthusiast and he reassured me the memories would come back. I didn't believe him and stopped the treatments.
Ultimately I realized I had lost about 10 years worth of long term memories. It's not a complete blank slate: I remember some images, vignettes, short stretches of time. But most of it's gone.
About two or three weeks after the last treatment I also developed temporal lobe epilepsy. It was diagnosed and treated with tegretol. Before ECT I had never experienced epilepsy and it doesn't run in my family. It's pretty clear to me what the culprit is. After a few years the epilepsy got better but the memory never did. I guess neuroplasticity is only capable of so much.
Of course my "treatment team" denied any of this was possible. Not only denied it I was dismissed and sneered at. Although one person insisted my memories still existed "somewhere." Was she suggesting they were lurking in a pristine state in the akashic records? Can't wait.
In general Psychiatry's incapacity for self-reflection, honesty, transparency, independent critical thinking and accountability evokes the psychology of someone who is extremely emotionally immature or indeed suffers from a severe personality disorder.
Although there is an enormous amount of bullshit and misinformation on the internet nevertheless a lot of vital knowledge and expertise has been democratized, decentralized and made available. How many lives have been saved because people now know about responsible psychotropic drug deprescribing and what severe protracted withdrawal looks like? Most psychiatrists haven't got a clue.
My hope is that the juvenile, pseudoscientific edifice of Psychiatry Inc gets chipped away at over time with the help of the internet and critical patient advocacy groups. At this point it is an authoritarian, narcissistically abusive cult and an embarrassment to the medical profession.
Dr McLaren thank you for bringing this again to the public eye! Thank you for being a great soul, a wonderful human being even after being surrounded by "gangs" aka psychiatrist that have destroy millions of lives, including children, seniors and full families, their purposes are only economy and social power! Sadly medical estasblishment have destroyed themselves, to the eyes of any person with logical and integrity...psychiatrist and many medical practitioners have been in the best scenario brainwashed for their own benefits and have become "a kind of elite" that instead of being humble think they are superior over the rest of the population.. yet they are only slaves of their masters! That is why the Cov.. Scam was possible... Families, general public needs to wake up, stop using their services and the few rational medical practitioners left wake up, they are coming for them too as happened with Covid 💉they will be deleted by AI sooner than they think! Thank you again Dr McLaren 👏🏻💌🌹🏆🙂
Dr McLaren, I wanted to cross your article but is not appearing an option in the sharing button, I think you need to make it at available in your settings if you are interested that appears in others Substack authors.. 🔥🙂🌹
Abandon hope all ye who enter the mental health system- a system sans medical science, sans justice, sans human rights.
This is worldwide in the western world countries.. A shame on humanity and to those who are making their live hood in these scam!
What self respecting person with a basic medical science degree, or anyone with minuscule logic, reason, human decency enrol in a psychiatry training program in Australia today?
To abandon one’s critical thinking, suspend disbelief and ‘enter into a world of pure imagination’ - nothing but quackery and Willy Wonkering - surely is only the preserve of those with a prurient interest in others misery, an all consuming obsession for money, power and self importance.
I'm glad you wrote that article. I had ECT myself 25 years ago. I was hospitalized with "treatment resistant" severe depression when it was recommended I try their "new, improved" version of this classic psychiatric standby. If I was more lucid I would have done some research and sought a second opinion, but when you are desperate you are impressionable and suggestible. In that state if they told you cutting off your left leg with a rusty hacksaw and no anesthetic would miraculously restore you to mental health you'd believe them.
After a number of rounds of ECT it became apparent to me the treatments were causing me considerable long term memory loss. It takes a while to realize just how bad the memory loss is because you're focused on the surreality of the present tense not languidly reaching back into your memories of the good old days.
I complained about the memory loss to my psychiatrist and ECT enthusiast and he reassured me the memories would come back. I didn't believe him and stopped the treatments.
Ultimately I realized I had lost about 10 years worth of long term memories. It's not a complete blank slate: I remember some images, vignettes, short stretches of time. But most of it's gone.
About two or three weeks after the last treatment I also developed temporal lobe epilepsy. It was diagnosed and treated with tegretol. Before ECT I had never experienced epilepsy and it doesn't run in my family. It's pretty clear to me what the culprit is. After a few years the epilepsy got better but the memory never did. I guess neuroplasticity is only capable of so much.
Of course my "treatment team" denied any of this was possible. Not only denied it I was dismissed and sneered at. Although one person insisted my memories still existed "somewhere." Was she suggesting they were lurking in a pristine state in the akashic records? Can't wait.
In general Psychiatry's incapacity for self-reflection, honesty, transparency, independent critical thinking and accountability evokes the psychology of someone who is extremely emotionally immature or indeed suffers from a severe personality disorder.
Although there is an enormous amount of bullshit and misinformation on the internet nevertheless a lot of vital knowledge and expertise has been democratized, decentralized and made available. How many lives have been saved because people now know about responsible psychotropic drug deprescribing and what severe protracted withdrawal looks like? Most psychiatrists haven't got a clue.
My hope is that the juvenile, pseudoscientific edifice of Psychiatry Inc gets chipped away at over time with the help of the internet and critical patient advocacy groups. At this point it is an authoritarian, narcissistically abusive cult and an embarrassment to the medical profession.
Thank you for sharing your valuable experience 🔥🙂👏🏻
Mental health detention tribunals ask nothing and are awash with unreflected assumptions, stereotypes, prejudice and bias.
I have the dilemma that my son wants to continue to take monthly doses of Paliperidone
Maybe he can find alternative treatments here, I have not tried them but their website has public interesting information in alternatives https://www.alternativetomeds.com/resources/alternatives/
Dr McLaren thank you for bringing this again to the public eye! Thank you for being a great soul, a wonderful human being even after being surrounded by "gangs" aka psychiatrist that have destroy millions of lives, including children, seniors and full families, their purposes are only economy and social power! Sadly medical estasblishment have destroyed themselves, to the eyes of any person with logical and integrity...psychiatrist and many medical practitioners have been in the best scenario brainwashed for their own benefits and have become "a kind of elite" that instead of being humble think they are superior over the rest of the population.. yet they are only slaves of their masters! That is why the Cov.. Scam was possible... Families, general public needs to wake up, stop using their services and the few rational medical practitioners left wake up, they are coming for them too as happened with Covid 💉they will be deleted by AI sooner than they think! Thank you again Dr McLaren 👏🏻💌🌹🏆🙂
Dr McLaren, I wanted to cross your article but is not appearing an option in the sharing button, I think you need to make it at available in your settings if you are interested that appears in others Substack authors.. 🔥🙂🌹
I think you click on the three dots to the right of the "share" button, the third one says "cross post."
Thank you