I am so thankful that you stayed in Psychiatry. God knows it was not the easy choice for you. I remember when Psychiatry was generally thought of as a combo of medicine and philosophy. Dr.'s were chasing a sound philosophy and it was evolving. The evolution seems to have stalled in favour of this pretend bio psycho social model and lots of chemical lobotomy drugs. The only ones winning are the drug companies and the doctors no longer have to give the patient much thought. Just numb and dumb them into complacency.Life quality of a patient goes from bad to worse. Thankfully you kept going with an alternative theory that is very helpful and easily applicable. Many patients sense that something is amiss in this process. Thank you for acknowledging that there is indeed an elephant in the room. It's a tough place to be alone with the truth in a pack of false believers.
I might add that while I think Psychiatry had a more promising era around the 70's there is no denying it has always had an underbelly. Probably fair to say class effects care as well. I thought wrongly that Psychiatry had evolved way more than it has. A close encounter with it was a rude awakening to a misguided and at times barbaric system. The work of you and some of your colleagues in Critical Psychiatry is a great of fresh air.
My experience means I agree with almost everything you say. You are one of the very few psychiatrists to publically say all this. In particular you know that people are being tortured - Akathisia - by neurotoxic drugs in psych 'hospitals' and not really treated - it is very serious abuse.
What I do not understand is why you didn't get out and be a GP or do some other academic profession?
I was going to write a quick response to your post but the more I think about it, the more there is to explore. Will post some ideas over the next few weeks. Meantime, if you haven't already seen it, you could look at my submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission enquiry into the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture. There's a story behind all that.
Yes indeed about the same in the UK and probably much of the rest of the world, after reading that I guess you had a hard time with the psych authorities in Australia.
A few things that helped bring me out of akathisia - high dose of B6 p5p for a short time and then regular small dose 5mg to 10mg a day plus a diet low in glutamate and as far as I can know no MSG, plus of course avoiding stress situations usually in the form of people related to me. Have been off all psych drugs for almost 4 years now, but still live in fear of akathisia and psychiatrists.
Ref:
Vitamin B6 treatment in acute neuroleptic-induced akathisia: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study :
I am so thankful that you stayed in Psychiatry. God knows it was not the easy choice for you. I remember when Psychiatry was generally thought of as a combo of medicine and philosophy. Dr.'s were chasing a sound philosophy and it was evolving. The evolution seems to have stalled in favour of this pretend bio psycho social model and lots of chemical lobotomy drugs. The only ones winning are the drug companies and the doctors no longer have to give the patient much thought. Just numb and dumb them into complacency.Life quality of a patient goes from bad to worse. Thankfully you kept going with an alternative theory that is very helpful and easily applicable. Many patients sense that something is amiss in this process. Thank you for acknowledging that there is indeed an elephant in the room. It's a tough place to be alone with the truth in a pack of false believers.
I might add that while I think Psychiatry had a more promising era around the 70's there is no denying it has always had an underbelly. Probably fair to say class effects care as well. I thought wrongly that Psychiatry had evolved way more than it has. A close encounter with it was a rude awakening to a misguided and at times barbaric system. The work of you and some of your colleagues in Critical Psychiatry is a great of fresh air.
My experience means I agree with almost everything you say. You are one of the very few psychiatrists to publically say all this. In particular you know that people are being tortured - Akathisia - by neurotoxic drugs in psych 'hospitals' and not really treated - it is very serious abuse.
What I do not understand is why you didn't get out and be a GP or do some other academic profession?
I was going to write a quick response to your post but the more I think about it, the more there is to explore. Will post some ideas over the next few weeks. Meantime, if you haven't already seen it, you could look at my submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission enquiry into the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture. There's a story behind all that.
https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/03. Dr Niall McLaren Sub 16 July 2017_0.pdf
Yes indeed about the same in the UK and probably much of the rest of the world, after reading that I guess you had a hard time with the psych authorities in Australia.
A few things that helped bring me out of akathisia - high dose of B6 p5p for a short time and then regular small dose 5mg to 10mg a day plus a diet low in glutamate and as far as I can know no MSG, plus of course avoiding stress situations usually in the form of people related to me. Have been off all psych drugs for almost 4 years now, but still live in fear of akathisia and psychiatrists.
Ref:
Vitamin B6 treatment in acute neuroleptic-induced akathisia: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study :
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15554771/
How to Increase GABA and Balance Glutamate :
https://www.holistichelp.net/blog/how-to-increase-gaba-and-balance-glutamate/