Question:
Has anyone in websites ever conquered bipolar disorder and gone
completely off medication?
After all, there are supposedly many thousands of people who have it
and do not know it. They live and cope day to day, obviously without
medication.
I have a feeling it's possible to treat manic-depression without the
use of drugs. I suspect this can be done though self-knowledge,
self-acceptance, peace of mind, mediation, and eastern methods, but I
don't know enough about it all to be sure. You'll never know until you
try.
Answer:
Say No To Psychiatry
Psychiatric treatments are harmful. All psychiatric treatments are
harmful. Psychiatric drugs, ECT (electric shock) and brain surgery (lobotomy) each harm the
individual and society. This sometimes goes against what we have been taught or
indoctrinated into believing, and also against what we would often like to believe.
Taking a pill as a "cure" obviously is easier than confronting and dealing with the actual
personal reasons for one's difficulties with their own mind and life. The alternative
requires personal responsibility, effort, and self-control, and can take time, but the
final results far exceed the quick fix (drugs, shock, etc.). - the "psychiatric" methods
"fix" nothing at all and actually make things worse, because the "treatments" always
interfere with the healthy functioning of any human mind.
The field of psychiatry is rooted in German experimental psychology,
racist eugenics theories, and anti-human materialistic opinions parading as scientific
facts. The promotional activities and tremendous profits of the major drug
companies play no small part in understanding the development and tremendous expansion of
modern psychiatry.
Psychiatry is not the natural result of 100 years of sincere,
dedicated, and honest investigation into solving the problems of Man, but rather, of
millions upon millions of dollars spent in the ruthless promotion of a severely flawed field.
Modern psychiatric theories and methods deny everything comprising man's "inner"
personality of thoughts, feelings, values, hopes, dreams, intentions, goals, and ultimately,
life itself.
Modern education and all aspects of the social sciences are rooted in
flawed theories of psychology, which deny the importance of Man's mind, and instead
concentrate upon genetics, environmental forces, social conditions, biochemistry, and
biology. This has had disastrous effects on individual people and society as a whole,
because the mental processes of thought, will, intention, responsibility, imagination,
and self-control are not appealed to.
The links to information here supply a formidable basis of knowledge
leading towards an accurate and true understanding of what psychiatry really is. Sources
are referenced and much additional reading material is given both on the Internet and in
books. Your local psychiatrist will never refer you to this information.
Do not base your opinion only on what members of the psychiatric field
tell you. Liquor manufacturers will not tell you their products cause liver damage, are
the source of numerous auto related deaths every year, and encourage you to cease
drinking liquor.
Similarly, no psychiatrist will tell you that psychiatric procedures
harm people and that you should avoid them at all cost. Even if he or she knew or suspected
this, he or she couldn't endure the loss of income, status and authority this would
entail. After all, psychiatry is primarily a business - a money-making venture - and not
a field ultimately
concerned with helping people and society.
The major drug companies and psychiatrists, who are the salesman for
the drug company products, form a huge money making enterprise which can tolerate no
criticism. Each psychiatrist has gone to school for many years, spent much money on
their "education", and invested a good part of their life towards their "profession". It
isn't easy for anyone, regardless of one's field, to flush years of "education", expense,
time spent in their field and one's source of a very good income down the drain, much less
also confront that what one does for a living is fundamentally harmful to other people
and society. Don't argue or even discuss the facts with them. Most of them won't listen,
are incapable of understanding simple facts, and instead will defend their opinions to
the end while sarcastically and "authoritatively" criticizing the proponents of the
truth.
I would therefore urge that OMH discard its present
hopeless attitude that clients are essentially
incurable and raise its sights. Rather than merely
maintaining clients in drug-crippled states, the
agency should aim at helping them regain full
capacity and functioning. But this will require
major changes. Perhaps it can start with a
legislatively-mandated medication reduction. I think it is possible to treat psychiatric conditions like
depression and manic-depression without drugs, if they are mild
or manageable. I don't know if you have experienced mania or
the reverse side of mania - psychotic depression, but they are
not in the realm of normal human experience. Every day you hear
on the radio of men who kill their families and themselves or
go into a bank and litter the place with gunfire; whatever the
cause of their depression (maybe drug abuse, maybe withdrawal,
maybe genetic) when that emotional state gets that bad, you
need something to stop it RIGHT AWAY. Now, it's possible that
you may find a doctor who can thereafter treat you without
drugs, but I have yet to hear of one who does it and is licensed;
i think that is telling of something. IF humans are experiencing them then they are in the realm onf
normal human experience. Despite rumours to the contrary,mental
patients are human and do NOT have "lives unworthy to be lived" And everyday you hear that these murders and sucides were caused by
the prescribing of dangerous drugs routinely prescribed by doctors
tragically oblivious to the known effects, and starting a patient on
a road to ruin by a life time of drugging, rather than allowing a
patient to go through and resolve their crisis . mental patients are the VICTIMS of crime far more often than they
commit them
You are begging the question. but as someone who seems to have devoted
their life to proselytising Lithium, its hardly suprising is it? It certainly is, Its telling of their greed and venality in the worst
cases, and of their total capitulation to profit driven pharmaceutical
corporation propaganda in the better ones.
